Golden era of Website 1994-2006

With the launching of Yahoo in 1994 marks a great beginning in the history of www, all great website like google,facebook,youtube were launched.

1.yahoo.com - launched in 1994

2.whitehouse.gov - launched in 1994

3.telegraph.co.uk - launched in 1994

4.nytimes.com - launched in 1995

5.craigslist.org - launched in 1995

6.amazon.com - launched in 1995

7. msn.com - launched in 1995

8.google.com - launched in 1996

9.news.bbc.co.uk - launched in 1997

10.blogger.com - launched in 1999

11.wikipedia.org - launched in 2001

12.myspace.com - launched in 2003

13.facebook.com - launched in 2004

15.flickr.com - launched in 2004

16.  youtube.com - launched in 2005

17. twitter.com - launched in 2006

The mother of great Indian websites-Info Edge

Info Edge, the company which runs popular websites like Naukri.com and Jeevansathi.com has acquired the businesses of TooStep Consultancy Private Limited a firm which developed a SAS platform that enables recruiters to promote jobs on social networking sites, reports Watblog.com.

Incorporated in 2007, TooStep operates an online portal for professionals to share and discover professional expertise. This acquisition would also help Info Edge to inculcate these features into its job search portal that would ease the job of recruiters.

“We expect to benefit from their experience and integrate these features into Naukri over a period of time. Toostep’s product will benefit from scaling up of its sales to Naukri’s vast client base,” says Ambarish Raghuvanshi, Director and CFO, Info Edge.

Earlier, Info Edge had invested $6.5 million in Canvera, an online photography company. It had also invested $3.5 million in fashion retail website 99lables.com and 12.86 crores in Zomato.com.

Info Edge has great and popular web portals under its belt like - Naukri.Com, 99acres.Com, jeevansathi.Com and Shiksha.com

Shiksha.com

Shiksha is a Hindi word for education. Commenced in 2008, Shiksha.com caters to the educational requirements and queries of students. The portal is the brainchild of Info Edge India Ltd. Students can find information on educational institutes, programs, scholarships and admission notifications. More than 40,000 courses of numerous Indian and overseas institutes are listed on this site. Shiksha.com has 15 branches in 12 Indian cities. As of May 2012, the traffic share as per Comscore is 41%. In July 2012, mobile application of this was launched making it easily accessible to students on the move. The mobile site garnered 10% of the total response.

The site has made its presence felt in the print media.^[2] The Economic Times,^[3] The Hindu Business Line and^[4] India Today have mentioned about user-friendly common application form.

Jeevansathi.com

Jeevansathi.com is an Indian matrimonial portal.^[2] The website was bought in 2006 by Info Edge India Ltd.

The website has more than 8.5 Lac registered members. The organization has around 230 employees working in 54 offices in 37 cities spread across the country, headquartered in Noida. Jeevansathi also has 14 Matchpoint across the India.  It is a part of Bombay Stock Exchange and the growth of the company can be tracked in the annual report of Info Edge, shared on its website.

It’s searchable directory includes profiles of prospective brides and grooms. One can register and search by religion, community, caste and sub-caste, geographical area, occupation, and mother tongue

Users can also search and contact using their mobiles.

know About NH-7 webzine

NH7 is an Indian webzine which reports on indie and alternative culture in India. It was started in 2010 when Only Much Louder Entertainment and Indiecision^[1] merged to form a webzine dedicated to Indian indie music and alternative culture. NH7.in is currently one of the only daily (five days a week) updated national music publications in India. The NH7 homepage changes every day, five days a week with new articles, features and reviews of bands from India and around the world. The site records 120,000 unique visitors in a month

 


Indiecision was started in 2008 as a music blog and then was absorbed by NH7. It is updated daily with coverage of the alternative music scene in India alongside coverage of stand-up comedy, graffiti, theatre, and comics in its regular features.





Out Of Toon is a weekly updated cartoon series by Deepak Gopalakrishnan. Double Tap is a bi-weekly feature about zombies and everything related to zombies. NH7 Quick Draw is a weekly feature that reviews one newgraphic novel on the site. Walks Into A Bar is a monthly feature that interviews stand-up comedians in India. 5electronic is a bi-weekly feature where Indian electronic artists recommend that they are currently listening to. Five at 5 is a daily feature on NH7 where one NH7 writer/staffer recommends five songs from their playlist. NH7 In Conversation is a monthly feature that talks to artists about their upcoming releases and various projects. The NH7 Media Capsule is a daily feature that rounds up the music news that has been covered by the mainstream news publications. The NH7 throwdown is a bi-weekly profile of an emerging b-boy/b-girl from India. The webzine has also expanded into visual features with the launch of NH7 TV

India Study Channel

The India Study Channel is an educational portal providing a range of web-based resources on the Indian educational system. It was established by Timmy John in July 2007. The portal offers information on educational institutions, previous year's question papers, professional answers, and job information.

