Reffster.com an online Referral/Reward based recruitment service has launched its service yesterday. The startup has been co-founded by 3 partners (Ranjit Jatar, ex PepsiCo International and co-partners Arjun and Arun Yadav from a leading Executive Search firm). The just started website is new kind of recruitment portal that unlike to other Indian job portals offer cash rewards for referrers along with finding or browsing jobs in it. Moreover from the employers perspective they can upload videos of their organization, that will be YouTube linked. Reffster.com will be a platform for employers to tap into the social network of active referrers. Reffsters reach among specialised professional networks all over the world would make even the most sensitive and difficult job openings easier to fill in. Reffster.com is offering people BIG cash rewards if they use it to successfully recommend a friend for a job. The service is the first of its kind that lists only premium Mid and Senior Management openings. Reffster.com will provide a value add over other online recruitment players by offering resume screening through its KPO. The KPO is staffed by experienced recruiters who will study/screen each resume and forward only the most relevant resumes to the client. Candidate employment reference check ...

SadakMap.com is an online map-based local information and discussion forum site for Indian locals with Google Maps API as core backdrop element. It allows registered users to plot places in their locality on the map and post reviews for those places. Other users can do the same leading to a populated directory that is map-based instead of the traditional keyword search based. Another feature allows users to post messages on the map - anything from civic issues, to asking for recommendations for schools, etc. All registered users get their own unique URL which serves as their digital business card. This URL can be shared with friends so they can find you on the map. This is another Pune based Website startup reviewed on IndianWeb2.com after ActiveCiti.com. Thanks - Unmesh Mayekar (Founder, SadakMap.com)

Samfra.com is a new local search that gives results of local places you are looking for such as shops, restaurant, retail outlets, banks, ATMs etc., though it does not provide any knowledge based information, articles, content results like those of other known search engines but still a good initiative towards localized results for people who want info for their local area, specific to their respective cities. Samfra.com has started this service from Bangalore and presently serving search results for Bangalore only. The results are served along with small and to the point description, address and option to view map (see example). The other feature it provide is adding comments to each results cum shop/ place and ratings as well. This local Search engine has very neat and clean interface right from very first SERP (Search Engine Result Page) to the page when details are viewed where there is no unnecessary information, does not look deceptive or confusing even for first time users/ visitors (this what I felt when I landed up to those pages including map view). Samfra has partnered with LinkedZone.com, a professional networking website and DiscoverBangalore.com which is a Bangalore based portal, 'Samfra search-bar' can be seen on both of these ...

Yahoo! has tied up with Indian print media publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd. to co-brand hindi portal services for India - Jaagran-Yahoo India, which offers Hindi content for Indian audience such as samachar (news), cricket, cinema, panchang, literature, sakhi, josh, and other sections in Hindi. Although Jaagran's own online version Jagran.com has more Hindi content than former one. Yahoo! has tied up with JPL (Jagran Prakashan Ltd.) under the terms of the agreement, where each will share graphical and keyword advertising revenue generated by the property with Yahoo! India managing the advertising sales and serving for the new co-branded property. Both Yahoo ! and Jagran will also partner in distributing Yahoo! India's search and small and medium business offerings. Jagran Prakashan Ltd. is a leading publishing house in India which publishes Dainik Jagran, India's largest read and highest circulated daily with a total readership of 18.19 million readers per day ( IRS 2006 R2). Although this type of ...

Social Projects Inc. a new company has launched its first and main product Flux, one level above any traditional social networking site, though its still under development and the company has not officially launched it yet. Social Project aims to decentralize the phenomena of social and community networking among users where users can participate and engage with sites to larger extent and in their control than otherwise. Flux is basically a open platform, disaggregated model of social networking to reach wider audience and decentralize the community, embedding other websites and bloggers closely to create content and let the content flow seamlessly along with more control over content creation and monetizing it as well. Social Projects is rename of company previously working on TagWorld.com, which was previously funded by Draper Fisher Juvertson, now focusing on this kind of social networking where it gives example of Walled city garden and importance of open platform so as to reach wider spectrum of web arena and social networking capabilities. Flux aims to let user experience distinct social networking properties where user from one network can join network of other brands or websites. Although there is no such hints that company will be improvising it model with user ...

