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 ...

Microsoft India has launched a community cum networking website WindowsandMe.com in order to improve and raise the level of experience of consumer with their PCs having Windows as OS. The site talk about how to make most of their PC experience with Windows. The website is still under construction and in Beta phase and more features and functionalities will be added as per feedback from users and from set of selected people who are subject matter experts on Windows, Amit Agarwal Pro Blogger of Digital Inspiration(labnol.org) is one of those few. The website seems to be one of the effort to sustain the public support for Windows Vista more than any other Microsoft's Windows Products. Windows Vista has been made the vital part of website to realize the consumers the caliber of same in a way of proving tips, tweaks, tutorial, Knowledge part and experts advice. The website runs on core part of exploring, discovering, sharing each others knowledge on Windows and end up with solution or improvisation of using Windows PCs along with advices, 'how tos' and tips from expert panel. As a signed up user one can get latest news, updates and tips of Windows knowledge base and throw queries ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

India along with nations across the globe is high on internet vulnerabilities through various medium, highest being malicious codes, phishing and unauthorized scanning. Recent trend is that hackers now turning to websites, servers from their previous choice of emails, cheap apps etc. Recently India's premier technology institute IIT's website has been hacked (source), although this is not single case in India, a total of 612 Indian websites were defaced during March 2008 as reported by CERT-In (Computer Emergency Report Team India), which has increased by more than 50% in India, comparing to just previous month.

India is getting ready for one of its own Twitter version, as a Japanese version of twitter - http://twitter.jp has just launched, reason being Japan is place from where most tweets come from, as goes by a Report by UMBC ebiquity. According to report Japan's risen cellphones and SMS technology has made it to quickly adopt Twitter phenomena and the same reports has predicted that India along with China, two countries which already have huge amount of SMS/ mobile users might be able to do better with Twitter. Report has released a geographical chart of Global distribution of Twitter users where US, Europe and Japan has most twitter users, though the geo location resolved in chart are of just 11,000 users from 19k users and thats too of only who specify their location. India is one among those area where there is lesser twits, but on the contrary India is Second Largest Mobile market in the World just after US and has added record 10.16 million users in month of March only as by Reuters' report. Moreover, there were 261.1 million estimated wireless users in India at end-March comparing to US 257.9 million wireless users. All these stats convincingly spoke of how ...

Today, News Corporation has officially launched its India centric MySpace.com, one of the biggest social networking portal in the world. The India launch which is part of MySpace expansion in Asia region is just after the Korea launch. India is third Asian center of all three Asian MySpace hub after Japan and Korea. MySpace, will provide Indian online audience the services that provide edge to its Indian counterpart, that is Music, Videos and medium to showcase their talents, thought on global scale of this online portal. The portal has tied up with SaReGaMa, a music label owned by RPG group and Start TV Channel to offer music services and other entainment stuffs to Indian audience. Moreover, the portal has also tied up with aspiring bands across three cities namely - Pentragram, Superfuzz, Thermal. The portal is planning to form a 30 music group from these aspiring group people. The portal is also launching few special programs like Campus Starts to target gen-x population of India. Also for Indian developers its a great news that for the first time in India such a big social networking portal will be putting it Development base in India, to develop customized Application for MySpace through its ...

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 ...

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.

Snockles, a mobile social messaging service based in India has launched it public Beta version this week in India and UK, Snockles lets its users to send messages to all contacts at once through internet as well as from mobile phones. Snockles is much like Twitter, and in its own words is a message that you post on your own Snockline (a.k.a. message board) which is broadcast to all the people who are tracking you. Similarly, you receive Snockles from people whom you are tracking. Snockles can also be sent and received via SMS after you register your mobile phone to it. Snockle service is free of cost, all the message that received via Snockles are free of cost though charges will apply but from respective users' mobile network service providers, when you send messages. In an analogy to Twitter it has 'Track' phenomena what is known as 'Follow' in Twitter which gets his/ her updates through the Web and SMS once you track that person as per settings. Snockles is currently being funded by Web Spiders, an Indian based firm providing RIA development services, the firm has seperate service of snockles for business and corporate sector known as Enterprise Snockles, ...

A new entrant in social cum professional network which seems to be more focussed on India internet users and people tired of Myspace, Facebook sites which lacks Indian faces in member list and photos. Creator of Hotmail and then Arzoo.com (which is now a travel portal) Sabeer Bhatia has now teamed up with Yogesh Bansal (Founder/ CEO) to launch a new social cum professional network - ApnaCirlce.com website soon just after the launch of Reliance big social cummunity portal Bigadda.com. ApnaCircle.com has everything that orkut.com has - searching members profiles and photos and obviously acquientences likewise to orkut, scraping to other members and get scrapped, birthday reminders, creating and joining communities (here a community is referred as 'ZONES'), uploading your photos, making albums etc., the additional ones include browsing and creating events, making two separate profiles of yours - Personal and Professional and same goes with maintaining two different list of friends, known members one is personal and other one is professional. The website do lack some design issues with ordinary color schemes but what i found is pages load faster than bigadda.com as i have tried open the site from different computers/ locations bigadda.com pages as till today load as fast as ...