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TasksEveryDay.com: On demand virtual assistants for busy professionals and Businesspeople
Most of us have heard about Elance, getafreelancer or guru where users can outsource work to freelancers on project to project basis. These services are quite popular number of individuals and small business earn their livelihood through…
Advocatekhoj: Present your case, get a lawyer, Win your case
No, the last part of the title is stretching it up a bit too much. But this new startup AdvocateKhoj helps users to find well qualified lawyers to fight out your case. A good lawyer is half battle won !
Legal system in India is…
Advertisement India: Online classifieds for offline world
In this web2.0 age we are increasingly getting used to online classified sites, however, even in today's world, offline newspaper classifieds have more than 90% of the market share. Online ads do not generate even fraction of a response…
Mumbai gets smartcards for local trains and BEST buses
During my train travels from New Jersey to New York via Subway, I used to always think of how it would be to have a similar ticketing system for journey in crowded Mumbai local trains. The first thing that came to my mind - it was just not…
10 Indian online advertising networks
Online advertising is steadily robbing the market share from traditional media advertising. Given the potential of growth and increasing Internet penetration in India, online advertising is set to explode in coming years. The 38.5 million…
Cleartrip.com: The most user-friendly OTA in India
Last year I did a comparison of 10 OTA's operating in India. The comparison was done based on 5 different parameters like Ticket fares, Flight options, Destinations, User Friendliness and value added services. In that comparison IXIGO…
Recession and Indian IT services industry
Mark (name changed) wanted to outsource some of his development work. A typical outsourcing process starts with bidding, where companies from different cheaper countries including India would bid for projects. He asks one of his manager (An…
Global Top 100 best outsourcing service providers of 2008
It is been a long time since I have published a top lists. During the starting days of this blog, I regularly published quite a few lists which are great reference point to the readers. However, over last few months I have not been able to…
Online Photo Printing and Sharing in India: A Comparative Analysis
Online Photo printing space is quite crowded in India with more than 8 players in fray. In US, online printing has a sizeable market that is expected to touch $1 billion by 2011 (Currently at $500 million). However, in India online photo…
Yahoo’s new Ad solution targets user behaviour, hopes to increase click through rates!
Now, I feel this is a serious threat to user's privacy. Even though the Yahoo! officials have assured that they follow strict privacy policy, a normal user will be quite uncomfortable knowing that everything he/ she does is tracked and…
UniGuru.com: rate, review and discuss foreign universities
Want to have first hand unbiased information about Universities abroad?
Want to interact with students already studying in universities abroad?
Want to make decision on which foreign university to opt?
Are you a student in foreign…
TRAI gives broadband some meaning, finally!
Having broadband in India is like having speeds of poor dial-up connection. You can never do anything else other than browsing (that too is pretty frustrating) - seeing video clips or listening to streaming music is next to impossible.…
WIMAX: Wireless Broadband Access throughout India by 2010!
There is no doubt that Indian Telecommunication Industry is currently growing at an unimaginable pace. Normally, growth of Internet subscribers is directly relative to growth of telecom subscribers. However in India, Internet penetration…
The new era of mobile content broadcasting and distribution
It is amazing to see how television broadcasting has changed over past 10-15 years. Earlier, we used to watch anything that was dished out to us on Doordarshan, be it Nukkad, be it films division cartoons (do you remember those?) or Sunday…
Indian Online Travel Industry is buzzing!
Indian OTAs (Online travel agents) are in news again. With more than 70% of e-commerce spend happening purely on online travel booking, this space is getting quite lucrative.
With the number of Online Travel agents reaching double figures,…
Buy movie tickets, make payment and even select your seats – All through mobile!
Indian mobile subscriber growth does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon. It is no wonder that most of the services are going mobile. Users now want all information to be available on the web, be it local search, banking, bill…
Will this new ‘Googly’ trump Microsoft once again?
Quite a few things happened these last few days in the social networking space. While tons have been written about Microsoft valuing Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook at $15 billion , we mostly missed Yahoo's decision to let go of Yahoo! 360…
Do you write a Business Plan only to get funding for your startup?
In these days of Web startups, where cost of launching an online venture has reduced drastically, writing a Business plan has become kind of passé or old fashioned. I see numerous small startups come to fore purely based on a single idea…
Search Engine Marketing: Indespensable tool for Consumer goods Businesses
Internet is now an indispensable for all Businesses globally. If you do not rank in top 10 (or for that matter top 3-4) positions for your product or keyword, in most cases your business will be left behind. No doubt SEO (Search Engine…
Broadband in India: Is it going to ever improve?
One of the major problems that I face during my travel to India is the speed and reliability of broadband connections. In US, majority of users have 4 to 6 mbps lines at their home and reliability problems are next to none. Downloading a…