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Digg.com the popular bookmarking site has taken upon itself to take community participation to a whole new level when it comes to initiating a dialogue with eminent personalities. Digg which is not new to power of communities is using the same to pose questions to eminent personalities including technology luminaries, environmentalists, entrepreneurs, musicians and [...]

Update:
CMBC.com and LinkedIn have collaborated together to enable users to share and discuss content with their professional network! As a result of the tie-up, CNBC.com is expected to generate more pageviews and extended reach with targeted sharing of content with the top notch in the genre and LinkedIn shall get more mileage and functinality for [...]

Update: Afaqs has reported today that Bigadda is reportedly spending over 4 crores in popularising the mobile version of its site. Well I caught some ads on tv as well guess Reliance ADAG has pots of money..
Original Post: BigAdda the social network backed by Reliance ADAG which has already spent crores of rupees [...]

FeedZa is a social opinion site where people can read snippets of different RSS feeds based on various categories like lifestyle, entertainment, sports, technology, regional and many other sub-categories meant to specifically capture the users’ fancy. It also has a voting system where users can vote in favor of a RSS feed or against it.

ESPN.com and Orbitz.com, a leading online travel agency, launched ESPN Sports Passport powered by Orbitz – an online community tool that gives sports fans a place to catalog and share their sports travel trips, game memories and milestones. ESPN Sports Passport fans will be able to create and share an online catalog of their sports history, travel experiences and memories via blogs, photo and video sharing, stadium collections and more…

There have been a plethora of virals launched recently and in my view the bollywood hook is being overused in these virals and a lack of innovation in concept is seen in some. This is an attempt to review three online virals separate the men from the boys and label them the good, the bad [...]

People Group’s Mauj Mobile, a digital solutions and services provider, has unveiled mobile content for the Shiney Ahuja - Esha Deol starrer movie Hijack across the country. The movie is scheduled to hit movie theatres on Teachers’ Day, September 5th.

With mobile subscriber base rising with each month that passes by and the impending 3G launch in Indian markets in a year and the launch of mobile internet friendly phones like the iPhone and its competitors its only natural to feel upbeat about the future of mobile drive applications that connect to the internet whether [...]

Do you think Orkut is losing its charm in the social networking market? Do you think that the nature of social networking is evolving, what with Twitter, Plurk and FriendFeed?

Everyone seems to be cursing twitter due to database mishaps which occur frequently resulting in irreparable losses but wouldn’t it be great if you could backup all the data from Twitter profiles then here is the solution for you.
Tweetake:-

This site lets you back up your Twitter profile data in few minutes offcourse that would depend [...]

Microsoft announced its Photosynth project long back. A lot of people had seen it already. Even I had blogged about it a year back.  Two days back, Microsoft released the Photosynth for the general public. The project is now out of the beta.
What is Photosynth?
Well, here is how Microsoft describes Photosynth -
“You can share or [...]

There is no dearth of funding in India and that can be clearly seen in the second quarter of 2008. According to the Quarterly India Venture Capital Report released yesterday by Dow Jones VentureSource, advertising start-ups have received maximum funding - $89 million-nearly 37% of the region’s quarterly investment total-went to five advertising/marketing companies, more [...]

Tripadvisor the travel community portal backed by Expedia has launched in India under the domain name tripadvisor.in. India alreday boasts of local travel portals launching their own travel community sites like Oktatabyebye by Makemytrip and Raahi by Yatra.com. Recently even WAYN the popular international travel community had launched in India and also hired a local [...]

Ramo stands for “play” in Gujrati and a new startup by the name of Ramogames.com has been launched. This gaming site is targetted at kids and is founded by Sumir Meghani a Harvard Business School graduate and Yahoo! alum along with others having experience with companies like Electronic Arts, Thomson Learning.

Ramo Games is already angel [...]

Comscore has released a report on the online search market in India and the current outlook isn’t pretty for all the millions of dollars that have been pumped into search startups in the recent past. Lets have a look why?
Firstly, Even at a Billion plus searches in June India forms less than 2% of the [...]