Recently heard over at AlooTechie, that BharatStudent.com, an Indian social networking website for students is planning to spend about Rs 25 crore over the next two years.
About Rs 6.25 crore would be the capital cost, while the remaining 18.75 crores “would be infused into scaling up our human resources pool, creating visibility of the portal [...]
Getting funding is easy.
Recently, I had read Sujai Karampuri, founder of Sloka Telecom (henceforth, the Sloka guy) ranting about the fact that VCs were shying away from funding his company. I felt bad for for about half a second because it looks like a great idea, but then I moved on hoping that somebody on [...]
Jason Calcanis has started a long conversation in the blogosphere by declaring bankruptcy on social networks. He is exhausted by the number of people he has to meet up there, and who are sending him requests for more (link), whereas on the other hand Ben Casnocha, in an unrelated post, talks about how social networks [...]
We’ll all heard about Facebook, and we’ve all thought about moving there, but I guess it’s still not as big in India as it is in the US. It’s still orkut here, though facebook is coming on strong.
And if you’ve heard about Facebook, you’ve heard about it’s code-stealing (alleged) founder and the lawsuit.
So, here is [...]
Reliance Entertainment has launched it’s first social networking portal. ‘Big Adda’, which had been running a series of polls over the last month or so, has finally decided what logos to use and the site has finally gone live.
You can upload photos, videos, and start your own blogs. Entry is restricted, you can only get [...]
Kincafe is a new service launched by US-based entrepreneur Manish Arora.
Not content with being yet another Social Networking site, Kincafe helps your create your complete family trees, and share news, blogs, calenders, and photo albums. Also you get to create your birthday and anniversary calender. It also automatically finds the latest updates to family albums, [...]
HeadRush explains why they are scared of twitter.
For all its popularity, I see at least three issues: 1) it’s a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key addictive element of slot machines. 2) The strong “feeling of connectedness” Twitterers get can trick the brain into thinking its having a meaningful [...]
After burping successfully in Mumbai and Bangalore, Burp.com has decided to start burping in Kolkata. Burp is the place where you go to check out and comment on the diners, restaurants and clubs (and businesses) that you go to.
Sadly enough, Pune has not figured on their list yet, though I do hope they get here [...]
Meetup brings to you a convenient way to keep in touch with people who share a similar interests and live nearby. This social networking site now has more than 200,000 registered users and is bringing lots and lots of people together. In a lot of ways it looks similar to Yahoo Groups, just that it’s [...]
Software patents are distasteful. More so, when they start covering such wide topics as handling data in an social networked site, or a content management system (Blackboard Inc). So, discussions on the internet have been growing since Friendster has started hoarding patents.
The question about when Friendster starts suing Myspace and Facebook has started doing the [...]
