Expanding the Webyantra team……

Abhishek Nayak is joining me in writing for Webyantra. Abhishek is an undergraduate at BITS-Pilani and a budding web entrepreneur. He is an active member of CELBITS, the entrepreneurship club at his institute. He was one of the earliest members of Dhanax, a new online micro lending website. Being in an university gives him an unique ...

Simpson’s outsourcing episode- Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore…not quite a ‘Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom’, but thereabouts

Check out this viral video about Indian outsourcing. This is an episode from Simpson's cartoon series called Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore and the video on YouTube has hit the top of the charts...The cartoon is the based on an outsourcing story and draws its comic elements from lampooning Indian social/cultural stereotypes (like what most cartoons ...

BarCampKerala today…second tier tech centers take to the event

BarCampKerala is happening today at the IT Technopark in Trivandrum. Check out the unfolding action on the wiki...there's a solid bunch of sessions that are laid out for the day. Wish I could have made it for the event...nothing like mixing around with a bunch of bright, effervescent minds. Maybe next time....Hats off to the ...

MetroMela…joins the race for city centric community sites

Metromela is a city centric website for helping users find information, share reviews and get deals. This has been rolled out for 7 cities in South & West India - Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Mysore, Vizag and Cochin. Its founders are a bunch of seasoned professionals, that includes Satheesh Andra, a Venture Partner at DFJ (Draper ...

HT acquires DesiMartni…what’s the rationale?

I was alerted to this piece of news today morning about DesiMartini, an Indian social networking site getting acquired by HT Media. The acquisition figure (rumored to be 10m USD) is eyepopping to say the least but frankly, it is not entirely unbelievable. The price one pays for a product depends largely on how badly you ...

Announcing BarCampDelhi3….book your date with Delhi’s tech/startup community on the 8th of Dec

Delhi's third tryst with BarCamp is happening on the 8th of Dec. This is a follow-up to the earlier editions- BarcampDelhi1 (held in March06 at Adobe) and BarcampDelhi2 (held in Dec06 at ImpetusTech). So its been a while since we've had one and thought that the first week of December (alonside Delhi's mild winter weather) ...

BumpedInto… address book for your social networks

BumpedInto is a social profile bookmarking site that has been launched in public beta by a Bangalore based software company called Apptility. What is social profile bookmarking? Well, you can think of it as a address book for your social networks. People join numerous social networks and build social contacts in each of them. BumpedInto ...

hooeey…bookmarking & web history combo for tracking your web hops

Hooeey is an Indian Web 2.0 application whose stated objective is to help you locate information quickly from your previously browsed web pages. While it has overlapping features with a bunch of products/utilities- del.icio.us, your browser's history, Google personal search and Google web history, possibly the best to understand it is this: del.icio.us + Google web ...

The most popular Indian video on YouTube…

Chances are you previously have seen this video on the web; for this is the most popular Indian video on YouTube. Go to the site, type 'India' in the search box and this is the top result you get (by relevance). I bumped into this video for the umpteenth time today and decided to share it ...

Ubona…voice search engine for Bangalore

Ubona is a voice search engine that has just gone live in Bangalore. All you need to do is to call their number (080-4070 0000) and speak out the name of any of the place or product (currently only for restaurants, hotels, sweet shops, bakeries). Their speech recognition system will comprehend what you have said, and ...