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/

Blogomania, a long term event that spans for the three months of January, February and March 2010, 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 eloquence, wit and humour to impress the masses.

All registered users of Cognizance 2010 can participate. Prizes worth Rs. 25,000 are at stake.

E-Summit 2010 focuses on the three E’s:
* Explore
* Evolve
* Enterprise

E-Summit will bring in some of the most enriching and enlightening panel discussions, workshops and interactive sessions with successful and distinguished entrepreneurs and corporates. For startups and entrepreneurs there will be parallel events like mentoring sessions and startup showcasing. The summit will also host the finals for EUREKA! 2009- Asia’s largest Business Plan competition.

Web: http://www.esummit.ecell.in
Date: 7th Feb, 2010
Venue: IIT Bombay

Organized by:
The Entrepreneurship Cell
SAC, IIT Bombay
Mumbai-400076
Phone No: (022) 25764044
Fax No: (022) 25768490
E-Mail: ecell@iitb.ac.in

JustDial has obtained an exparte injunction against Infomedia 18 Limited, restraining it from carrying out any business or rendering any service of providing information of business, services, and products, through their newly launched website askme.in.

The High Court has also appointed commissioners to visit Infomedia 18 Ltd’s office in Delhi and Mumbai and to seize and take into custody all the CPUs, compact, floppy discs and/or other storage media containing any part of the commercial or business directory database belonging to Just Dial (source).

Complete news here.

Tips for creating a successful new online product

What to build
1. Build for someone specific: The worst possible market for a product is “small businesses on the web”.
2. Don’t be afraid of targeting a narrow niche: The smaller the niche, the lower the bar to success.
3. Solve a real problem that costs money: The easiest way to get someone to loosen their purse strings is to convince them that using your product will pay for itself.

How to build it
4. Test the market with a working prototype as soon as possible: Listen to your users — and, to do this, give them a chance to tell you.
5. Develop iteratively: Aim for the result of each iteration to be useful in and of itself, but keep each iteration as tiny as possible.
6. Get things right, and be decisive in correcting the wrongs: Don’t delay necessary change just because you’re already committed into a different direction.
7. Don’t spend the time correcting until you know what you’re aiming for: If you realise that you need to change the direction of the product significantly, figure out your new goals for before implementing the change.
8. Don’t let your programmers design the user interface: Make sure you have a gifted UI designer on your team.

Who to build it with
9. Make sure every member of the development team is passionate about the product: Build your product in-house, and make sure the team is fully bought into the concept and committed to make it a success.
10. Be sickeningly elitist about your development team and sickeningly inclusive about your users: It’s never the user’s fault, it’s always your product’s fault for not being clear and intuitive enough.
11. The best hiring strategy is to hire no one: You need to recruit a development team to work with you, not for you.
12. Include at least one target user on the development team: Survival is worth giving up equity to get a target user on your development team.
13. Ensure everyone on your development team understands the problem they’re solving: Embed your development team into the end-users’ environment — at least for a time.

Read complete post here.

The members of the Perfios think-tank have had long, successful stints at organizations leveraging the best-of-the-breed technologies to build intuitive, secure software applications for the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) sector. The founding team members have served as C-level executives in several multinational organizations and have been instrumental in setting up and managing global delivery teams. The members have also successfully transformed several start-up software companies into large, profit-making enterprises.

Who can benefit from Perfios?
Perfios is for anyone who wishes to solve the problem of managing wealth distributed among various asset classes and among various institutions. If you have bank accounts, credit cards, Mutual Funds, Equity etc with multiple institutions, how often have you felt that - ‘what if all of this could be accessed at one place?’ Perfios addresses exactly this aspect (and more!) and provides access across asset classes on one platform and in the process takes care of your other worries too!
Please do give it a whirl (www.perfios.com) and share your feedback.