BigAdda.com, the most widely used social network portal in India and made in India as well has launched its mobile version past week to catch the ramping mobile usage by Indian crowd. The company launched the Mobile version of BigAdda in two parts - online version (wap.bigadda.com) and Downloadable version called Mobile Adda (not to be confused with website with similar name). When it comes to features it is providing this is probably the first time that an Indian made social network is providing such features on mobile platform such as - inviting friends from your phonebook and to use the in-built phonebook in mobile handsets to send invitations to his/her friends network, as phone-book on mobile devices is the closest replica of ones social & professional contacts. Moreover, the built in phone book backup utility stores your phone book on BigAdda servers and if in case a user changes a device, the same can be retrieved - an alternative to back-up your contacts on your mobile devices and thats too free of any cost. Apart from above Mobile Adda's includes key features of social networking like searching for friends, inviting them from your phonebook, communicating with them through options such as text, ...

MyWebERA has launched a three headed website for Painters, Animators and Gamers through three of its products and all being different in themes and category, these are - www.paintersera.com, www.animatorsera.com, www.gamersera.com. MyWebERA is a product from Chennai based startup with three of its online entities is providing a platform for not just to create their your own community, write blogs and network with friends across the globe, but to 'share' their own creations and share it with other users of same interest be it Gaming, Animation or Art/Painting. Gamers/ games developers can upload their own games to get appreciation or boo from other users, similarly Animators and painters can share their creations to share it online with viewers all around the web. At websites GamersERA.com, PaintersERA.com and AnimatorsERA.com - Gamers and game developers across the globe are invited to Interact in their own world of Gaming. Play unlimited Online Games, absolutely FREE, even no Registration required. In all of these websites with 'Sharing' as main objective of all, people can post their own creation(s) i.e. Flash based Games, paintings or animations in respective websites. Compete for Game,Painting or Animation of the Month. Win attractive rewards and appreciations once your respective ...

Lulu, Morrisville, North Carolina based company and world’s largest marketplace for self-published authors offering online printing and order fulfillment has teams up with Bangalore based WeRead.com - a community for book lovers and a social book discovery application where people can recommend books to their friends on social networks. WeRead.com statistics in terms of rapid growth especially in Social networking arena is self explanatory to speak about the benefits of its tie-up with Lulu, as currently weRead have more than 2 million registered members, over 1.5 million book reviews and there are over 40 million books on members' virtual bookshelves through social networking sites Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and Bebo, including individual’s websites/ blogs. Through this tie-up between two Authors/ Books driven duo websites, what weRead.com will do to books published on Lulu.com is similar to what Social bookmarking widgets doing to article/ Post on websites/ blogs respectively. Bangalore operated weRead.com is headed by founders Krishna Motukuri and Harish Abbott and the portal is getting more than famous in Facebook crowd. WeRead's traits such as discovery, independent ratings and reviews, and readership communities on social networks will compliment the Lulu.com's free self-publishing tools and distribution capabilities.

Socialmedian is a social news network that connects people with personalized news and information, by enabling users who share topical interests to collaboratively filter news for each other. Users can feed in news from any number of sources i.e. websites, blogs, bookmarklets, email or directly on the site. Also the social news network is based in Pune, India other than two of its offices in New York. Interestingly one can also submit news to SocialMedian through Twitter which is I haven't seen on any such website or news portal which have user generated content and let user submit stories/ article or URL through Twitter. People in SocialMedian can create or join networks and users with common interests can track stories aggregated from multiple sources, and submit, share and comment on stories of interest with each other. Although the concept of social news network is not new as its already been done at Digg to some extent and Mixx.com is also one such example to greater resemblance, nevertheless its simpler (and faster) user interface and pages can give some edge to user though what really matter in such type of model is larger number of user base. SocialMedian followed by alpha verion period is set ...

A new entrant in social networking space of India, quite good in usability and features to lure audience, this is one social network I would IndiaHangout.com in category - "Secondary Social networks" likewise to third World Countries in political scenario, the primaries would obviously be - Orkut, Facebook, BigAdda in Indian social networking arena. The community portal provide plenty of features like other portal of similar category do, along with features such as radio, free SMS, chat rooms similar to that of Yahoo messenger, applications such as games, videos, polls and events. The portal is convincing enough and few tweaks can bring it in line with what Hikut and Friendster doing in India. In my opinion advertisements is too early for IndiaHangout.com, one should learn from Orkut, inspite of being a google's offshoot, the social network in India started Adsense advertisements a year later before getting buzzword in crowd. The advertisements obviously distract users from being observed by users/ visitors sometime and could even annoy visitors. BPOVoice is one social network exclusively for Indian BPO aka call center employees, the portal is just opened this month for public release. The founder of portal is from BPO background himself and tried to put the ...

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 ...

