Kolkata based InfoSoft Global has released a PowerPoint add-in called oomfo to add visual effects, charts, interactivity and animation from a simple GUI within PowerPoint. oomfo is powered by FusionCharts, an open source data visualization app for web applications. As the visualization done is on top of flash technology omfo requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or above to view the chart, presently in beta its totally free and supports Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010. The company plans to release the add-in app in standard and premium version and later being the paid one. oomfo provides the ease to build animations, charts, data visualization as very easy GUI and within the PowerPoint which is as far as I can see the only product vailable for free so far with these kind of features, however RichChartLive is one other free product but lacks far more features, stunning visuals and crispier animation & visualization that ommfo does.

SimplyBooks.in is a new book portal launched today in World Book Fair'10, New Delhi. As the name hints the portal is online bookshop targeting Indian customers initially and at moment in beta stage. Simplybooks is launched by startup based in Gurgaon, India that also runs a Finance community portal called feeleminds.com The portal carries the same traits and features like to those online bookshop already exist in market however some features and an impressive UI which is comparatively far better than Indian books portal we see such as Rediff books, Indiatimes, flipkart.com etc.  The portal carries features such as book search - by author, category, book title etc. The portal also offer related products such as CDs, Magazines and Journals in one domain as I dont see any one portal in India which provide all of these. Keeping in mind the beta stage of portal Simplybooks.in looks promising in terms of number of books, user interface and more web 2.0 features than any existing in Indian market except that of flipkart.com. Morever, the entry of one more online bookshop portal will make the stagnant online book selling market to rise above, if changes due to competition is considered.

All along year 2009, this year has been the year of disruptive ideas, innovations and originality of concept that drove the startups in India when it comes to technology, web and internet. Similar to Best Startups list in 2008 we are compiling a list of some the very interesting and gutsy startups that made impression over the world wide web. The list is relatively small when it comes to numbers and the basic criteria of choosing the startups in India are - How disruptive is an Idea behind?, Orginality of startup concept, Are they really startup? and lastly how much impact did they made to their similar competitors/counterparts with their first presence. So, here we go; VoicePHP - A product by Tringme which is a Bangalore, India-based startup come up with disruptive simple idea of infusing VoIP into PHP by using the familiar PHP programming methodology which can be freely downloaded and is used by majority of web developers. TringMe introduces this simple technology as not an extension to PHP but the same PHP which now outputs voice instead of text and also takes input as voice instead of text. iMO - iMO, a Gurgaon, India based 3-people early-age startup who was able make ...

As a Web developer/ designer my self I have got a mail for an opening and am stunned seeing the desired profile they are looking for, thought I gotto blog this so as to propagate ever demanding typical Indian web/ internet sector and when it comes to offer to their employees be it employee satisfaction or the salary part it always like offering peanuts. Below is the description of desired Job Profile of that mail, I have got in my inbox; Opening for Web developer - We have currently opening with our Client for Web Developer Experience : 4+ yrs to 6 yrs Location: Noida (Marketing Department) Responsibilities include: Design, Develop, Test, Maintain and Support Web applications, Emailers, Online Brochures and online marketing banners, ads etc. Web Design and Development of all areas including administration, technical specifications, user interface design, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP/ASP.NET, Flash, CMS integration. Ensuring strong functionality and Search Engine Optimization of websites and applications To develop web page infrastructure and application related to pages with more advanced graphics and features Testing the site's for functionality in different browsers and at different resolution 4+ years of experience Experience and Understanding of Online Ecommerce Businesses. Expert knowledge of (X)HTML and CSS1/2; intermediate experience in JavaScript/DHTML/Ajax, XML/XSLT, Javascript Knowledge of LAMP Familiar with many content ...

The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay organizing an event called Vulture's Nest part of Entrepreneurship Summit 2010 which is first event of its kind in the history of Indian entrepreneurship. Its uniqueness comes from its express funding concept and it's format as a reality show to be aired on ET Now channel starting January 2010. In the event plus realty show those who are on verge of building any potential start-ups and having one or more business plans with themselves than after selection phase they will have to pitch their ideas to a panel of investors including top VCs in 15 minutes and if they like the idea than participants might get an on-spot express funding. ET Now would be airing all three strategic events on a segmented basis on their show starting up in January next year. Vultures nest is a three phase event. The first phase is an online submission of the presentation starting 10 Dec.'09 to 4th Jan.'10. The second phase will be between 16 Jan.- 17 Jan. 2010 which is a preliminary elimination round which is going to be held in 3 cities - Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The Final round will have 10 Finalist to pitch in ...