Intel Corporation, a major chip manufacturing company has also understood the core advantages of Web 2.0 arena by exploring and using social networking and business blogging so as to improvise and boost its contemporary technologies, products and their ongoing development. Actually Intel wants to further improvise, bring about more new features, new developments in one of its technology called Intel vPro Technology (TM), a product/ package of hardware and software to provide business oriented PCs. Thus what else could be better way to provide a community network so as to get suggestions from end-users, partners and others to share, exchange and transfer knowledge. These suggestion will be utilized by Intel developers to bring new features. Open Port, thats what Intel's online community is called as, this is to share ideas and discuss topics and its blogs - http://softwareblogs.intel.com, are blogs by Intel people along with audio blogs, Intel podcast as well. One can see popular tags, stumbleupon, del.icio.us bookmark tags and all those blogging lingos.

One of the visible traits in web 2.0 rich websites are either their logo, domain name or images i.e. they have some reflection better understood as mirror reflections or shadows at bottom (most of them having written 'Beta' alongside or superscript). This something like I did with IndianWeb2.com logo and image of a flower below; This is better known as "Web 2.0 Style" Images and Fonts and to make a normal images or a text into this web2-style images/ text, tutorials are available as how to add reflections/ make mirror images with or without Adobe Photoshop. TOOLS - There are some tools to get Web20 style images in an instant and one of my favorite is - Reflectomatic, here you just give a URL of image and it will make a reflection to it just like web20 image/ logo, you can even adjust opacity, height of reflection and scale image. Others tools/ web20 logo creator are; - Web2.0 Logo Creator by ALex P - Web 2.0 Stylr - Web2.0 Logo Creator - Web2.0 text/ Logo generator USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP - Adobe Photoshop can also be handy in making Web20-style images and texts without much hassle, core part is making duplicate of image/ text and flip it vertically and ...

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a California based venture capital firm is set to invest $75 million fund in coming 3 years with already making direct presence in India via its offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad. Daper, the firm is making key investment in three Bangalore based internet startups/ site, these are - Reva (Electric Car Company), mCheck.com and Seventymm.com and other than that I found in its portfolio list (on DFJ website) is New Delhi based firm - Live Media. Draper will inlculcate 13 -15 startups in its India's portfolio to fund. Draper is well known for funding to Hotmail, Overture and Skype and all of these are now acquired by Microsoft, Yahoo and ebay respectively. The firm's name Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) named after firm's Managing Directors Timothy C. Draper, John H. N. Fisher and Steve Jurvetson. This is Draper's third phase of funding, before it has invested in Rediff.com as well in form of portfolio investment (as Draper International) in 1996. Some of the Indian online Startups in DFJ's Portfolio List are - Live Media, a new Delhi based out-of-home digital display network. Live Media is setting up a network of LCD TVs in various locations then serving content and advertising on ...

A travel & lifestyle social network community website Wayn.com which has shown a tremendous growth in short span of time is set to focus Indian market and expand its online presence in India. Wayn is already getting 8 percent of total traffic from India said wayn.com's co-CEO Jerome Touze. Wayn.com has joined hand with Percept Knorigin to pave the way to Indian online market. Together they see Indian travel sector as huge opportunity to invest in and with social media and social networking catching up in India, it will surely provide them opportunity to find and generate value from this social networking phenomena driven traffic. Wayn.com would indeed be new kind of experience for Indian consumers from keeping in touch with your relatives while you travel, using SMS, other easy messaging features of site, letting other inform your whereabout. Recently Wayn released a free service - Wayn Flight (beta), to search 100+ travel sites and find best offers and compare prices of flights, free of charge. With MakeMyTrip.com, Yatra.com already in online travel sector in India and have strict travel portal model lets hope Indian consumer will find Interactivity in new travel website that provide social networking along with usual flights info and travel ...