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 ...

DataQuest, one of an oldest and most read magazine on IT, in association with IndianWeb2.com has created well created list of Hottest Web 2.0 Startups in India, thanks to DataQuest Research team and Editor Shyamanuja. The Dataquest team and editors included those startups in India which become operational on or after 1 January 2007 and then refined that list to come with this list of prominent ones. The interesting part of the list is that, companies and startups have been excluded where collaboration and user particiaption, which is a main trait and feature of any web 2.0 entity is not prominent such as PicSquare, Zoomin and iTasveer.com where hey do have features such as sharing photos but they more rely on parameters other than what "Web 2.0" concept is i.e. photo print quality, time of delivery of their products etc. The "India's 25 Hot Web 2.0 Start-ups" is a cover story published in May issue of Datquest published by Cyber Media publication and circualted nationwide. You may get the the copy of Dataquest from any nearest book seller and get more insight of the story along with deatails of 25 hot startups with founders of respective startups throwing more lime-light on same. Update ...

Dhingana, an India based social platform around entertainment has been announced as winner and felicitated the best opensocial application award for its App called Bollywood Music in an event called WeekendApps (opensocial Blog) on Opensocial development for developers and entrepreneurs. This event was a full weekend event at the Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California and the idea was to start on Friday evening 19th Feb and completely design, build and deploy an opensocial app within 1.5 days. All the apps that would be completed would go live on Sunday evening 22nd. The sponsors, namely Google, BuddyPoke, Sun would then hold an award ceremony and declare 2 of the best app as winners and the other winner is BuddyQuiz. More then 100 developers and entrepreneurs turned up for this event. The App Bollywood Music was highlighted as the one for it's well designed UI, native orkut implementaion and the overall vision for the app. The main features of the App Bollywood Music are: Allowing users to discover music with their frieds using the rich orkut social graph, send musical scraps to their friends, Dedicate songs or playlists to their friends, Create and share playlists (will be released in 1 week) Search for songs and maintain the ...

Zimblee, an Indian Startup from Pune has launched as a tool to create an online ad and promote company or even blog, social networking page, or favorite charitable cause within a social network like Facebook. Zimblee is a web-based self-service ad creator platform and apparently world’s first truly custom online ad creator tool designed for advertisers, agencies, and small business owners. Zimblee has intuitive interface, point and click, drag and drop customization tools enable first-time users as well as experienced marketers to create professional, effective and fully customized display ads for the internet efficiently and affordably. Users can upload logos and images of their choice through built in library. Moreover, the tool has patent pending platform that allows a user to not only create a display ad, but also promote their company, blog, favorite charitable cause, or personal page within a social network. The ability to launch a Zimblee custom ad to a social network provides the marketer with an new medium for advertising. The Zimblee application for social networks is a first of its kind in online advertising. Zimblee is a Yureekah Inc. Company founded by Vishal Sharma and Devaraj Southworth, serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds in media and consulting. The Company recently secured a round of ...

SMSResume.in is new web start-up from India in its very young phase eventhough worthy for many as it enables users makes it possible to send their resumes via SMS over their cellphones. The process is - users needs to register at www.smsresume.in, upload resume on the site for once and thereafter can send resumes through their cellphones only. The service comes handy especially for those job seekers who have to apply urgently for a job and when there is no internet connection available at any point of time. To availe the service for free, the users needs to register at www.smsresume.in, upload one's resume on the site and then, whenever the need be, shoot off the resume by sending an SMS to 9711532380 in pre-defined format i.e. Resume <hr emailid> (example: Resume career@xyzcompany.com). User would even receive Email notification from smsresume.in as the smsresume server send a BCC copy to users' email id and informs that the resume has been successfully delivered to the recipient.

A Bangalore based firm has introduced WOLF Frameworks, its a platform which allows business analyst, domain experts to design & deliver all sorts of business applications over the internet without writing a single line of technical code (no script). WOLF is a 100% browser based Web Application Designing & Development Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which in turn will create mashable and interoperable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Business Applications on the internet without writing a single line of technical code or having programming knowledge. It provides a quick, easy, flexible and cost effective way of building customized web applications, targeted towards Business Users. This Business 2.0 tool/ framework offered over the web and can fundamentally revolutionizes the way companies can access Business software's on-demand, manage change, get lower cost, unlock their intellectual potential by rapidly transforming ideas as deployed applications & in turn increase Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption worldwide. The framework currently offers more than 25 ready-to-use WOLF Business Applications for SMB's & plans to bring many partner driven - customer centric SaaS applications to the market. View Demos of Wolf's 25 ready to use apps. Prerequisite for using this online framework over the web is an internet connection, a browser program and the knowledge of modeling ...

