orkut

One of my good friend just pointed this out to me, Infact he has blogged about it at his own blog

Doof - A social Network for Gamers

An online community launched in January 2004 designed to make your social life more active, friendly and stimulating. By ORKUT, you can find your old friends, stay in touch with your exisiting friends and can also make new friends. For all that, you just need to create your profile on ORKUT. However, one notable controversy surrounding Orkut is that it requests users enter their race, religion and sexual orientation, which has been source of great concern among users.

Web 2.0 is no longer a buzzword or a myth. Since its emergence it has revolutionized the way Web should be used. With the help of technologies like JavaScript, XML, ASP.Net, PHP/Perl, My SQL, etc, it opened different avenues for various software companies and gave the Web a different way of handling data. It took its time to find its belonging, but now is among the hottest trends to look out for. It's already creating a huge roar in the enterprise segment after being a success story on the commercial and social front.

A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident.... But the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy
grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20's, achievemnt in itself!!.

He hired devlopers from the whole globe and plan to make a software where he could search for his gf through the web...
Things went as planned... n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!

www.yaari.com is desi take on Orkut another successful venture. Its a social networking and friendship site for Indians by Indians.

Membership is by invitation only.

Its interesting to see so many online ventures again coming up from India. Once there was boom of such ventures but most of them simply vanished after the dot com burst.

This time it seems like a more carefully planned and controlled approach which have a revenue model already chalked out. Earlier everybody was simply rushing into the things without giving enough thought to business aspects and was going to market with a half made product.