Rants N’ Jibes

Announced Friday, Facebook is joining hands in an effort to making it easier for people to share their personal profile online.

This came as a result of growing interest among the users for such portability needs. Internet social networking giant, MySpace has also announced their launch of such a feature. While MySpace allows users to use their profiles in only a few websites, facebook has announced that the facebook profile can be carried to any site that wants to host them.

The actual portability will be possible after several weeks.

Google Inc, the internet search leader has last year created a network that will make it easier to share music, picture, hangouts and the likes. Its Open Social. While MySpace has joined OpenSocial, Facebook has not.

Facebook widget application will get a new boom with the portability kicking in. This is because developers stand to gain more now that the profiles will be used even outside of the site!

Recently all the papers started flashing ads about getting paid for incoming calls in India. the ad was put out by the latest mobile operator in India Virgin Mobile. Initially Virgin Mobiles’ plan to enter India as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator was thwarted by the Government. Virgin Mobile has now entered India as a brand using Tata Teleservices Network on a mutual agreement. The brand aims to target the youth and the revenue is shared between the two where for eachnew user, TATA will be paid a fee. According to a official news source:

Under the deal, Tata Teleservices will pay a pre-agreed fee to Virgin for every user buying the youth-focused service. Both, however, refused to give details of the revenue-sharing agreement.

So whats interesting and fresh from the Virgin Mobile-Tata Services alliance? They promise this :

Incoming Free and Get Paid to Receive Calls: Get 10 paise for every 60 seconds incoming received from any phone.

This is a totally new concept and how it catches up with the youth in India remains to be seen. Suddenly all those “home loans, car loans and credit card” calls seem to be invited and appreciated and attractive! More news as we get more information on the best of their virgin mobile tarrifs, virgin mobile plans, rates and possibility to hack Virgin for more balance increasing dramas! But currently their handset range is pathetic enough to scare off the youth to Vodfone or Airtel.

photo credit: x-eyedblonde

Rants N’ Jibes is launched today with a lot of hype and glamour. Humble beginnings, but great ambitions are the words that describe the mood here at our camp. We aim to bring you the best of the internet’s interesting news to your desktop and make you laugh/cry and anything and everything which includes making you pulling your hair off! Stay tuned while we move in completely in a few hours and get settled.