The following websites are the winners of the 2011 Website of the Year India award:

The Website of the Year India award is the online people’s choice award initiative by online research agency MetrixLab. Click here for the complete news

Category A: Companies that are at least 2 years old and less than 5 years old
Aspiring Minds, Delhi
Anjaneya Lifecare, Mumbai
Clickindia, Delhi
Cocubes, Chandigarh
Commonfloor, Bangalore
Desicrew, Chennai
Gridbots, Ahmedabad
Kwench, Mumbai
Minimac Solutions, Pune
P2Power Solutions, Noida
SEED, Gurgaon
Techbuddy Consulting, Mumbai
The Hiring Tool, Hyderabad
TouchMagix, Pune
Wirkle Technologies, Delhi

Category B: Companies that are less than 2 years old
ArrayShield, Chennai
AliveNow, Bangalore
Engage4More, Mumbai
Eko, Delhi
GreenwayGrameen, Mumbai
MobStac, Bangalore
Phyzok Learning, Coimbatore
Tatsam Sports, Delhi
Valuefy Consultants, Mumbai
Witcraft Marketing, Delhi

Two independent juries will meet in Mumbai next week to evaluate the shortlisted companies and pick the winners in each category. Five companies will be picked as winners in Category A and three in Category B.

With India boasting of around half a million blogs, and all the major news channels consisting of a presence in the blogosphere, there is no doubt that this powerful media is here to stay. Blogomania, an event to exploit this face of the internet, aims to pit the top bloggers of the nation against one another. Primarily a contest to test the blogging skills of the contestant, this is a platform to showcase one’s eloqence, wit and humour to impress the masses.

All registered users of Cognizance 2011 can participate. Cash Prizes worth Rs. 30,000 are at stake.
Check out Blogomania site.

* InMobi (2nd largest mobile Ad Network the world)
* Flipkart (Indian Amazon)
* Redbus (Online bus booking)
* Grabbon (bought by snapdeal) and Taggle (group buying)
* CloudMagic (improves gmail search)
* AllGo Systems (conceptualised a $35 tablet.. possibly the Indian govt one)
* Notion Ink (developing Adam tablet has shifted their base to Bannerghatta Road
* Myntra (print tshirts/mugs on-demand)
* HealthCareMagic.com (Ask a doctor)
* IonLabs (innovative products like cointracker)
* MustSeeIndia.com (Travel website)
* Crederity.com ( Online Identity verification)
* Minglebox.com ( Career Site)
* HolidayIQ.com ( Holiday Reviews Site)
* Commonfloor.com ( Apartments networking site)
* Althea Systems (the company behind shufflr.tv — making videos more social)
* Hidden Reflex (Built Epic Browser, the first truly Indian browser)
* AskLaila (local search)
* TringMe (VoIP)
* NGPay (mobile payments)
* GoVasool (local shopping)
* http://revu.in/ check-in and review via SMS
* http://mobstac.com/ Create better mobile version of your website
* http://oobi.in/ Interactive design solutions
* http://taggle.com Group buying

Complete discussion here

Lifeblob is accusing Facebook for blatantly copying its ‘Related Photos’ feature.

Pranav (Founder/CEO) of Lifeblob says – Just to set the record straight, we have had this feature ( and a lot more ) at http://www.lifeblob.com for over a year now and facebook has blatantly copied it. Every time you upload a photo on lifeblob, a recommendation engine not only looks at the face tags, but also the other information associated wtih your photo to show you photos that are closely related around it.So when you upload your graduation day photos, we discover other photos of your graduation day and show it next to your photo. What facebook has done is picked up this idea and launched a simple version of it that only uses face tags.

The question is that how many Indian Startups would suffer from these unethical activities from Biggies like Facebook, Google & Microsft.

Since its inception, EDC have organized various events ranged over social entrepreneurship events on campus to PAN IIT business plan contests.