Are you building software products from India? Does the vision of being responsible for the next Windows ™ or Firefox™ or Oracle™ keep you up late at night? Do you believe that it is certainly possible to create world-beating products right here, right now? The flagship event for software product companies in India – NASSCOM Product Conclave 09 Mecca of Indian Product and High Technology Companies– happening in Bangalore on Oct 27-28 – in its 3rd successful year... ..Know more of NASSCOM Event »

India's first native iPhone music streaming application has hit the iTunes App Store via Dhingana who have earlier released a gmail app for listening Indian songs and tracks. This time Dhinagana has released the music app for iTunes App Store as Dhingana iPhone music app. The music app has been released with two versions - iPhone Native App and if you dont like to spend money to get native app downloaded on your iPhone than iPhone Web App is there. However, iPhone Native application is for sale on 50% discount, for a limited time. With Dhingana Music app one can search and listen to Indian/ bollywood music using iPhone on EDGE / 3G or Wifi networks. Access all the public playlists created by other users and friends. Even more you can listen to songs in the background and access other applications while you listen to songs, for this you just have to open m.dhingana.com from your iPhone's browser. With Dhingana on iPhone one can browse the complete music collection from Dhingana.com alphabetically also sharing of songs with your friends over the iPhone will be coming soon. Dhingana has impressed me with its all round product development in various areas consistently where Indian web companies/ ...

Dhingana, a social networking portal around musical entertainment has added a Community IM within its portal similar to facebook, visible at bottom. This feature will allow users to chat in real time with their friends on Dhingana. Apparently, its a first Indian social platform to launch the community IM feature in first week of May in partnership with Meebo. Apart from chatting with other users on Dhingana, the Community IM feature also allows users to chat with all their friends from a variety of other networks like Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Hotmail etc. Users can also share music albums, songs, playlists, videos with their friends with just 2 clicks using the nice built in "share" feature. Meebo with its Community IM! Meebo is partnering with leading online communities such as Piczo, Flixter and yaari.com to deliver free, integrated, Web-based instant messaging (IM) to users. Meebo Community IM is designed to facilitate live interaction and real-time conversations between members of online communities such as social media, gaming, and blog networks. Although when I tried it personally over Firefox/ Vista, I had problem in signing in and status shows as offline. I believe though that its quite good mixture of IM along with music, ...

Now you can add Bollywood music and play latest songs in right into your Gmail and can even listen to latest releases, see public playlist or create your own and share. You can get this all by adding an Bollywood based OpenSocial app in Gmail setting developer by Dhinagana. One can add this application to any Gmail account and can listen to top songs from all music genres right from your Gmail account.Discover new music everyday & maintain your musical history and can also search for songs, albums, movies by year, actor, director, song name etc. Dhingana has already made an Orkut application on same Bollywood content in an opensocial development event at Google's headquarters in Mountain View and had even got award for same. To add the application in any Gmail account one has to enable one of the plugin of Gmail's recently introduced Labs feature called as - "Add any gadget by URL" plugin, after enabling this any one can get this app by adding this URL of widget app - http://www.dhingana.com/gmail, after adding this Dhingana widget can be seen in left just above invite a friend block of Gmail dashboard. The same has also been launched as iGoogle Gadget by Dhingana, ...

DataQuest, one of an oldest and most read magazine on IT, in association with IndianWeb2.com has created well created list of Hottest Web 2.0 Startups in India, thanks to DataQuest Research team and Editor Shyamanuja. The Dataquest team and editors included those startups in India which become operational on or after 1 January 2007 and then refined that list to come with this list of prominent ones. The interesting part of the list is that, companies and startups have been excluded where collaboration and user particiaption, which is a main trait and feature of any web 2.0 entity is not prominent such as PicSquare, Zoomin and iTasveer.com where hey do have features such as sharing photos but they more rely on parameters other than what "Web 2.0" concept is i.e. photo print quality, time of delivery of their products etc. The "India's 25 Hot Web 2.0 Start-ups" is a cover story published in May issue of Datquest published by Cyber Media publication and circualted nationwide. You may get the the copy of Dataquest from any nearest book seller and get more insight of the story along with deatails of 25 hot startups with founders of respective startups throwing more lime-light on same. Update ...