Tag Archives: Indian Social Networks

15 Jul

Is spamming really bad? Most of the successful social networks actually did..

By sinha 3 Comments
Is spamming really bad? Most of the successful social networks actually did..

Most of the startup founders, I know are very ethical – they hate spamming people. And sometimes, when they even try to spam (to several Y!/G groups etc) they are shot down by the community. But is spamming really bad? … Read More »

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17 Apr

IndyaRocks goes mobile

By sinha 13 Comments
IndyaRocks goes mobile

IndyaRocks has launched the mobile version of social network, that can be accessed from http://m.indyarocks.com The mobile version is an optimized version of the site and has pretty much the same set of features as the website. IndyaRocks has been adding … Read More »

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17 Mar

Revvs.net : SocioNet for Motorsports Enthusiasts

By sinha 6 Comments
Revvs.net : SocioNet for Motorsports Enthusiasts

Revvs.net is a newly launched motor sport based social network that is attempting to bring the Formula1 fans together. Formula 1 is gaining momentum in India and Revvs.net is timing the popularity of sports by including the essentials of a … Read More »

 
28 Feb

IndyaRocks launches online gaming community, chat feature

By sinha 4 Comments

IndyaRocks (read our earlier interview with Kalyan Manyam) has launched online gaming community with more than 800 free casual games. The games are featured under various categories such as Action, Adventure, Sports, Racing, Word games, Indian, Puzzles and Strategy. The gaming section … Read More »

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27 Feb

Popular Social Networking sites: No signs of FaceBook in India?

By sinha 6 Comments
Popular Social Networking sites: No signs of FaceBook in India?

The map below shows popular social networking sites around the world and as we all know, Orkut rules our world (incidentally, Orkut is India’s youth icon too! :J) Valleywag too did a similar analysis (based on Alexa data for diff. … Read More »

 
28 Jan

ibibo attempts to go viral with “balti” ads – Are you game?

By sinha 18 Comments
ibibo attempts to go viral with

ibibo, the company with deep pockets has been trying interesting ways to go viral. The first attempt was Rs. 1.5 crore blogging challenge, which was a major disaster and resulted in nothing more than spam (though ibibo got it’s seed … Read More »

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24 Sep

ApnaCircle.com : Sabeer Bhatiya’s foray into Indian social networking space

By sinha 7 Comments

One-time wonder Sabeer Bhatiya has done it again. This time he has launched a social networking site called ApnaCircle. In the untapped social networking market in India, ApnaCircle stands out: Apnacircle.com is an online social and professional networking site that … Read More »

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04 Aug

Weekly Buzz in the Indian Internet world [July 30th to Aug 4th]

By sinha 7 Comments

Here is the weekly recap of events in India Internet/Mobile world: Interesting developments: Spice and Tata Indicom announced dual handsets – i.e. now you can have two SIM cards in one phone- GSM as well as CDMA. [August 1- August … Read More »

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09 Jul

Podcast with Kavita Iyer, Founder of MingleBox

By sinha 4 Comments

MingleBox is carving a niche in the Indian Social Networking scenario by focusing on the college crowd. Here is presenting our podcast with Kavita Iyer, Founder of MingleBox. Please hop on to this page. In this podcast, I discussed following … Read More »

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