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This saturday we bring to you a startup which is founded by an ex Yahoo employee which looks at building a community around brands and products and is an impressive attempt to say the least.

One sentence description: A Collaborative community around products, services and brands
About Startup: BrandAdda is kind of in the same space as [...]

Zoomtra.com the travel meta search engine by SITG has launched a blogging platform for travel bloggers. This ofcourse is an attempt to go beyond search and drive traction through user generated content.

What is great about this initiative?
The great aspect from a business standpoint is content. And that also related content. Content especially blogs have been [...]

This Saturday we have become a little health conscious. I vow to join a gym and also get is shape but before I do that we have a Saturday Startup review to finish and well what you know here is a startup that would help me in my endeavour to get in shape.

One sentence description: [...]

This is the second startup we are reviewing in the day and its probably the most interesting ones that we’ve reviewed till date. Reason? Well thats because a lot of times entrepreneurs have turned VC but rarely does a VC turn into an entrepreneur! Yes MentorSquare is a startup that comes from the Mentor Partners [...]

Well this saturday we have two startups to review. Both from the web space but looking at very diverse audiences. So we have divided our reviews in two parts. Lets look at the first startup.

One Sentence Description: Vertical Search Engine focussed on Matrimony
About the startup: This a pune based startup and is owned by a [...]

Today we have 3 startups for review and though they are all online startups they are targetting diverse audiences via the online medium. Lets have a look at them and check out WAT’s Hot and WAT’s Not!

One sentence description: An Indian travel search engine
About Startup: Nearhop is a travel search cum travel planner engine which [...]

Its a saturday and though there is no Startup Saturday happening in Mumbai today but that doesn’t stop us from covering an interesting bangalore based startup. The startup we are taking about is Snappyfingers.com
which is a Question and Answer search engine.

About SnappyFIngers
Snappyfingers crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in [...]

It hasn’t been too long since blogging took off, in a big way, in India. Although a lot of interesting debate can spark off on which one the oldest Indian Blog might be, we ask, does it really matter? What matters is the evolution, the way the blogging scenario shaped in this country.

It was InstaBlogs who first realized the importance of forming a guild (of sorts) for the Indian bloggers. It was sad to find no other volunteer for the cause, until it was August 2007 and IndiBlogger was formed…

As we had reported yesterday, ACK Media has launched AmarChitraKatha.com today. (related Article : (Related Article : Amar Chitra Katha : Round 2)
WATBlog takes a look at the eagerly awaited website and gives you an exclusive and first ever complete review of the website.
So, here is what we saw.
The homepage is good. On top-right, username/password [...]

I was present at the recently organized startup saturday event in Mumbai S.P.Jain auditorium. Attended both the sessions out of which the first one was given by Vishal Gupta of Seclore on How to use the competition as your weapon - Importance, processes and methodologies for mapping competition and the second session was on Microfinance [...]

( The following Startup Review is being done with help from Harshal )
What is it about?
Well, Uhooroo describe itself as :

A platform for musicians to show case their talent & get feedback from the music community on their auditions,
A platform [...]

Consider a novice user who has no/less online visibility, who just begun their online life; upon Googling their name shows irrelevant entries. So, for them some options available are:-
1. Create a blog, put up site tracking software and submit it to Various Search Engines and WAIT…
2. Sign up for social networking sites where profiles are listed in Google.

An alternate, there is a free service available called “LookupPage” which gets you a trackable online visibility easily which you can tweak so that people find accurate information when they search your name on the web.

New service “Build-with-Mobile” from mobiSiteGalore let you build your mobile compatible site (.mobi) right away from your mobile phone without requiring any knowledge of coding, optimized specifically to be viewed on the small screen of a mobile phone.

Endless discussions about Twitter’s business model have surfaced the internet. It’s being called the Facebook of microblogging and most people feel it’s about time that Twitter got a revenue model. We have blogged about earlier as well on the possible revenue models for twitter.

But just because Twitter doesn’t have a revenue model doesn’t hasn’t [...]

Sometime back, I received an invitation from Diditz.com, another of such sites. The site is in its alpha stage right now. Here is what I thought of it…