How Google Said Thanks To The Delivery Men - The Unsung Heroes Of The E-Commerce Industry

A laptop for Gokul in Chennai, roller-skates for Pinky in Delhi and a watch for Hiral in Mumbai. Today, online shopping has made life so easy for us in India, everything is delivered at our doorstep. But have we ever wondered about those who bring them to us?

Saying 'Thanks!' is a common courtesy you should show to every one, from a waiter, auto driver to the guy who cleans your garbage. During GOSF 2014, India's most popular online shopping festival, Google decided to thank the nameless, unsung heroes of the e-commerce industry: the delivery men.

As almost all delivery men have to drive two-wheelers and every day, these men ride their bikes with heavy bags on their backs to make our lives a little simpler. Each day, thousands of these delivery from various e-commerce stores ride across the length and breadth of this country to make this possible without even a little 'thank-you' in return.

Druing GOSF 2014, India's most popular online shopping festival, Google India decided to do something special
for these nameless heroes and Google decided to gift them a fancy driving Helmets with their names printed on it and their reactions will touch your heart.

This Indian Ad of Google Glass will make you feel to have one

The video above you see was shot entirely on Google Glass and was created by alumni and students from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts as part of the Glass Creative Collective. The video is called as -"Seeds" which is Google says its way of saying "Thank you, Mom."

In video above you see how a man travel his journey all the way from US to India, which is his home apparently and all his way to India capture all the moments through his Google glass that he is wearing.

Notably, Google Glass has the ability to take photos and record 720p HD video and while video is recording, the screen stays on while it is doing so.

Currently, to own a Google Glass you would need to be US residents and purchase Glass with a US based credit card. for rest of countries, you can sign up at http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-to-get-one to stay informed. Global release of Google glass is estimated later this year.

However there is a gadget that can somehow satisfy people in India, their wish to own something like Google glass wearable on your eyes you might take a look at this Bluetooth sunglasses gadget available in India as ver cheaper alternative for quite a while until Google glass comes to India.

Related - How Google Glass Actually Works

How I Met Your Neta - Video

The current Lok Sabha elections in our country has been an emotional roller coaster for everybody. The number of first time and youth voters casting their ballots has led to a big splurge in the percentage of voter turnouts across the country.

Just like recent times, Popular Media has played a very crucial part in changing the mindsets and fueling the debate for good governance and due credit should be given to them.

In the video above by TVFRecycleBin in association with ADR- Association For Democratic Reforms, the TVF guys ask the youth of India simple questions to test their political awareness. With everybody having opinions about politics and politicians it was interesting see very basic knowledge about current politics.

But under this entire garb of sensationalism lies a truth that is not only stark but very difficult to comprehend. "TVF online entertainment network, part of TVFGroup, a leading company, at the edge of media innovations..." The Viral Fever with its underlying power of creating original and unbiased content in association with ADR- Association For Democratic Reforms launched a survey/campaign called "How I Met your Neta". The idea was simple: To ask the young voters of our country of the basic knowledge about electorate like candidates, issues, manifestos, etc and most of them were clueless.

An initiative by TVF, FAQ's "How i Met Your Neta" aims at fulfilling that void between "Cast your Vote" and "Cast your Vote responsibly after finding out, who are you voting for?"

The video has been trending on twitter, Facebook and youtube for the last week or so and has already garnered over 3,25,000 views

Arunabh Kumar, Founder of TVF Group was quoted as saying "With this, we have been able to make at least half a million people more politically aware. We look forward to make "TVF-RecycleBin" a one stop channel for all cool non-fiction content."

BoxTV introduces Mobile payments and new plans

Times Internet’s premium on-demand video service, BoxTV, has recently integrated mobile payments on its platform and introduced multiple subscription packs  offering a range of plans from a super small 3 day plan (weekend pack), 7 Day plan (week pack), 15 day pack (fortnight pack) all the way up to an yearly pack.

Data on viewership patterns indicates that a lot of online content consumption happens on weekends and BoxTV’s weekend pack makes it easy for people to watch premium content  without paying for an entire month. The mobile subscription plans also enable people without credit cards to buy a subscription plan easily on BoxTV.

BoxTV has integrated a seamless process for mobile payment for smaller duration packs of 3, 7, and 15 days, which allows users to pay directly from their mobile phones. The prices range from Rs 49(for a 3 day pack) to Rs 99(7 day pack) and Rs 150(15 day pack). All a customer needs to do is to select the plan and input  their mobile numbers on the BoxTV website .The user receives a one-time password which once submitted, activates the plan for the given duration. The process does not require any credit information to watch the premium content available on BoxTV at any time. The payment will be charged to the customers mobile bill or deducted from his balance.

For the long-term users, there are multiple plans available which range from ₹199 for a monthly plan to an yearly plan priced at ₹1499. For these plans, users will need to subscribe using their credit cards on BoxTV. This provides a lot more flexibility to select a plan which best caters to their individual requirements.

"The BoxTV team is constantly working towards increasing customer satisfaction and improving overall experience, be it by introducing newer features on an ongoing basis or provide product flexibility by incorporating flexible price packs. Since inception, we received several requests from our users to provide multiple plans and payment options and that is exactly what we have introduced. With the introduction of new subscription packs BoxTV service will cater to all segments of users looking for suitable service, which provides flexibility in terms of payment and a seamless movie watching experience. The mobile payments will allow users without credit cards to watch premium content on BoxTV thereby increasing our overall user-base" said Pandurang Nayak, Business Head, BoxTV.

