“Mobile operators and other enterprises realise the potential of mobile as a marketing channel, but we also see a lot of myths and confusion in the minds of marketers,” says Thomas Schuster, Co-founder and Senior Vice President – Product & Technology. “Through Mobile Marketing Mantra, our goal is to bust these myths and share insights from experts on right mobile marketing techniques,” he adds.

The blog is available at http://blog.flytxt.com/.

“Research, innovation and technological leadership are closely related and interdependent. While India has great talent, it is yet to realize its potential to be a world leader in research. We hope ResearchAndYou.com will be a great resource in helping aspiring researchers,” said Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India.

“Access and exposure to world class research and researchers from an early stage in education is critical in motivating students to look at a research career, which in turn is critical to developing a rich research talent pool. ResearchAndYou.com seeks to address this issue,” said Dr. Richard F. Rashid, Senior VP, Research, Microsoft Corporation.

ResearchAndYou.com will provide students with an interactive forum where they can connect with researchers and faculty from fields of their interest to ask questions, explore research opportunities and understand the state-of-the-art. The portal will also serve as a single source of information for resources in different disciplines of computer science and related areas, with links and pointers to different kinds of information, including reference material, research papers, events and conferences, and research news.

“Over the last few years, we are seeing an increase in the applications for PhDs. At this juncture, it is important for the students to get access to quality information that will help them in deciding on the future, in particular, areas of choice for research,” said Dr. N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science. “This portal is intended to fill this void and help students to take up a research career, in particular, in the area of Computer Science and Engineering.”

TechVista 2010 was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. The morning session of TechVista also saw a Distinguished Address by Turing Award recipient Professor Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science, a panel discussion on “The Future of Computing and Computer Science” featuring four Turing Award recipients, and talks by Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Research, Microsoft and Dr. P. Anandan, MD, Microsoft Research India.

Besides nutrition and exercise plans for weight loss, Fitho provides an array of other services like buying supplements online, fitness questions answered by experts, gym listing across India and more.

The People’s HealthBlogger Awards is an annual competition that Wellsphere created to give recognition to health bloggers. The competition allows readers to express their appreciation for their favorite bloggers, and to promote community-building among fellow bloggers.

“Today, the Widgetbox Network is comprised of millions of readers, and hundreds of thousands of blogs and widgets,” said Will Price, CEO of Widgetbox. “We are excited to showcase the blogs that leverage our platform via the Widgetbox Network Channels, and syndicate this content through one powerful widget. Widgetbox Network Channels connect our bloggers by category and highlight the best writers and posts in each channel, thereby creating more value for their readers, advertisers, and the authors themselves.”

Unlike other networks, the Widgetbox Blog Network uses widgets to connect publishers, readers and content. Widgets are uniquely viral and the Widgetbox Blog Network taps that viral power to drive unparalled traffic and exposure to members and their content through cross-network exposure.

The Widgetbox Network Channels specifically use the Widgetbox Blog Network widget, a dynamic, attention-grabbing widget that showcases content across the channel and instantly connects individual blogs to a large community of like-minded publishers and readers.

Widgetbox Network Channels leverage the simplicity and viral nature of widgets and deliver that power to the network. Every member is featured in the Widgetbox Blog Network widget, which appears on every site in the network. The personalized widget features a leaderboard and channel hub, linking to member sites. In addition, each member receives a badge for their blog, with their own unique branding and channel rank, and membership in a web-wide federation that celebrates the diversity of its membership.

“We are excited to partner with Widgetbox and power the Widgetbox Blog Network’s Sports Channel,” said Pete Vlastelica, CEO of Yardbarker. “The Yardbarker Network is comprised of nearly 600 sports blogs and we are able to connect readers and topics through a dynamic widget. This is a powerful opportunity to leverage widgets to showcase the most current and popular articles across our network while driving traffic back to the publishers.”

For more information about Widgetbox Blog Network, please visit http://www.widgetbox.com/network.

Getting started with Utterz AutoPost takes only minutes and requires no changes to the blog page. To use AutoPost, bloggers set up a free account at utterz.com, add location info about their blog and start moblogging. By calling 712-432-Mooo (6666) to record voice “utterz” and sending text, pictures and video from their phones to go@utterz.com, bloggers can create multi-media posts that are placed directly in their blog stream. (US only).

Blogging On Demand

For bloggers everywhere, Utterz AutoPost provides new on-demand blogging possibilities. They now have mobile blogging capability wherever they have a cell phone. For example, bloggers can now provide:

• On-the-spot reporting from or about events and conferences;
• Daily updates during road trips;
• Instant movie reviews while still at the theater;
• Exclusive video footage and pictures from the scene of any event;
• Comments on political or social hot topics as soon as they happen.

In the coming months, Utterz AutoPost will be extended to include additional blogging platforms. Utterz widgets are also available to allow users to post voice, text, pictures and video to any other blog, social network or web page.

“Utterz AutoPost not only makes blogging simple, it makes it better,” said Michael Bayer, co-founder and CEO of RPM Communications, the parent company of Utterz. “Voice adds a completely new dimension to blog posts. Speaking your thoughts is so much more natural than just typing or texting them, and it’s the only way to share your emotion and personality with your followers. Sharing your experiences, along with pictures and video, right when they happen, brings blogs to life.”

Utterz On Facebook, Too

Utterz also recently released the Utterz Facebook application which lets Facebook users post directly to their Facebook profile in voice, video, pictures and text. Facebook users are already using Utterz to chronicle their lives, trips, funny thoughts and experiences anytime, anywhere. Visitors to their Facebook pages can instantly hear and see their most recent utters as well as previous entries. The full-featured Facebook application of Utterz is available now to all users in the application section of Facebook.

To use the new feature, WordPress.com bloggers will press the AnswerLinks icon on the WordPress editing toolbar to trigger an application that will suggest terms for automatic linking. Typical suggestions will include names, technical terms or obscure language that may not be familiar to some readers. Only words confirmed by the author will be linked to definitions, assuring full editorial control.

"Answers.com has a thriving, ongoing relationship with the publishing community," explained Bob Rosenschein, Chairman and CEO, "and we’re delighted to provide such an innovative tool on a leading blogging platform like WordPress.com. The goal of the integration is to help the blogger maintain the flow of his or her writing, without needing to pause to provide explanations inside the text. It’s also a quick and simple way to keep readers from the distractions that cause them to leave, in search of an explanation for an unfamiliar reference."

"We’re particular about the tools we add to our core user experience," added Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic. "We trust that AnswerLinks will be a helpful publishing enhancement for our over 1.6 million WordPress.com bloggers."