An online event management tool cum website ActiveCity.com has been launched as by a Pune based startup company ThinkingSpace Technologies Being company's first product, the website ActiveCity.com is quite like an online tool to create and than manipulate/ manage all that comes ahead after announcing/ creating your event. ActiveCiti allows its users the features through which they can create an event and handle nearly all the task and issues related to an event management. From sending email invitations, tracking their responses, automatic event updates for them. An event creator can even add images and banner for an event under page customization option of an event, creating polls and message board are other good features it has included. Tracking invitees is one of the good options its providing, showing status as - 'accepted', 'not accecpted' or 'yet to reply'. Moreover the Guest don't need to be registered on website to accept the invitation. Other features include allows people to create public events in which other users can invite themselves and inform the organizer of their coming and to poll your guests and discuss stuff using forums. ActiveCity, as described by company a no-nonsense event management application justify the reason why the site has not got much ...

SiTech Solutions has launched Eyemany.com to target US and India customers for its new job board service, a job portal of pretty different model at least in India, with web 2.0 element among its features with video resumes as key feature of website. SiTech Solutions, an India based company is paving a way to serve as web20 driven job board service where Job seekers by registering themselves can build their professional profiles, can create professional networks by referring to friends, create blogs, ask or answers questions and can even upload their video resumes. Although video resumes are not new in India, as back in June 2007 Monster India has also launched video resume feature for Indian Job seekers, what is interesting is emphasis on web 2.0 as core part of website model such as letting users create blogs and use of community/ social networks as part of service and at the same time uploading professional resumes, seeking job. As registered users can create blog, build professional networks thus its providing employers a platform to search for profiles beyond text resumes and analyze profiles Psycho metrically, personality traits via their blogs, networks they build and profoundness in skills, expertise via 'ask and answer' feature ...

A new entrant in social cum professional network which seems to be more focussed on India internet users and people tired of Myspace, Facebook sites which lacks Indian faces in member list and photos. Creator of Hotmail and then Arzoo.com (which is now a travel portal) Sabeer Bhatia has now teamed up with Yogesh Bansal (Founder/ CEO) to launch a new social cum professional network - ApnaCirlce.com website soon just after the launch of Reliance big social cummunity portal Bigadda.com. ApnaCircle.com has everything that orkut.com has - searching members profiles and photos and obviously acquientences likewise to orkut, scraping to other members and get scrapped, birthday reminders, creating and joining communities (here a community is referred as 'ZONES'), uploading your photos, making albums etc., the additional ones include browsing and creating events, making two separate profiles of yours - Personal and Professional and same goes with maintaining two different list of friends, known members one is personal and other one is professional. The website do lack some design issues with ordinary color schemes but what i found is pages load faster than bigadda.com as i have tried open the site from different computers/ locations bigadda.com pages as till today load as fast as ...

Chikka Inc., a company known for delivery of Mobile content and enhanced mobile messaging has brought a service to enable Asian users send two way messaging i.e. from their PC to mobile phones and vice versa. Users can register to avail services like - messaging to buddy/ friends list in their IM (messengers) like - Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, ICQ and the recent one is Google Talk. A user can even send messages if they don't have a mobile phone or if their mobile operator is currently not available. People can make a unified Chikka ID to send messages to buddies list in their respective IMs as if they are sent through their mobile numbers, through Chikka ID you could also forward messages while away to your mobile phones. In their future plans site will also allow the delivery of mobile content and mobile call credits which would be directly accessed from the web. Chikka 2.0 will also support social networking and user-generated content (UGC), to bring about web 2.0 traits in its services through which Users will be able to set-up personal profiles, upload photos and videos, or blog within their Chikka profile page. Though unified account (phone-to-PC) is not yet available in ...

Info Edge (India) Ltd., the company behind sites like naukri.com, 99acres.com has launched its people networking site Brijj.com (pronounced as Bridge dot com) and subtitled as - "Brijjing People" (read as - Bridging People), the site is much alike to LinkedIn which too has same website theme that is networking activities by people who join it i.e - Social Networking + Business/ Professional Networking. At Brijj.com people can build profile along with details like companies they worked for, educational institutes they have studied at, their best skills, professional expertise, business expertise/ plans, or any other professional or personal details and then making this profile online which enables you to be matched by profiles of other people you might know in past or people who are related to you or interest of you professionally, of same business interest, your past colleagues etc. The match of profiles are done based on philosophy of "six degree of separation" according to which anyone in this world is connected to anyone on planet earth in not more than five persons in between. Based on this theory Brijj.com will show you people's (brijj.com users of course) contacts who are 3 degrees away from you. At present you can ...

In IndianWeb2.com's previous post of Visualize Your Web, Bookmarks, Tags and Blogosphere, I have posted about two very good example of web 2.0/ mashups of del.icio.us tags and blogosphere by Sixpli and Twingly.com respectively. Now here are some more and bunch of resources, tools and websites dealing with mashing up with visual web 2.0, visual web semantics mashups sites, apps and tools etc. So here is the list - Walk2Web - Walk2Web is a visualization tool that shows graphical link structure of URL entered and sites linked to it and let you surf these sites as if you are walking along these linked sites and at the same you can see screenshot of these sites. Websites as Graph - It makes a Graph of Websites by providing URL of website which then convert the HTML code of any webpage into Tree/ Nodes like graph structure where colors represent various tags of webpage source code. Scriptaculous - script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your websites and web applications for e.g. - Drag and Drop AJAX box, Slide in/out, Autocompleting AJAX text fields, Sortable elements w/AJAX callback, Combination Effects Demo. One of my favorite and best for Web 2.0 ...

A Recent surveys and market intelligence reports shows that India is a major contributor in Web 2.0 growth worldwide along with its good old neighbour China. A report by IDC, a premier global market intelligence firm estimated that a third of all Internet users in 2007 are Web 2.0 users in India, 83% for the same in Korea, and 70% in People's Republic of China. With the new facet of dotcom companies quickly revamping into Web 2.0 style along with premiere companies already estabilished like Zoho Sheets of chennai, these local economies like that of India will attract new VCs, venture capital, angel investors likewise to other frequent web startups in any other part of globe. A new Synovate Asiabus study reveal that most active bloggers are from India with figure of 83% of total India internet users. These bloggers are either write their own blog or contribute to other's blogs. With bloggers like Amit Agarwal, Om Malik and person who coined term SMO (Social Media Optimization) Rohit Bhargava , it indeed a true statement for global blogosphere that Indian Bloggers are has perpetually contributed, participated in incubating Web 2.0 right from the very start. More Report References - advertising.microsoft.com