IndiCast…India’s first multiperson colloquial podcasts

Tired of listening to news read by television newsreaders speaking in crisp English accents? Sick of checking out the headlines in your RSS readers, because it’s seems so politically correct and hardly believable? You have an option with IndiCast, which is India’s first weekly news capsule delivered as a multi-person conversational podcast. IndiCast prides itself on ...

Proto…gets off to a solid start with its first edition

In this previous post, I had said that Proto is India's first staged event for showcasing emerging technology startups. I am happy to report that the event lived up to its expectation. In a span of eight hours, 27 companies held the stage for 8 minutes each, presenting to an audience of 325 people, all of ...

IndiaInteracts…a web 1.0/2.0 hybrid social media site

IndiaInteracts is a recently launched social media website with a twist. Instead of taking the ‘Web2.0esque’ (not sure if that word exists) user contributed route, it is attempting to break the stereotype and aggregate content from three disparate sources- self generated, user contributed (or generated) and from other online media. Initially I had trouble understanding ...

MapmyIndia adds killer feature…embedding map snippets into blogs, websites

MapmyIndia has added a killer feature called ‘Embed Map’, that allows you to add a detailed and interactive map snippet, to your blog or website. You can also zoom/pan in or out. It works pretty much like the embeddable media players that are ubiquitous on the web/blogosphere. All you need to do is to copy the ...

CarWale..an auto portal that is trying to be different

Given the high involvement that people have with their automobiles, its only time before automotive portals become mainstream like established portals dealing in jobs, matrimonials, travels etc. Leading this trend in India is Carwale, a Mumbai based automotive site that, short of allowing you to actually buy the car online, has pretty much everything you may ...

Proto.in…can it rival Demo?

Proto, the technology roadshow that is scheduled for 20-21 Jan at Chennai is now less than three week away and is gradually picking up momentum on its home stretch. The event now has a new website and I think its design is quite distinctive and sets the tone for the event in a very refreshing way. ...