Prashant Sharma

Prashant Sharma is a Delhi based Entrepreneur who spent most of his college days polishing his marketing skills and went for his first business venture at 19. Having tasted failure in his entrepreneurial debut, he turned a Tech-enthusiast, specializing in web technologies later. Join him on Google Plus

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Web 2.0 app

PlaceLnk lets you map your physical location with your web identity

PlaceLnk is web service that helps you locating website on map. It's like DNS but with coordinates instead of names It's a service that can serve as a cool utility if you carry an iPhone or T-Mobile G1.

PlaceLnk is a web service that lets you hyperlink physical locations.It's like DNS but with coordinates instead of names. Just link the physical location of your home or business to a website of your choice. Once a "Place" has been registered using their website, it is visible at that location if searched on iPhone or G1(with the placelnk app). In their own words

We provide different ways to query a location for Places and to browse the websites linked to them.While other location-based mobile applications try to aggregate as much existing information as possible for a location, we are going a completely different path. You can register your own place in our database and link it to a user-generated website of your choice

Mobile versions for iPhone and the Google Android platform

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 19, 20080Comments

Announcements

“It’s time for some rest”….Yang will be stepping down as CEO

Jerry yang will soon be stepping down as CEO and the search for the Yahoo new CEO is already ON. The hottest news in internet industry at the moment is about Yahoo's CEO.Jerry yang will soon be stepping down as CEO and the search for the Yahoo's new CEO is already ON. Yang will get restored to his earlier position of Chief Yahoo! and will keep serving as a part of board of directors.You may call it a bad news for Yang but the market seems to be taking it otherwise.There has been a significant rise in Yahoo's share price with over 10% jump,next day after the this news broke out. There are no two ways about the fact that Yahoo! is in serious trouble and Yang's last hope got crushed by Google recently.So,there was hardly any other option left for Yang and therefore this decision came out. And now the search of the "New CEO" is bang

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 18, 20080Comments

Utility focussed

A search engine for travelling freaks : iXiGO

The Indian travel search engine ixigo basically lets you find the best deals in flights,hotels and buses with no spoofs. Either you are a frequent traveller or an occasional one,you got to give this service a try ! It's iXiGO. iXiGO is an indian travel search engine which basically lets you find the best(probably the cheapest) deals in flights,hotels and buses.It's one of the leading travel meta search engine focused on giving unbiased and comprehensive fare search to the users. In their own words

iXiGO is a search of the traveler, by the traveler and for the traveler. When you use iXiGO, you retain complete control on your travel choices and preferences. You choose which provider you want to book with, and can complete the booking directly on the provider's site. This ensures that you retain a direct relationship with travel vendors and complete a transaction more efficiently

iXiGO aggregates fares across airlines, buses and hotels to give the

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 17, 20080Comments

Digg out

Myspace Ads Hubpages Rejection

Hubpages got a rejection from Myspace customer service quoting it as a competitor of myspace which is not true factually This is one incident that made me laugh at the biggest social network of the planet called MySpace.And this must be quite embarassing for them to be into such a situation.The actual fault lies in their CRM deptt. Recently,a post on TechCrunch revealed what went behind the curtains with Hubpages,a startup that lets users write articles and earn revenues from their write-ups.Interestingly,hubpages got screwed by myspace customer execs three consecutive times,for quite illogical reasons. Like every other startup looking for more visitors,Hubpages marketing manager,Ryan Hupfer went ahead with the newly launched MySpace My Ads,a self service ad platform to

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 16, 20080Comments

Utility focussed

Will Online video sites ever turn into a profitable business ?

