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 the ...

ZohoProject launches….takes the battle to BaseCamp’s doorsteps

Zoho has launched its project management baby called ZohoProject. I got a couple of emails yesterday (from Arvind & Sriram at their Chennai office) breaking the news to me. And their emails conveyed a sense of excitement and anticipation. The tone of their emails tell me, that this is by far the most ambitious of ...

ResolveQuery- the knowledge feedback loop

Resolve Query is a website that helps students or early professionals get free but reliable advice from experts about any of their academic or professional queries. It brings them in direct contact with a large set of professionals from various fields who will answer their queries, just the way a mentor would. It is almost ...

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. If the essence of Web2.0 is social sharing, websites like Digg, Del.icio.us etc are at the forefront of this new web paradigm. ...

Webyantra is back from its server outage

If you happened to visit Webyantra in the last 36 hours, this is probably what you saw on this site. I was as surprised as anybody else to find the above message displayed on the homepage yesterday morning. Well, the traffic to this blog has been increasing steadily but this was totally unexpected to me. I ...

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 is ...

Rediff’s IE toolbar ushers it into the big league…

This may be an insignificant step for IE but it’s a big move for Rediff. For it marks the first attempt by India’s largest internet company to go beyond being just a web portal to making web products (or pdt extensions). For Rediff has launched a toolbar for Internet Explorer (5.5 & above). It is pretty ...

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 a ...

SEraja….the biggest repository of events on the web?

Human beings are social creatures and attending events (social, cultural, religious, personal , professional, political etc) is second nature to them. Given the emphasis of Web2.0 on user generated content, there is immense information about events, that lies scattered amongst various sources like news websites, blogs, discussion boards etc. It would help to have an ...

Zoho puts India on the Web2.0 map of the world

Its official now. Web2.0 has arrived in India and Indian companies are making their presence felt on the world Web2.0 map. For Zoho, the Chennai based startup behind the Zoho suite of weboffice products, has been named amongst the 23 of the most innovative Web 2.0 websites developed in countries other than the USA, in ...