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Planning a trip to Goa or Kerala for the New Year Weekend? Think Again!
2007-12-28 10:23:00
Indians are getting richer and so are prices, from real estate to common commodities, all soaring through the roof. Even going on a vacation within India is more expensive than going for a short trip Singapore, Bankok or Sri Lanka.
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Carazoo.com: Eye-catching and Impressive Indian Car Portal
2007-12-27 16:12:00
Carazoo.com has a 360 degree exterior view, the interior 360 degree view to enable the viewers to get virtual ?touch and feel? experience. It?s currently implemented on few models and will be provided soon for all the models. The ?paint your car? option allows you to view cars painted in all available colors, which is just not possible even if you visit the car showroom! Also one can read specifications and reviews and compare cars, request for unlimited number of E-brochures and ask for a variety of no-obligation, hassle-free car quotations from dealers in the required city.
More About: India , Luxury , Indian , Auto , Portal

Popular posts round-up
2007-12-25 16:20:00
Let me first wish all the Trak.in readers a very Happy Christmas. It has been quite hectic over last few days and I have not been able to write as frequently as I would have liked to, but should resume normal posting frequency starting new year (Can’t believe that new year is just round the corner! ). Last week I was in Chennai for pipesCamp event (I will do a post about it shortly) and I will be travelling to Mumbai starting tomorrow till Saturday.  Hoping to meet up with a few Trak.in readers from Mumbai. Here is a quick look are  some of the Trak.in posts that got quite a bit of hits over past few weeks. How far can Indian real estate market rise? I am amazed at the way Indian real estate market is rising. It has many similarities to the Indian stock market but minus the volatility..[..] India Buzz: you just can’t miss it! India is buzzing in all directions, be it the stock market, the rising rupee, the high amount of mergers and acquisitions or Indian st...
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Top 7 reasons why you should work for a start-up
2007-12-25 04:09:00
I have worked with small and big companies alike in my 11 years in IT Industry. Although, bigger established companies give you a sense of security, I firmly believe that they never utilize full and most often hidden (which the person himself does not know) potential of their employees, thereby seriously affecting their growth. Also, in a big company, you feel like a cog in a large machine — easily replaceable. In contrast, working for a startup is a roller coaster ride that if given a chance, one should never miss! I bet you will remember the days working with a startup as most thrilling and fulfilling days of your professional career. Here are 7 reasons why one should work with a startup. Everything matters: Start ups often start on a shoestring budget. Everyone has to do everything, from founders to developers to office boy and most importantly, everything matters ! Scope for creativity: Startups give you complete freedom to think creatively. They are always receptive to new id...
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Mega Acquisitions by Indian companies changing brand India !
2007-12-24 12:17:00
The giant positive strides that Brand India has taken in last few years is nothing less than astonishing. Indian Business men and Entrepreneurs are set out to revamp Indian image that will be boasting world's biggest corporation's in near future. All the sectors, be it Steel, manufacturing, Information technology, Auto and FMCG are all buzzing with Mega Indian acquisitions. The latest and probably the most talked about after Mittal's buy-out of Arcelor, is Jaguar - Land Rover bid by Tata group.
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Find out how fortunate you are - Fun, yet eyeopening quiz !
2007-12-21 06:51:00
Most of us humans never stop cribbing about tiny tiny things that really don't matter. We spend a lot of energy talking and thinking about how difficult our lives is due to these trivial little things. In reality though, we are few of the most fortunate people. Take this quiz and you will find out how fortunate you are compared to rest of the 6.7 billion people on this planet. Based on 32 different factors Futurescopes.com has evolved a formula to determine the fortune score of a person.
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Pringoo: Create, Buy or sell your own signature style merchandize
2007-12-19 12:41:00
With E-Commerce gaining momentum in India, quite a few Indian startups have taken a plunge into online marketplace. Although, online airfare ticket booking takes the lion's share of E-Commerce pie currently, online retail is taking off in a big way. Pune based Pringoo.com, a unique marketplace for designers, sellers and buyers, is one such startup that is looking to cash on this E-Commerce growth.
More About: Business , Style , Doing business , Sell , Create

Do you seek approval for your startup Ideas? Only do it with right people!
2007-12-18 11:51:00
I have read whole of lot articles suggesting aspiring entrepreneurs should talk about their ideas to as many people as possible. How many of you have talked about your ideas to your friends, family or close ones and how many times have you got solid, honest and constructive feedback? I bet most of the times they have either reacted by telling positive things that you want to hear or disapproving it without even analyzing in depth.
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hover.in organizing pipesCamp: Traveling to Chennai
2007-12-17 12:56:00
I have been relatively silent about the startup that I have been involved with for couple of months now. However, lot of action is taking place in Chennai where rest of the hover.in team is located. The hover.in private beta is scheduled for around 3-4th week of January with the users who have signed up for Beta Testing. If you would like to be invited for the private beta, head over to and apply for a hover.in beta today.
More About: Blogging , Yahoo pipes , Traveling , Organ

