This is one of a milestone for any startup across the globe and that’s too in short span of time of just 4 years. InMobi has been valued at least $800 million and one of the first product company in India that has climbed so far breaking the ice that India’s is only dependent to technogy service based companies.

Noticeably, InMobi is India’s biggest mobile advertising network and second biggest in the world and Google being on top with its recently aquired product AdMob. InMobi nearly has 47 billion monthly impressions combined on mobile apps and mobile websites whereas Google’s AdMob has 86 billion impressions per month.

Navin Tewari, Founder and CEO of the company’s is a IIT Kanpur engineer graduate, who started the company from scratch and partnred with four of his collegeous and friends. In 2007 the idea of mobile ad network ignited in their mind, keeping in the mind the fact that each and very people are carrying the mobile in their pockets.

InMobi is one of the first product based startup in India who have reached to such an extent in terms of geographical reach, monetary value and impact in such a short time. Rumours are on that Google is eyeing the company to acquire as its the closest competitor to Google mobile advertising.

TechCrunch had an interview with the founder CEO of the company Navin Tewari (below), although the interview was taken in 2010 the business he talked about have accoplished indeed within a year.

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Listiki is a real-time web app, having real-time widgets and with simple interface provides user to generate, edit and re-arrange any list and its items with drag-drop feature. Listiki will take full advantage of of the real-time web via Twitter & other social networks to add a layer of context and hierarchy as the data flows perpetually.

Listiki is indeed a promising useful and to some extent a productive app online as it allow users to start making a listwith  n number of items and allowing internet crowd to come and contribute to list be it adding or reordering them the power of commenting is harnessed as one of the feature of Listiki with comments being replaces with adding item to list. One can watch and contribute to various useful list such as – 2010: Products I can’t live without, Best European web start-up for 2010 or even this – top sites that pay you to test products.

To see more elaborately how it works watch the video below;

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DuckDuckGo (Hereafter referred as DDG) is a small yet powerful search engine maintained solely by Gabriel Weinberg. It populates the results from multiple sources like Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS and its own bots. DDG has many unique features that you may find interesting. Some of them are:

Zero-Click info:

It is the useful firsthand quick information about your query. It gives you little idea about your query without navigating away from DuckDuckGo.

Privacy:

DuckDuckGo takes your privacy very seriously and it claims to be the most private place to search the internet right now. I consider DDG’s privacy as one of the prime reason to use it as an alternative to Google. DDG respects your privacy and does not LEAK your private search terms to the site you clicked on.  Moreover, when you visit any site your private information like your “IP address” and “User agent” information is automatically sent by your computer to the visited websites. Hence, not only your private search terms are leaked but they can also know that you searched for it. DDG prevent any sort of search leakage by default. It also provides you with the encrypted (HTTPS) mode like other search engines.

!Bang:

This is one of the great features of DDG. You can directly search many popular sites from DDG. For example, if you want to search adobe.com for flash player, just type “!adobe flash”. DDG will directly take you to the suitable page on adobe.com. You can go through full list of supported queries available here.

Less Spam & ads:

DDG omits useless spam and ad sites and serve you with the Official websites as the top results of a search query. I have found DDG results quite accurate and sometimes I was even better served by DDG than Google.

Number of goodies:

If you want to generate a random password or check your IP address. No problem you can do it easily at DDG by just typing “pw” for a random password and “ip” for your IP address. DDG offers you many more smart tricks in short and sweet style at its goodies page. It has everything from time zone conversions and weather reports to advance calculations and conversion of units are supported.

Intelligent Search:

DDG Offers an intelligent search page for ambiguous queries which have different meanings. For example “Opera” can have different meanings.

Save your Clicks:

The rare infinite scrolling feature which automatically loads next result as you scroll down the page and the feature like easy keyboard navigation that most power users would appreciate are supported by DDG to drop to your destination in very few clicks.

At the end, is DDG the best search engine? No, it’s still in its beta stage but it certainly has some advance out of box functionalities which really deserves appreciation. As someone has better said “The biggest room in this world is the ‘Room for improvement’ “So, I think DDG can focus a little to improve on its speed. In spite of all, if you are really concerned about your privacy you must go for DDG as your Google search alternative. It’s really great to believe how a single guy has managed to bring up such an awesome Google search alternative for Internet users.

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Draw.to’s design is suitable for live conversations, like smileys in chatting. As soon as you finish your drawing, automatically a link is generated which you can share with your friends. A short link like http://draw.to/DAFivk is generated, so that you can use it on Twitter.

This drawing webapp is indeed a great way to create a handmade birthday card for your friends. The best part is that it is 100% free and no signing up is required. It allows you to embed drawings in your blog and decorate its looks. The flexibility of editing an existing drawing certainly adds to its colour. You can also experience Drop.to on your iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch. Moreover, it is compatible with all the web browsers and no downloading is required.

Well, I have fallen in love with Drop.to at my first glance. What about you? Give it a try and don`t forget to let us know . You can start drawing by clicking here.

