jodhpuriGuy | Avi Mehta

So yesterday, I talked about hITEC, The other project I was working on is called MoMedia. This project was similar to “Video On The Wall“, more generalized, more Mobile based and had Social Networking at its heart. Here are some details from our notes:

• To create a location based blogging service for Mobile Phones (You can upload Images, Videos, Text or Audio)
• Provide an engaging UI for users to view other people in the neighborhood who are blogging from the same platform.
• Create a social networking experience by allowing users to follow others(twitter anyone?), add other users as friends/fellow workers etc.
• Integrate the network with Facebook, Orkut, twitter so that status updates can be propagated to all networks. (Friendfeed ? - I guess so just  that when we thought of the idea, it wasn’t there)
• Provide users with a blog and allow users to specify their own blogs like wordpress and blogger so that posts can be posted their directly without any action on user’s part.

The screen shots follow after the break.

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Heard of Google Reader? Well That’s my homepage and it’s probably the page with second highest hits from me. Anyways, I follow a lot of popular blogs and come across point-of-views from many good “blog” writers. Recently, I have been noticing a pattern that is kind of amusing. The first incident related to this, If I stretch my memory would be when Loren Feldman of 1938media.com reviewed Seesmic. The review got quite a lot of attention and people involved were instantly famous. Recently though, the trend has been increasing with a post from Scoble or Mike  or someone else every other week getting caught in blogosphere and getting tossed around. Just today, Paul Graham had to post more notes on his last post coz that one got caught on the blogstream.

So why am I commenting on all this? Well because it really is funny to see how things are changing on the internet and how similar it looks to those Indian TV Reality shows.

2007 was a interesting year(for internet and other things too :). But I will be talking about internet here :). While in 2005-06, many of the new startups were founded, the deadpool started populating a bit later on. There were many interesting concepts experimented with. 2.0 was attached to many things and people found more and more ways to spend their time on internet. But coming back to 2007, Google got good and bad publicity. Digg continued to grow its user base even though the comment system and deletion of entries the created a huge fuss.

We saw loads of office apps being released for web from google, zoho and others. Social networking took a big shape with facebook and the Google’s OpenSocial . Microsoft released silverlight and adobe attacked with AIR. But both the technologies have yet to see some serious use. (What is next year for??)

The mobile phone (add media and internet to it) market saw two bigshots jumping in with iphone and Android.  There were otherbig things happening but I need to stop writing right now as I am headed to Las Vegas for the new year…

But what to expect next year?  Well… Wait for the phones with Android! Wait for how EU responds to google and doubleclick merger. Wait for companies to respond to iPhone. Wait for the interesting news from me :D!

Avi

TempoStand is a platform that promotes independent musicians. It is not specific to any genre. Hindustani, Sufi, Folk, Rock, Jazz, Punk, Carnatic, Blues and all other genres are invited. The crazier the better.

So here’s a description of this startup from ujjwal, gaurav and naman from our college. The idea is cool(It will be better as the time progresses and they get to work on it more and more), It is almost the right time to do it and they have selected the right market and user-base.

Best of Luck Guys!!

More on startups later ;)