Purplenova FunCaster: Share full multimedia content on Web2.0 sites without
2007-12-15 08:21:00
In this age of Web2.0 where content publishing and sharing is increasingly becoming important, products like Fun Caster are of great utility. Ability to share content without uploading it to 3rd party server is a great feature that will attract quite a few privacy/ security freaks. FunCaster will also appeal to causal and novice user due to its simplicity. On negative side, as with any PC based hosting application, you need to have "always on" Internet connectivity and a fast connection, especially considering that users will be mostly sharing high bandwidth content like photos and videos.
More About: India , Multimedia , Sites , Purple

Can Force India take Formula One podium by 2010: King of Good times is dete
2007-12-13 14:10:00
Recently, it was announced that India will be staging Formula One racing in 2010. I had my apprehensions given the amount of investment required to host a formula one race event. But, not only will India host formula one race, it will also have its own team. King of Good times, Vijay Mallya, has bought over Spyker F1 team (formerly called Jordan) along with Dutch Entrepreneur Michiel Mol. They are the third owners in two years for the former Jordan team.
More About: Business , Trends , Force

WIMAX: Wireless Broadband Access throughout India by 2010!
2007-12-12 12:27:00
There is no doubt that India n 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 has not taken off, especially broadband Internet subscribers (less than 3 million). Interestingly, with more than 100% growth, more and more people are accessing Internet through their mobile phones. However, mobile internet too has its own limitations, including speed, cost and small screen browsing.
More About: Wireless , Broadband , Growth , Wimax

November Roundup: Statistics and more?
2007-12-11 09:21:00
As expected November was not a great month in terms of statistics and subscribers. The total pageviews came down from 110K to nearly 94K. The posts were relatively infrequent and I was also not able to give much time due to my move to India. November also saw complete overhaul of Trak.in blog, including new theme and Wordpress version upgrade (Blogging Software on which Trak.in runs). During this transition the blog was down infrequently. All this affected November statistics negatively.
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Easiest way for Indian Startups to get angel funding!
2007-12-10 12:31:00
NEN Online, an encyclopedia for new and future entrepreneurs, recently announced their tie-up with IAN. Indian Angel Network (IAN) is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in start up / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value. The partnership was formed to connect Indian startups with angel investors.Together, NEN and IAN will connect Indian Startups to Angel investors through joint events and pitch sessions, and facilitate the investment submission process.
More About: Audio , Venture Capital , Funding

How can people afford it?
2007-12-08 18:53:00
Indian Real estate boom has to be seen to be believed. I do not have words to describe the real estate phenomenon that India is experiencing right now. Since the time I landed at Mumbai airport I have seen every road, every newspaper and every TV channel literally overflowing with real estate commercials / ads.
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Does ATM stand for Any Time Money? Think again…
2007-12-06 13:44:00
Now the acronym ‘ATM’ will have dual meanings - Any Time Money and Any Time Milk. Vending machines are quite popular in the west. You will find them at every nook and corner of the country, be it gas stations, public places or even offices, they are everywhere. However, in India, vending machine culture is yet to catch up. Amul, the number one brand in India, may set the tone for vending machine culture by announcing the launch of 24/7 milk vending machines or ATMs (Any Time Milk). This may come as a boon for modern day nuclear families who are pressed for time. These ATMs will have supply of milk sachets of various sizes dispensed to end users via coins and tokens. These ATMs have already setup in Gujarat on trial basis and will be replicated all over the country in coming months. This seems to be a novel idea, but we will have to wait and watch on how successful this gets. According to report published in ET: State government officials confirmed that the co-operative...
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Indian Internet Penetration: Should we be happy with these number?
2007-12-05 13:20:00
IMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India) and IMRB international recently published their I Cube (Internet in India) report 2007 that showed number of internet users in India touching 46 million in September 2007 from 32.2 million in September 2006. During the same period, the number of active internet users reached 32 million.
More About: Indian , Growth , Happy , Number

After Video resumes it is time for Video Interviews
2007-12-04 09:44:00
To overcome the cost, time and impersonation barriers for non local candidates, Wipro, a leading Indian software company has already introduced Video interviews and have screened hundreds of applicants through video kiosks it has set up at three of its campuses ? two in Bangalore and one in Chennai.
More About: Interviews , Time , Resumes

