Gaadi.com is new innovative complete Car Portal in India that initiated a new web 2.0 wave in India’s automobile sector along with its niche online market. The portal is clean, well formatted and loaded with dynamic features unlike to other auto websites in India and the varieties of car brands are just sufficient to get user engaged into it.
Gaadi.com lets users research about cars of any brand in India or foreign make from Maruti to Maybach and from Bentley to Volkswagen, the content are user generated in form of reviews, discussions or comments and others in form of latest news, updates on Cars.
The features that made Gaddi.com, a complete portal on cars in India are varieties of way through which users can engage in it and not just see and go stagnant site. Features that are USPs are - Research and Reviews on cars are splits intelligently into options to choose from, Pictures/ Wallpapers of Cars (exterior/ interior), resource of car dealers/ Insurance for users, discussion forum and MyCar option for registered users to put their cars profiled as they do for themselves on Facebook or Orkut, and evenmore make albums of car photos, favorites and reminders of their insurance expiration etc.
The website is really a good initiative towards community of cars along with web 2.0 features, look-n-feel where in India others looks reluctant towards such theme like cars/ automobiles Gaadi.com made a pretty good place for itself to control the dot com sector of cars in India solo as “Gaadi 2.0“.
PicLens is a powerful application that turn your browser into full screen 3D experience to view images and videos. Piclens transform your browser into cinematic visual presentation with images and videos put on wall and make you assume like you are seeing them on wall of a dark room.
The application indeed a rich experiencing tool with media player like controls where you can fast forward, rewind, view full screen or scroll thumbnails to view images and videos.
Piclens has recently make the application compatible to view YouTube videos along previous compatibility to view Google image search results into 3D visualization as well as that of Yahoo, AOL, Ask.com and Live image searches, thats too with just one single click. Moreover, PicLens allow to view photos on Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa and Smugmug into same 3D visualization along with social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and Friendster.
For other sites/ blogs to be compatible with PicLens application, one has to create a media RSS along with its auto-discovery link for same and other addition in HTML to match those tags in media RSS with images and videos under webpage. However, WordPress users can use the plugin to create a mini slide shows, see an example WordPress blog.
PicLens from Cooliris Inc, is available for Firefox(Windows/Mac), IE and Safari for users to turn their traditional browsers into 3D transformed app. The application to some extent quite resembles that of Pogo Browser of AT&T which too have such kind of rich media experience, difference being its a browser itself and display everything from images, videos to bookmarks, history into 3D view. Nevertheless, the Pogo browser is yet to be released till then one can have spaceship’s cockpit like screen on their computers with PicLens.
YouTube has finally launched its Indian version - YouTube.co.in, displaying whole lot of Indian videos, as goes by Official YouTube India Blog, the site is just a lens of its global version i.e. youtube.com, and its Indian counterpart contains all the videos that the global site has, its just that YouTube.co.in is localized version reflecting what Indians, Indian diaspora or people who just love India is watching on youtube.
YouTube.co.in has provided an ease to Indian audience who otherwise would have filtered out the results for themselves waisting some more time out of their “Orkutism“, let put it this way, what Google.co.in is for web search is YouTube.co.in for YuTube videos.
Facebook, world’s most popular social networking site has been under scanner as BBC has reported security flaws that could seriously harm the website users having profiles in it and the weak link through which it could be done is facebook’s own asset which made it popular - “Facebook Apps” and number of third party applications residing in it.
BBC has made a data mining application - ‘Miner‘ and add it to facebook application to poke into facebook security fences and finally, steal the personal data, indentity of fictious profile (made by BBC team itself) on facebook and accomplish the task of exposing facebook flaw. The reason behind all this is - facebook allows application to run on third party servers which made facebook and apps opaque to each other when it comes to that, what these application are doing with these facebook profiles data.
BBC team on other side reported that just launched MySpace Apps are dissimilar to facebook as they won’t able create similar threat to MySpace system as that created for facebook. As Mysapce treats its applications differently by putting all apps on its own server, so it can see what they are upto with user data and manually checking each before they finally go live.
