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GOOD - Social Media Platform Offering Content, Experience and Utilities to Serve Community
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites, Indian Web Startup News on October 16, 2009
GOOD is a media platform for people who want to live well and do well. It’s a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits organization with a focus on social issues, politics, and sustainable living.
GOOD presently publishes content on their website, videos, live events, and a quarterly United States general-interest magazine offering content, experiences, and utilities to serve this community.
GOOD wish to stand as an independent media that blends entertainment and relevant information.
According to the promoters, Good has reached over 2 million monthly uniques. Their magazine reaches two hundred thousand readers, videos reach millions and live events that had over 20,000 attendees in the last year.
Company Insight
Founded in 2006 by Ben Goldhirsh, son of entrepreneur and Inc. Magazine creator Bernie Goldhirsh, the company has garnered praise for its unique editorial perspective and fresh visual aesthetic and is quickly emerging as a significant new voice in culture.
Recently they announced that it has recently closed a Series A round of funding led by its co-founder and CEO Ben Goldhirsh and a number of angel investors including Nicholas Negroponte.
BestInClass.com – Expert Reviews And Recommendations For Digital Cameras
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites, Indian Web Startup News on July 23, 2009
BestInClass.com is a product recommendation service that helps you shortlist the products as per your needs and preferences. The site wish to provide the fastest and easiest way to get a good answer of the question, “what product is right for you?”
BestInClass an Expert’s Recommendations for You
Features
The site has initially started off with recommendation for a quite challenging and popular category i.e. Digital Cameras, however they soon plan to extend this to others products as well.
Start by selecting the digital camera usage by selecting relevant check boxes. You will get options to select the size of the camera (Fits in a jacket pocket/ fits in a pants pocket/any size). You can also adjust the price slider as per the amount you wish to spend on the product.
Apart from the regular search features, BestInClass.com lets you browse Digital Cameras by Brand, Product line, Usage, Price, Color, Type or Size.
The site also shows some popular best digital cameras in different categories on its home page.
Aloqa Notifies You About Interesting Places, Services, Events and Friends On Your Mobile
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites, Indian Web Startup News on July 17, 2009
Aloqa is a mobile app that helps you find interesting places, events, and social relationships based on your present location.
Aloqa - Notifies You about interesting places, events, and social relationship
Aloqa Features
After you have downloaded Aloqa to your mobile, it starts showing you real time information about interesting things in your vicinity like your favorite coffee shops, popular restaurants, local shopping outlets, events like music concerts. It also shows information about your facebook friends who are nearby to your location.
When you change your location, Aloqa refreshes itself automatically and notifies you of the relevant set of services, points of interest close to your new location without having to launch a browser or search application.
Unlike location-based services that rely on phones having GPS chips embedded in them, Aloqa uses information from a variety of sources like cell towers, Wi-Fi, and GPS systems.
The company plans wider availability of the application on various platforms later in 2009 promising to reach handsets both with and without GPS support.
Access And Manage All Your Social Networking Profiles From One Place - Power.com
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites, Indian Web Startup News on July 14, 2009
Power.com is a social networks aggregator. It creates a common environment to connect users in order to facilitate communication, browsing, and interactivity, as well as provide an enhanced user experience.
Power - Access Your All Social Networking Profile Through One Portal
What Power.com Offers
Power.com allows you to log into all your social media accounts simultaneously via the Power.com interface.
It will show all your friends, messages, updates, photos and other information aggregated on the Power dashboard and you can communicate to to them directly from this interface. You can even send messages and updates to all of your social networks friends at once.
Power.com currently supports MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Orkut, and Hi5 Accounts.
Power also offer a radio station that runs 24 hours a day with an exclusive DJ that plays a diverse selection of national and international music. It even lets you chat to your friends from this platform.
NeedGrub - A Comprehensive Guide on Restaurants in India
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Indian Web Startup News, Latest Startups, startups on July 9, 2009
You can definitely find some good restaurants on NeedGrub, though you might not find any reviews against it.
There is a serious issue with all the new websites which basically work on user collaborative concept. In India, the web community is still not actively contributing and thus the site promoters have to put an extra effort to first collate a huge amount of data and then only initiate any venture.
Although there is a good amount of restaurants listed on the site, the design looks simple and is not at all attractive.
Educell - Personal Mentorship Program For IIT Aspirants From IIT Students
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Indian Web Startup News, startups on July 4, 2009
We have showcased many management and career mentoring portals in recent times. Educell, another one from the same bag, is focused on providing the mentoring to IIT aspirants.
The best part about this initiative is that the students who have already appeared and are now a part of IIT institutes will be the mentors. So as a whole it would be a great learning experience for a mentor as well as the mentees.
The website looks simple and has offered a variety of modes of communication between the mentors and the aspirants.
Voxli - Web-based Voice Chat Service for Gamers
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites, Indian Web Startup News on April 23, 2009
Voxli is a browser based voice chat service that makes it easy for large groups to chat. The service is useful for making voice chat while playing group games or simply engaging in conversations as large groups.