Trak.in blog has made fool of its readers !!!!
2007-12-03 17:58:00
First off, the comment above goes to show how far some readers can go to dissect a blog. Second, the comment made was without any knowledge of how Analytics code works and third I was surprised that this kind of comment was left on another blog, instead of seeking simple clarifiaction or leaving a comment on this blog.
More About: Readers , Blog , Fool , Made

Trak.in blog silent for next couple of days?moving to India
2007-11-29 13:21:00
If you are a regular reader you may have noticed a slow down in posting on this blog. The reason: I am moving back to India this weekend and even after more than a week of packing, we are still not finished as yet.
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Cost of living in Indian cities not too expensive afterall?
2007-11-27 05:38:00
Now that I am moving back to India, one of the aspect that I am closely looking at is the cost of living in Indian cities. Contrary to my belief, one of the recent surveys showed Indian cities not being too expensive compared to its counterparts across the globe, even after sharp rise in rupee and booming economy. The survey conducted by Hong Kong-based ECA International showed that Mumbai, most expensive city in India, ranks lowly at 177 worldwide and poor 24th in Asia. I had always been under the impression that Mumbai was one of the top expensive cities in World let alone Asia. One of the reasons may be that this survey does not consider Real Estate.
More About: Living , Cities , Cost , Growth

Top 6 tips for Successful Business Partnership
2007-11-25 05:45:00
In this day and age where literally hundreds of new startups are launching every month- and most of them being partnership oriented - it is extremely important to have a positive and transparent Business partnership contributing to the success of the startup venture. Business partner ships can be very closely compared to a marriage, if there are constant differences of opinion and failure in understanding other's point of view, Business partnership is bound to be unsuccessful?
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The new era of mobile content broadcasting and distribution
2007-11-24 17:44:00
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 serials and bland evening movies. And today, even with 100 channels beaming on our TV sets, we crib about lack of choices. And to fulfill this demand (do we really need more channels?) there are hundreds of new channels slated to be launched.
More About: India , Mobile , Distribution , Content , Broadcasting

World?s most influential Consultant: Ram Charan
2007-11-22 17:08:00
I was spellbounded when I read this story on CNN money about Ram Charan. His name might give a very different impression, but this professor turned he freelance consultant is world's most influential and probably has access to most influential boardrooms across the globe.
More About: Business , World , Consultant , Hara , Ulta

Sabeer Bhatia brings Microsoft Office 2007 Online?.for free!
2007-11-21 20:06:00
It is clearly a strategy for Microsoft buy-out. Using Live (the new avatar of Microsoft) name, the same icons and pushing it as Office online- without being affiliated to Microsoft. Live Documents has every stamp of "Made by Microsoft", although in reality it has been developed by bunch of engineers in Bangalore for Instacoll.
More About: Microsoft Office , Free , Online

Sabeer Bhatia brings Microsoft Office 2007 Online?.for free!
2007-11-21 20:06:00
It is clearly a strategy for Microsoft buy-out. Using Live (the new avatar of Microsoft) name, the same icons and pushing it as Office online- without being affiliated to Microsoft. Live Documents has every stamp of "Made by Microsoft", although in reality it has been developed by bunch of engineers in Bangalore for Instacoll.
More About: Microsoft Office , Free , Online

Do you know Sabeer Bhatia?s latest Internet venture?
2007-11-20 23:03:00
In last couple of days, I have come across various media sites reporting that Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia will be announcing his newest Internet venture (product) in couple of days. He mentioned this at the sidelines of Nasscom Annual Product enclave. SAAS (Software as a Service) is becoming increasingly popular thanks to Web2.0 technologies. Companies like Zoho and Google are blurring the line between Web and Desktop applications.
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Do you know Sabeer Bhatia?s latest Internet venture?
2007-11-20 23:03:00
In last couple of days, I have come across various media sites reporting that Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia will be announcing his newest Internet venture (product) in couple of days. He mentioned this at the sidelines of Nasscom Annual Product enclave. SAAS (Software as a Service) is becoming increasingly popular thanks to Web2.0 technologies. Companies like Zoho and Google are blurring the line between Web and Desktop applications.
More About: Venture , Microsoft , Indian , Online

Addictive e-parody!
2007-11-20 22:01:00
In continuation to the funny look of Microsoft Search Engine - MSDewey.com , Uncyclopedia.org is another site that has got into notice. The site looks to be a spoof of the well-contented, encyclopedia Wikepedia.org. Try opening these sites together and every word, link and tag lines of the former site seems to be a mockery of the latter.
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Addictive e-parody!
2007-11-20 22:01:00
In continuation to the funny look of Microsoft Search Engine - MSDewey.com , Uncyclopedia.org is another site that has got into notice. The site looks to be a spoof of the well-contented, encyclopedia Wikepedia.org. Try opening these sites together and every word, link and tag lines of the former site seems to be a mockery of the latter.
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