KyaKare.com a local event listing site for India

Kyakare.com is yet another events listing site for India. This site is a collaborative events listing and sharing site where anybody can add events for free. You could search for events, bookmark an event in famous social bookmarking sites and also get RSS feeds from the site. The site only serves Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkatta. […]

Online Indian Idol Contest at IndiaKaHero.com

Want to be an Indian Idol? Didn’t get a chance at the Indian Idol show? Don’t worry you could be an Online Indian Idol (Hero) by participating in the online contest at the IndiaKaHero.com.
It has four categories for the contest Jokes Ka Hero, Songs Ka Hero, Mimicry Ka Hero and Dance Ka Hero. You juts […]

AajTakBollywood.com, Bollywood goes Web 2.0 ……. A Digg for Bollywood

I recently came across a site called AajTakBollywood.com, it’s a Digg for Bollywood. It’s clear that it’s built on open source content management system called Pligg. This is the first time I’m seeing a vertical based social bookmarking site in India. I’m also impressed to see great amount of participation from different users on this […]

Shakti Extratainment launches the first IPTV service for Indians in the US

Shakti Extratainment, the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel based out of Chennai, launched its service in the US today. It’s the first ever IPTV service launched in the US targeting the Indian audience. They are offering shows on a “watch at will” basis, through a special IPTV set top box of its platform partner Verismo […]

YouTube Launches in 9 countries - Are we going to get one for India?

Earlier today YouTube announced local versions in nine countries. They claim that this gives localized home pages and contents. It includes country specific ratings and comments. Read the full story here.
However the question that came to my mind immediately is that, How about for India? Are there any plans of rolling out an Indian version […]

ToonBook a new feature of ToonDoo - See SuperStar in it…

Toondoo is about to release a new feature to it’s users, called Toonbook. Seems like you could aggregate many cartoons and create a book view kind of navigation. I believe that, you could add some background music to it as well. Not many information is present at the moment. However I got my idea about […]

iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Apps - Ha Ha Ha - or is it really CLOSED?

Many of you might have heard about the WWDC 2007 (World Wide Developer Conference) and might have followed the announcements from Apple. If not here is a full story from engadget.com. One of the major announcement today was that developers could write amazing Web 2.0 and AJAX apps for iPhone. Here are the exact words […]

Jambav …… is it from Ramyana?

Many of you might have forgotten the famous Jambhavaan of Ramayana. Jambhavaan was the famous king of bears, who was responsible for waking up the hidden potential in Hanuman. More specific about the interesting legend @ valmikiramayan
Okay now about Jambav (which you know, now that it is named after Jambhavaan), created by AdventNet, Jambav is […]

ToonDoo - Sridhar Vembu’s Creation

ToonDoo allows users to easily create comic strips with pre-built or uploaded images and text. This is an Indian company, and has the same parent company, AdventNet, as Zoho (see our coverage about zoho here)
The creation tool is a Flash applicaton that includes a number of options for characters, props, backgrounds and text bubbles. Users can […]