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)

Bizedia is new entrant in India's B2B (Business to Business) online services with being a directory to various business offshoots, be it Exporters/ Manufacturers, Importers/ Buyers, Real Estate, Restaurants or any other organization. Basically, Bizedia provides business leads via listings, classifieds and act as B2B search portal for finding any kind of business unit or organization via its interface. Currently Bizedia is offering free listings, classifieds for business owners in various categories and subcategories along with option to map your business listings. Registered members can check enquiries by visitors and members in their inbox provided by Bizedia. The B2B portal Bizedia is brought by a New Delhi based Web Solution company Vinove. Currently, Alibaba and TradeIndia.com are major B2B portal as far as Indian web is concerned, though there are few others portals also but users have addicted to google in this too, searching for same via http://local.google.co.in/, where they find more choices and options and get desired results much better in terms of quantity and quite simple search interface as well. Still there are portals such Business.com that have pretty large stake in market when it comes to B2B search activity on web and here where Indian startups can look for, to ...

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 ...

Savitr, a wireless and mobile company in India has launched a custom mobile application for varieties of use in Business, marketing, Website or social apps. The product Txtme is text messaging application and software that connect subscriber data to carrier networks to provide custom use of this product such as - Sending sms to customers for marketing use. Integrating sms alerts in applications & online stores. Corporate use to stay connected with employees & partners through web interface. Integration with HR management system with predefined message for specific events. Web applications use by integrating text message functionality in web, social apps in networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Orkut. Other custom use such as message wall in clubs, restaurants, launge etc. Customized applications and solutions for startups & enterprises. Savitr through this product has provided solutions that rely on mobile device usage in perfect scenario when mobile usage is rising enormously in India being just second after US in mobile usage. At this time all type of businesses particularly startups are showing interest in exploiting mobile products of every sphere whether its is Twitter or short code mobile network services. Earlier Savitr had also launched one of its Txtme Facebook app to send free sms to USA, UK ...

An Indian widget Prachaarthis has made for Indian bookmarking sites along with other major bookmarking services, moreover one can also use widgets in Hindi and other Indian regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. The site for the first time used Indian bookmarking services in a bookmarking widget, though just four of them the sites are - Indianpad.com, Humsurfer, Tagza and NewsCola (from Ibibo) along with other global bookmarking services. The widget is similar to popular bookmarking buttons/widgets like Addthis, Addtoany.com or ShareThis.com, difference being none of them have Indian bookmarking services/ websites. The Prachaar widget/button would definitely prove a viral marketing tool for sites to target Indian audience via Indian bookmarking services/sites in it, though usage of same would be a factor in turn. Moreover, the widget will prove beneficial for the Indian sites offering bookmarking services as well, as it would obviously help them to market their services and grab users to register for their bookmarking services. One of the reason that other global bookmarking services are much popular instead of being similar to each other in terms of services offered by them are their use in such widgets/ buttons and thats too almost in every blogs and websites and ...

Yo Macha!, an internet startup from Jaipur has been launched with a concept of rating pictures of people or users themselves, the concept is not very new though can be good enough for Indian audience to find pictures of just Indian people, even more one also create rating wars for any two items, say two images or videos, or just two websites. As apparent, the website promises to keep the pictures secure by locking the context menu of images i.e. right click -> 'save as' or downloading images, though this isn't enough to prevent misuse from nasty people surfing around to mess up with pictures, nevertheless satisfactory preventive measures to take care of user pics. The concept of rating pictures is not new anymore at these days, the net is loaded with such websites with one or more additional supporting features for example - HotorNot, ApnaSpace.com and CuteMeter are few among such sites providing similar features for internet people to kill or pass the time. The good thing is- the startup is from Jaipur, India, which i never even speculated that this city could also jumped into internet and web startup scenario of India other than Bangalore, Delhi or Pune.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An interactive website, AdvertisementIndia.com is providing an online solution for publishing advertisements in newspapers circulated across India or local level. The website has really made the time consuming task of placing the Ads in newspapers easy and online with your own ease from home or office. The website is an online venture of W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. Advertising Pvt. Ltd. People can place Ads (commercial, matrimonial, public notices, tenders etc.), choose format, write ad text and then publish in any chosen newspapers. Moreover nearly all leading national, local newspapers are available at website from english language newspaper to local languages. One can also write copy of ads and publish at any future release date or save copies of ad to release in future at one's own wish. The website has accomplished the task of bridging the gap of print media and online media, though newspapers are still the widely reached medium for news and information at this point of time when internet is at its full high. Nevertheless, products are being made to custom fit for print media, this is one of the example.

