Its been almost three months since Orkut apps went live. It seemed like a good time to visit and review some of the most popular Orkut apps and see how well they’re faring.
Orkut has the largest Indian audience amongst all social networks and not surprisingly, it seems that Indian apps seem to the dominate the […]
Tagg.in is a new SMS - web based microblogging service for India.
With Tagg.in, you can
create a TAGGivity (group)
update your TAGGivity
invite members to the TAGGivity
Just follow the command format and send updates to 99801 99801 and your TAGGivity will be updated.
Tagg.in also runs several groups by themselves. Join these groups and you’ll get the latest business […]
Indian consumers are one of the biggest bargain hunters in the world. For all ye bargain hunters, there’s good news. LootStreet is a new startup that’ll hopefully satiate some of your appetite for haggling. Founded by two IIMA grads, LootStreet offers a marketplace for buyers and sellers to come together.
Unlike eBay, LootStreet is not an […]
TenCent Holdings, a leading Chinese portal, has secured an option to acquire upto 50% of MIH India Global Ltd. MIH operates the portals iBibo, Dwaar and OneFamily.
TenCent plans to invest $7.5 million in MIH India Global over the next three years.
MIH India Global is backed by media conglomerate Naspers, which, also owns a 35.5% stake […]
When Pligg, a popular open source Digg clone, was launched, countless sites popped up on the map, wanting to be India’s Digg. With time, the most lame ones have gotten weeded out. But that still doesnt deter others from launching a Digg clone even today.
Now that Reddit is open sourcing their code, I’m hedging my […]
There are a few startups - Yulop, Vakow, CommonFloor - that I wanted to write about way back, but due to time constraints, never was able to do so.
However, considering the pace at which these startups are innovating, I thought it might be a good idea to revisit them and write a few words about […]
Depending on who your target audience is, it is so very essential that you do beta testing within a subset of that targeted audience. If your web app is designed for the general audience (read: outside the realm of the early adopter crowd), I’d say you better get your friends-family (assuming they fall outside the […]
If you closely follow technology news, TechMeme has gotta be in your daily reading list. Indimeme is a similar effort at developing a meme tracker for Indian blogosphere. The ‘hot’ stories from Indian blogosphere are presented in a semi-clustered way. The site is a project by Raj @Teknobites and currently includes 100 Indian blogs with […]
CafeStocks is yet another startup trying to marry social features and Indian stock market investing. The goal is to use wisdom of the crowds for buying and selling stocks. Users can collaborate and seek out opinions and ask questions related to any particular stock. Each user can maintain their virtual portfolio and based on the […]
Dhingana has just launched a games section with games like Cricket, Holi Tamasha etc and have refreshed their landing page to a great new design.
As popularity of Dhingana soars, I thought this would be a good opportunity to interview the Dhingana founders on their entrepreneurial experience thus far. As per Compete, US traffic to the […]
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