Burrp…a social recommender website for events & hangouts

What do you usually do when you want to dine out at a new restaurant on a Sunday evening? Look up the city yellow pages, ask friends for suggestions, read up local tourist guides or simply start walking on the streets in search of an exotic option. Very soon, you might not need to do any ...

Cyn.in….taking Web2.0 to enterprise applications

Web2.0 is believed to be most relevant to consumer internet applications but it is now percolating down to the enterprise space as well. A Mumbai based software products company called Cynapse, has launched Cyn.in, which is a collaboration cum information management system for small to large businesses. It is a web based service that enables the ...

TracBac…making life easier for visual designers

TracBac is a Web2.0 visual collaboration tool that makes life easier for designers. It is targeted specifically at people whose creative lives revolve around images, e.g., ad agencies, web designers, visualisers etc. The process of creating designs/campaigns involves a lot of going back & forth between clients and reviewers. And is generally a painful process, with ...

The Zoho Suite gets better & better…

Zoho has launched a bunch of new features in the past few days that makes its weboffice suite more powerful than before. Here are the latest additions to its capabilities- - normally office documents on the web need to be downloaded on to the computer and then opened with the native application. But Zoho has released a ...

eBay releases ecommerce guide for Indian users..

eBay India has released an ecommerce guide for educating Indian internet users. I have been informed about this by Sneha Deshpande, who works with Ebay’s marketing/communications team. The guide aims to spread awareness and educate Indians on the various aspects of ecommerce and how it simplifies their day-to-day lives. Additionally, it has references to technology trends ...

MapmyIndia rocks Indian Web2.0 with GoogleMap type digitised mapping

GoogleMaps would surely rank as one of the undisputed poster childs of Web2.0. In many ways, it was a trend setting application. On similar lines and in what is a growing evidence of Web2.0 taking firm roots in India, MapmyIndia has released a beta version of a GoogleMap type digitized mapping product. It works on both ...

DimDim…will it do to Webex what Hotmail did to Prodigy?

It may sound anachronous today, but not too long ago, you had to pay money to use email. The default email company (circa 1995-96) was Prodigy, till Hotmail came along and changed the rules of the game. Something similar happened with Skype, which has all but sounded the death knell for conventional international telephony. And now, ...

Stockhive…rational investing for avid investors

If you are a casual investor in Indian stocks, you probably use the stock tracking services provided by online banks or investment portals and find them adequate. But if you are a serious investor and you care for detailed investment analysis & forecasting and how that data is presented, you don’t have many options. I suggest ...

Tezaa adds a punch with new features

Tezaa was one of the first products that I profiled on Webyantra. I regard it as one of the best designed Indian Web2.0 applications that I am currently aware of. Shalin Jain has informed me about a new set of features that have been added to Tezaa just a couple of days back. For starters, Tezaa has ...

Video sharing sites start to blip on the Indian Web2.0 radars

India centric video sharing sites are gradually popping up now. I have been exposed to two such sites during the last week. I feel the entry barriers to creating and running a video site are far higher as compared to other Web2.0 applications. They entail very significant operational costs (on account of media storage & bandwidth); ...