techTribe hops on to the recruitment bandwagon with frontFoot..

techTribe, the career networking site (profiled earlier on Webyantra) has launched a referral recruitment service called frontFoot. This is claimed to be a patent pending concept and the first one of its kind in the world; it is based on the rationale that the best way to recruit non entry-level employees is through employee referrals & ...

DealMaadi…proof of concept for community ranking based aggregators

DealMaadi is an experimental webapp that has created by Rajiv, a Bangalore based software engineer. It adopts a user contributed approach to sharing & finding the best shopping deals on the web. The site uses the popular Digg style voting widget to rank various deals and push the best ones to the top of the homepage. ...

Nivio…the world’s first Windows based online desktop

The race is on for creating the world’s first web operating system. Google, eyeOS, YouOS are the names that get bandied around the most frequently in this regard. An Indian startup is attempting to take an entirely different approach to this problem. Instead of taking the web OS route, it wants to take your Windows desktop ...

Web2.0 as a recruitment hook…?

My previous post about the feasibility of Indian Web 2.0 seems to have evoked strong reactions; check out the comments here & here. While that debate will continue, let us not miss out on the comical/bizarre that is happening around this buzzword. Take a look at this snap of a recruitment advertisement taken by Abdul Qabiz (Abdul, ...

Indian Web2.0- different strokes, different folks.. what do YOU think?

I had been internally debating whether or not this blog post made any sense. What precipitated my decision in the affirmative was this piece of news that I read on ContentSutra. As things stand today, I can sense a general environment of conjecture about Indian Web2.0 amongst its thought leaders. There is a continuum of opinions, ...

Educatorslogin..the community for teachers 2.0

I’ve previously written about the adoption of Web2.0 in various spheres in India - ecommerce, media, arts etc, but not education. Whereas the defining character of web2.0 makes it very suitable for integration with education- open exchange of ideas, free sharing of resources, community based learning etc. I am glad to be finally giving education its ...