Team:

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shashi Mathur
Chief Industry Advisor: Mr. Sanjiv Sethi
President: Ankur Khetan
Vice-Presidents: Karan Gupta, Mehak Gupta, & Neha Jindal
CORPORATE AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Abhishek Jain, & Rachit Gupta
EVENTS AND PROGRAMS: Nikhil Tiwari, Poem Kabra, & Ramandeep Babrah
MARKETING AND FINANCE: Aakash Tulsani, & Gagandeep Singh
MEDIA AND PUBLIC RELATIONS: Lalit Bihani, Sachin Verma, & Vishwesh Singh
STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR HELPDESK: Kunal Goel, Kush Goel, & Shreyans Singh
EDITORIAL BOARD: Siddharth Bhattacharya
DESIGN: Akshina Gupta, Rohit Chaudhary, & Vishal Jain
WEB AND TECHNOLOGY: Sachin Agrawal, & Sangeet Aggarwal

EDC Website

Janaagraha’s Jaagte Raho! campaign has teamed up with CommonFloor.com to ensure all residents of Bangalore go out and vote for these all important elections, which will affect our quality of lives on a day-to-day basis!

Click here to take the pledge to vote now!!!

In order to vote in these elections, your name must be on the voter’s list.
•    If you were registered to vote for 2009 Loksabha elections, check the voter list click here.
•    If you registered recently (after May 2009), check the latest supplement at the office of your Revenue Officer (RO). Click here for to find the address.

Please remember that your name must be on the voter list for you to cast your vote whether you have a voter ID card or not. If you haven’t been issued a voter ID card, you can vote with any other valid photo ID card.

In case you wish to BE THE CHANGE, you can run an effective door-to-door campaign in your own society / neighbourhood, and ensure that all your neighbours go out and vote in these elections!

Download our guide to organize a neighbourhood door-to-door drive.

To know more about your candidates, click here to check the affidavit details (education, assets, criminal records) of the candidates contesting from your ward. You can also be a part of the following “Know Your Candidate” events being held across Bangalore:

Ward 7- Byataranayapura
Date and Time: March 23 (Tue), 4:30pm
Venue: Vinayaka Sunrise School, Coffee Board Layout, Near MK Ahmed Stores, Kempapura.

Ward: 112-Domlur
Date and Time: March 24 (Wed), 4:30pm
Venue: Domlur club, Domlur

Ward: 34-Gangenahalli
Date and Time: March 24 (Wed), 5pm
Venue: Staff institute, DGQA Residential Complex near Para School, Mekhri School,Opp. HQ training command, airforce, Bangalore- 560032

Ward 6: Thanisandra
Date and Time: March 24 (Wed), 4:30pm
Venue:Kenneth George English School, Bhuvaneshwari Nagar.

To volunteer with Jaagte Raho! campaign or for further details, call at (080) 41277105.

50 selected entrepreneurs were asked to choose from 2 selected projects to work on during the weekend. It was a great opportunity for entrepreneurs, especially the techies, to expand their horizons in two intensive days, working with talented people of diverse profiles.

Mango has announced the sale of few of its products to Qualcomm Inc.
Ojas Ventures, the $35-million early stage venture fund floated by N S Raghavan, the co-founder and former joint managing director of Infosys, has made its first exit from its investment in Bangalore-based Mango Technologies Pvt Ltd.

The exit for Ojas follows Mango Technologies’ move to sell few of its products to Qualcomm Incorporated, the world’s largest wireless semiconductor company. As part of this transaction, Qualcomm received mobile handset user interface (UI) software and a PC-based UI customization toolkit from Mango. The value of the deal was not disclosed. The deal with Qualcomm has offered an exit window for both Ojas, which is the first institutional investor, and other angel investors in Mango.

Reference Links:
http://www.vccircle.com/500/news/ojas-makes-its-first-exit-with-mango-technologies
http://www.livemint.com/2010/02/03231305/Ojas-exits-Mango-Tech-after-Qu.html
http://contentsutra.com/article/419-ojas-ventures-invests-in-software-solution-provider-mango-technologies/