This site was actually created as a research project my Timmy John and later on, was hosted and managed by his elder brother Tony John. Now all developmental issues are managed and controlled by India's renowned e-enterpreneur Tony John.

The site participates in the Google AdSense programme, sharing 90% of Adsense revenues to its users, and pays some of its contributors directly. Contributions are editorially reviewed. Currently this portal is functional with 3 Webmasters, 1 Site Coordinator and 31 highly skilled editors and a few backup and trainee editors. The editorial board is functional with 1 Managing Editor, 6 Lead Editors, and 24 dedicated Editors and all of these are working on volunteer basics.

Along with it's AdSense revenue sharing program, IndiaStudyChannel has Kontera revenue sharing program too.

'IndiaStudyChannel.com' is India's top ranked educational website in the Alexa rankings.

Know About Proto.in

Proto.in is India's first and largest start-up event platform which had its first edition in January 2007. The platform was started by Chennai based not-for profit body The Knowledge Foundation with entrepreneur Vijay Anand as its curator and founder. The Knowledge Foundation is a not-for profit knowledge dissemination body which has had multiple events in Chennai including Blog Camp, Bar Camp, Wikicamp (inaugurated by Jimmy Wales) and Pod Works.

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Since its first event in Jan 2007, Proto.in has had 8 editions across the cities of Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai,Bangalore and Pune. The sole focus and objective of the event is to showcase 15 of the most innovative start-ups in the country and provide them with a platform in front of an audience of investors, entrepreneurs and customers alike

  

Proto.in has been acknowledged as the best platform for start-ups in the country by a broad range of entrepreneurs and investor in the country ranging fromVishal Gondal, the founder of Indiagames.com to Naveen Tewari, the founder of global mobile advertising firm InMobi. In his keynote address at Proto.in Delhi in 2008, Kiran Karnik then Chairman of Nasscom referred to Proto.in as the Nasscom for product start-ups in the country. Proto.in has also played an active role in mentoring other start-up support organizations like Bar Camp and Open Coffee Club.

Tumbhi.com

Brainchild of Mr LC Singh, Tumbhi was launched on 31 August 2010^[2] by Anurag Kashyap, Pankuj Parashar, Kalki, Javed Siddiqui, Sameer, Om Katare, Nirav Shah, Uday Singh and Neeraj Roy.^[3] Anurag Kashyap will have his official blog on tumbhi^[4] More well-known personalities like Irshad Kamil joined hands with Tumbhi.^[5]

Apart from a main website for 8 art categories, Tumbhi offers separate websites for Photographers ,^[6]Writers and Short Films.

In the month of February 2013, Tumbhi launched Ehsaas, an eBook of love poems and sketches.^[7] The love poems and sketches in the book are contributed by the Tumbhi artist community.

On July 12, 2013, Tumbhi, along with AKFPL launched SHORTS through PVR Director's Rare.^[8] SHORTS is an anthology of 5 accolade winning films starring Huma Qureshi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadda, Vineet Singh. The film was well appreciated by medias like FirstPost,^[9] Mid-Day^[10] and more.

Know about Zapak.com

Zapak.com is a privately held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Launched in 2006, the site provides a very large collection of casual games, including some famous games like Bejeweledfrom PopCap Games^[1] & Diner Dash from PlayFirst.^[2] They claim to host the largest collection of online casual games, compared to any gaming website in India and are also among the top 50 portals according to Alexaratings. This gaming site is meant for all kids and teenagers between the age of 8–25 years.

The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's Reliance Big Entertainment got the idea of a mass gaming website when its designers noticed the Internet boom in Chinasince 2001. The number of Chinese people using wireless rose phenomenally to about 85 million.

This ongoing surge also meant that China saw a huge increase in the number of gamers. About 200,000 Internet cafes opened up.