TestFreak a product review and comparison site has launched the dedicated website for Indian market as TestFreak.co.in as per its expansion plan to 24 local markets similar to Indian extension. TestFreaks was developed by founders of price comparison service PriceRunner.com launched in 1999. The website as said, aims to create a worlds largest product review database with 40 million visitors per month. The Indian version though have few products at moment as comparing to its US and European counter parts testfreak.com and testfreak.co.uk respectively. The reviews shown are aggregated from Indian reviewing sites such as Techtree, OneIndia.com, PC World India etc. for experts reviews and user reviews from sites such as CompareIndia.com. The sites integrate in itself Wiki through which registered users can add/edit product details, reviews and ask questions. In India MouthShut.com will be main competitor for TestFreak.co.in when it comes to product comparisons of all sorts. Noticeably, couple of months back TestFreak had raised $3 million in a second round of funding.

Yet another Indian start-up myMobile Ergonomics which is a Mobile Startup company based in Noida has developed new Mobile Texting technology - CleverTexting, which makes predictions based on the statistical nature of a language instead to that of a dictionary based predictions that we usually know as 'T9 Dictionary' in most of of our mobile handsets. CleverTexting make predictions on what characters you are most likely to type next based upon what have just typed before and armed with the probabilistic statistical tables of what is actually found in the language. This is an experimental model and apparently providing excellent results in the prototype that has been built. The CleverTexting prototype when installed in mobile Java enabled device make predictions that are shown on the screen and you use the numeric keypad to make the choices, always with a single keystroke. No multitap, no mode change, no disambiguation. That user interface , with no characters fixed to the face of the numeric keypad and dynamic allocation of characters to the keys is also new and the company has applied for a patent for it. Interestingly, CleverTexting predicts the most likely characters following what has been entered and placing them into positions easiest to ...

Large Scale Social Network BigAdda.com has one of a first Indian based social networking portal after Google's Orkut and has even manged to get large user base through excellent marketing strategies and brand i.e. Reliance. The portal is perpetually getting more user base even after months of its launch and one of a big reason being blog of Amitabh Bachachan on Bigadda.com. Social News Portal The ViewsPaper, a Gurgaon based web startup focussed at youth population of India and wants them to write for theviewspaper.net, in a concept of citizen journalism. with wide varieties of content to share with the paper in form of news, videos or anything that sounds a good opinion as youth voice. Mobile Applications Savitr TxtMe is successful custom mobile application in 2008 for varieties of use in Business, marketing, Website or social apps along with customized applications and solutions for startups & enterprises. Other worth to mention is RockeTalk.com. Mobile Search Zook.in is much hyped and growing search service in Indian mobile internet users. A Bangalore startup incubated at premier Indian management institute IIM, Bangalore has really impressed the users with its search capabilities over the mobile. Microblogging Service Kwippy is one mobile startup that has impressed me a lot in terms ...

Getgoaling.com is a new web start-up from Delhi, India providing platform that enables users to set goals and action plans necessary to achieve those goals. It enables sharing of experience among users having similar goals. Users can share goals with only few members of their choice who can support and motivate them, or with the community at large. They can maintain regular record of their progress on the goals with help of daily or weekly journals. Members having similar goals can come together by searching for goals tagged with relevant keywords. A user can have multiple goals and a user can authorize people of their choice to view his/her goals and comments by using the 'authorize' link on the Goal details page of that particular goal. The web based application has got simple yet pretty clean interface unlike to its website getgoaling.com though I would emphasize once more that UI could have been more better for simple reason of persuading more user base. The app has got few interesting features with unique USP of setting/ sharing goals. The app has 'Goal chest' which is a summary sheet of all active goals and their corresponding action plans. It also provides option to launch a ...