Guruji launches…and local search engines in India are now REALLY HOT

The Indian internet landscape is getting more competitive by the day. Not only is it widening in breath, it is also getting deeper. Search engines have traditionally been at the heart of how the internet works, and we now have multiple local search engines to choose from. The latest (and most promising) entrant to this [...]

Stockhive…rational investing for avid investors

If you are a casual investor in Indian stocks, you probably use the stock tracking services provided by online banks or investment portals and find them adequate. But if you are a serious investor and you care for detailed investment analysis & forecasting and how that data is presented, you don’t have many options. I [...]

Video sharing sites start to blip on the Indian Web2.0 radars

India centric video sharing sites are gradually popping up now. I have been exposed to two such sites during the last week. I think the entry barriers to creating and running a video site are far higher as compared to other Web2.0 applications. They entail very significant operational costs (on account of media storage & [...]

RadioVeRVe- tune into Indian Independent/Indie music

If you care for Indian Independent (or Indie) music, check out RadioVeRVe. It is India’s first Internet radio station dedicated to this kind of music. RadioVeRVe is trying to go beyond the mainstream music genres and provide a platform to lesser known musicians or bands from across the country. There are three eligibility conditions [...]

Infosys takes to corporate blogging…..trying to get noticed in the Web2.0 world

If you happened to visit popular Web2.0 watering holes like TechCrunch, Gigaom etc in the past few days, chances are that you would have noticed ad banners from Infosys on those sites. I don’t recall seeing these ads earlier. This looks like a concerted effort by India’s top IT services company to get noticed in [...]

Airtel collaborates with Microsoft to offer MS Office for their customers

Airtel collaborates with Microsoft to offer MS Office for their customers
India’s largest private sector mobile service provider Airtel is collaborating with software giants Microsoft.
The two companies would now offer Airtel customers in the country the ability to access host of Microsoft Office applications and other multimedia products on their mobile phones.
Airtel would now be [...]
Airtel [...]

Indian social bookmarking sites take off & it’s a rush out there already..

I have been approached by four social bookmarking sites for reviews; however instead of writing individual reviews, it makes sense to do a sweeping scan of this entire space, hence this round up post. It has taken me multiple sessions spread over a week to put together this review.
If the essence of Web2.0 is social [...]

MeraSnap..digital photo printing & delivery picks up in India

It seems that digital photo printing & delivery is a web based business, that is catching on in India quite fast. I profiled PicSquare on this blog some time back. MeraSnap is another Bangalore based website, that is trying to make gain a foothold in the same space.
It is interesting to note that MeraSnap [...]

Tata and Sky finally launches Tata Sky DTH Service in India

Tata and Sky finally launches Tata Sky DTH Service in India
India finally has another player in the DTH market. Zee already has a presence in the market with their Dish TV service. Prasar Bharti also has a presence with their DD Direct service. And now Sky has entered the market in collaboration with Tata and [...]

PCWorld- India’s most comprehensive technology website

This was long overdue. For a country that aspires to be a de-facto tech powerhouse, India was certainly short of a really good technology portal. That’s set to change with the launch of PCWorld, a website from the IDG group. The only other tech website of any repute till now was TechTree, but that left [...]

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