Woices.com stands for World voices, is an Internet start-up company that provides Location Based Audio Services along with GPS application for mobiles. Woices allows people to create, share and consume location based audio tag allowing people to do location based audio tagging. These audio tags are known here as echoes i.e. audio records which are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object and here echoes are words, left by one person at some precise place, that can be later listened to by anyone, as if user who created it was still there. Echoes can be about anything one want, from history, art or curiosities to personal memories or advices. Woices.com describe itself to be provider of a new layer of oral information and calling it 'echoesphere' that would pull out those histories and pieces of information that is not possible to find in the tourist guides. Moreover, Woices is also on verge of launching it mobile application integrated with GPS, though the website do have mobile website at woices.mobi that allows users to search for information created by other users in form of echoes. Woices.com uses web services from geonames.org for geolocation based functionalities and has come with a ...

MyHeritage, an Israel based world’s most popular family tree driven social network has acquired Kindo.com who recently launched First Hindi Social Network in July this year. Kindo has been ramping up its popularity in family based social network also because of website language expansion. Kindo has just launched first social network connecting families from India in 'Hindi', after expansion of the portal in other languages as well. On other hand, MyHeritage has more than 25 million members worldwide and is known for its powerful technology that helps families research their history and stay connected, including Smart Matching and automatic photo tagging. The Kindo team’s experience in social networking will help MyHeritage realize its vision to be the Facebook for families. As part of this acquisition, MyHeritage will also establish new commercial operations in London. MyHeritage was founded by a team of people who combine their passion for family history with the development of innovative technology. It is now one of the world’s leading online networks for families, and the second largest family history website. MyHeritage is available in 25 languages and home to more than 25 million family members and 260 million profiles. The company is based in Bnei Atarot, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Zahdoo has launched as first of an interesting concept website among social networking and cognitive websites that deals with people's daily activities on internet. The portal has been launched by Hyderabad & Atlanta based IT company at Web 2.0 Expo in NewYork. With context awareness, semantic linking and a range of planning and networking features, Zahdoo delivers an engaging and productive social experience to online users. The portal is an efforts towards everything at one place portal that would bind all the online activities such as social networking conversations, information search, content tagging, online planner, personal website, reminder & alert services, sharing pictures, audio/ video with your friends and semantic search along with auto content suggestions via semantic analysis. Zahdoo enhances social awareness and cognitive abilities by linking and processing users information, activities and relationships with social circles and external context and gain access to the most relevant information and intuitively understand and process the information in users' own context. The portal is in private beta for few months is probably to enhance the portal and could even inculcate more features when go public, moreover the site is more like flash driven site rather than user and search engine friendly XHTML. I would love ...

Sunoh.fm has launched as a Social Networking and Music Discovery Platform for Indian Music fans. The portal provides a social networking environment where users can connect with their friends. At Sunoh.fm users can view music library of their friends, enabling the users to discover new and relevant music in their social graph. Users can also join Fan club of artists they love, post messages on artist's scrapbook, and favorite the music they like, thus enabling the users to reach out to their artists in a manner never possible before. Sunoh.fm also provides Sunoh.fm-Desktop, a plug-in for Windows Media Player enabling users to stream music listening history and share it with their friends. With the aggregated music listening tastes of its users, Sunoh.fm not only delivers comprehensive and accurate information of top music in India but also promotes discovery of new and independent music by employing proprietary algorithms. Moreover, for independent music artists in India Sunoh.fm provides them a digital distribution platform. Artists can signup, claim, and customize their profile at Sunoh.fm, enabling them to reach out to their fans in a very interactive manner. Sunoh.fm provides comprehensive set of free digital tools to artists including photo, video, and music uploads, using which they ...

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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 ...

If you are visiting any city in India and you are a blogger, you can now find accommodation for free to stay and the place would be another blogger's home. This is a sort of barter exchange being propagated by Indian website - ExtaBed.in. At ExtraBed.in, bloggers are being asked to participate in this Blogger exchange program where bloggers offer extra bed to a fellow blogger or who visits blogger's city. And in return, when you travel to his/her city, you have a place to stay. This seems to be out of track and at the same time a way to bind and create a blogger's network 'offline'. If you want to host a blogger you can go to ExtraBed.in select the city you live in and add your contact details and If you are planning for a trip out of your city than find the the state name, click on it and find out the city and get in touch with bloggers who welcome other bloggers as their guests. Also going ahead in this offline blogging network, the website ask bloggers to treat fellow bloggers visiting their city with pleasant hospitality along with a 'Gift' and a photo snap of both host ...

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

Corners.in that we have wrote about its launch in February this year, has now launched its social platform aka Engine to infuse apps in major social networking portal namely Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Hi5. The website Corners launched earlier in February with features to act like social networking website, customize content in users profile called 'corners'. The website has now built a social platform to provide content in form of applications to social networking portals having open social platforms. In anticipation of this social engine the website has launched a Facebook App called - Cinemas, where user can get movies related content in their Facebook profiles. Though, we have pointed out in our previous post about Corners.in, that the website is more about movies, photos of Indian Cinema rather than other traits of social networking sites, this has been maintained in App for Facebook too. Interestingly, the plans of company that I perceived through email received from Sanjeev, Founder of Melamesa, the makers of Corners.in, he wrote - Social networking now has two dimensions to it - The social infrastructure on one side, and the content on the other. The biggest social networks today - Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, hi5, have identified this dichotomy and have ...

One thing in India that one doesn't have to speculate about, is growing popularity and fans of game of Cricket. The recent IPL tournament (Indian Premier League) organized in India in analogy with European Football league tournaments is latest buzz and more than a hype in India these days. The popularity of IPL tournament has inspired a lot of webmasters, bloggers to launch websites, blogs specially for the tournament and matches updates, recently a Social networking website has been launched and no doubt the traffic shoots to the moon. The website TheIPLFanClub.com a social network for IPL fans to show their passion for their respective favorite teams. The traits of social networking for TheIPLFanClub.com is - any user of website can publish their news from their local newspaper provided they must mention the name of newspaper, scan the newspaper images and upload, create a their blog, groups, invite friends etc., a more participation in the website leads the user to win contest, by scoring points for their each activity on the website. The most interesting part in this website is the amount of traffic it got in just a month of its launch, the same amount of traffic has been desired by few ...

Flux.com released a sharing widget cum button called fShare widget of different kind through which publishers, bloggers can put them on their websites, blogs to get shared on social network communities like facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Livejournal, Blogger and Flux communities obviously. Its perhaps same like ShareThis, AddThis buttons found on many blogs at the end of the posts to share on various bookmarking sites and email to friend option, but this time its for major social networks another different feature I am really looking forward in fShare button to be implemented on my blog as well is, one can embed the content (blog post, image, video) through embed option. Adding the fShare widget to site’s videos, photos, and blog posts will let visitors to distribute the content across the social web communities while preserving branding and attribution at the same time. The fShare widget is one of the further working of Social Project Inc (Previously TagWorld.com), to bind the social networks together. The Flux site apparently promises to bring more on this fShare widget and to come up with wider platform of sharing between various social communities on web in December of this year. Bloggers, publishers can sign up at flux.com to get ...