Can India build its own Facebook?

This seems to be a big question that is it possible for India to build its own Facebook. The only possibility is from R&D. But looking at the R&D standard in India it seems to be quite far ahead in future. Right now R&D in India means "Receive and Dispatch" where as the world believes in Research and Development.

Till the time India do not get innovative on web products they cannot make the Facebook in India. Facebook beats all with all the innovation it brought to the world of the Social Network, and hence captured the same to become the strongest element of it. Indian Internet companies don't seems to have that fire in them. Rediff which seems to be a bit global is like an old forgettable story. World has move so much ahead India which has stayed back and lost the race by many laps.

We have even seen the global trend where people make innovative products and sell them to larger companies as a very good cost. And those companies run these products as a bigger success story or at-least to its maximum potential. Unlike India, where some people copy the idea from west and then build the sell the unpolished product to Indian Internet Company for an average price. Being unpolished and stolen it becomes a flop in front of its original western counter-path.

Hence, innovation is the real requirement of the world today and till the time we do not achieve it we cannot build a better Internet Industry and cannot imagine to have a Facebook build in India.

Indiatimes mail down

Today Indiatimes mail is down and still i can see the company working on it. This shows that they are not serious about the business at all. Indiatimes is known for its news as well as entertainment content, gaana.com is a good start in the streaming content, but apart from that they do not seem to be serious about the business. Mail is treated as non-existence part of the company. If its is so they should not offer it as service to consumer.

I am using tumblr account which was registered using indiatimes mail, that also comes to the danger zone due to all this. This is really a bad experience for the user.

Same kind of approach I see among many other Indian mail service providers like in.com, india.com etc. who are bad in delivery of mails. This means I not aware that whether mail will be delivered or not, will I recieve all the mails sent to me or not.

So, if you want to be away from all these, its my recommendation that sign up for mail services like gmail, hotmail, ymail, rediffmail etc. whose main focus is email as they have a separate department in the company which works on this specific product.

Email is an essential solution for any web user and should be build seriously. Each company should have a separate department working on email solution, then only they can give user a better experience and robust system. Never forget email is a big source of revenue on the web.

This brings to the focus of the need of good start-ups in the Indian Internet Industry who can bring innovation in new dimensions like micro-blogging or already saturated dimension like email, social etc or may discover new dimensions. They need to bring !dea as well as polish the solution to be world class. This will not only generate new source of income but also jobs.

Hope, Indian Internet Industry will realize soon and will bring a better ecosystem to fight against multinationals.