While going through my feeds yesterday, I came across something really interesting on the ProgrammableWeb feed. Cleartrip, one of the best looking airline websites in India, is planning to start an API.
This seems to have been started in conjunction with Mashery.com. However, no details are available yet. You can register and tell them about your [...]

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 [...]

Amit Ranjan, the CEO of SlideShare announces SlideCasting, the new multimedia mashup format, on his blog.
You can connect any mp3 on the web to your slideshow. Once you do that, you can synchronize ‘each’ slide to a particular section of the audio track. We think slidecasting has the potential to unleash a new wave of [...]

Coveman is a new interesting startup which provides you with, among other services, the ability to create resumes and visiting cards using the templates available. Considering that most freshers hardly know how to create resumes this should be a great help.
You can also create a downloadable personal diary, address book, Blogs, profiles, photographs for resumes, [...]

This is definitely something I haven’t seen before. Pagalguy is down. I see this error message I show below.

They use a third party software for their forums, maybe there is a glitch in that code somewhere. Though I don’t think there’s a huge possibility of that happening. Who knows maybe it was an admin mixup [...]

AlooTechie wrote about BharatStudent.com claiming 1.4 million registered users in four months, but the comments sections brings out a completely different story.
The discussion starts with the huge number of features on BharatStudent.com and moves to it being a Orkut and Youtube mixture. However, eventually it moves to the loads of porn and spamming done by [...]

With podcasting catching up in India, Hindi bloggers couldn’t have stayed far behind. So here comes a great new website to cater to the growing gap, called PodBharti.com which gives you podcasts purely in Hindi. Started by Debashish Chakrabarty and Shashi Singh, PodBharti gives you News and Views and stories from the blogosphere, completely in [...]

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I just came across this site called Scooty Gals which features profiles, blogs quizzes etc. The strange thing is that a search on google doesn’t really show me anything about it. The DNS points to a certain Mr. Karthik Ganesh, of ePagemaker. The domain has been there since Sept 2006, but it looks like never [...]

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 [...]