Mapunity…social development focused GIS solution

Mapunity (short for MAP for commUNITY) is a social entrepreneurship venture that is creating a Geographic Information System focused on socio-economic change. The company is developing a web based GIS solution that allows specific communities (or groups) to create, organize, manage, analyze and share map-linked information. Mapunity is incubated at IIM Bangalore, and is run by ...

IndiaJeetega…brilliant World Cup promotional website from itasveer

Itasveer (profiled earlier on Webyantra) has created a promotional website for the Indian Cricket Team playing the World Cup. Its titled IndiaJeetega, and using it you can make an online postcard to wish the team. The webapp stitches together a photo mosaic using all the user created postcards and this mosaic will later be sent to ...

Guy Kawasaki’s Garage Ventures sponsored contest on SlideShare

Here’s some SlideShare news that I’d like to share with readers of this blog. Guy Kawasaki’s firm, Garage Ventures and SlideShare have co-sponsored the “World's Best Presentation Contest”. The contest went live yesterday and it will continue for a month. The contest’s four judges are literally a who’s who from the world of presentations and communication. ...

WWIGO..ditch the webcam, use your cellphone instead

Motvik, a four member mobile startup in Bangalore has launched a very interesting product called WWIGO (pronounced ‘vigo’). WWIGO stands for ‘Webcam Wherever I Go’ and it turns your Bluetooth enabled camera phone into a wireless webcam for use with your laptop or desktop. Motvik is led by Rajan, who needs no introduction to many amongst ...

Introducing IdeaWicket….user generated ideation, innovation and inventions

Idea Wicket is a GREAT idea. It is a website for user generated ideation, innovation and inventions. If you have an idea or a conceptual prototype, that you want to share with the world, get feedback about and maybe license or sell it to corporations, this is where you should head. The name IdeaWicket is derived ...

dreamZhunt - a new funding concept with low entry barriers

DreamZHunt is a new concept in funding technology startups that has been initiated by a Chennai based business group called SGS. You can think of it as an 'idea-hunt' contest, (focused on the IT industry) for those who are looking for their first-business breakthrough. At the end of the content, SGS will pick up three good ...

Tuhee..a ’smart’ RIA for creating eCards

Tuhee is an eCards website that allows users to create personalized e-cards in a jiffy. The site is not a commercial venture at this stage and can best be described as a ‘proof of concept’ for a future product. It is essentially a Rich Internet Application built on Open Laszlo, that publishes the ubiquitous SWF format. ...

Zolved..a community to solve your tech support problems

Our lives are invaded by a profusion of digital toys (software or hardware). Mobile phones, digital music players, broadband modems, wi-fi systems, browsers, VOIP software, email clients et al – these toys are now intrinsic to our digital lifestyles. And when these malfunction, getting them back to shape may not always be easy- thanks to the ...