Local Classifieds…can the Craigslist model ever be replicated?

The local (online) classifieds space is a hugely fragmented one. There are dozens of websites, none of which have critical mass and hence contribute to the fragmentation. And the trend is continuing. Here are a couple of classified sites that have surfaced recently. We-exchange- This site is positioned as a medium for facilitating small local ...

BanglaBlogs, ChitthaVishwa..just the push vernacular blogs need

Banglablogs is a directory of Bangla (Bengali) blogs. It has been created by Debashish, the brain behind The Indibloggies (dubbed India's blog Oscars). The directory originated from a tutorial he wrote about how to start a Bangla blog on Blogger.com using Unicode. This tutorial sparked of a whole generation of Bangla bloggers, predominantly (initially) from ...

GeoBeats…guided video tours of international travel destinations

GeoBeats is an interactive media website for informing travelers about international destinations through the use of video. It is a place where you can watch free short videos on international destinations that highlight history, culture, shopping, food, nightlife, lifestyle, and other aspects of interest to travelers. GeoBeats is US based and has a development center in ...

IndianShutter..an online market place for Indian image content

IndianShutter is an image content portal where amateurs, hobbyists or professional photographers can upload and sell their photographs. Its like an online marketplace for stock images, much like GettyImages and Corbis. With the difference, that this is meant exclusively for Indian digital content. The site is aiming to become the favored destination on the web ...

HelpDeskPilot…a solid web based customer support solution

HelpDeskPilot is a web based customer support system that is targeted at small and medium enterprises. Built totally on open source technologies, it is quick to install, configure and pick up speed with. It comes from the Chennai based Ten Miles Corporation, which is headed by Shalin Jain (their Web2.0 polling application, Tezza has been profiled ...

MyMuv…cool place to track lifestyle changes

MyMuv is a site that attempts to track lifestyle changes and trends. It is currently in private beta and launching next week. MyMuv (as the name suggests) is a place where you can record and share the movements (muvs) in your likes/dislikes with regard to products, brands, places, people, ideas, concepts et al – anything that ...

Stuff-a-blog…a cool ‘proof of concept’ product for bloggers

I often get tips about web applications that are innovative, but cannot be counted as true blood commercial products as yet. One of Webyantra’s stated objectives is to promote people who are striving to innovate; hence I am starting a series for ‘proof of concept’ products (these reviews will be tagged as ‘proof of concept’). I ...