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 ...

Nunook is to create a "social gaming" experience for users, a mix of online gaming and socialization. The Nunook website allows you to play a number of games of different types; form teams with your friends and participate in team-based contests; create and customize your avatar; buy virtual collectibles for yourself or gifts for your friends; and climb up a sitewide achievement ladder. The website has few features to involve users other than in gaming such as representing themself through Avataars and thats too more in an Indian way like wearing Saari or any other Indian outfits. Other features include Nunook mail to send and receive mails or invitations to friends or acquaintances in Nunook community. The site as apparent described itself as elements of competition, collection and "leveling up" from more hardcore games such massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) to create an addictive experience centered around India-focused casual games.The site do have some light games that requires less bandwidth though lacks good user experience with an average UI with flash games but needs that extra punch to compete with other websites of its category in Indian online market like that of Zapak.comAt some point in the future the company ...

A new site Criticat has launched with different concept in its own category, though the structure is same as that of any Product Reviewing sites but this time "Employers" being the product and the reviewers are those employed at these respective companies/ organizations. Criticat is a platform where people can rate their employer and share workplace experiences. The website lets employees review and advise their employer anonymously.At Criticat, employers at respective companies can also answer questions asked by prospective employees and create polls to build consensus around an issue. Evenmore, it lets read those reviews/ feedbacks of companies from thier own current employers, at time when one is offered a job at a company and have to decide the prons and cons, if he/ she accepts it . It should tell you what is broken inside that its employees have advised to be fixed. They should let you talk to any employee to the company and let you ask them any question without the influence of HR.Apart from Ratings, Reviews and indulging in discussion about any employer, one can create polls for specific topic (one of them like - Should Microsoft insist on buying Yahoo at any cost? or What ...

BlogBard is a new India based website that turns any feed/blog to a personalized radio. The website on among new channel for consuming content that is traditionally consumed by reading, which is difficult when user are multitasking or simply not in front of PCs, typically PC users include people who like to listen to online radio in the background. To listen to Blogs one can just type in the name of favorite blogs or the url in the search box and then can subscribe to the interesting blogs at Blogbard and listen to them. The website has done integration with Google Reader as well as Bloglines, so one can use BlogBard service to listen to their subscriptions on Google Reader or Bloglines. For the mobile users and iPhone addicts BlogBard support the iPhone and the iPod touch and optimized its website specifically for the iPhone and will be rolling out support for Blackberry and Treo as well, soon. Moreover it also provide the capability to download the entire feed as audio via iTunes. For publishers/bloggers, the website provide a widget that embeds as an audio player on their website. The simplicity that widget possess provide the increment of website accessibility in ...

A new internet startup Corners.in has launched this week, though claiming to be Social Networking website driven by content more than individual profiles like that of Orkut, Bigadda, Fropper in India. Allthewhile, the portal apparently seems like Photo, video driven website more than social networking. Although the features do provide some good options to play with while browsing or creating "Corners", which is Topic specific pages that user can create. Through Corners, user can bring the content directly from internet and choose them to place them in their respective corners and customize. Other than photos, videos one could find links to other sites in sections such as news, events and post topics to discuss in respective 'Forums'. The parts of website that really make sense of social networking remain hidden in portal inspite of being the part of portal what is called Topics (forum) and Blogs. Nevertheless, the site promises to pull pretty good amount of traffic because of interactivity that attracts Indian audience and that is, photos, videos of celebrities, people and movies that breath.