New startups on the radar screen. Please give them a spin and share your comments. Hellointern: Aiming to be the portal for all info related to internship (listing of universities/opportunities in India/Scholarships etc). which is targeting the Indian market as well (i.e. if Sales17 is targeting the Indian market). Their mantra has to stay around [...]
Mid-week India Business Buzz Seventymm adds community, looks at online movies Apart from the change in design, the site has added networking and profiling features. Each Seventymm member now has a My Hangout page where a profile, friends, movie reviews and quizzes can be displayed. In true networking style, members can upload pictures and videos, [...]
TringMe is to VoIP/Click-to-call , what YouTube was to videos -> easy to use, damn easy to distribute and most importantly, no software to download. There are several VoIP solutions (Jaxtr, Jangl,Fring, Google’s GrandCentral) but all of them act as a middlemen to connect to phone numbers – which essentially means you pay the bills [...]
nineMotion is an online service marketplace which enables buyers and service providers to find each other/negotiate the terms of their project and collaborate.nineMotion’s USP lies in it’s relationship based approach vis-a-vis the existing transactional approach by players like eLance/RentACoder etc. Within few months of launch, nineMotion has added close to 600 service providers (from 20 [...]
Diffen is an interesting take on marrying wikipedia style editing with product comparison/differences. What’s Diffen? Diffen is a user-generated (Wiki style) collection of differences and comparisons. For e.g. you can use Diffen to know the difference between a jail and a prison as well as compare iPod and Zune. A typical comparison in Diffen will [...]
Google is launching YouTube’s desi version by Q1 2008. YouTube India will aggregate Indian video content – specifically movie trailers, music videos, independent films and television content. “YouTube.com has over 300,000 videos being uploaded every day,” Seth said. “Indian content obviously gets lost in this sea of videos. A YouTube.in site will help Indian surfers [...]
Website ads rain on TV TV advertising of the Internet portals registered a growth of 190 per cent during January-August 2007 as compared to the same period in 2006, on the back of 77 new websites and a rise in Shopping Portals average advertisement on TV during the period. While one can always question this [...]
We have been covering Indian startup ecosystem for quite sometime and we profile all new products that are launched in India. And ever since we enabled “Submit a startup” link, we have been flooded with tons of new products/ startups emails. Great. But why aren’t we talking about all of them? Honestly, except for a [...]
Timing is everything. In a startup situation, it is sometimes the only thing! Given that all else is equal (ceteris paribus as the economists like to say in Latin), timing is what makes the big difference. There are two aspects to this. One has to do with “speed of execution” while the other has to [...]
Airtel’s 8MBPS broadband Airtel is launching 8 mbps broadband service in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi and the NCR, with a subsequent roll out in Mumbai and Hyderabad in a few weeks. The price point could be around Rs 2,000 for a download of 7-8 Gbs. (and do you still think Google’s IPTV service is [...]
