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 ...

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 ...

Sunoh.fm has launched as a Social Networking and Music Discovery Platform for Indian Music fans. The portal provides a social networking environment where users can connect with their friends. At Sunoh.fm users can view music library of their friends, enabling the users to discover new and relevant music in their social graph. Users can also join Fan club of artists they love, post messages on artist's scrapbook, and favorite the music they like, thus enabling the users to reach out to their artists in a manner never possible before. Sunoh.fm also provides Sunoh.fm-Desktop, a plug-in for Windows Media Player enabling users to stream music listening history and share it with their friends. With the aggregated music listening tastes of its users, Sunoh.fm not only delivers comprehensive and accurate information of top music in India but also promotes discovery of new and independent music by employing proprietary algorithms. Moreover, for independent music artists in India Sunoh.fm provides them a digital distribution platform. Artists can signup, claim, and customize their profile at Sunoh.fm, enabling them to reach out to their fans in a very interactive manner. Sunoh.fm provides comprehensive set of free digital tools to artists including photo, video, and music uploads, using which they ...

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 ...