Wrapping up 2007

December 26, 2007 · Posted in India Web 2.0, comparison 

As we draw the curtains to 2007, I thought it’d be a good time to look back and seek the audience vote on their favorite startups.

The idea is to club the startups in categories and conduct a poll for each of them:

Here’re some of the categories and the startups as part of each category:

Local search:

Asklaila, JustDial, Burrp, Guruji, Metromela, Tolmolbol, Dwaar, Citipals

(Startups focusing on a particular city / region have been intentionally left out. )

Social Networking:

IndyaRocks, MingleBox, DesiMartini, BigAdda, Sumitr, cafe ibibo

Mobile based:

Vakow, SMS GupShup, Chittr, mocodile, activemobs

(mobile, permission based marketing companies have been intentionally left out).

photo sharing and printing:

iTasveer, picsquare, Zoomin, printo

ticket booking:

bookeazy, kyazoonga, bookmyshow

map based:

sadakmap, mapmyindia, routeguru, commuteeasy, mapunity

telephony based:

voiee, tringme, ubona
I am excluding the travel portal and the dvd rental categories since I’ve done those earlier (and given that these verticals have matured a bit).

Some of the companies overlap across categories and so its extremely difficult to categorize them exactly.

And here’s where I need your help –

This post has been written in a jiffy (still on vacation) and so there’s a very good chance that I may have missed out on a few. If you feel that there need to be additional categories / companies that I have missed out, or any of the companies above a mis-categorized, please let me know.

Update: I will launch the poll as soon as the categories / list is finalized


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6 Responses to “Wrapping up 2007”

  1. Amit on December 26th, 2007 8:03 pm

    How about http://www.photoswift.com under photo sharing and printing. I thought they have a cool site.

  2. rg on December 27th, 2007 6:04 am

    I vote for…..Vakow!
    but probably you won’t count it :)

  3. Vikas on December 27th, 2007 2:15 pm

    For categories - you could add wedding-planning

  4. Sahil on December 29th, 2007 6:47 am

    I would like to add http://www.deskaway.com for Project Collaboration.
    Thanks and have a great New Years!

  5. pranav on January 1st, 2008 4:39 pm

    @rg - your vote will count..all’s fair..

    @vikas - wedding planning doesnt seem to have sufficient players. besides, its use is limited to a certain demographic

  6. Raseel on January 2nd, 2008 2:27 am

    Here’s my bit for 2007 “wrapups” :
    http://www.raseel.in/blog/?p=11