India’s First Web TV - India Vibes TV

Indiavibes’s focus is on user experience in terms of

1. Free Legitimate Content,
2. High Quality,
3. Best of the breed look and feel.

Indiavibes also has a Solid Product Platform. Indiavibes’s competitive edge is the technology it is running on. Even at low bandwidth speeds it will provide high quality legitimate FREE content. Indiavibes can be accessed from the internet as well as a mobile.

Indiavibes  is a Kochi-based Vibes Visual and Media Private Limited said it will launch Indiavibes, claimed to be India's first web TV, on New Year's Day.

Andrine Mendez, Founder Visual & Media Priate Ltd said:

"Indiavibes will cover all categories... fashion, music, films, business, technology, blogging, lifestyle, current affairs and wish to make Indiavibes, as its name suggests, the one-stop shop for all the entertainment for global audiences," said Mendez.

Indiavibes promises to bring a huge collection of TV shows and movies for its audiences to choose from. You cannot download these shows or films on your PC as Indiavibes uses the adaptive streaming technology which will stream the videos for viewing.

In order to view the shows, your computer has to be compatible with either WINDOWS or MAC with at least a 512 MB RAM and 800 MH processor for viewing of Indiavibes. The only software that you will require to view Indiavibes is an Adobe Flash Player 10.

According to Wikipedia, Web television (Web TV) is not to be confused with Internet television or Catch up TV. Web TV is an emerging genre of digital entertainment that is distinct from traditional broadcast television.

Delivered originally online via broadband and mobile networks, Web television shows, or Web series, are short-form in nature (2–9 minutes per episode), episodic, and produced in seasons.

In 2008, the International Academy of Web Television was founded with the mission to organize and support the community of web television creators, actors, producers and executives. It administers the selection of winners for the Streamy Awards.

Vibes Visual & Media Pvt Ltd claims to be a full fledged visual production company, with Indiavibes Entertainment portal its flagship project. The portal intend to stream visually rich content to the world in English language.

IndiaVibes TV can be seen from 1st January 2011 at http://www.indiavibes.tv/

Indiavibes.tv through mobile phones?

Indiavibes.tv will also be optimized for mobiles and also provide application platforms for many mobiles making Indiavibes.tv available on 3G, CDMA, WiFi or WiMAX network. The video quality experience would be optimized for the mobile networks and mobile screen size to provide the best user experience possible. Applications are being built for all phones running the following OS/applications.
1. iPhone.
2. Adobe Flash Lite 3.0
3. Symbian OS.
4. J2ME.
5. Windows Mobile 6.1
6. Blackberry
7. Android

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key features:

• Faster interaction: If you want, you can send messages just by hitting your Enter key, so the new Messages is as fast (and as informal) as an in-person conversation.
• Integrated communication: No matter what you’re using to communicate (Facebook, mobile or email), your conversation streams quickly and seamlessly into one place.
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• Forwarding: Pass individual messages along to other friends.
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Facebook has recently introduced the new Facebook Messages. The new Messages interface not only displays the Facebook messages you exchange with friends, but it also interweaves your chats, texts and emails. With Messages, you can get all your texts, chat, facebook messages and email together in one simple conversation. It’s a central place to control all of your private communication, both on and off Facebook.You can get yourid@facebook.com email as well.

Messages has always been the place for private exchanges on Facebook, and this won’t change. With the new Messages, now you have easy access to all your private conversations with your friends in one place.

Facebook is rolling out the new Messages to everyone gradually, so you should see steps to upgrade soon. Do you want to access the new Messages sooner to have your own Facebook email address? Interested? Login to Facebook and request an invitation (http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/).

According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, more than 350 million of Facebook’s half-billion users now actively send and receive messages on facebook website. More than 4 billion messages get sent everyday through Facebook. He expects that, many new generation users will shift to an integrated, cross-platform mode of communications over the longer term, such as the new messaging service.

With Facebook Messages, You can control who can send messages to you, view complete conversation history, single long-running conversation with a friend, etc. Messages from a person’s most frequently-contacted acquaintances will be automatically routed into a inbox, messages from others into a separate inbox.