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 ...

Rediff followed by its previous fare search utility service for Air Tickets and Train Tickets, Rediff.com, India’s one of leading online portal, today announced the launch of Rediff Bus FareSearch service. Noticeably Rediff is working gradually to expand its Rediff FareSearch to all the off-shoots of Transport/ Travel domains. Rediff Bus FareSearch allows the users to search for buses plying between states and get detailed schedules, pick up points, check availability and book seats for over 1000 destinations in India. The new search service currently covers over 20000 buses including both private and state transport buses for 7 Indian states - Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. The Rediff Bus FareSearch service also allows users to get comparative view of the trains available for the chosen bus route helping users to plan their travel more efficiently. The service is designed like a simple search engine utility which does not requires any registration process, Users can classify their search based on the boarding location and also select the type of Bus which includes A/C, Non A/C, seating or sleeper class. Once the user has finalized the appropriate bus they can book the tickets either through travel agents ...

Google has finally added the one of the most widely spoken language in India & Shri Lanka - Tamil, Google news in Tamil has been released on 6th August and will index news and stories from number of Tamil news sources and will present in different sections. Google News Blog apparently feels that including Tamil in Google news is far much important for Google to do so, as it says - t's not every day that you get to launch a product in a more than 2,000-year-old language spoken by more than 70 million people. That's why we're excited to tell you that Google News is now available in Tamil. Additionally one can see separate local sections for Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, where large number of Tamilians reside. This second Indian spoken language Google has released Google News in, after Hindi as their very first, however there are many more to be included in future, I feel. Moreover, Google has suggested to web publishers to use Unicode based UTF-8 standard to avoid the issues that rise up while picking up content from these news sources.

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.

Mapunity an Indian based GIS/ MIS and Mobile based technology company has brought a 'real time' traffic details in form of Maps (optimal directions, routes, location tracking of buses and trains) and this live traffic information service is for four cities - Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. Thanks XploreDotNet. Mapunity has led the development of Urban Transport Information Systems for the above cities via different inputs namely teledensity data from Airtel's mobile telecom tower network, video images from police cameras, location-tracking of buses and taxis to create real-time knowledge of traffic conditions in cities. These are then made widely available through Airtel's mobile telecom network to city residents, accessible on web and mobile both. As per Mapunity the development would be stretching further, as website describe: Mapunity is also building a free mobile-based navigation system that will help people access data from its traffic information systems on their phones. A few other related applications have also been developed. These include a carpool partner-matching program for regular commutes and a vehicle tracking application for taxi and bus operators. Mapunity is also building administration platforms for transport management authorities in different functions. Moreover, the service also have traits of networking for people such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

SingleID.net which is a first OpenID identity provider in India (OpenID India Directory), is launched to promote usage of OpenID in India. OpenID, which is a global service to eliminates the need for multiple user-names across different websites and simplifying online web experience. OpenID which is supported by many websites including big names such as Microsoft, AT&T, Firefox, WordPress, Technorati, Digg and many more, is targeting more usage on worldwide scale in all kind of services, websites and online products that require user registration. In India SingleID would be the first to provide this service and offer user IDs as - http://< Username >.SingleId.net/ SingleID is initiative by company - DataTics, a Digital Identity and Authentication Service Provider, yet another startup from Pune, India. The company will also offer other authentication service in future such as - Virtual Cards, for more secure authentication, allowing the use of user specific domain name (e.g. vardaan.tiwari.name)

SneakCast, an Indian Video Search service that we have reviewed last year as - SneakCast: India’s First Video Search Engine is down for past 6 months or so. Now the company behind it has overhauled the search portal along with new revamped logo and new concept has drawn to make it more versatile. SneakCast, this time wants to be semantic video search engine in contrast to other generic search engines today. The company talk about bring about changes in video search globally in contrast to other search engines including google who just does textual based search along with tags, back-links relevance factors. On the other hand SneakCast bet on being most relevant search engine when it comes to video, so much so that company has apparently said: SneakCast has semantics, syntactics and video analysis to increase the relevance level to as high as 63 per cent (the highest ever attained in the video search industry). The company at present is based in UK working to finally launch the service and will relocate to Mumbai, India before getting close to final rounds of fundings. The video search service also have plans to run video advertising with approx. 30 sec. of ad clips in their videos ...

