RoamAbout is a plugin that delivers information on the web contextually. Users would not need to leave the site they are browsing in order to search for videos, music, pictures or share the things they come across with. This Firefox & IE plugin bring all these to the user by just highlighting the text any user want without leaving the web page they are viewing. One can get related information by selecting text and clicking the RoamAbout Icon in status bar also users can post to their twitter account, the selected text of a web page and post it directly their, without even leaving the web page actually. Similarly users can browse flickr photos, Google news, info from Wikipedia, maps from MapQuest and videos from YouTube and by just selecting the text in web page you are viewing and hitting the plugin's icons bar. User can customize the the plugin bar so as to limit the no. of Icons for different Web services or websites such as stock quotes, weather or games. Moreover, the company behind RoamAround Vysr do have the open platform that provides developers with any easy way to add and integrate services and networks that users can tap into as ...

Posterous is a new service through which users can post just anything by sending email, its a kind of twitter like microblogging, but unlike microblog here one can put any content using smart auto embedding services of Posterous. The service lets post content from email and content could be audio, video, image, pdf, doc or mp3 and you would get 1GB of space for all this. One can use any email service such as GMail, Windows Live (Hotmail), Yahoo or any other to do blogging via email and for that you just have to send an email to post @ posterous.com unlike to other blogging services with WYSIWYG editors or so. The interesting and USP part in this is Posterous intelligently embed the files in different user interfaces like when you post a YouTube video link via email, it automatically embed the video player as such and when you post any audio files it will put a nice Posterous interface for that (see image below) and audio player when you post an mp3 file. Apart from this, when you send URLs, it will automatically create a link and when an image is send as an attachment it resize it to web friendly size, ...

Getmo, a startup launched in middle east conference MECOM 2008 will be offering digital content and entertainment services to Indian subcontinent region and Middle east countries including Africa as well. The startup which is yet to be launched at its full throttle will set to be providing music, movies or games for Mobile phones, personal computers or other digital device players accessible directly to consumers on internet. The website will set to provide such kind of entertainment content and services to Indian sub-continent region which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia along with Africa and middle east regions such as UAE and other Arabian countries. The content will be available to online and mobile users at considerably low rates, moreover one can also publish their own content of such media type in order to let the content travel in these areas covering almost 40% of world's population. Getmo, a part of Abu Dhabi media company will publish such pieces of entertainment content to be consumed directly by consumers either by their own or by partnerships, as one of the tied-ship announced is with Sony BMG, in which the record label will provide local and Arabic content for the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Reffster.com an online Referral/Reward based recruitment service has launched its service yesterday. The startup has been co-founded by 3 partners (Ranjit Jatar, ex PepsiCo International and co-partners Arjun and Arun Yadav from a leading Executive Search firm). The just started website is new kind of recruitment portal that unlike to other Indian job portals offer cash rewards for referrers along with finding or browsing jobs in it. Moreover from the employers perspective they can upload videos of their organization, that will be YouTube linked. Reffster.com will be a platform for employers to tap into the social network of active referrers. Reffsters reach among specialised professional networks all over the world would make even the most sensitive and difficult job openings easier to fill in. Reffster.com is offering people BIG cash rewards if they use it to successfully recommend a friend for a job. The service is the first of its kind that lists only premium Mid and Senior Management openings. Reffster.com will provide a value add over other online recruitment players by offering resume screening through its KPO. The KPO is staffed by experienced recruiters who will study/screen each resume and forward only the most relevant resumes to the client. Candidate employment reference check ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heard of paid banners, paid text links, paid search results? or you might even heard paid blog posting through websites like payperpost.com now its time to pay for comments, not on your own but on others weblogs. BuyBlogComments.com is a new unusual service for bloggers to put comments on other blogs related to their's in terms of theme or category. BuyBlogComments provide service to Bloggers to pay for leaving "quality blog comments" on other niche weblogs. Bloggers desiring to leave comments on other blogs for them can pay as three package options - 100 blog comments, 500 blog comments and 100 blog comments. Jon Waraas, founder of buyblogcomments.com promise to get the things done i.e. leaving quality comments on nice blogs in 3 days of ordering. Buyblogcomments.com service has english speaking blog specialist whom they pay for writing comments on quality niche blogs, as per website. It has database of Blogs which do not support nofollow tag, these specialist pick niche blogs and write legitimate comments on them in such a way that it wont get deleted and approved by blogs' bloggers. As per the website, quality comments helps in building links which in turn place a blog ranking higher in search results, ironically ...

Resolio.com is a new website that let users to publish web resumes with different colors and design schemes. The websites offers Free as well as premium service for creating web resumes though the difference in two are minute in terms of number of design to choose from and other future services it could provide. Through simple interface users can enter the resume data like Summary, Experience, Education, Skills etc. and Select from number of designs, color schemes, format, styles, even styles of links in your resumes, other customizations, preview and publish. Main advantage is portability of your Resolio created reumes as it can be imported to Job board sites because of Microformats standard it uses, embed them anywhere on web through Javascript. Resolia.com is collaborative effort of Patrick McNeil (DesignMeltdown.com) and David McNeil (mobcode.com).