Popular online video sites are not making BIG money. YouTube, for instance has not yet turned a profitable business due to poor online video monetization. We all know how big YouTube is(ranks 3rd after Google and Yahoo) and how fast online video industry is growing as we are all contributing in it(by creating videos and putting them online) But let's face it...No matter how popular online video sites are,they are not making BIG money for the owners. To cope up with the growing expectations of users and high competition,online video sites such as Veoh,Metacafe,Revision3 and our pet YouTube were putting best of their efforts. Counting from 'simultaneous video streaming'(which takes a big toll on server expenses) to

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 15, 20080Comments

Featured Startups

WORKetc enters arena of ‘Business management services’

WORKetc is a small business management service that helps a business, its employees to work together more efficiently including tools such as billing, helpdesk, lead management and reporting. In their own words

WORKetc is your total business management solution.And as these tools seamlessly integrate with one another at a single location,you'll quickly benefit from real efficiencies

Here are cluster of features that WORKetc serves you with...

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 14, 20080Comments

Featured Startups

Looking to buy/sell out a car ? Go Pricehub !

Car prices portal Pricehub. PriceHub fulfills the need for a comprehensive,open source of actual selling prices for vehicles. So,you are looking for a new car and hence want to check out the 'actual' price of the car you are planning to buy. You also want to sell out your old car(as it will be hardly of any use afterwards) but want to get rid of 'screwed up deal'. If that's the case then Pricehub will prove quite useful to you.Founded by two car enthusiasts who have collectively bought and sold over 30 vehicles,PriceHub fulfills the need for a comprehensive,open source of actual selling prices for vehicles. There is usually no true source to see what people really paid for a car.Instead, the only available data is the so-called published or estimated price such as the MSRP price,invoice price,Kelly Blue Book price, Edmunds.com price or trade-in value.

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 11, 20080Comments

Featured Startups

What startup folks can learn from Alice’s founders

Alice stealth startup at the moment has just announced a $4.3 million financing round,led jointly by private equity angel funds Kegonsa Capital Partners and DaneVest Tech Fund. The founders of Alice,Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire have earlier managed to sell out their three startups(the last one,Jellyfish(social search engine ) to Microsoft) in the past decade and are looking all set with Alice.com As the startup is in stealth mode right now,you will hardly find any information about the service they are going to offer.They have planned for a closed beta release in January and a full public release in March 2009. According to whatever they have written on the site,Alice seems like an online retail service for consumer stuff,focussed on linking household stuff manufacturers like toilet papers & trash bags to end consumers directly.

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 11, 20080Comments

Events

Summing up “Web 2.0 Summit 2008”

As Web 2.0 Summit 2008 event (Nov 5-7,2008) is well over,we thought about doing an overall brush-up of the event.Here is a quick round-up of all that was worth noting at this tech event.

Max Levchin(Slide) started a discussion on “The Platform Advantage” at the Web 2.0 Summit. Participants included Vic Gundotra(Google),David Treadwell(Microsoft),Elliot Schrage(Facebook) and Amit Kapur(MySpace).

The talk initiated with a basic outlook of 'Platform',going deeper afterwards.Amit pointed that "A platform has to create an ecosystem that includes a core base of users, tools to build applications, and an advertising network to monetize the platform"

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 10, 20080Comments

Featured Startups

SpeakToMe offers an ‘Unusual’ way to monetize your blog/site traffic

How to earn extra money on internet SpeakToMe. SpeakToMe offers an 'Unusual' way to monetize your blog/site traffic

Most of the bloggers/online experts spend time updating their blogs/sites to someday become eligible for making decent money online through advertisements(be it Google Ads,third party or any other).

But only a sleek percentage of folks actually taste high payout through blogs/sites,that to after long and consistent efforts.One of the major reasons behind this is the the low CPM rates in online advertising.

As the payout is quite low,the blogs/sites need to build high traffic before earning considerable money out of their traction.So,what about those blogs/sites having few thousand uniques(inspite of good expertise/knowledge bank of the blogger) ? Is there any way out for bloggers to earn big with relatively low traffic ?

SpeakToMe has tried to solve this problem.It basically lets you try a new advertising system which does not involve any advertisers.It provides you with a widget complemented with a webcam,chat room,telephony and ecommerce capabilities

ByPrashant SharmaNovember 10, 20080Comments

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