Getmo, a startup launched in middle east conference MECOM 2008 will be offering digital content and entertainment services to Indian subcontinent region and Middle east countries including Africa as well. The startup which is yet to be launched at its full throttle will set to be providing music, movies or games for Mobile phones, personal computers or other digital device players accessible directly to consumers on internet. The website will set to provide such kind of entertainment content and services to Indian sub-continent region which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia along with Africa and middle east regions such as UAE and other Arabian countries. The content will be available to online and mobile users at considerably low rates, moreover one can also publish their own content of such media type in order to let the content travel in these areas covering almost 40% of world's population. Getmo, a part of Abu Dhabi media company will publish such pieces of entertainment content to be consumed directly by consumers either by their own or by partnerships, as one of the tied-ship announced is with Sony BMG, in which the record label will provide local and Arabic content for the ...

An Indian widget Prachaarthis has made for Indian bookmarking sites along with other major bookmarking services, moreover one can also use widgets in Hindi and other Indian regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. The site for the first time used Indian bookmarking services in a bookmarking widget, though just four of them the sites are - Indianpad.com, Humsurfer, Tagza and NewsCola (from Ibibo) along with other global bookmarking services. The widget is similar to popular bookmarking buttons/widgets like Addthis, Addtoany.com or ShareThis.com, difference being none of them have Indian bookmarking services/ websites. The Prachaar widget/button would definitely prove a viral marketing tool for sites to target Indian audience via Indian bookmarking services/sites in it, though usage of same would be a factor in turn. Moreover, the widget will prove beneficial for the Indian sites offering bookmarking services as well, as it would obviously help them to market their services and grab users to register for their bookmarking services. One of the reason that other global bookmarking services are much popular instead of being similar to each other in terms of services offered by them are their use in such widgets/ buttons and thats too almost in every blogs and websites and ...

Yo Macha!, an internet startup from Jaipur has been launched with a concept of rating pictures of people or users themselves, the concept is not very new though can be good enough for Indian audience to find pictures of just Indian people, even more one also create rating wars for any two items, say two images or videos, or just two websites. As apparent, the website promises to keep the pictures secure by locking the context menu of images i.e. right click -> 'save as' or downloading images, though this isn't enough to prevent misuse from nasty people surfing around to mess up with pictures, nevertheless satisfactory preventive measures to take care of user pics. The concept of rating pictures is not new anymore at these days, the net is loaded with such websites with one or more additional supporting features for example - HotorNot, ApnaSpace.com and CuteMeter are few among such sites providing similar features for internet people to kill or pass the time. The good thing is- the startup is from Jaipur, India, which i never even speculated that this city could also jumped into internet and web startup scenario of India other than Bangalore, Delhi or Pune.

One thing in India that one doesn't have to speculate about, is growing popularity and fans of game of Cricket. The recent IPL tournament (Indian Premier League) organized in India in analogy with European Football league tournaments is latest buzz and more than a hype in India these days. The popularity of IPL tournament has inspired a lot of webmasters, bloggers to launch websites, blogs specially for the tournament and matches updates, recently a Social networking website has been launched and no doubt the traffic shoots to the moon. The website TheIPLFanClub.com a social network for IPL fans to show their passion for their respective favorite teams. The traits of social networking for TheIPLFanClub.com is - any user of website can publish their news from their local newspaper provided they must mention the name of newspaper, scan the newspaper images and upload, create a their blog, groups, invite friends etc., a more participation in the website leads the user to win contest, by scoring points for their each activity on the website. The most interesting part in this website is the amount of traffic it got in just a month of its launch, the same amount of traffic has been desired by few ...

Startups in India especially in field of technology, internet and web (web 2.0/ 3.0) now can show up their potentials on how promising can they be for investors, VCs, angel investors or any other funding bodies. The scenario in India is changing rapidly for startups who were previously masked for VCs, funding options to see them with less or no interactions between these two in India, except when its got any brand name or personality. The very first one in this highway is Proto.in providing entrepreneurs to showcase their innovations, products as prototype models and let them flaunt their ideas along with an eye of venture capitalist and investors likely to nurture them. Proto.in is working in this part for last 2 years, with next such Indian startup event lined up in July 2008 in New Delhi. The other such event is Bangalore Technology Equity Fair, to be held on 27th June 2008 and as apparent a first such show for startups in India to showcase their talents directly to funding bodies to provide capital to them. Yen Expo, a company behind the fair will be organizing the fair for technology startups in India to access the Private Equity market. This event will ...

Sitepoint a leading web and online media website is giving a Free 278 page book (PDF version) titled "The Photoshop Anthology" which would usually cost $29.95. The book comprises the examples, hints and inspirations for web designers right from designing a glassy button to background images or classy templates. The book is available for Free, at no extra conditions at Sitepoint and, this free giveaway is only for time constraint of 22 days from time of this post. So, just grab the valuable book for all you designers there, as it does not requires any single thing from you, except for your email ids. Sitepoint, as apparent is 1,866th most visited site in the world and is making mark among web professionals and online media including books for same.

Just within a couple of months when we wrote about Google Health's sneak peak, the Health product of Google is now finally launched as Google Health beta today, as previously declared the new app let you manipulate your health information as your personal repository for all your health records along with online tools and also let you find/ search doctors in your local area. One can say its a "HIS" (Health Information System) likewise to MIS or DSS in management information system.

Indiamarks.com which once happened to be a Indian based social bookmarking & tagging site has totally revamped and overhauled to new look and model, which now serves quality based content rather than bookmarked links and content itself would be user generated in form of guides created by users.

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 ...

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 ...

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. Users can also access the YouTube India through their mobile devices at - http://in.youtube.com/mobile

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 ...

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.

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". ...