A top notch video sharing and entertainment portal from France - DailyMotion is set to arrive in India for online video sharing activity in Indian web market. A DailyMotion website user can discover, upload and embed videos online through the site, that obviously include user generated content in form of videos, the france based website would share market with strong contender such as YouTube India, AOL India Videos, MSN India Videos and also Metacafe that too have strong user base in India. To compete with others in online video market DailyMotion has tied-up with Hungama entertainment firm which have strong base with over 250 deals with media and entertainment companies to let their content travel through various digital platforms. Hungama Mobile will act as a anchor partner cum Business associate in Indian operations as company has no plans to set up the physical presence in India, Hungama Mobile will deal with all content manipulation activities in India. Moreover Dailymotion.com has tied with Eros , Mid-Day and Bollywood Hungama which deals in entertainment, news and movie content repectively, wherein their content will be available on DailyMotion platform, the company is also close to deals with news channels such as NDTV, Aaj Tak ...

Today, the most revolutionary device that we could say have changed our lives is - Mobile Phones, with more and more technical up gradations, innovations coming up, right from camera phones which has got too obvious for all to PDAs, iPhones or latest one iPhone 3G. Among all the camera phones have become nominal part of our daily life along with clothing accessories. The latest Mobile buzz today we could play with and thats to with much ease is Mobile Codes and QR Codes (Quick Response Code) and both of these technologies require just one thing - a camera phone along with a reader. Let me put it this way - to read PDF files or .rtf files you need Acrobat Reader and MS Word respectively, in same way you need to have QR/ Mobile code reader to encode information in QR codes, which can be installed very easily (if I could do this, anyone can and yes, I am in India :)). The mobile/ QR codes are 2 dimensional codes different from 1 dimensional Bar-codes that we could see on products we purchase from shops/ malls and billing counter person encode it with their Bar-code reader devices. Though Bar codes can ...

Startups in India especially in field of technology, internet and web (web 2.0/ 3.0) now can show up their potentials on how promising can they be for investors, VCs, angel investors or any other funding bodies. The scenario in India is changing rapidly for startups who were previously masked for VCs, funding options to see them with less or no interactions between these two in India, except when its got any brand name or personality. The very first one in this highway is Proto.in providing entrepreneurs to showcase their innovations, products as prototype models and let them flaunt their ideas along with an eye of venture capitalist and investors likely to nurture them. Proto.in is working in this part for last 2 years, with next such Indian startup event lined up in July 2008 in New Delhi. The other such event is Bangalore Technology Equity Fair, to be held on 27th June 2008 and as apparent a first such show for startups in India to showcase their talents directly to funding bodies to provide capital to them. Yen Expo, a company behind the fair will be organizing the fair for technology startups in India to access the Private Equity market. This event will ...

Gaadi.com is new innovative complete Car Portal in India that initiated a new web 2.0 wave in India's automobile sector along with its niche online market. The portal is clean, well formatted and loaded with dynamic features unlike to other auto websites in India and the varieties of car brands are just sufficient to get user engaged into it. Gaadi.com lets users research about cars of any brand in India or foreign make from Maruti to Maybach and from Bentley to Volkswagen, the content are user generated in form of reviews, discussions or comments and others in form of latest news, updates on Cars. The features that made Gaddi.com, a complete portal on cars in India are varieties of way through which users can engage in it and not just see and go stagnant site. Features that are USPs are - Research and Reviews on cars are splits intelligently into options to choose from, Pictures/ Wallpapers of Cars (exterior/ interior), resource of car dealers/ Insurance for users, discussion forum and MyCar option for registered users to put their cars profiled as they do for themselves on Facebook or Orkut, and evenmore make albums of car photos, favorites and reminders of their insurance ...

YouTube has finally launched its Indian version - YouTube.co.in, displaying whole lot of Indian videos, as goes by Official YouTube India Blog, the site is just a lens of its global version i.e. youtube.com, and its Indian counterpart contains all the videos that the global site has, its just that YouTube.co.in is localized version reflecting what Indians, Indian diaspora or people who just love India is watching on youtube. YouTube.co.in has provided an ease to Indian audience who otherwise would have filtered out the results for themselves waisting some more time out of their "Orkutism", let put it this way, what Google.co.in is for web search is YouTube.co.in for YuTube videos. Users can also access the YouTube India through their mobile devices at - http://in.youtube.com/mobile

Analytics does matters a lot in business and investing perspective as well. A new approach in this way has brought by Bizak, its a business network tool which computes the profitability and valuation of internet startups by creating industry benchmarks for comparative analysis. The business tool has launched by TOKiBiz services Inc, who also provide an internet startup creation services.