Technology Bites

Windows Live Planet is a social network from Microsoft India. The details about the site like when it is launched are not available at this time but Liveside readers spotted the site from MSN India pages.

The media in India is reporting that $10 Laptop in unveiled today, but i couldn’t find a picture of the same. I was not sure whether this is real of some fake news, building a $10 Laptop is not an easy task.
The specs according to media reports is, it features 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi and [...]

Royal Pingdom has some analysis on most searched social networks in various countries using Google Insights. The analysis is based on keywords, so it doesn’t actually tell the popularity of a social network in a country, as search volume doesn’t correlate well with the usage of the site.
The analysis shows some interesting results.

Facebook is [...]

Lifeblob is a life streaming app that allows you to post (import) pictures, blog posts, videos and text messages. The posted messages or photos are arranged in a timeline so you or your friends can see your lifestream.

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I am thinking to develop a site similar to popurls with Popular Indian Blogs from quite some time. After seeing Alltop i thought that type of site would be good. Let me tell you there is nothing great about these sites, but it is always fun to do something like this.

I just came to know that IncridibleIndia has a channel on YouTube. Seems to me that this channel is maintained by someone from Ministry of Communications. There are a total of 18 videos promoting IncridibleIndia Campaign.
The Ministry is delighted to take advantage of Google’s YouTube online video platform to convey in even more meaningful [...]

Rediff launched a social media sharing network named iShare. You can share videos, music and photos using the network.
If you are a rediff user you can login with your rediff ID and start using the site. To upload files you need to download a desktop client and install to your system, this looks something [...]

Printo is a Bangalore based startup aims to transfer digital printing in India with services from printing from Photo albums to Business cards.
Printo is different from the digital photo print services available in India, it is focussing on photo calenders, business cards and digital documents. Hindu reported that Printo is in talks with services [...]

Reliance ADA’s Entertainment divisions Indian social networking venture Bigadda.com is launched as alpha. For quite some time they have placed a logo poll to generate curiosity about the product and they advertised on Google Adwords. Currently memberships are based on invitations, i myself don’t have any invitation to check out the features, so these are [...]

Push is a mobile application which will allow users to access 5 emails in one mobile phone. Push is a product of Consilient, it adds Blackberry type functionality to normal mobile phones. With push one can access Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and POP3 or IMAP accounts.
Consilient Push uses open standards (LEMONADE/P-IMAP). If [...]