Tag Archives: india

BharatStudent.com : Spamming on Orkut?

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 … Continue reading

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How big is the internet in India? ComCast answers

AgencyFaqs comes up with the latest comCast report on the number of Internet Users in India and Usage statistics. According to them the total number of active internet users in India is about 22 million. It is up 10% from … Continue reading

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Why is there no social component in startups in India.

This post is really a comment I had posted on VentureWoods : What we lack is a medium of interaction. We talk about Techcrunch and how it empowers the startups in the valley, but the part that we miss is … Continue reading

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Podbharti.com : Hindi Podcasts

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 … Continue reading

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Scooty Gals

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, … Continue reading

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BigAdda : Reliance launches Social Networking Portal

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 … Continue reading

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Nautanki TV and The real state of the Indian Online Industry

Nautanki TV and iYogi featured in a Business Week article this week (I’m not sure it was business week, do tell me if you know which magazine it was). The article was about startups to watch out for. So I … Continue reading

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Latest VC on the block : Indian Government launching fund for startups

The Ministry of Science and Technology has decided to launch a Fund for Accelerating Start-ups (FAST) along with the Indian Venture Capital Association. This could be the first public-private initiative to help entrepreneurs who are looking to take their business … Continue reading

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Proto.in SE : Better companies, better VC’s, Best Launches

Proto.in, the launchpad for upcoming startup companies, is back again in July for a second edition. The event is scheduled to be held from July 21-22. The first edition was organized in January this year. The time the event is … Continue reading

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AlooTechie : IndiaTimes gets Web 2.0 features?

AlooTechie, one of the best blogs on the Indian Online Industry, of which I’m a big fan, writes about the the new look of IndiaTimes.com. He brings out a really interesting point about the ad for Shaadi.com, which competes with … Continue reading

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