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Recently Sarah Lacy a blogger from famous TechCrunch interviewed N.R. Narayana Murthy the first person we can comfortably honor him bringing in tech revolution in India and able to list the company in NASDAQ as first from India. Murthy commented on Infrastructure in India as bad and rather deceptive than being effective. He added that – “In China, they chose to emphasize giving people economic freedom first and political freedom second and India chosen the opposite path.”

China currently has over 200 million entrepreneurs and it houses 200 venture capital firms comparing to some handful in India. The country accounts for 24.6% of the total entrepreneurship activities across the world, far ahead of Indian at 13.9% and the US at 14%, according to a survey by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.

Recent hype in India that we all know and some of you might even fond of is – IPL Cricket backed by our own politicians, MPs, some businessmen and even actors poured in river of money for just a “Game” of Cricket (that sarcastically beating the ‘Game of Life’ ..). The IPL is listed as World’s Hottest League by Forbes and get bids of nice 711.47 million US Dollars (Rs.3,235 crore) just for two new teams and 627.46 Million US Dollars (Rs.2,853 crore) already been bid out for rest of the teams. IPL do have a full support of very nice people whom I don’t know personally but believe me they are very nice – Sharad Pawar, India’s Minister of Agriculture and Rajeev Shukla TV-anchor turned Minister of Parliament.

It feels too good when it comes to cricket that India is not that inferior in infrastructure and funds, so much money pouring in and out this season, BCCI as richest board in the world and all that.

One more unfortunate incident – India’s state Uttar Pradesh’s Honorable Chief Minister Sushri Shrimati Mayawati had come into attack from her enemies when she presented a rally which was reportedly cost mere 38.4 US million dollar (Rs 175 crore) of public money and a clean, beautiful garland of 5.4 million US Dollars (Rs 25 core) made of 1,000-rupee notes India currency.

That’s ridiculous allegation because she was so fair lady doing so much for her state and an entrepreneur must learn from her how to bring in money for your own good no matter how you do it because what matters at the end of the day is – damn important funds. (Think Positive, you know.)

There’s is so much money in India not if we see this time around but always atleast that much that we can comfortably cover our heads being the one of the most populated country. The efforts has to be made on which direction is money is going, how much productive and how can it multiple our economic freedom not just for tech-startup or entrepreneur perspective but in every means.

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OnlineCouples.com, is an online community for couples who found their beginnings on a dating website, in a chatroom, or any other online medium. Moreover, the portal is founded by an online couple themselves – Abby Tankenoff and Santiago Merea who met through eHarmony, an online dating site.

OnlineCouples.com, not to be confused with any dating site is an online community for couples who found their beginnings on a dating website, chatroom, or any other online medium. Here you can meet other couples using social networking features like chat, message, bookmarks, blog etc.

On a second thought, the portal is an example how people from different streams and professions are attracting towards the dot com sector obviously when creators of respective online entity are mentioned in their press releases they don’t mean it literally when it comes to technically developing and designing it, what they really mean is their strong willingness to show that are also wants to be part of ever growing social media/ networking phenomena.

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All along year 2009, this year has been the year of disruptive ideas, innovations and originality of concept that drove the startups in India when it comes to technology, web and internet. Similar to Best Startups list in 2008 we are compiling a list of some the very interesting and gutsy startups that made impression over the world wide web.

The list is relatively small when it comes to numbers and the basic criteria of choosing the startups in India are – How disruptive is an Idea behind?, Orginality of startup concept, Are they really startup? and lastly how much impact did they made to their similar competitors/counterparts with their first presence.

So, here we go;

VoicePHP – A product by Tringme which is a Bangalore, India-based startup come up with disruptive simple idea of infusing VoIP into PHP by using the familiar PHP programming methodology which can be freely downloaded and is used by majority of web developers. TringMe introduces this simple technology as not an extension to PHP but the same PHP which now outputs voice instead of text and also takes input as voice instead of text.

iMO – iMO, a Gurgaon, India based 3-people early-age startup who was able make to Top 50 finalist of Techcrunch 50 and won best presentation. iMo is an app that turns an iPhone/iPod Touch into a video game controller that works with existing PC video games, giving it Wii like capabilities. Unlike using the PC’s boring keyboard/mouse one can hold the iPhone like a steering wheel and drive a race car or like a joystick to fly a fighter plane. iMo leverages the iPhone/iPod Touch’s built-in accelerometer and touch screen to not just mimic the standard game controllers such as the joystick but add a lot more control to take gaming action to the next level.

VoiceTap – A small but impressive 8 person startup based out of Noida, India and awarded with Asia Top 100 Startups award 2009 by Red Herring. VoiceTap come-up with their product ‘Getafixx’ – a knowledge engine, which allows a knowledge seeker to connect with experts from around the world using the medium of chat or VoIP and connect knowledge seekers to expert knowledge over the web (chat, VoIP), Gtalk client / Gmail including textual chat or voice or the mobile phone. Voicetap has received seed funding from a Singapore based consortium.

