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| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
| Deploy your own Social Network on KickApps |
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 You feel that you have a great Web 2.0 Idea but no money or Web Development experience ? Don't worry, now you can just deploy any Web 2.0 Applications such as Blog, Photos , Networking Tools, Video, Audio, etc using KickApps.
KickApps, a NY based company is precisely providing all the Web 2.0 tools as hosted infrastructure for FREE to test your Web 2.0 idea. If you have a terrific response on your beta site, then you can always approach angel investor for seed funding. KickApps monetizes your web property by Google Adsense. You can get rid of the Ads if you are willing to pay them.
Startup Gurus have always advised to focus on deliverables from day one. Never BUY expensive servers as you can always rent or lease one. Now you don't even have to hire Developers as you already have Web/Software infrastructure ready on KickApps. Good Luck and do let us know via Feedback @ BroadbandIndia.com if you deploy KickApps. |
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| Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| Orkut Leads + FaceBook Grows + Campus18 Debuts |
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 Orkut from Google is the leader in the Indian social networking space with 7.2 Million unique visitors in June and Facebook attracted 785,000 unique visitors according to comScore.
Web18, has also thrown its hat in the social networking space by unveiling Campus18 to compete with Reliance ADAG's BigAdda. Web18 is a subsidiary of Television Eighteen. It really makes sense for Web18 to venture into this space to encash on its high Advertising inventory. However, the problem with Web18 portals is they are horribly planned and designed with terrible user experience.
MingleBox, a social networking site that was in controversy for being funded by MingleBox CEO's [Kavita Iyer] husband [Mr. Sandeep Singhal] at Sequoia Capital has got some relief from Sequoia's MD Mr. Chadha, who said
We have been very active and early investors in internet in India, we are investors in Shaadi.com, which has Fropper.com as one of its sites. We are also investors in mingle box, we are also investors in travelguru, guruji.com. So, we have been very active investors across that sector. We do not back competitors, so we look at these properties even that they may appear from the outside to be competitive - they have very different focuses, very different user bases and we are seeing a lot of growth in that sector.
Almost all the Indian social networking startups are operating on heard mentality and none have any innovative practices so far. If one starts campus recruiting all of them jump into the same bandwagon and none of them have ever thought of localization. Orkut is the only one that is growing organically but has too much spam on its communities. |
| Published on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 10:47 PM |
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| Saturday, August 04, 2007 |
| Minekey raises $3 Million from NEA IndoUS Ventures |
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 Minekey - Blog recommendation Widget company has raised first round of funding of $3 Million from NEA Indo US Ventures.
Minekey is a Valley based company with development centre at New Delhi and R&D centre located at IIT Kharagpur. The company is founded by Delip Andra, who founded Euclid and sold to e4e. Dr. Sudeshna Sarkar is the Chief Scientist and leads the company's R&D center.
Minekey's widgets allow you to be placed on your blog or site where it will recommend 5 more stories to visitors. The recommendation is not mere processing of RSS feeds. They have lot of Algorithms to analyze which stories to recommend. The appearance of the Widget can be customized but not to a very great extent. After having reviewed the Widget, i am wondering how are they going to make money ? Place a Text Link Ad or small Ad inside the Widget ? Your thoughts ? |
| Published on Saturday, August 04, 2007 at 8:36 AM |
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| Wednesday, August 01, 2007 |
| ibIbo launches Opinions |
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 MIH Internet owned iBiBo which was the first company in India to throw away money to Blog has now started Opinions on iBiBo.
It is basically writing your review in black and white about something you like it or hate it or share your user experience. It can vary as widely as from your Mobile, Cars, Airlines, Hotels, Books, Music Players, laptops etc.
However in the current Web 2.0 world, we need a search engine to search for Opinions. For instance, you can find tons of user Opinions about Reliance Broadband on this blog. Their are more than a thousand people writing Product Reviews. So in the context of Web 2.0, we need a specialized engine to read Opinions. |
| Published on Wednesday, August 01, 2007 at 2:07 PM |
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