In India, corporate sector employees productivity is Killed by 12.5% in surfing social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut etc. during the office hours says ASSOCHAM's (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry) Social Development Foundation (ASDF) survey. Morever ASSOCHAM survey  in a press release says - Almost each day, an average corporate employee spends an hour, gluing to various social networking sites such as Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, Linkdein etc. for 'romancing' or otherwise drive some satisfaction out of it...with this average corporate employee’s each day working is reduced by an hour from 8 hours to 7 hours. Young professionals join the social networking sites the most. It also reveals that 93% of youngsters are aware of social networking sites. Orkut and Facebook are found to be the most popular online destinations among survey respondents. 73% of aged 45-58 spend over an hour online daily to use online sources to access news. On the other on same note and on same day an interesting reports by CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) says that growth momentum of the services sector in India has increased during April–October 2009, compared to the same period during 2008. If one has to go by ASSOCHAM than productivity has already been ...

Recently a research has been conducted by TrendStream, who publishes the Global Web Index and the research is based on interviews with 32,000 Internet users in 16 countries including India. The research outputs a visualization that shows the different kind activities performed by online users in major countries across he globe called - Global Map of Social Web Involvement. Interestingly the reports also shows some very positive aspects of India's online activities such as writing blogs, using micr-blogging services, uploading videos and photos where it leads most countries (user volume in millions) like UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, France, Germany and Japan. Moreover, when it comes to percentage of total online users - More people in India write their own blogs and use Micro-blogging services in India than US. The report is extremely useful for all those who are on verge of starting any internet or web startups in India or any countries listed in this report or planning to have one, with all these social web involvement matrix one can plan out a specific traits, features in their websites, portals or internet services to take advantage of what people are more prone to do with doing activities more than others. Global Map of ...

India has been identified as Top Global internet market by Google Sites’ in terms of share of time spent on Google owned sites in July 2009 by comScore Inc., a digital marketing intelligence company. In India 28.9 percent of total time spent online was spent on Google owned sites such as Gmail, Orkut, Blogger, Picassa, etc.. India stands just after Brazil which is at top with 29.8% share of time spent on Google sites. Google Sites ranked as the most visited Internet property worldwide with 854 million unique visitors age 15 and older in July, an increase of 18-percent during the past year. Nearly 75 percent of all Internet users worldwide visited the Google Sites property, which accounted for 9.4 percent of all time spent online. Nearly one out of every ten minutes a person spends online around the world is spent on a Google site. In India, Google Sites accounted for 88.4 percent of all searches conducted, and had commanding share of time spent in social networking with Orkut (68.2 percent), maps with Google Maps (63.9 percent), multimedia with YouTube (82.8 percent). It also commanded slightly less than half of all time spent in the blogs category with Blogger (47.6 percent) ...

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, ...

If you have been making and maintaining your profiles around social networking sites in India, than you can not deny that people are more interested these days in networking sites which have professional bent and career oriented rather than throwing just chatting words and scraps. In India more and more Professional Networking sites are coming in and not from just small scale start-ups but big brands too such as Times of India Group and Info Edge (company behind 99acres.com, naukri.com). Here are few top Indian based Professional Networking sites that are making quite good impression over Indian audience. Brijj.com is online professional network from same company who is behind 99acres.com and Naukri.com, the networking site launched in August 2007 and still in beta, has now gradually emerging as choice of people's own pro-networking site. PeerPower.com is another big brand supported Pro-networking community portal and little different to other networking portals in its peer portal. The portal is flagship of Time Business Online Pvt. Ltd. and its too in beta mode earlier it was in closed beta users mode. SiliconIndia - It is one most rapidly growing professional networking although carry more of a news aggregating site's features and traits. The home page consist of ...

Facebook seems to eying Indian social networking arena as the company which is second largest Social networking site in India launched in 5 Indian regional languages - Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi as Hindi is already available in facebook, making total of 6 Indian languages for Indian online audience. Facebook has got substantial growth in user base in India in short span of time infact largest gaining social network in India in terms of user base in year 2008. The all 6 languages availability would also give boost to facebook apps in these languages and also target more rural audience in India.

According to comScore, a leading web analytic firm Social networking is growing strongly in India in year 2008 with 51% growth in social networking crowd with top players being - Orkut, facebook and only Indian networking portal among top 3 is BharatStudents.com. In year of 2008 a load of other social network has saw a incredible growth in traffic in terms of unique visitors top being - Facebook, Hi5 and MySpace sites. However, Orkut remained the favorite in India. The comScore report also predicted that Social Networking in India will continue to provide space for other players as well provided they have right blend of both a strong brand and cultural relevance. Noticeably, the Indian players in the list have to do some act of redemption or simply rework their portals as apparent in the report social networks made in India such as ibibo.com, BigAdda.com are showing negative change in visitors attention and to my belief creating hype more that what one possess will do nothing but annoy users. The difference in majority of Indian startups are very much visible, though I am reluctant discussing it as seen in comments of IndianWeb2.com a lot of people have been offended.

Social networking which is integral part of web 2.0 wave, as users have much more participation level in this domain along with networking that lure them more than anything. When talking about this, names that appears in anyone's' mind are Facebook, Orkut or MySpace leaders in social networking and all of them have big names, brand and most importantly money to pay to their developers, visualizers etc. however today one can find plenty of scripts to make their own facebook clones or myspace kinda network. In India Agriya Infoway a chennai based web solution company provide ready made social network software called Kootali with a price tag of $247 and contains all the features you would expect in a professional social network package, friends, albums, sending messages, groups, events and more. Interestingly the company also provides other scripts as well such as social bookmarking script, video sharing software. In a similar fashion another chennai based company i-netsolution provide commercial PHP based Orkut Clone with similar layout/ look-n-feel as Orkut is having along with admin interface so any amateur HTML developer can run it likewise to blogging software, watch the user view of same here. iScripts.com is providing an another PHP based open source ...

creADivity is a new Indian web startups offering CrowdSourcing in India and in its own word technology-based platform for people from creative & niche markets such as designers, advertising, marketing, professional designs artists, freelancers along with a place where organizations, especially SMEs (small and medium enterprises), can get innovative solutions to their advertising and marketing related problems. creADivity has, within it, a marketplace which brings potential clients in touch with creative enthusiasts such as management and design students, free-lancers, professional designers and artists. The creatives can also collaborate among themselves using custom built professional networking tools made available to them by creADivity. creadivity.com is TiE-EAP venture better known as Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program (EAP) of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). On revenue model side creADivity charges 15% from what creative people, freelancers, artists make money on the site while prices for companies, SMEs looking for services from creaAdivity ranges from humble 3000 INR to 20000 INR and the services includes communication campaigns, logo designs, web designs, poster designs, corporate stationary and other relevant industry based marketing services. As per concept i.e. 'CrowdSourcing' on global scale its already catching up in other corners of world with bunch of websites catering similar kind of services, one very ...

A new video on block just showcasing Top 25 Web companies in Indian internet realm, the video has been prepared by AppAppeal, a web based applications review website. If one has to take my opinion the companies lined up in video are very much close to the top web companies in India.