All this BBC’s expose show looks like political sting operation that talk one’s merits and other’s flaws and that too at the verge of other’s launch (MySpace). Facebook Apps are the major feature of it that made it a overnight fame in internet world and created facebook mania and a expose of such security leaks could seriously threat facebook’s own identity.
Analytics does matters a lot in business and investing perspective as well. A new approach in this way has brought by Bizak, its a business network tool which computes the profitability and valuation of internet startups by creating industry benchmarks for comparative analysis. The business tool has launched by TOKiBiz services Inc, who also provide an internet startup creation services.
Bizak is a business tool where website owners, bloggers can calculate metrics, stats of how much they are getting from their visitors. Through Bizak, startups (website/blogs) could compute the benchmarks like RPV (revenue per visitors), cost per visitors, EPV (earning per visitors) and gross income/ profit they have accrued from their websites, blogs or other startups. With any revenue model one can calculate/ compare net income (profit/loss) from all internet operations like Google adsense, Yahoo search marketing, inhouse advertising etc.
Through bizak, start-ups can compare their metrics with other industry benchmarks like industry high or industry low numbers and can even analyze traffic with other startups of your business type and if your startup is stand out among rest it could even bring some interest of Investors, VCs.
For Investors, advertisers or business professionals, they can then sort out these start-ups, business types as per their investment choice to find out, which to invest in as per their traffic, EPV, RPV alon with their summary of business type, contact info.
The Bizak emerged as a business 2.0 tool to provide an open platform for flourishing start-ups, websites on one side and investors, advertisers and other business professional of same interest on other, to act as business market for them, where start-ups can market themselves as product to invest in and investors to line up the products as per their investment needs and their earning potential. At the same time providing the statistics, metrics and data analytics somewhat like MIS or DSS where one can come to conclusion as per historical data or business figures.
Below is a tool where you can do a sample calculation for your startups/ website or a blog:
Today along with World Labor Day we are also noticed RSS Awareness Day , a part of what is called web 2.0 era of web, RSS abbreviated as Really Simple Syndication, i.e to propagate the content through feeds(RSS file format) so as to let the content travel through out the vast wide web rather than to keep the content (information) stagnant on a site.
RSS is revolutionary technology that bring us the way to keep up the flow of information in simple yet effective way which otherwise would have eaten the plenty of time of any internet users in search of information/ content and stranded in middle of vast internet realm.
Ironically, RSS (abbr. as Really Simple Syndication) doesn’t seem to be simple for itself otherwise, people would have used this technology in large, which is why stats show (according to PEW) only 5% users uses RSS aggregaters or XML readers to get the content/ information delivered to them, in 2005. The stats, at present doesn’t get good, still its same.
May it lacks the ergonomic feature that users are looking for to keep RSS in line with other web 2.0 features that are ramping up without celebrating a “web 2.0 day”. Why RSS fails to make a grip when it comes to became handy among common internet users, suggest via comments and do comment if you use any RSS aggreagator or Reader and how frequently?
India along with nations across the globe is high on internet vulnerabilities through various medium, highest being malicious codes, phishing and unauthorized scanning. Recent trend is that hackers now turning to websites, servers from their previous choice of emails, cheap apps etc.
Recently India’s premier technology institute IIT’s website has been hacked (source), although this is not single case in India, a total of 612 Indian websites were defaced during March 2008 as reported by CERT-In (Computer Emergency Report Team India), which has increased by more than 50% in India, comparing to just previous month.
Social networking is also a victim of hackers in a recent study, as per CERT-In, a worm called Scrapkut is spreading like a cold (human virus) among Orkut users, how it works?, well, a malicious scrap message is posted to victim’s scrapbook containing a fake link to YouTube video purporting to be from a known member of its friend list. When the victim clicks on the link, it redirected to some malicious website which prompts to download the file flash executable file (.exe) disguised as a Flash upgrade. The execution of which results in malicious scrapbook entry in all victims’ friends. So… DO NOT CLICK on any YouTube link on your Orkut scrapbook. For more details and preventions see - Here.
