However, after the image is being uploaded, it goes down in the twitter database and it is very difficult to search for that image after a longer duration.

Twtimage is a newly introduced web service which lets you search images from Twitter by fetching images from twitpic.com, tweetphoto.com, img.ly and yfrog.com. Once you come to Twtimage homepage, you will see a textbox at the top right corner. You have to enter the keyword for the images to be searched. A list of 25 images will be displayed in one go. If you want to see further, you will have to click on the “load more” link.

In the picture below, you can see the list of images displayed under the keyword iphone that were uploaded on the Twitter. The images on the front page may change according to recent uploads.

In addition, Twtimage homepage also has the list of most popular tags. If you want you can click on these tags. On clicking, it will redirect you to the original source of image. You can then download the images effortlessly. Another positive aspect about the site is that you do not have to sign in. Hence, it is completely free.

As a result of Twtimage, Searching images on Twitter can no longer be difficult and tiresome. It is indeed an effective internet tool for searching images on Twitter.

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In a press release submitted to IndianWeb2.com submitted by person from the company stated -

DilKholKeBol.Com is the first microblogging portal in India, this is another successful Internet initiative to be launched in 6th Decenber’2008.

Dilkholkebol.com is a platform to talk anything and everything that your heart desires! The content at dilkholkebol.com differs from a traditional blog in various ways It is more topical, smaller in aggregate file size (e.g. text, audio or video) yet carries the character of blogs, which people utilize for both business and individual reasons. Many micro-blogs provide short commentary on a person-to-person level, or share news about a company’s products and services. Dilkholkebol.com allows expression of thoughts using Roman alphabets across languages…..

The microblogging site has different to other in a way that it allows messages upto 400 characters, unlike to 140 characters is faster to register and gets into action, maintains an archive of messages posted. This miroblogging sites has nothing new to offer from its “Indian Competitors” like Kwippy.com, Snockles.com or even SMSGupShup wander how does it stands with Twitter. The UI/ Interface fall short of already existing kwippy.com and Tagg.in not to mention microblogging sites in India.

A similar plot of news broke last year when a matrimonial website self-claimed to be first web 2.0 matrimony website without knowing what exactly ‘Web 2.0′ is and what it likes to be a website known to carry its traits.

Compare Infobase is a same company which is behind sites such as MapsofWorld.com, DGreetings.com and is an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Company.

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Funpiper.com

Moreover, as a result of Twitter effect in India, funpiper.com is planning to integrate user’s funpiper accounts with their twitter account. With this, users get a dual benefit of broadcasting event proceedings via SMS not only on their event pages but also on their twitter pages.

With latest release, users could collaborate and communicate about their events to their friends and family members by sending SMS invitations and messages from their personalized event pages for free. Invitees could respond to the invitations by sending RSVP in SMS from their mobile phones. Invitees can send their views and suggestions in SMS from their mobile phones. These messages will appear on the personalized event page.

This feature could be used to broadcast the event live on the day of event when moderator and invitees send the live event proceedings from their mobile phones.

With this launch, as apparent in press release sent to IndianWeb2.com, funpiper.com becomes India’s first portal that adopts mobile messaging for collaborative event planning.

Going apart from the latest work/ release from Funpiper.com, one thing that I notice and feel extremely awkward when it comes to websites/ apps from India is – the UI (User Interface) which looks poor in case of Funpiper and the list is crowded among Indian Startups, even when its about ‘Company logo’ Funpiper website can be seen as blurred text on top of website.

Any Indian web startup must consider how it present itself to users across the web, user wouldn’t notice your development coding and logic behind the website or application but the UI, look-n-feel. Why websites in India are lacking behind in this aspect of web development.

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One can use any email service such as GMail, Windows Live (Hotmail), Yahoo or any other to do blogging via email and for that you just have to send an email to post @ posterous.com unlike to other blogging services with WYSIWYG editors or so.

The interesting and USP part in this is Posterous intelligently embed the files in different user interfaces like when you post a YouTube video link via email, it automatically embed the video player as such and when you post any audio files it will put a nice Posterous interface for that (see image below) and audio player when you post an mp3 file.

