Dhiti–Recommendation Engine that Helps Drive User Engagement

If you are a publisher, search engine referrals still rule your analytics and it’s really hard to build a sustainable user engagement in site if engagement is dependent on how frequently you refresh data.
Dhiti is a company and the team solves a very fundamental problem, i.e. of making sense of online information and providing relevant/contextual information depending on reader intent.The Bangalore based startup has launched three products catering to different user clusters.

Nuggetize for Publishers

Publishers like us need user engagement plus content discovery and that’s what Nuggetize focuses on. Nuggetize understands user intent and presents the most relevant facts fast, organized around contextual concepts. Nuggetize tools and widgets assist publishers serve different classes of visitors:

• Landing page optimization for search engine referrals
• Spectrum of content for the explorers
• Brief and concise nuggets for attention-challenged readers
• Contextual recommendations for casual surfers.

Dhiti’s widgets display nuggets and categories based on real time signals like user-stated intent, referring search query, context on the page, editorial preferences and past user behavior – all aimed to provide an insightful and relevant reading experience for users.

DriLLL.com for Consumers

Want a quick insight from any webpage, page, tweet? Try driLLL bookmark. When you are on a web page, simply click the bookmark and driLLL will present concepts/insights from the webpage.

Watch this video (which was presented at UnPluGGd2).

intweetion.com/

driLLL for your tweets. Once you signin using your twitter id, this service will give you a snapshot of concepts you are following, the most interesting tweets among the noise.

All of these products are built on top of Dhiti’s recommendation engine which analyzes content and organizes them into concepts.

While this is a Silicon Valley idea, it’d be interesting to see how the company monetizes its effort (most of the companies like outbrain haven’t been hugely successful in monetizing their recommendation engine).

Do give Dhiti a spin and share your comments.

[Dhiti is among the Startups Demoed at UnPluGGd. You can also try their widget on Pluggd.in].

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Office Space at the Heart of Mumbai at Bootstrap Prices [Sponsored]

Are you looking for a fresh and funky startup office at a swanky address right at the heart of Bombay, but don’t want to pay a bomb? Then read on and contact us to arrange a viewing.

Who we are?

You would be joining two young startups, active in the Advertising and Media space, En Route Media and Enthrall Media. We believe that work and fun do not have to be two totally separate entities and that an office can be a homely and creative environment, which inspires productive performance.

About ‘The Hangar’

Our brand new, colorful and un-corporate office, has been given the appropriate name “The Hangar”, because of it’s high ceilings and former use as a warehouse. The space sports a conference room, filled with bean bags and soon also with a playstation and a reception area.

The total carpet area is around 800sqft, which also includes a small pantry, two bathrooms and of course the main office area complete with gramophone, dartboard and guitar. Please refer to the pictures to get a better idea.

So if you are bored of working from home and really want to push your startup or project ahead then join like-minded entrepreneurs for only 8,000Rs/month (all inclusive with desk-space, free access to all office facilities, internet, full AC, etc.).

Contact Paul on 09930304088 or Varun on 09821164591 or just drop us an e-mail on paul.schwarz@enrouteinc.com orkunal.jain@enthrallmedia.com.

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Buzzcity Developer Garage – 26 Nov

The latest installment of Developer Garage will be taking place on the 26th of November. Development Garage seeks to provide a channel for developers to share experience, trends and insights on developing and commercializing sites and applications on mobile Internet. In this series, join other like-minded individuals to explore the potential that mobile Internet unleashes.

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About the Speaker and Topic

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Chua Zi Yong, CEO of Stream Media, will give an overview to the Android platform. Besides highlighting the growth and trends of the platform moving forward, he will host an open floor discussion about Android adoption, possibilities and monetization.

Zi Yong drives in-app payment system (MoVend) on Android and Android turn-key solutions and trainings in Stream Media. He also heads Code Android Singapore.

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Event Details

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Date: Friday 26th November 2010
Time: 4 – 6pm
Where: BuzzCity (Yellow Pages Building), 1 Lor 2 Toa Payoh Yellow Pages Building #02-03 Singapore 319637 [Map]
Dress Code: Casual

Light refreshment and networking to follow.

RSVP here (Facebook).

Related posts:

1. Buzzcity Developer Garage – 30 July
2. Buzzcity Developer Garage – 27 May
3. BuzzCity Developer Garage (2nd Series) – 21 Aug

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The FusionCharts Journey – Focus on ‘Why’ more than ‘What’ and ‘How’

Pallav started FusionCharts at the age of 17 and its amazing that his product is used by companies like LinkedIn, Facebook and even Federal Government and the dude hasn’t been to US yet! He hired his first sales guy after the 10,000th sale.

