initRIA… first event for Rich Internet Application hackers in India

initRIA is a tech event for Rich Internet Application hackers that took place last weekend in Bangalore. Surprisingly enough, this was the first time (in India) the RIA folks were getting together for a common event. On more ocassions than one, we've thought of putting together something like this in Delhi, but Bangalore beat us to ...

BlogJams… track a particular channel of the blogosphere with this web based blog reader

BlogsJam is a web based blog reader that you should check out. It is simple, fast and offers new functionality that is really useful. BlogsJam collects the most popular Indian blogs, organises them into channels and publishes a feed of the latest blogposts for a particular channel. The blogs included in a channel are decided by ...

Look Ma…Baba gave me a job !!!

In India, social networking has been only an urban youth phenomenon so far. In a country where illiteracy prevails, and the rich-poor, the urban-rural divide is as stark as it can get, thinking of social networking for the poor sounds unrealistic. May be it takes an outsider to do such a difficult task, may be because ...

Zillr…JAISNS that survived being banned by the UAE authorities

Zillr is what I would describe as JAISNS (just another Indian social networking site) with a couple of differences: a) it is targeted specifically at the Indian diaspora in UAE (United Arab Emirates) and b) its rising popularity there invited a ban from the UAE authorities without assigning a reason. Other than that, Zillr looks like ...

The Social Graph Platform Sweepstakes…is this the internet’s cold war?

Check out this awesome graphic that depicts the ensuing polarisation in the global internet sweepstakes with the emergence of three distinct camps. The first camp is led by FaceBook (the Rebel Alliance) which sparked off this cold war in the first place; the next is the Google Open Social camp (referred to as the Empire) and ...

Delhi keeps its date with BarCampDelhi3

BarCampDelhi3 happened last Saturday and was a smashing success. The event was being organised after a whole year, so lots of people were waiting for it in anticipation. The venue was the Impetus Tech office in Noida (big thanks to them for volunteering to host the event). Here are the key highlights: The Participants: I've heard of ...

VentunoTech - Indian video ad network

Video advertising is certainly the next frontier for internet advertising. After the humongous success and the grand acquisition of YouTube, internet video has became the talk of the town. Traditional TV media has always scored over internet advertising because of richness of expression. Video advertising on internet can bridge that gap. India is also gaining momentum ...

IndiBlogger…the super-cool network of Indian blogs

IndiBlogger is a blogging network for Indian blogs (actually for bloggers of Indian origin only, as the site says) and it has an exquisitely designed website. It actually works like a blogging directory, where you can list your blog (by specifying its title, URL, tags etc) for other users to discover. Blogs can be searched by ...

Antya…human powered website discovery search engine

Antya (launching tomorrow, currently under wraps) is a interesting twist to the ever burgeoning entourage of search engines dotting the internet. It works like a search engine (and looks like one as well) with a couple of differences - a) it is human powered and hence does not have the mandatory crawler that all search engines ...

More web/tech cartoons…enjoy!

Here's another bunch of tech cartoons to enjoy. Let us know which one you liked best.. | View | Upload your own I found no 3 best... Check out these as well: Cartoon Series 1, Cartoon Series 2