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 ...

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.

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.

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, ...

Ubona is one of a kind and first service in India and presently for the people of Bangalore only, the website provide new kind of service where any user can call from his/her cellphone and it comprehend the speech of consumer and trigger appropriate action. See - Demo Using the service, People in Bangalore will be able to call any wine and dine place (restaurants, hotels , sweet shops, bakeries) only by saying the name of the place. The phone number to access the service is (91) (80) 4070 0000. The service is accessible from any land-line or mobile phone at no extra cost. The Ubona service for consumers, businesses and enterprise is new service that delivers consumers information and business to reach consumer in somewhat JIT (Just in Time) methodology of ERP. Through this new online mobile 2.0 service users can make purchase, get information, make reservation or enquire about a service or product through mobile whereas a business, enterprise can reach thier targeted audience in clutter free environment unlike to paid campaigns in search engines where you compete several other advertisers visible next to your ads. This service by Ubona has definitely created new dimensions in Mobile 2.0 market in India as ...

A new Web 2.0 startup Faayda.com to launch soon via Indian arena that will target small and mid-size business owners and freelancers. The site will inculcate in itself few business tools and applications that will help them drive their business in web 2.0 environment. Faayda that define as pure "Profit" in Hindi will be having web tools like to automate business activity such as Invoicing, Lead Management and Client Collaboration/ Information. These tools will be developed keeping in mind the latest business need that eventually in the process ease the business activity and flow of information. The first business application - "Invoice Tool" is said to be developed and launch first in early of January 2008 followed by business directory to showcase SMB enterprises to search and interact with each other that could also be part of lead management. The website will do have features to share, access and store all information in mobile as well which is mandatory trait of any Business and office 2.0 applications. The startup seems to inspired by Google Apps, Zoho Apps meme thus plans to move on to its next phase that is to develop tools to create various documents like word, spreadsheets, presentations etc. online and have ...

A social videos search engine, which is first in Indian internet space, SneakCast has been launched lately in September 2007 after testing it as private project. The site simply puts you to results of videos indexed/ aggregated from number of video sites such as myspace, metacafe and even Yahoo! videos. By registering one can save videos, review it and get personal space for saved videos which is named as 'Search Vault' wherein one can invite friends only by email at this point of time. The relevancy of results are just fine but video content quality in results are rather uninteresting or just relevant to few words if searched for phrases or more than one word (like I did for 'web 2.0', 'India internet', 'web2.0 India'). May be because the search engine is in its early stage and seems to be working on ranking algorithm and the aggregating system as apparent. The looks are simpler as it could get, nicely formatted indeed but the choice of results that are being shown need to be work out. Although the site is well versed to be next ULinx ( titled - "video search & socialize"), IndianPad, TubeDesi, IndyaRocks.com or so if it allow users to ...