Mypopkorn.com, launched by Essel Group’s Digital Media Convergence Ltd, hosts webisodes (encapsulated TV episodes) of television programmes drawn from leading TV channels. Impressed by the novel concept channels like Zee, Sony, Star, Eros entertainment, Subhash Gai and others have joined hands with DMCL to present webisodes, each one being a three minute version of a 30-minute episode, related to drama, romance, comedy, fiction, or soap, reality, lifestyle, movie clips, soap operas, sports, and news. By tracking the visitor’s surfing pattern, mypopkorn.com can help customise content and features that are best suited to an individual. He or she can also interact with people with similar preferences, integrate on all devices and post their opinion on the webisodes. Another great feature of this website is MyStage — a platform provided for users to showcase their talent. Instant fame is just a click away if you aspire to become a singer, actor, reporter, spiritual guru, or a DJ. All you need to do is to upload your videos to the site. You can get even paid for it, and this would depend on the number of times the video gets viewed. A recent success story at MyStage is that of Ms Indira Naik whose upload helped her to launch her music video, successfully. According to Alexa Ranking mypopkorn.com, launched barely two months ago, is ranked among the top 12,000 websites and its viewership is around two lakhs, a day.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
'Yahoo.co.in is the Best online gaming portal‘ - Web 18
Leading portal Yahoo.co.in has won the Web 18 - Genius of the Web Award in the category of best e-commerce online gaming portal. Yahoo won this award in competition with other nominees including Indiatimes.com, funtoosh.com, hungama.com and zapak.com.
‘Geniuses of the Web‘ Awards is a series of awards in multiple categories that recognizes outstanding industry achievements by companies that have done commendable work in the online space.
Elated on being adjudged the best e-commerce online gaming portal, Manish Dalal, Director of Yahoo India shared with AnimationXpress.com, "Yahoo has always striven to provide the best games to its customers. The online gaming space is a niche market and is growing rapidly and users are increasing manifold."
Surya Mantha, CEO of Web 18, informed, "As the Indian Internet community is growing, the online gaming space in India is nurturing at a rapid speed. Web18 and Genius of the Web Awards are committed to recognizing the new and pioneering efforts; it is our privilege to honor all these champs in the online space."
Under the Genius of the Web Awards, several other brands emerged victorious in their respective fields. Jetairways.com, Shaadi.com and Orkut.com were announced the winners of Best Airline site, Best Matrimonial portal and Best Social Networking website, respectively.
The announcement brought mixed reactions from the audience present for the award function, those who won cheered in pleasure and those who couldn‘t make it to the top, emoted the promise to come back to win the title next year!!