Mozilla and Microsoft Office products isn’t untouched by this, Mozilla products like Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey are among high vulnerability threat list, according to which this could be exploited by remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user.
In Firefox, a borderless XUL pop-up is created in front of the active tab in the user’s browser from a background tab to misguide/ mislead the form elements such as a login prompt for a site opened in a different tab and steal the user’s login credentials for that site (phishing attack). and poke into your security fences. for this one solution (unavoidable though) is to disable javascript. For more Details and solutions for Mozilla products see - Here and for Fireofox - Here
The list of vulnerabilities threats are as -
High vulnerabilities - MS Office, Excel, Outlook, Mozilla Products, Real Player, Sun Java
India is getting ready for one of its own Twitter version, as a Japanese version of twitter - http://twitter.jp has just launched, reason being Japan is place from where most tweets come from, as goes by a Report by UMBC ebiquity.
According to report Japan’s risen cellphones and SMS technology has made it to quickly adopt Twitter phenomena and the same reports has predicted that India along with China, two countries which already have huge amount of SMS/ mobile users might be able to do better with Twitter.
Report has released a geographical chart of Global distribution of Twitter users where US, Europe and Japan has most twitter users, though the geo location resolved in chart are of just 11,000 users from 19k users and thats too of only who specify their location. India is one among those area where there is lesser twits, but on the contrary India is Second Largest Mobile market in the World just after US and has added record 10.16 million users in month of March only as by Reuters’ report.
Moreover, there were 261.1 million estimated wireless users in India at end-March comparing to US 257.9 million wireless users. All these stats convincingly spoke of how fast can India provide a boost in Twitter hype and to bring this hype down to India I dont think there is any more point or stat, where India lag behind Japan or US.
An interactive website, AdvertisementIndia.com is providing an online solution for publishing advertisements in newspapers circulated across India or local level. The website has really made the time consuming task of placing the Ads in newspapers easy and online with your own ease from home or office. The website is an online venture of W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
People can place Ads (commercial, matrimonial, public notices, tenders etc.), choose format, write ad text and then publish in any chosen newspapers. Moreover nearly all leading national, local newspapers are available at website from english language newspaper to local languages. One can also write copy of ads and publish at any future release date or save copies of ad to release in future at one’s own wish.
The website has accomplished the task of bridging the gap of print media and online media, though newspapers are still the widely reached medium for news and information at this point of time when internet is at its full high. Nevertheless, products are being made to custom fit for print media, this is one of the example.
MySpace, nearly a week later of its Indian MySpace Launch, the site had moved out its MySpace Apps for its users to install and play around. The Applications are built on MySpace developer Platform where nearly 5,000 developers are working upon, these are also a part of Google OpenSocial Platform which also has been implemented by Google’s very own Orkut.
The MySpace Developer Network is stressing more on Learning and Testing phase for developer to work upon rather than to just pull attention of users to get cheap traffic or so. For example, at this pint of time, unlike to Facebook, MySpace members cannot write directly or send messages to their friends’ wall, nervertheless their are interactive apps to have fun around.
The MySpace Apps has language option to choose the language of Application to install, though because of its initial phase their are few Apps in varieties of languages to choose from (not atleast in Hindi), though there are few Apps for Indians to try, one is - DesiScreen, where one can search and watch Desi Indian hindi movies and TV videos.
Gaadi.com is new innovative complete Car Portal in India that initiated a new web 2.0 wave in India’s automobile sector along with its niche online market. The portal is clean, well formatted and loaded with dynamic features unlike to other auto websites in India and the varieties of car brands are just sufficient to get user engaged into it.
India along with nations across the globe is high on internet vulnerabilities through various medium, highest being malicious codes, phishing and unauthorized scanning. Recent trend is that hackers now turning to websites, servers from their previous choice of emails, cheap apps etc.
India is getting ready for one of its own Twitter version, as a Japanese version of twitter - 
