Web space - - - - 2006
I think it was a good year for the world of internet with development of great technologies with success stories as well as some big disappointments.
The year 2006 made internet more popular to the naive users by the help of Web 2.0 concepts like social networking, photo sharing, etc.. Some of great start-up companies bubbled up with interesting ideas and technologies.. Our local Indian scenario also have changed a lot with most of the start-ups having office spaces in and around IT cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Gurgaon, etc..
The some of the start-ups/technologies attracted me is ::
1) Riya.com, like.com
2) Ugenie
3) Uzanto
4) Mingle box
5) Onyomo
6) Polarrose (expected to come out with beta version by first quarter of 2007, report on GigaOM )
In the above list riya made a big disappointment on 2006, came up with big expectations and hype but flopped, but it was a courageous move by CEO Munjal Shaw. A good leader never fails, Munjal came up with an interesting concept of visual shopping website (like.com), where he used the core technology of riya.com ( visual search engine with accuracy of about 50 - 70% ). It is a good example of shifting focus to a failed technology to the new area. Good luck Munjal !! , may be 2007 will be your's.
The conceptual wise i rank Ugenie after riya because the concept of comparison shopping interests me a lot, I think there is lot more to tap on this area. May be we can expect a comparison shopping engine for India in 2007, lot of experienced geeks are working in ugenie, I think we can expect more from them, ( i feel, need to change UI and AJAX ).
Uzanto, came up with a good product slide share, making lot of hypes on the technology meet ups and bar camps other product is mind canvas ( I don't have much idea.. ). I think it is one of the first company to come up with the full implementation of a product on much hyped technology ROR, expecting more in 2007.
Mingle Box, its a true Indian startup focusing on social networking, with local flavors, I don't know much about future of social networking, as there are solid players like orkut ( Which has got second highest number of users from India after Brazil ), Myspace, etc...
Onyomo again a true Indian start up search engine, good concept but i think it should come out metros by 2007 ( Covering all the cities and villages),
Polarrose, start up from Sweden, announced their beta release date yesterday, beta will come out by first quarter of 2007. No rivals as such, like riya had, but if they can search the photos as accurately as 70 - 80% it will be a huge success story with change of search concept( may be next Google on photo search... ). They did not make much hype as riya did , but i feel they will do something great. Let's wait for it.
Lets hope for something innovative and revolutionary change on the web in 2007, like what google did years back on text search.
The year 2006 made internet more popular to the naive users by the help of Web 2.0 concepts like social networking, photo sharing, etc.. Some of great start-up companies bubbled up with interesting ideas and technologies.. Our local Indian scenario also have changed a lot with most of the start-ups having office spaces in and around IT cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Gurgaon, etc..
The some of the start-ups/technologies attracted me is ::
1) Riya.com, like.com
2) Ugenie
3) Uzanto
4) Mingle box
5) Onyomo
6) Polarrose (expected to come out with beta version by first quarter of 2007, report on GigaOM )
In the above list riya made a big disappointment on 2006, came up with big expectations and hype but flopped, but it was a courageous move by CEO Munjal Shaw. A good leader never fails, Munjal came up with an interesting concept of visual shopping website (like.com), where he used the core technology of riya.com ( visual search engine with accuracy of about 50 - 70% ). It is a good example of shifting focus to a failed technology to the new area. Good luck Munjal !! , may be 2007 will be your's.
The conceptual wise i rank Ugenie after riya because the concept of comparison shopping interests me a lot, I think there is lot more to tap on this area. May be we can expect a comparison shopping engine for India in 2007, lot of experienced geeks are working in ugenie, I think we can expect more from them, ( i feel, need to change UI and AJAX ).
Uzanto, came up with a good product slide share, making lot of hypes on the technology meet ups and bar camps other product is mind canvas ( I don't have much idea.. ). I think it is one of the first company to come up with the full implementation of a product on much hyped technology ROR, expecting more in 2007.
Mingle Box, its a true Indian startup focusing on social networking, with local flavors, I don't know much about future of social networking, as there are solid players like orkut ( Which has got second highest number of users from India after Brazil ), Myspace, etc...
Onyomo again a true Indian start up search engine, good concept but i think it should come out metros by 2007 ( Covering all the cities and villages),
Polarrose, start up from Sweden, announced their beta release date yesterday, beta will come out by first quarter of 2007. No rivals as such, like riya had, but if they can search the photos as accurately as 70 - 80% it will be a huge success story with change of search concept( may be next Google on photo search... ). They did not make much hype as riya did , but i feel they will do something great. Let's wait for it.
Lets hope for something innovative and revolutionary change on the web in 2007, like what google did years back on text search.
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