Just a few hours back the Indibloggies Award'08 has been announced and The Best Indian Blog for Year 2008 is - Random thoughts of Demented Mind, a humorous blog by Arnab Ray along with winner in each category. The Category winners list are also the been announced with the stats of all the voting counts. In Best Science & Technology Blog Category the clear winner with huge gap in percentage as expected is - Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal who is better known as Father of Indian blogging revolution and first Pro-blogger in India blogging since 2004. Interestingly, IndianWeb2.com has also been nominated in the same category, but we are happy that we lost to such an excellent Blog/Tech Resource. However, Voting seems to be down low in terms of total number of votes in comparison to population of India or say what I might read about ever growing online Internet audience hype in India, if that has to be true than why most of the individual votes could not even cross the 100 mark. Moreover I could not find the press mentions such as TOI (Times of India), HT or any leading dailies of such a nice initiative carried out by just one ...

If you are visiting any city in India and you are a blogger, you can now find accommodation for free to stay and the place would be another blogger's home. This is a sort of barter exchange being propagated by Indian website - ExtaBed.in. At ExtraBed.in, bloggers are being asked to participate in this Blogger exchange program where bloggers offer extra bed to a fellow blogger or who visits blogger's city. And in return, when you travel to his/her city, you have a place to stay. This seems to be out of track and at the same time a way to bind and create a blogger's network 'offline'. If you want to host a blogger you can go to ExtraBed.in select the city you live in and add your contact details and If you are planning for a trip out of your city than find the the state name, click on it and find out the city and get in touch with bloggers who welcome other bloggers as their guests. Also going ahead in this offline blogging network, the website ask bloggers to treat fellow bloggers visiting their city with pleasant hospitality along with a 'Gift' and a photo snap of both host ...

A new site Criticat has launched with different concept in its own category, though the structure is same as that of any Product Reviewing sites but this time "Employers" being the product and the reviewers are those employed at these respective companies/ organizations. Criticat is a platform where people can rate their employer and share workplace experiences. The website lets employees review and advise their employer anonymously. At Criticat, employers at respective companies can also answer questions asked by prospective employees and create polls to build consensus around an issue. Evenmore, it lets read those reviews/ feedbacks of companies from thier own current employers, at time when one is offered a job at a company and have to decide the prons and cons, if he/ she accepts it . It should tell you what is broken inside that its employees have advised to be fixed. They should let you talk to any employee to the company and let you ask them any question without the influence of HR. Apart from Ratings, Reviews and indulging in discussion about any employer, one can create polls for specific topic (one of them like - Should Microsoft insist on buying Yahoo at any cost? or What ...

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