Last Week ChannelMine.tv, venture of TinselVision had launched to serve Hindi movies fans across the globe, it is a community portal with access to the films, television shows and videos along with letting its users to upload and share videos, chat with friends on the network, read blogs about upcoming films and their stars and play Bollywood related games. ChannelMine, a free online networking service fully integrated with its umbrella service TinselVision, combines the web's latest widgets and gadgets with premium free, interactive content, contests and games for a global community of Bollywood fans and Indian entertainment enthusiasts. Viewers can watch programmes on the portal via IPTV to PCs, laptops, TVs and mobile devices in India and other countries such as the US, UK, Canada and across the globe at their mother portal at www.Tinselvision.Com. TinselVision had also tied up with major film studios of Indian cinema arena for bring more Bollywood related content such as - Yash Raj Films, Shemaroo Movies and UTV as well as Zee TV, Star TV, Zoom TV, Ultra and B4U Networks. Source - PTI India

Kindo.com which basically deal with making your family tree and make network with rest of your family tree members has launched its Kindo Hindi version earlier this week and its believed to be first social network connecting families from India in 'Hindi'. The website let users build their own free family tree online, share it with the rest of family and learn more about who they are, their ancestors and family history. Kindo also has other features for families and genealogist that makes the networking site the meeting place for generations. Although I wouldn't call it a complete Hindi version reason being - as the whole websites do have Hindi texts all over but when users type in information, let say when register his/ her name the text that appear are in English anyway. Nevertheless the website dealing in making family tree and interacting with members in social networking way has come up with Hindi as language to be used by Indian users in their interface. Kindo also have the website in 16 other languages to target different countries. The website in true sense doesn't convince to be a pure social networking portal, eventhough it has some traits of being community driven portal but ...

Microsoft India has launched a community cum networking website WindowsandMe.com in order to improve and raise the level of experience of consumer with their PCs having Windows as OS. The site talk about how to make most of their PC experience with Windows. The website is still under construction and in Beta phase and more features and functionalities will be added as per feedback from users and from set of selected people who are subject matter experts on Windows, Amit Agarwal Pro Blogger of Digital Inspiration(labnol.org) is one of those few. The website seems to be one of the effort to sustain the public support for Windows Vista more than any other Microsoft's Windows Products. Windows Vista has been made the vital part of website to realize the consumers the caliber of same in a way of proving tips, tweaks, tutorial, Knowledge part and experts advice. The website runs on core part of exploring, discovering, sharing each others knowledge on Windows and end up with solution or improvisation of using Windows PCs along with advices, 'how tos' and tips from expert panel. As a signed up user one can get latest news, updates and tips of Windows knowledge base and throw queries ...

Corners.in that we have wrote about its launch in February this year, has now launched its social platform aka Engine to infuse apps in major social networking portal namely Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Hi5. The website Corners launched earlier in February with features to act like social networking website, customize content in users profile called 'corners'. The website has now built a social platform to provide content in form of applications to social networking portals having open social platforms. In anticipation of this social engine the website has launched a Facebook App called - Cinemas, where user can get movies related content in their Facebook profiles. Though, we have pointed out in our previous post about Corners.in, that the website is more about movies, photos of Indian Cinema rather than other traits of social networking sites, this has been maintained in App for Facebook too. Interestingly, the plans of company that I perceived through email received from Sanjeev, Founder of Melamesa, the makers of Corners.in, he wrote - Social networking now has two dimensions to it - The social infrastructure on one side, and the content on the other. The biggest social networks today - Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, hi5, have identified this dichotomy and have ...

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 ...

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.

India along with nations across the globe is high on internet vulnerabilities through various medium, highest being malicious codes, phishing and unauthorized scanning. Recent trend is that hackers now turning to websites, servers from their previous choice of emails, cheap apps etc. Recently India's premier technology institute IIT's website has been hacked (source), although this is not single case in India, a total of 612 Indian websites were defaced during March 2008 as reported by CERT-In (Computer Emergency Report Team India), which has increased by more than 50% in India, comparing to just previous month.

MySpace, nearly a week later of its Indian MySpace Launch, the site had moved out its MySpace Apps for its users to install and play around. The Applications are built on MySpace developer Platform where nearly 5,000 developers are working upon, these are also a part of Google OpenSocial Platform which also has been implemented by Google's very own Orkut. The MySpace Developer Network is stressing more on Learning and Testing phase for developer to work upon rather than to just pull attention of users to get cheap traffic or so. For example, at this pint of time, unlike to Facebook, MySpace members cannot write directly or send messages to their friends' wall, nervertheless their are interactive apps to have fun around. The MySpace Apps has language option to choose the language of Application to install, though because of its initial phase their are few Apps in varieties of languages to choose from (not atleast in Hindi), though there are few Apps for Indians to try, one is - DesiScreen, where one can search and watch Desi Indian hindi movies and TV videos.

Hooeey is targeted at internet users who want to keep a track of their history without duplicating effort. It also provides a safe & universal platform for the entire browsing experience and saves time by keeping a tab on the browsing history from any computer. Hooeey delinks the browser history from the browser. Additionally, hooeey adds a social networking layer, allowing one to share specific sites with others, both on the hooeey network, and other social bookmarking services. What one can do with Hoeey is - Record the web as one browse, through hooeey Toolbar or Button that send the information to your hooeey Account, thus making it computer and browser independent, Retreive those of your web browsing info, find websites visited in past via searching by Keywords, Timeline or Tags. To keep a track of all the data, hooeey has a built-in analytics service which will break down browsing habits with various helpful charts and graphs. Thereafter one can hand pick any sites for tagging and sharing. The WebTour feature turns the selected links into slide shows for viewing.and then one can analyze their browsing habits by seeing browsing patterns by time or top visited sites moreover sharing those browsing history ...