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 ...

Gaming industry seems to grooming in a more positive way, so positive that it now want you too get rid of stress hormones and bring about changes in yourself by seeing things in more positive way. A new video game designed by McGill University researchers has been launched that help to train people to change their perception of social threats and boost their self-confidence, moreover it is said that it reduce the production of the stress-related hormone cortisol. Mindhabit is gaming website that help people to cut down their stress and pump their self confidence and the game MinHabit Trainer is game that inhibit principle of research conducted by Dr. Baldwin’s at McGill University. The game 'MindHabits Trainer' applies three principles of social intelligence, as used in Dr. Baldwin’s research: activation, inhibition and association. The game and website again is result of what is called social networking meme going more than a hype these days, this gaming website that titled as - "Great games from serious science" is just another mashup of social networking + Online Gaming + Psychometric tactics. As per the website - "Research shows people who feel better about themselves and are better connected to others are healthier. In fact, experiencing ...

An Idea has been core part of any websites/ portals that eventually become talk of a web arena in a short span of time and making this 'Idea' as a major raw material, a new website or better say internet platform has launched by Maverick Media India, BouncedIdeas.com and theme is - To make Ideas in form of short Films. Moreover, If need arise and the Idea is selected it could also be developed further and still, the sender of idea will get the credit, the company will use Internet and mobile phone services as medium to showcase those ideas, as short films. Maverick Media India along with WSG Pictures has came up with this concept, to get the ideas and produce content in form of short films or videos and propagate through Internet and mobile world. As per the site, the selected ideas will become property of BouncedIdeas.com along with its respective short films and the sender will get the credit/ recognition and an undisclosed price money. One of a Idea which has been turned into Video is based on Topic 'Pay your Taxes' submitted by Minu Kaul. See - Video Link. Every Week the site has a new topic ...

Intel Corp. has launched a bookmarking site Cool Software and not to say very similar to Digg or better say Reddit.com where user can submit site and get vote for their submissions, share them and bury (save) already submitted site. Although user can bookmark submitted websites/ pages to other bookmarking sites as well. Intel Corp. seems to be showing interest in Web 2.0 meme and social networking than its supposed to be, being hardware driven corporation. Recently Intel launched Community and Blogging platform but for the reason that Intel is using this as to get feedback from end-users and other partners using its technologies. The bookmarking site is under umbrella of Intel Software Network that apparently working on online social media services. So far Intel's web 2.0 involvement are pretty much clear by sites launched by company in a short span of time, lets have a look of them; 1. Open Port (Intel's Online Community Network) 2. http://softwareblogs.intel.com 3. IntelPedia (Intel's Company-wide Wiki) 4. Intel Discussion Forum Among which Cool Software, is a bookmarking site where member users can post present or upcoming softwares, companies, websites and vote (analogous to Digg) them and bring them on front page of site to make coolest among all. The company makes ...

Social Projects Inc. a new company has launched its first and main product Flux, one level above any traditional social networking site, though its still under development and the company has not officially launched it yet. Social Project aims to decentralize the phenomena of social and community networking among users where users can participate and engage with sites to larger extent and in their control than otherwise. Flux is basically a open platform, disaggregated model of social networking to reach wider audience and decentralize the community, embedding other websites and bloggers closely to create content and let the content flow seamlessly along with more control over content creation and monetizing it as well. Social Projects is rename of company previously working on TagWorld.com, which was previously funded by Draper Fisher Juvertson, now focusing on this kind of social networking where it gives example of Walled city garden and importance of open platform so as to reach wider spectrum of web arena and social networking capabilities. Flux aims to let user experience distinct social networking properties where user from one network can join network of other brands or websites. Although there is no such hints that company will be improvising it model with user ...

Intel Corporation, a major chip manufacturing company has also understood the core advantages of Web 2.0 arena by exploring and using social networking and business blogging so as to improvise and boost its contemporary technologies, products and their ongoing development. Actually Intel wants to further improvise, bring about more new features, new developments in one of its technology called Intel vPro Technology (TM), a product/ package of hardware and software to provide business oriented PCs. Thus what else could be better way to provide a community network so as to get suggestions from end-users, partners and others to share, exchange and transfer knowledge. These suggestion will be utilized by Intel developers to bring new features. Open Port, thats what Intel's online community is called as, this is to share ideas and discuss topics and its blogs - http://softwareblogs.intel.com, are blogs by Intel people along with audio blogs, Intel podcast as well. One can see popular tags, stumbleupon, del.icio.us bookmark tags and all those blogging lingos.

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 ...

Chikka Inc., a company known for delivery of Mobile content and enhanced mobile messaging has brought a service to enable Asian users send two way messaging i.e. from their PC to mobile phones and vice versa. Users can register to avail services like - messaging to buddy/ friends list in their IM (messengers) like - Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, ICQ and the recent one is Google Talk. A user can even send messages if they don't have a mobile phone or if their mobile operator is currently not available. People can make a unified Chikka ID to send messages to buddies list in their respective IMs as if they are sent through their mobile numbers, through Chikka ID you could also forward messages while away to your mobile phones. In their future plans site will also allow the delivery of mobile content and mobile call credits which would be directly accessed from the web. Chikka 2.0 will also support social networking and user-generated content (UGC), to bring about web 2.0 traits in its services through which Users will be able to set-up personal profiles, upload photos and videos, or blog within their Chikka profile page. Though unified account (phone-to-PC) is not yet available in ...

Info Edge (India) Ltd., the company behind sites like naukri.com, 99acres.com has launched its people networking site Brijj.com (pronounced as Bridge dot com) and subtitled as - "Brijjing People" (read as - Bridging People), the site is much alike to LinkedIn which too has same website theme that is networking activities by people who join it i.e - Social Networking + Business/ Professional Networking. At Brijj.com people can build profile along with details like companies they worked for, educational institutes they have studied at, their best skills, professional expertise, business expertise/ plans, or any other professional or personal details and then making this profile online which enables you to be matched by profiles of other people you might know in past or people who are related to you or interest of you professionally, of same business interest, your past colleagues etc. The match of profiles are done based on philosophy of "six degree of separation" according to which anyone in this world is connected to anyone on planet earth in not more than five persons in between. Based on this theory Brijj.com will show you people's (brijj.com users of course) contacts who are 3 degrees away from you. At present you can ...