Reliance Big Entertainment brought ^[3]this gaming Revolution to India in 2006. In its way, India had "walked the path of the Chinese". The number of Indian mobile phone users was near 90 million in 2005 and about 105,000 Internet cafes. So, to cash in on India's developing and booming gaming industry, Reliance Big Entertainment launched Zapak.com in November 2006.

naukri.com

Naukri.com is an Indian job search engine operating in India founded in March 1997. It publishes a monthly report called Naukri JobSpeak.

The site was established in 1997 by Info Edge (India) Ltd. Info Edge is a listed company on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. It went public in November 2006 As of March 31, 2011 Naukri.com had a database of about 25 million registered job seekers and over 80,000 live job listings from Corporate Customers. During the Fiscal year 2010-11 Naukri.com serviced approximately 42,000 Corporate Customers, an average of about 12,000 resumes were added while about 72,000 were modified daily in the Naukri.com database in Fiscal year 2010-11.

In an interview with CNBC-TV18, the CEO & MD of Info Edge group, Hitesh Oberoi shed light on recruitments in the year 2012. According to Mr. Oberoi, there has been a dip in the recruitment for the current year and some of the companies are also planning to downsize. The sectors that have suffered the most are telecom and insurance, while IT is doing well

Know About Just Eat

JUST EAT India is India’s first online food ordering, takeaway food and table booking portal. This online platform is headquartered in Bangalore, with branches in Delhi and Mumbai. As of September 2012, JUST EAT India has over 2500 restaurants^[2] with about 2200 in the three metros alone. It also extends its services to certain smaller cities.

The parent company of JUST EAT India, known as Just-Eat Group Holdings Limited ^[3] is headquartered in theUK. It has a presence in several countries apart from UK and India – France, Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland,Sweden, Belgium, Canada, Norway, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil. JUST EAT India is a registered company under Achindra Online Marketing Pvt Ltd.

JUST EAT India was founded on 26th July, 2006 as HungryBangalore.^[5] Ritesh Dwivedy,^[6] the founder of HungryBangalore and its present-day CEO^[7] is an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur. A closed cafeteria during a late night working session in office compelled him to search for good restaurants online, but to no avail; such information just wasn’t available online. This was how the idea of setting up an online food ordering portal came into being.

August 2008 witnessed HungryBangalore being renamed as HungryZone.^[8] The objective of widening the reach of the company to several Indian cities was realised now by the first round of funding raised from the Indian Angel Network.^[9]

A significant development occurred on 17th January, 2011 when HungryZone announced a partnership with Just-Eat^[10] which was the leading online portal for ordering food takeaways in the UK. Just-Eat bought a 60 percent stake^[11] in HungryZone, which was thereafter rechristened as JUST EAT India.

JUST EAT India can be used for ordering food online, booking a table at a particular restaurant or reading and writing reviews for restaurants. Customers can also pay online and get their food home delivered. A recent initiative taken by JUST EAT India is the launch of its mobile apps^[17] on various platforms, in order to simplify the process of ordering food online.

Internet and Mobile Association of India

Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) is a not-for-profit industry body registered under the Societies Act, 1986. Its mandate is to expand and enhance the online and mobile value added services sectors.^[2][3] IAMAI also put forward the problems and requirements of the businesses to the consumers, shareholders, investors and the government of India. The main purpose of the Internet and Mobile Association of India is to improve and expand the value added services pertaining to mobiles and several online services.^[4]

IAMAI is the only specialized industry body in India representing the interests of online and mobile value added services industry.

The Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) is a not-for-profit industry body registered under the Societies Act, 1896. Its mandate is to expand and enhance the online and mobile value added services sectors. It is dedicated to presenting a unified voice of the businesses it represents to the government, investors, consumers and other stakeholders. The association addresses the issues, concerns and challenges of the Internet and Mobile economy and takes a leading role in its development.

The association’s activities include promoting the inherent strengths of the digital economy, evaluating and recommending standards and practices to the industry, conducting research, creating platforms for its members, communicating on behalf of the industry and creating a favorable business environment for the industry.

Founded in January 2004 by leading portals in India, IAMAI is the only specialized industry body in India representing the interests of online and mobile value added services industry.

Secretariat

The Secretariat is responsible for carrying out the day to day functioning of the association. The Association has offices in Mumbai and Delhi.

Currently following person are the members of the secretariat:

• Dr. Subho Ray
  President

• Chitrita Chatterjee
  Associate Vice President
• Gaurav Chopra
  Associate Vice President

• Kalyan Biswas
  Manager