Posted on June 29th, 2009 by dhirender
In a move that will tie up its various education related initiatives (think education fairs and exhibitions), Manorama Online, the new media division of the Kerala based Malayala Manorama, has launched ManoramaHorizon.com – an education portal.
Based on the listing model ManoramaHorizon.com will allow educational institutes to enlist their names on the website and provide details [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2008 by dhirender
Broadband services continue to be in high demand, attracting millions of new subscribers worldwide each month, reports In-Stat.
Over the past 12 months, approximately 80 million new broadband subscribers signed up for high-speed access to the Internet, the high-tech market research firm says. In terms of broadband access technologies, digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies continue to [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by dhirender
If there is anything that we Indians like more than shopping, its bargaining, which is probably where LootStreet gets its niche. Launched by Hyderabad-based AKVenture Info, LootStreet.com allows users to bargain before they actually buy or sell products on the site.
“The website allows its users to bargain on different parameters such as price and volume. [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by dhirender
Giving an online twist to the Rs. 500 crore, greeting card industry in India, comes Papam.in – a web platform that allows users to send personalized paper greeting cards, corporate certificates and customized invitation cards at the doorsteps of the recipient. As the site claims:
For a thing as simple as sending someone a Quality Paper [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by dhirender
After SecondShaadi.com, Vivek Pahwa seems to have turned his attention to automobiles, currently a rather underserved market in the online space in India. The Indian Automobile Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.5 percent amounting to be worth Rs. 13,008 million by 2010, which gives an idea of the potential.
Worldwide, one rather [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
An attempt to cut through the information clutter on the Net, and present what PiXelKraft calls a brandfront, has given rise to Buzzar.tv. As they mention in their release:
What’s a ‘brandfront’? Your brandfront is a ‘digital asset’. So, what’s a digital asset? We’ll need some rethink here. Internet has, so far, tended to be ‘page [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by dhirender
With the aim to build an online entertainment resource for India comes LetZgoparty, a social nightlife networking portal dedicated to nightlife, parties, events, fashion, music and networking.
The site covers nightlife news, events, club listings, music reviews, DJ interviews, celebrity interviews, quiz section, poll, and a space for people to upload party pictures.
According to the release, [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by dhirender
Creative Citizen™ equips individuals and communities to move forward in the quest to become responsible global citizens. Instead of focusing on the fear induced by water shortages, expanding landfills, smoggy cities and the specter of global warming, we focus on one action at a time, knowing that a series of small actions can lead to [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by dhirender
A user driven writing community based on the concept of Collaborative Book Building, OurOwnBook.com brings together users who wish to write and in an interactive and collaborative form to develop a storyline which would be published as a book.
In short, it serves as an online platform where anybody can add a sentence to a story [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by dhirender
Describing itself as the most revolutionary and most efficient dating service in the world, BuyUCoffee.com is an online dating community where users can actually get paid for going out on dates with other users. I wonder what this implies for the person who gets paid.
The site is for members only with a gold membership making [...]
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