Tag Archives: routeguru

16 Apr

Google Maps (India) softly launches Driving Directions

By sinha 4 Comments

Google Maps India has launched driving directions feature enabling users to look for directions on the map. The feature was first introduced in Mapmaker (around Feb timeframe) and the same is now available on

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08 Apr

Exclusive: RouteGuru launches On the Go SMS Service

By sinha 8 Comments
Exclusive: RouteGuru launches On the Go SMS Service

Caught in the middle of nowhere and don’t know how to find driving directions to your destination? Try out RouteGuru’s newly launched sms service. RouteGuru has launched SMS based routing service – “On-the-Go (SMS)” – to find driving directions while … Read More »

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24 Oct

Y! launches India maps with new features: Landmark based driving, can calculate auto rickshaw fares too!

By sinha 4 Comments

Yahoo India heats up the competition with the latest version of Y! maps. Apart from the regular map feature, the product has been launched with few nifty features: Landmarks based directions, covering all of India. Auto richskaw fares Directions in … Read More »

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24 Aug

Online advertisements – even VCs wanna fund startups who rely on online advertising (and not premium service)

By sinha 11 Comments

It’s expected that by 2011, online advertising will go past the newspaper advertising (see the growing demand-supply difference in online advertising). Surprisingly, VCs too want startups to rely on online advertising (rather than charge customers for any product/service). First, lets … Read More »

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12 Jul

Elephant vs. Ant = MapmyIndia vs. RouteGuru. Does size matter?

By sinha 12 Comments
Elephant vs. Ant = MapmyIndia vs. RouteGuru. Does size matter?

The Indian Internet world is witnessing a revolution of sorts – startups are challenging the biggies, and are in the process creating their own niche. In our attempt to be true to startups, we are starting a series of posts … Read More »

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25 Jun

Podcast with Avinash Agrawal, Founder RouteGuru

By sinha 6 Comments

RouteGuru has done an out of box thinking by defining the driving directions using landmarks. Impressed by this, I did a podcast with Avinash Agrawal, founder of RouteGuru. In this podcast, Avinash & I talk about founder’s background, journey of … Read More »

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16 Jun

RouteGuru :: Get the driving directions (even if the streets have no name)

By sinha 14 Comments
RouteGuru :: Get the driving directions (even if the streets have no name)

If Bono is to sing a song for the Indian roads, I am sure it would be “Where the streets have no name“. The Indian streets really have no name – and if they have one, it isn’t used. Moreover, … Read More »

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