Voxil - Web-based Voice Chat Service For Gamers
How Can I Use their Service?
Just go to the Voxli homepage, type in a voice room name and then click START. This will take you to a page where you are instructed to download a small app that will enable speaker and microphone usage.
Voxli can support up to 200 people in each voice room and has support for push to talk (walkie talkie) functionality outside of the browser . You can also participate in multiple chats at once in Voxli Platform.
Each group voice chat exists at a persistent URL, which can be shared with friends via email or IM to join a group chat session.
Voxli is currently free while it is in open beta.
Company Insight & Future Enhancements
The company is a Y Combinator startup and has two people on staff. It was founded about a year ago.
Over time, Voxli will add other features that let a user make voice communications private. It will also improve sound quality with echo cancellation technology, which helps remove background noise.
Indian and World Press Releases | Resource Hub For Startups - Indian Web Startups Updates
Posted by whatsupgajeebo in Indian Web Startup News on October 20, 2008
Hey FriendS
We have been silent in press for sometime now, though we have been showcasing a new startup every single day.
Today we are here in press to celebrate as well as inform you some of the latest features that got included in our startups site.
First of All, The Big News - As Saurav scored may be his last test century, we have scored our first.. what? you cant still guess? its that we have crossed a 100 startup figure. All those of you who dont believe us, just have a look in here. Below is a snapshot of a new section where we showcase logos of all the startups featured at Indian Web Startups.
Press Releases Redesigned!!
Whats the Need? and Whats been done to serve it?
Its tough to search for Press Releases from different sites, you don’t have time to check what the big companies have lately announced. We always believe in pioneering new ways to aggregate useful information and this time around comes Press Releases from Indian as well as Global View Point.
The Press Release section which has been in existence for sometime has been redesigned and now includes Press Release from some of the other very famous Indian PR sites as indiaprwire.com, businesswireindia.com, indiatimes.com and Global PR sites as pressreleasepoint.com, prnewswire.com and businesswire.com
We have made the navigation as easy as it can get. Tabs of Indian Press Releases and Global Press Releases with our exclusive Press Releases helps visitors read on the move. Check out the new press release section.
Now the Biggest Announcement - For Startups & Their Founders, Team Members
We know how it goes in a startup. You really dont know where you would find the best information about so many things as how to startup? search engine optimization, the funding - venture capital, angel investors, business incubation centers, government initiatives and so many other things. We believe in growing by helping and the best you can do as an IT company is to share your knowledge and resources. This section for our new startup friends will definitely help them on various topics as stated above. Any other queries are always welcomed.
One other news which may not sound as glamorous is “We have changed our colors”. Dont Worry!! Its not that we have changed our thinking its only that we have changed backgrounds and other colors of our site to make it look attractive. As always criticism will be entertained!!
So friends this is it for now, we plan to come up with some exclusive news soon, just keep coming it to check whats happening outta here!!
Press Release, Latest News, New Product, Service Launch, Press Write @ Indian Web Startups
Posted by whatsupgajeebo in Indian Web Startup News on August 20, 2008
Hello Friends
We are doing some wonderful things lately. We are coming up with cool things for our viewers. Now this is the latest from our bag. What is It? I think you can very well get it just by reading the title.
We always believe Knowledge is Power, and India which has lately doing some great things by moving towards Knowledge Driven Economy, staying up to date with latest happenings in technology area is the key to success. Though there are plenty of resources where you can find whats happening in the techo world all around the globe, but still there is something missing.
There is no platform, where we can find whats latest in India as in what is been done for India, let me give you an example. YouTube launched its Indian edition, as it had the financial muscle power to advertise the press release, everyone came to know. But what about those startup companies in India, who doesnt have enough finances to strive ahead leave about assigning marketing budget.
This site is focused on providing press release services to all those small startups, so as to give them a chance to showcase their new product launch, any new additions to their site and many more things. We will also review major news events happening in India, the relaunches, the drop sheds and so many other things that constitutes web, its users, its publishers and its admirers.
Below is the thumbnail of our new section on press releases.
Press Releases at Indian Web Startups
Friends this is it for now, so next time you notice a startup come with a new thing, ask them to submit a free release at info@immivate.com ; visit also if you wish to keep yourself up to date with the web !!
Search Latest and Top Indian Startups
Posted by whatsupgajeebo in Indian Web Startup News on August 10, 2008
Lot of things have been happening on the indian web startups site fore front. Some new features are been included in this newly launched version of the site.
- Top Voted - Rated Startup Companies
We have included a page Top Rated Startups in our site which lists the companies on the votes basis. we have already notified in our previous press release that users can now vote for the startups they like. - Search Startups
We have figured out a big list of tags that can be associated with a startup, and these tags (including the title of startup) can be searched from the search box we have included in this release. Search results will show startups sorted by date they were posted on our site
For this release top rated startups and searching is been released, we promise to include more and more cool features in near future that will help our site to be more comprehensive and user interactive.
Do leave us a reply below in case you have some suggestions or new features you would like us to include in our site, thanks.
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