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, ...

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 ...

Wired has prepared a tool to play with your famous quotient on web, i.e. how famous are you on Internet. Wired Celeberity Meter checks URLs on web and scores internet fame based on - backlinks, friends across social networks (Twitter and MySpace for now), WIRED will be adding more social networks gradually in this Celebrity Tool Project to come up with full fledged tool. The Tool/ Project by WIRED is work which has been already initiated at Google Social Graph where you will find similar Example applications although there are no such rating/ number/ meter thing as WIRED is trying to do. Traackr is also one such website that let you find out - how famous are you on 'Web', the social graph is fast catching up to poise or untangle the social connectivity on web.

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, Google has launched its product for this category as well, where till now SecondLife has its major stake, google through its service Lively.com now offering people to build their virtual life by creating 'Avatars' as their very own clone, play with them and roam around in 3D virtual world, make friends and interact in real time with your friends' avatars. Be who you want on the web pages you visit, says Google official blog post, where user with google's Lively.com's service can create their own virtual world just like what SecondLife.com has done earlier. Through Lively users can create avatars, change its looks or wardrobe, be it your surroundings, environment such as furniture, nearby objects, rooms where your avatar put up and decorate your places etc. Lively is a outcome of Arizona State University social networking project where Google wanted to create SecondLife's rival. Eventhough in beta and asking for feedback, Lively.com is ready for all actions to download and give it a try against SecondLife