If you are a regular reader of Pluggd.in, you'd have seen the on-and-off coverage of Grassroots Innovation and Innovators, primarily from rural India. Starting today, we would be streamlining our on-and-off posts on grassroots innovations. We will feature one such innovation and its innovator on Pluggd.in, every alternate Wednesday. --------------------------- LinkedIn announced Endorsements Monday, a new feature that allows you to recognize professionals for their skills and expertise. The official statement was published only this week though our own Jayadevan was endorsed for Radio (??) a week earlier, and the same day, yours truly was endorsed by an ex-colleague for CSS and XSL, skills I ... --------------------------- The tool nicely mixes social networking (think Yammer) with task management (think Do) and tracking of projects (think Basecamp) and importantly, is totally free for 12 users (most of the other tools limit number of free users to 5). --------------------------- WhatsApp, the 'open' BBM has partnered with Reliance Communications to bring WhatsApp free to college kids. Reliance has launched a new plan - MyCollegePlan (available only on GSM) which bundles WhatsApp and Facebook app for free (apart from regular cheap calls/SMS tariff). --------------------------- Currently, around 17,000 policies are purchased online every month. Though the given figure only constitutes 2% of overall offline sales, it grew 200% in the last 2 years. What we have seen so far is the run up. The big leap will come in the coming years. What we have seen so far is the run up. The big leap will happen over the next 2-3 years. --------------------------- Currently seeing around 200 tasks being performed per month, Chachii will expand it portfolio of job offerings by moving into repairing and baby-sitting. They are working upon enlisting students for their planned B2B model, where Chachii would acts as the human resource for enterprises for their market research and event management. --------------------------- While many of us are now laughing at the extent to which the movie has been copied, but to those who knew nothing about the original artwork (did you?), the movie still is a great piece of storytelling and proves a simple point that a well conceived products (i.e. sum) is greater than the sum of parts. --------------------------- By combining big data with a robust, cloud-based analytics engine, Capillary optimizes the relevance and profitability of discounts and personalized offers to consumers in real time to increase loyalty and sales. --------------------------- Bangalore based deal site Bhaap.com is claiming that they will be the first to sell the new iPhone 5 in India at Rs 71,995 starting next Friday! --------------------------- Microsoft extended two years of optional support for Windows Server 2008 to its product-support roadmap, OMX launched a cloud computing platform built by Amazon Web Services. --------------------------- A study by online marketplace Sulekha.com says that consumers saved about Rs 42 cr in August 2012 by buying gadgets online from the top 15 e-commerce players in India. Thanks to all the VC money, online shops are perhaps selling all that inventory to us cheaper than they can afford to. The study indicates that consumers are buying mobile phones online at almost factory price. --------------------------- Mr Sam Pitroda’s first ever press conference on Twitter was right out of the first episode of Yes Minister, the British sitcom from the 80s. Much like Jim Hacker the newly elected Member of Parliament in the satirical series, Mr Pitroda, the adviser to the Indian Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation proclaimed ...
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