Druvaa Insync – This is a Pune based enterprise startup, which launched its product Druva inSync, an automated laptop backup software which protects corporate data for office and remote users. Available for Windows and Linux features simple backup, point-in-time restores, data deduplication technology.

This made in India software has many advance and impressive technologies such as – timeline based infinite versions of file giving user an option to restore from any point in time in the past, 90% reduction in bandwidth, 10 times faster backup speed with distributed data de-duplication technology and storage utilization, automatic network prioritization and bandwidth scheduling makes it network sensitive. The software managed to bag impressive client list as – NASA, Serco, Emerson and Capita.

What’s On India – What’s-On-India is an India’s premier TV guidance and EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), a Mumbai based start-up funded in 2008 by Sequoia Capital and Nexus VP. Positioned as India’s first TV guidance channel What’s On India has designed a proprietary, indigenous India-specific EPG Production Platform that integrates Programming information from hundreds of TV channels and seamlessly reach consumers through set-top-Boxes, internet and mobile. What’s on India has a target of reaching 20 million homes by the first quarter of 2010.

DeskAway – DeskAway a Mumbai based startup by Synage Software Pvt. Ltd. deliver software as a service (SaaS) over the Internet to the global audience. DeskAway is one of the best Project Management Tool available online, free as well as paid its one of the first such web start-up from India that made mark on web inspite of already available competitors such as BaseCamp, Collab, Zoho etc. (Read Review of DeskAway)

SMSOne.in – SMS One Media is a Pune based startup serving as a very-local newsletter that delivers services to people of India’s most unconnected areas, rural villages where there is no internet, no local newspaper and as usual seldom get electricity supply and thus no TV news access. SMS one thus integrate, interconnect local communities providing the local news, updates over the mobiles as SMS.

SMSOne is also providing a means of self-employment opportunities & social prestige to hundreds of school-college dropouts and youth social workers as franchise/ local reporter who goes door-to-door and collect subscribers name, phone number and other information. The startup has got National Youth Award by Gov. of India and become more prominently famous when first got mentioned in TechCrunch as unique concept startups across the world.

Dhingana – Dhingana is a social platform around entertainment and impressive Indian startup doing really cool things with its products we have reviewed on IndianWeb2.com, the company has developed  impressive apps be it iPhone App, Gmail app or an Orkut App apart from this Dhingana is one of the finest music portal for south-asian community with songs, music and public playlists. The company has also been awarded as OpenSocial Application winner at Google.

Toufee – Developed by New Delhi based startup Day and Night Solutions, Toufee is an online flash movie maker application that lets one create flash movies and multimedia presentations in a matter of minutes with easy-to-use interface and without any knowledge of Adobe Flash or have programming skills to produce Flash animations. The edge of this Indian startup over other similar apps in world market is that its lightweight, easy to use, straightforward and much matured.

Toufee currently ranks in the top 5 flash apps by Adobe.com in it’s official flex showcase.

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The device has has two pads, each with 16 pins along with a supplied software that translates text displayed on the screen into Braille – a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write.

More interestingly what this device for blinds do differently to common computer mouse is,

As the cursor controlled by the mouse is moved across the screen, the pins rise and fall to represent the text across which they are moving. One pad represents the character under the cursor, the other gives the reader information about what is coming next, such as whether it is a letter or the end of the word. This advance information makes interpretation easier.

As the user reads the text, the system also announces the presence of links to other websites. And the user can opt, if he wishes, to have the computer read the whole text out loud.

The device costs around $650 in comparison to Braille readers that costs around 5 to 10 times costlier also the device has graphical support for the first time among devices for visually impaired and much lighter in weight.

At times when every web startups are busy making products for people across the globe, the visually impaired section has been left out of the social networking revolution on web and its a appreciable efforts from companies like Tactile World that these products are being brought up for bridging the gap between normal and blind people.

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The service requires no credit card info and not even software download are necessary. You just need a Skype account, select the city where you want the “Online Number” (there are currently more than 100 options), and Ring2Skype sends that Online number to your email.

An online number is your own online personal telephone number people can call you on, but which you answer directly on your Skype. With an online number friends who aren’t using Skype can reach you by dialing your online number – you receive and answer the call in Skype no matter where in the world you are.

Although the service is still in beta mode, Ring2Skype works flawlessly and quite worthy service for off-shore offices, small businesses with global clients and even families with their love ones abroad.

Allthewhile, I am waiting to get the service for India as well !!

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Apparently, called itself as Dashboard, the app has all CRM and Lead management capabilities such as automatic to-do creation, document management, agenda, notes, simple user management, keep track of appointments, phone calls & all of your other to-do’s with a simple calendar and sales management traits such as sales process, to-do lists, lead sources, lead template etc.

The app has fantastic UI and some of the pretty good user experience elements that compel the users to indulge more in the app and they use it, also wider functionalities that a web based CRM or Lead management system should have.

At moment a free beta account has a 5 user per account limit.

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