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"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?" Guy de Maupassant

Monday, October 9, 2006

India Web 2.0 Analysis

WATblog has a neat write-up on India Web 2.0 sites and companies in their many part series covering social networking, social bookmarking, video sharing, picture sharing, social sharing, events sharing, media or file sharing.

Parts 1-4
Part 5

Other reading/resources on India Web 2.0:

  • Amit Ranjan of Webyantra consistently presents really excellent reviews of Indian Web 2.0 sites
"To summarize - Orkut.com is the most impressive social network in the Indian market currently. With the arrival of Jhoom, Minglebox and Yaari - Orkut is most certain to lose out on its market share as the other 3 will capitalize on their Indian presence and more 'Indianized' marketing. Itís very difficult to choose one over the other amongst Yaari, Jhoom and Minglebox currently - the one with the better clarity, UI, marketing and passion will win. I wont give much of a chance to Fropper despite its marketing muscle - any site that canít think of making money other than charging their users for the basic use, when others are giving it for free does not even deserve to win"

Indians on Orkut are thriving .. I get atleast 6-10 invites to be friend every day, and its almost beginning to feel like spam! Interestingly, I was recently faciliatating an ideation workshop with a traditional FMCG multinational and its ad agency, and at lunch, many of the executives there were talking of 'Orkutting'.
  • Contentsutra among other digital media news, does reviews on new social media sites from India
  • Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration keeps an eye on all the developments worldwide in this area - here's one example where he shares a portrait of his son, Google using "Museumr - a Flickr Toy where you pass the URL of the Flickr picture or any photo on the web, choose a Museum Gallery style and the application will create an awesome piece of art displayed in a real museum gallery complete with admiring visitors".
Here's a Flickr Image I've uploaded on Indian Web 2.0 Logos ... inspired by Stabilo Boss's global Web 2.0 logo image. There's a Chinese Web 2.0 logo collection too.

Do let me know if I've missed out Web 2.0 companies/sites in the India logos collection!

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Update: changed the logos a little taking in some recos from my geeky friends.
Any more suggestions?
Update 2:  Read/Write Web has a list of Top Web Applications from India,  compiled by Neeraj  Kumar.

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