New battle front in the Indian recruitment space.. Joel Spolksy shows the way

If you live in India, you couldn’t have missed the slugfest between Timesjobs & Naukri currently playing in the newspapers, national television & local radio. While that battle (actually just a media blitzkrieg, for Timesjob’s claims are hopelessly presumptuous) is for the ‘quantity’ dimension in the recruitment wars on Indian soil, there is another front ...

Proto07 summer edition…bigger & better this time around

I am happy to announce the summer edition of Proto.in to Webyantra’s readers. This is slated for 21-22 July at Chennai and is in continuation of its first edition that took place in January earlier this year. For those who came in late, Proto is intended to be a springboard for upcoming startups in India. Modeled ...

Time for a comic break on webyantra…

Its time for a (much needed) comic break on webyantra. Sometimes its good to step aside from the big bad world of business and have a good laugh at your worklife and whatever it revolves around. Spend five minutes to check out these superb Web 2.0 cartoons that have been uploaded to SS. They rip apart ...

Dotcom advertising goes mobile & outdoors… courtesy Delhi’s infamous autorickshaws

Looking for a simple and inexpensive way of getting the word out about the cool website you just launched. You could take a leaf out of Delhi's infamous autorickshaws, which are increasingly acting as mobile billboards. Mouthshut, OkTataByeBye & BuySellOldBooks seem to be early adopters of this genre of outdoor advertising. I started noticing these autos ...

Burrp launching revamped homepage…showing sensible incremental growth

Burrp, the reviews & lifestyle website is launching a revamped homepage. Deap Ubhi (who heads burrp) has sent me screenshots of their yet to be released design, which looks a definite improvement- it seems slicker and more responsive. Burrp is slowly but surely gaining traction. They started off with the Mumbai edition and have since launched ...

Rediff’s shopping cart not working in Firefox?, and the Indian Web Hall of Shame

I've had a very disappointing experience with Rediff. For a company, which is India’s internet pioneer and also our biggest portal, should be doing better than this. It seems that there is a horrible bug in a very critical part of their website that has gone unattended for a long time, or something worse than ...

IndyaRocks…no nonsense social networking site; but this space is in for for REAL ACTION soon

Indyarocks is an India focused online and mobile based social networking site that is currently in private beta. Its look & feel is similar to various other SNS sites, but one point of difference is its focus on the mobile strategy (the I in the name Indyarocks is styled as a mobile phone). It is being ...

Yahoo launches YahooMaps for India..looks good, works well

Yahoo has launched YahooMaps for India. The application has just gone live. I spent 15 minutes of my Sunday morning tinkering with it and I am impressed. The application works well, the maps are superior in readability as compared to MapmyIndia (India's best online mapping application); the maps also seem to be reasonable well populated with ...