Apart from this, when you send URLs, it will automatically create a link and when an image is send as an attachment it resize it to web friendly size, moreover good part is when you attach more than one image it will create a stunning Ajax image gallery (screenshot below) automatically, which is otherwise not feasible for less tech savvy bloggers.

The service do take care of email spoofing when you send your post via email and send you an email for confirmation when there is doubt that if email is sent by you only. Right now the service is free for all and have plans to add premium services later in future.

The service seems to be a bright start in line what Picnic has done when it comes to grabbing users moreover I don’t see any such similar service presently. The kind of blogging that Posterous brought to online users is really appreciative though one has too see if users could divert themselves to traditional blogging pattern to such services, when they get used to brands like Blogger (with similar email posting option), WordPress or Tumblr (microblogging service).

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While on global scale brands like Twitter (need no intro) and Jaiku are main players along with Pownce (from Digg), India is also deliberately paving way in Microblogging, though Twitter remain the key player in India too, a lot of Microblogging platforms were introduced in past 6 months in India. Below are major microblogging platforms in India;

A web app from Indian mobile technology company Webaroo, SMSGupShup is major Indian microblogging platform. It provide users to send/free free text SMS to any mobile device. Unlike to Twitter, it provide its users to create and join groups to send and recieve SMSs to and from users in these groups respectively.

As apparent, sending and receiving SMS via mobile and online site usage seems to have 1:5 ratio thus the site doesn’t appeal much sleek in UI.

Vakow is the next major microblogging and SMS based site in India after SMSGupShup, interms of usage and site traffic. Vakow too provide SMS message from web to mobile devices plus other features such as tagging, to tag the messages and group them based on these tags.to send Pics from web to mobile devices although a light weight, low resolution black & white pics only (see here).

Vakow also have a Facebook App (Link) and an other vakow app for Orkut, where in later one can forward SMS messages to friend’s scrapbook.

Moroever, Vakow guys have worked to develop way, through Tiwtter API, so that one can send updates from their mobile devices to twitter via Vakow, reason being Vakow cost less twitter, when it comes to sending message from any mobile devices in India to twitter servers.

Yewoh is on other hand a microblog service for Karnataka state of India and thus limited to mobiles in Karnataka only though users can send the messages through Yewoh system to anywhere in the world. The app is currently in alpha release and going through fixes and usability improvement, perhaps to come up with version for all over India rather than Karnataka only.

Snockles is one another such service we have blogged about previously, its a mobile message board, in short functionality are similar to that of Twitter along with features it carry. The app however is different in product marketing in way that it provide Enterprise Snockles which is a product in the social software for business category and as per the website amongst the world’s first on-demand and mobile enterprise solution for business social networking and collaboration.

Kwippy is one of my favorite nanoblogging service including twitter, reason being – you can post message from Gmail or GTalk directly to kwippy or integrate Gtalk and Yahoo messenger status, share links. Kwippy is thus a micro/nanoblogging webapp + IM status logger + social network.

In kwippy, the whole focus is on the Instant Messenger, right now Gmail adress book(Gtalk) and Yahoo only. The friends list on the instant messenger is the most intimate friends list you can find, of all social networks – as per Kwippy blog. The microblog app presently is in private beta, but one would get invite soon in a day or two. Rest is much similar to Twitter such as lingo like ‘followers’,'following’ and twits being Kwips here.

MOBS.MyToday.com is yet another microblogging service in India but with different concept, where one can greater controls over their messages over mobiles and can register for service through mobile sets only without going to website itself.

At Mytoday Mobs, one can create groups or closed user groups via cellphones called – Mobs, than can send messages over cellphone to other users who ever join your group/ Mobs. The service provides keywords to use in SMS such as Create to create mob, PUB to publish, Start to join Mobs and one can register for service in India by SMSing ACCEPT CityName to 575758.

Funpiper is also a microblog like service though use of cellphone is not a part of service but messages cane be sent to your friends with no message size limit unlike to other microblogging services. At funpiper one can plan events through its service with friends, send message along with pictures sending features and embedding video links.

Other Microblogging Services by Cellphone Operators in India: Reliance MBlog (WAP link), Nokia N-Series M-Blog

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