Indian presence in WEB 2.0.
October 29, 2006
IT and Indian presence,that is obvious to find.In case of so-called-second-boom,It took time to find Indian WEB 2.0 startups(dedicated one product startups).Two startups came under my purview this week.
(1) Toufee
Toufee is a new WYSIWYG online Flash movie builder that aims to make it easy for non technical users to quickly create impressive multimedia items for embedding in web pages. Some of the key features include drag and drop element placement, good control over presentation timing and a text-to-speech engine with six relatively human voices. I think there is a lot of potential here – there’s no shortage of people who would like to make Flash presentations without complicated or expensive desktop software.[From Techcrunch]
This is really good tool to use.Only non-technical thing I wonder is name of the comapny/product “Toufee”.Search for most weired names and you will end up on one or another WEB 2.0 startup.Creativity in product ideas gives us new WEB 2.0 products everyday but I don’t understand this part of creativity i.e. naming convention for new product and company.
In fact you will find domain name creator like this.
“74winks,urburn,6monkeys,roadband,3lists,olights,logpiles,oomia,treamroad,7squares,net74,ire28,ehind89,afemarks,opble”
[Generated by above domain name generator]
I understand craziness behind new products but at least we should come up with meaningful names(might be Toufee has some meaning 
but I am dumb to catch it. ).Again no offense with excellent product Toufee,they did great job.
(2) Slideshare
As name suggests,its about sharing presentation slides.SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint and OpenOffice presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others’ presentations, and comment on individual slides. It’s a great way to share your ideas with others, or to learn from other people. And it’s free.
Slideshare is the work of Uzanto – a small startup based in Mountain View, CA and New Delhi, India.
This is another great tool.Indian teachers (having skills in IT tools) should use it extensively to spread their knowledge.
“Slideshare” has meaning.Even naive web user (which is most likely situation with Indian web sphere) can also understand the use of tool.
Two good startups from India.Nice work.
Enjoy interactive surfing.
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jignesh | November 17, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Awesome! Thanks for sharing these sites
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