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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SneakCast, an Indian Video Search service that we have reviewed last year as - SneakCast: India’s First Video Search Engine is down for past 6 months or so. Now the company behind it has overhauled the search portal along with new revamped logo and new concept has drawn to make it more versatile. SneakCast, this time wants to be semantic video search engine in contrast to other generic search engines today. The company talk about bring about changes in video search globally in contrast to other search engines including google who just does textual based search along with tags, back-links relevance factors. On the other hand SneakCast bet on being most relevant search engine when it comes to video, so much so that company has apparently said: SneakCast has semantics, syntactics and video analysis to increase the relevance level to as high as 63 per cent (the highest ever attained in the video search industry). The company at present is based in UK working to finally launch the service and will relocate to Mumbai, India before getting close to final rounds of fundings. The video search service also have plans to run video advertising with approx. 30 sec. of ad clips in their videos ...

A top notch video sharing and entertainment portal from France - DailyMotion is set to arrive in India for online video sharing activity in Indian web market. A DailyMotion website user can discover, upload and embed videos online through the site, that obviously include user generated content in form of videos, the france based website would share market with strong contender such as YouTube India, AOL India Videos, MSN India Videos and also Metacafe that too have strong user base in India. To compete with others in online video market DailyMotion has tied-up with Hungama entertainment firm which have strong base with over 250 deals with media and entertainment companies to let their content travel through various digital platforms. Hungama Mobile will act as a anchor partner cum Business associate in Indian operations as company has no plans to set up the physical presence in India, Hungama Mobile will deal with all content manipulation activities in India. Moreover Dailymotion.com has tied with Eros , Mid-Day and Bollywood Hungama which deals in entertainment, news and movie content repectively, wherein their content will be available on DailyMotion platform, the company is also close to deals with news channels such as NDTV, Aaj Tak ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Analytics does matters a lot in business and investing perspective as well. A new approach in this way has brought by Bizak, its a business network tool which computes the profitability and valuation of internet startups by creating industry benchmarks for comparative analysis. The business tool has launched by TOKiBiz services Inc, who also provide an internet startup creation services.

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 ...

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.

MySpace, nearly a week later of its Indian MySpace Launch, the site had moved out its MySpace Apps for its users to install and play around. The Applications are built on MySpace developer Platform where nearly 5,000 developers are working upon, these are also a part of Google OpenSocial Platform which also has been implemented by Google's very own Orkut. The MySpace Developer Network is stressing more on Learning and Testing phase for developer to work upon rather than to just pull attention of users to get cheap traffic or so. For example, at this pint of time, unlike to Facebook, MySpace members cannot write directly or send messages to their friends' wall, nervertheless their are interactive apps to have fun around. The MySpace Apps has language option to choose the language of Application to install, though because of its initial phase their are few Apps in varieties of languages to choose from (not atleast in Hindi), though there are few Apps for Indians to try, one is - DesiScreen, where one can search and watch Desi Indian hindi movies and TV videos.