Web 2.0 – Web India
This May, the arrogant Facebook team announced the launch of Facebook platform / social OS. Two of the kick-ass apps that got ported to Facebook and need mention are eBay and LendingClub. eBay’s application is all about selling / buying merchandise within one’s network. Their are no takers for this on FB, ifContinue Reading
Having lost majority of the market in China to rival, Baidu, the big 3 are embracing the Indian internet market developing tools and content for the regional diversity. Yahoo! India has launched 7 regional language portals – Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu and Tamil. This is a step inContinue Reading
Indian Social Networking site, Indyarocks will shortly launch WideScreen Video on its site. For folks like me who work on Dual Monitors with one turning into entertainment screen after 7:00 PM, I can easily pop-up the Video screen to the other monitor and continue to work on my primary. Check outContinue Reading
Minekey a Silicon Valley based startup with R&D center at IIT Kharagpur has developed a unique Recommendation Widget based on behavioral targeting. As a publisher, one can signup with RSS feeds and display it on blog or website. They will be tracking user browing habits through a cookie collecting and analyzing data. Dr.Continue Reading
Their is good news to Airtel Broadband subscribers if you like Google and its web services. Google will power Airtel Broadband subscribers E-mail, Search, Chat and Personalized homepage. [Not very clear if the entire Google Apps will be made available to Airtel Broadband subscribers] Google will readily get 0.63 Million GmailContinue Reading
AskLaila a local search engine in beta appears to be borrowing ideas from burrp! – the company which made it to the global list of Business 2.0’s top 25 Web 2.0 startups. What AskLaila has essentially done is dervied their platfrom from two great and successful concepts – burrp! and JustDial /OnYoMo.Continue Reading
What is common between Microsoft and Guruji ? Both are struggling to better their market share in “Search” and have resorted to rewarding their users for using their search engines. Microsoft unveiled Live Search Club in June which offers gifts for playing and winning on the website where you will beContinue Reading
I normally don’t track this company nor their web properties for some reason. However, in a research report published by Citigroup analysts just a while ago, they expect the company to beat their estimates for Q1FY2008 of Rs 405m (+45% YoY) and net profit of Rs 69m (+31% YoY). Naukri continues toContinue Reading
The online classifieds market in India is roughly pegged at Rs 100 crore [$25 Million] and growing upwards of 50% YoY according to Sulekha CEO, Satya Prabhakar. Majority of the business comes from Metros and Tier-1 cities in India. Also, the volume of transactions happening online is just 20% with the potential to reachContinue Reading
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