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MyBand – A Music Community For Indian Bands
Mediaplus recently unveiled My Band, which according to them is an advanced music community exclusively for the Indian bands.
So how is this different from say a Myspace page which has always been a favourite of the bands as a platform to share and popularise their music?
Debashis Dey, founder of MyBand says “Most Indian Bands inadvertently [...]
Startup Review – IndiBlogger.in – A Bloggers’ Guild
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…
A tête-à-tête with Chris Osbourne, Founder & CEO of FeedZa
It was the search for a better platform that offers quality cooking blogs for his mother that led Mr. Christopher John Osbourne to the idea of FeedZa. WATBlog decided to catch up with Chris, Founder of FeedZa, and shoot him a few questions to fend.
ESPN Sports Passport, Powered by Orbitz – A Community Tool to Share Sports Travel Memorabilia
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…
Mozilla Labs Announce New Project, Want the Community to Design the Future Browser
After launching Weave 0.2, the synchronization plugin that enables data to be synchronized across multiple computers for Mozila’s Popular web browser Firefox, Mozilla Labs have now announced a new project where it wants us users to participate and contribute towards their goal of designing a next generation web-browser.
Orkut Introduces Private Communities With Pre-Approved Email Domains, Also Incorporates With Customized News
Orkut developers seem to be on heavy duty mode, these days. First they come up with photo tagging and then within 2 days come up with another new feature, creating private communities on the basis of domain name email ids. The best part of this development is that Orkut has come finally come up with [...]
How Will Rural India Deal With Social Networking?
I happened to be reading a book on Rural India a few days back and an interesting point was raised by one of the authors with respect to a consumer dichotomy that exists between urban India and Rural India. One needs to keep in mind that consumers in rural India are extremely different with respect to [...]
Travelobuddies.com = Social Utility Services + Travelers Community
Previously we have blogged on travel social networking site WAYN coming to India and on the Travel + Web 2.0 strategy of other travel sites.
Now, another player Travelobuddies has entered with Social utility service + Travelers community as the theme with a purpose to offer a platform for the users across the globe to share [...]
Does your Company need a Web 2.0 Strategy?
Well this question may seem absurd to most as i have seen people having an issue with even understanding what web 2.0 is forget actually having a web 2.0 strategy in place to leverage the power of community, collaboration and collective expertise to bring great results for one’s business.
So lets simplify the question.. into many questions..
Does [...]
The Burrp’s getting louder and getting revamped too!
We first covered Burrp.com back in August when they launched their Mumbai channel.
What is Burrp?Well it can be defined as a social sharing site for hang-outs!
Their site says:"burrp! is an online platform where you can search and review local businesses, such as restaurants, bars, nightlife, juice centres, paan shops, bakeries, etc…."
Well the guys at burrp [...]
Exclusive – Community forums in India
The world is going gaga about web 2.0 and how building strong online communities is the way to becoming a successful Intrapreneur (Internet Entrepreneur). But could things be different? Could strong communities already exist in the Indian web space and we still haven’t stumbled upon them?
In an exclusive research (if we can call it [...]
Xbhp the bikers are on a road trip
There is bikers paradise and its called xbhp.com! if you havent yet heard or visited this site we suggest you do. This site started in 2003 has come a long way. The site which started with 10 bike fanatics currently boasts of more than 23000 registered users and thats not all the site seems to be [...]
HSBC wants your point of view
Its becoming more and more common day by day using the web to generate user interactivity or in technical terms using web 2.0 to connect with your customers. Now HSBC which as far as i can remember started the campaign driven website phase in india with the launch of Homeloandisorder.com in January which asked users to express what they did [...]