Go2IndiaWeb20.com

After the success of YouTube, there are lots of clones that have been created so far. A slew of Indian video hosting sites are also trying to become the YouTube of India. As of now there are 3 4 players a lot of players in this race. Some of them are not safe to browse at the workplace as they might contain some sexually explicit content. I have listed 25 of them, though I feel there are more out there, which I don’t know about.

Director Ban Jao

Desi Brodcasting

BollywoodTube

Upload, Watch and Share

Lights . Camera . You

No Punch Line

Seems to be a popular site;primarily because of steamy adult videos !

Redefining Desi Entertainment

It’s more of a Bollywood video content

No punch cline

No punch line

Yeah we get that… for Indians…

says ‘connecting’….. connecting what????

for cricket lovers

for cricket lovers

from nepal

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exclusively for punjabi videos……. don’t get fooled

logo is not good for a video site

for cricket lovers

Interesting name……

toad

why can’t they leave the word tube…. crazy…

now we have <anything>tube.com

even copied the style of the logo from YouTube

Some of the information here are sourced from WATBlog.com (link here)

Glad news to all Indians, we got our First Local Search Engine, launched by two Delhi IITians, with a commitment of USD seven million from a leading Indian venture capital firm. It’s called ‘Guruji’ and the domain name is http://www.guruji.com/. Two young Indians, Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra, ex-IIT Delhi alumni with significant Internet and search experience - returned from the Silicon Valley - have started guruji.com, after Sequoia Capital India provided seed funding to the venture.

I just browsed this site myself and I was amazed about the functionality. A Google like search engine for India by Indians. Here is a screen shot.

The site is multi-lingual you could search in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. I have seen many sites which are multi-lingual, however they need the fonts to be installed in your local machine. The unique part of Guriji is that you don’t require the fonts to be in your local machine. I have done a search myself in Tamil language and it has an easy to use interface and it’s very cool. Here is screen shot of the same in Tamil and Hindi.

Another cool feature of Guruji is that you could do a local search. Say if you want to search for a Thai Restaurant in Bangalore you could do that… here it is..

The thing that I love about this site is, it displays useful facts about India whenever the home page is refreshed.

YASU Technologies is a privately-held company based in Hyderabad, India, with sales offices in USA. Founded in 1999 with no venture capital funding, YASU launched the first version of QuickRules BRMS (Business Rules Management System). It’s really neat to see an Indian Company in this space.

I have worked with many Consultants that are specialized in BRMS products but none of them seem to have an idea about the product by YASU technologies. YASU Technologies is a well-kept secret in the business rules market. An Indian firm, YASU has quietly built comprehensive rules platforms based on Rete for both Java/J2EE and .NET. The major advantage of the BRMS product is that it’s well integrated with the Java/J2EE environments (.NET as well) and the builder is eclipse based. I have worked with BLAZE before however the builder is not eclipse based. Here is an overview of the product and it’s advantages.

Rule Capture
The QuickRules Builder provides features required for performing the tasks involved in capturing (defining and authoring) business rules from requirements documents - so far none of the BRMS products had such a feature.

Rule Implementation
Import Java classes or XSD documents (XSD - SDO based SOA applications could easily integrate with YASU) into the rules project.
Use already imported Java classes / XSD Elements in business rules.
Create executable units for business rules.
Author business rules; create and manage complex rule execution sequences diagrammatically. (like Rule flows )
Chain rules to meet complex rule requirements.
Add context-specific metadata to business rules.

Rule Deployment
The QuickRules Builder allows exporting business rules to databases for secure storage:

Rule Governance
The QuickRules WebEditor provides the features required for performing the tasks involved in managing change
Add/edit/delete business rules at runtime.
Add/edit/delete rulesets at runtime.
Add/delete business objects at runtime.

To conclude, I was really impressed by the fact that the product could be well integrated with XSD (SDO). It has well positioned itself in a SOA based architecture.