Funny Video: Entrepreneurship Satire on Corruption and Scams

A funny video has been surfaced made by a popular YouTube Indian Channel called TheViralFever.com, in the video a satire comedy has performed in video with concept on how would a corrupt person would approach to VCs to pitch the idea for his startup that moves around corruption, scams and stealing other's ideas.

The startup pitcher explains that the theft market in India is untapped, very disorganized and there are individuals players in this area but nobody tried to consolidate it yet (Hilarious !)

The video maker call-it 'Qtiyapa' an analogical slang of a well-known word in India, the video show how an upcoming thief visits the VC office to fund his new venture - An Online ChorBaazar and call it C-Commerce (Chor Commerce, chor - thief in English). The actor playing an entrepreneur in the video explains that website domains booked for same are - C-Bay.com, Flickkart.com, ChaalBaazi.com, SnapSteal.com or Lobhi.com. (Not to be taken seriously)

Watch the video see captions if you don't know Hindi language you will definitely love this video if you have pitched as an entrepreneur or if you have something to do with to funding or get funded.

Youtube teaser of Rajnikanth starrer Kochadaiiyaan got 2 million views in 60hrs

The first trailer of the highly anticipated Indian Tamil film 'Kochadaiyaan', starring south India's superstar Rajinikanth, has been unveiled on Youtube on Monday this week thereafter the video gone viral and within 60 hours the video got more than 2 million views and by the time we are writing this article it has got 2,079,061 views. Kochadaiiyaan which means - King with long, curly mane, is an upcoming Tamil period film directed by Rajnikanth's own daughter Soundarya R. Ashwin .

One of a commentator on Youtube said about the vide - "2,000,000 views in 2 days is not an achievement, in Rajni terms. 90% of his fans are in rural areas with no computer access (and possibly never in their life). We're talking about almost every single soul in Tamil Nadu.Tamil speaking population is a minority number, even on YouTube."

The film Kochadaiyaan is first Indian film that utilised performance capturing technology or motion capture technology (MOCAP), this is same technology that has been used in hollywood blockbusters such as Avatar in 2009 and The Adventures of Tintin in year 2011.

Moreover, under another interesting technology Rajinikanth who is in lead role got his face scanned and a 3D model has been built to get the exact precision of his features, such as the scar on his nose. And then the 3D model goes for correction such as tightening his skin to make him look 25 years younger, the technology was used in the film Tron.

The 48 cameras captured performance of artistes' at 48 angles. The film was equipped with Auro 3D sound technology, becoming the third Indian film to do so.

The film is set to release in September 2013 and various Indian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam and and in foreign languages English, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

Coca-Cola Small World Machines is Really Interesting

Coca-Cola, a renowned soft-drink maker world-wide has come up with new marketing gimmick which is really interesting and beautifully give an effort to bring two nations together and when the nations are India & Pakistan it become much more interesting - two siblings tear apart in year 1947 and now used to live with conflicts.



Coca-Cola devised a high-tech vending machines installed in two popular shopping malls in Lahore city of Pakistan and New Delhi of India, two cities separated by only 325 miles. These machines are called - "Small World Machines" which provides a live communications portal (live streaming video) with 3D touchscreen technology to project a streaming video feed onto the vending machine screen while simultaneously filming through the unit to capture a live emotional exchange such as - wave, touch hands, draw a peace sign or dance along with of-course sharing Coca-Cola.



This Small World machines project a streaming video feed onto the vending machine screen while simultaneously filming through the unit to capture a live emotional exchange.

People from both the countries are liking it and sharing peace & love messages despite of their political conflicts.

Via - coca-colacompany.com

10 Hilarious Harlem Shake Videos - Indian Version

Since february this year, an Internet viral spread across the globe in form of videos where people uploaded do the Harlem Shake video. For those who don't know what the hell is Harlem Shake all about, please read the wikipedia link here.

Various web blogs, social media portal have made some list of top or best-of Harlem shake videos, however when it comes to India, there isn't any, we did the same as sunday fun, so here it is:

Please include your videos or your choice of video you think should be in the list.

Harlem shake done by Department of Biotechnology, IIT Chennai

Students and even professors are good at it, at first it's look like a serious award distribution ceremony, but then everything went crazy



 

Harlem Shake at Indian Border area 

Unknown border area of India with do-the-Harlem-shake participation from security force guys, a camel and few crazy guys



 

Army Public School, Delhi Edition

Kids doing Harlem shake in school classroom



 

IIT Delhi Classroom Edition, as aparent from video description



 

3 Guys doing the Harlem Shake in public places of Delhi, India. Watch the expressions of people around



 

Lovely Indian Girls doing harlem shake



Typical Indian family but funny this time with little grandma, funny lol!

 



 

Indian Wedding Harlem Shake



 

MTV India Office (Mumbai) Harlem Shake

A serious reality TV show Roadies strategy meeting turns into the epic Harlem Shake.



 

Harlem Shake - Indian Business School, Chennai Edition