At UnPluGGd, Pallav shared his journey and his talk mainly focused on some of the finer aspects of their story – be it about writing a great PR statement to the amount of effort the team has put up in some of the least sexy activities like documentation.

Here is the presentation used by Pallav.

FusionCharts- Pallav Nadhani

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Tata DoCoMo to Launch 3G this Diwali

Tata DOCOMO, the GSM arm of Tata Teleservices Limited, will launch its 3G services in India on November 5th.

The introductory service portfolio itself includes applications like Video-SMS, Video-Streaming, Mobile Television, Ultra-High-Speed Data Transfers, Route-Finder, Live Aarti, and much more. NTT DOCOMO is closely working with TTL on future technologies like Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and much more.

Tata Teleservices Limited shall simultaneously launch its 3G services this Diwali in all the nine Circles where it has the 3G license—Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, UP (West), Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra.

“We have cherry-picked the best telecom Circles in the country from the perspective of cumulative market potential for our 3G services. We will cover 51% of Indian towns with a population of over a million and 60% of towns that have over half-a-million people. Additionally, our footprint covers 55% of households with an annual income of over Rs 3 lacs, and 49% households in the SEC A+B category. All these parameters provide us with fantastic market reach and potential,” – source

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VenSat, the company behind Visual Effects of Dabangg/Robot Secures $10mn from IUV

Bangalore based VenSat, a provider of animation, visual effects, motion comics and 2D/3D conversion services and best known for visual effects (VFX) for the 2010 motion picture releases, ‘DABANGG’ and some of the complex VFX sequences for ROBOT has raised $10mn from Indo-US Venture Partners.

The fund will be used for expansion in US market, where the company recently started its media and entertainment entity.

The company recently delivered a full-length animated motion picture for a major European entertainment group and all VFX for ‘LAND OF THE ASTRONAUTS’ for Studio Cineville, in the U.S., which was premiered and showcased at the Montreal Film Festival and at the recently concluded Mumbai Film Festival. Further, VenSat is currently among the handful of Indian studios already doing 2D/3D conversion work for major U.S. theatrical features.

VenSat America will serve as the Company’s lead to the US motion picture, television, home entertainment, gaming, theme park, and mobile entertainment industries, and will develop and set up innovative co-production structures and deals linked to VenSat’s animation, VFX, and 2D-to-3D conversion services.

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“Zombie Japanese” – Chinese Derogatory Term Referring Japan Anthropomorphized

(Contest winning design by a project wiki)

Like as “Jap” in some English countries, there are Chinese words for insulting Japan/Japanese. One of the popular words is Riben Guizi(日本鬼子), which means “Zombie Japanese” in Chinese (“Devil’s Children Japanese” in Japanese, slightly different). The word is often used to talk about Imperial Japan’s army during WWII, but still seen on Chinese web especially when some conflict happens between the two countries.

Because of the recent territorial dispute around Senkaku islands(Diaoyu Islands from China), the word is appearing more in Chinese web and that is reported on Japanese media.

October 18th, one guy (anonymous of course) started a new discussion thread [J] on 2-channel, Japan’s largest bulletin board service. The thread named “Let’s make moe character of Riben Guizi to make derogatory Chinese moe pig”. (“moe” means cute, kawaii, etc. please check moe on English Wikipedia)

He/she suggested Japanese people who might have gotten offended by seeing the word Riben Guizi, to give positive meanings and a cute character. Then the offensive word will not be really offensive. The letter “子”(Child) in the word is often used for Japanese girls’ name, it was natural to give it a girl’s character.

That idea immediately attracted many people and they discussed what characteristics, appearance, cloths, etc. the girl character must have. Many amateur cartoonists followed and uploaded their drawings.

On social drawing community Pixiv, there are 831 pictures of Riben Guizi girl,

Another image uploading bbs made for Riben Guizi girls,

This movie shows Japanese discussions and cartoons drawn.

Taiwanese Newspaper The Liberty Times and TV reported [Chinese] this strange counterplay,

Taiwan is also involved with the territorial dispute so people should have interests. Most understand Chinese and some are keen on Japanese culture.

When 2-channel got DoS attack from Korean web users around winter Olympic medal in March 2010, 2-channellers ran a project to donate for Chilean earthquake victims to “revenge” against those attacking Korean. The total amount of the donation reported on the campaign page [J] was about 2 million yen.

Some categories on 2-channel, there is a cynical attitude to think that anyone getting upset are uncool. And sometimes such attitude creates this kind of strange “counterattack”.

See Also:

Wiki rounding up the Riben Guizi girl information [J]

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