We were at proto.in over the weekend. It was a great attempt at bringing together the most promising entrepreneurs, ideas, VCs and tech enthusiasts under one roof. The venue was an auditorium at IIT Madras nestled amidst greenery and nature. There were over 300 in the auditorium and a dozen VCs and angel investors.
We talked about Taazza, the genesis, the vision and features. (More about us here) We received great interest from those who participated and the press. The press was particularly interested since we are about “news”. We had many one-on-one sessions to demo in detail with many who spend time offline.
Taaza’s unique offerings
- Integrates traditional news stories with social content to provide rich context.
- Applies cutting edge Semantic web technologies to news.
- Extracts entities of interest from news stories to provide context.
- Powered by algorithms that automate news delivery.
Taazza’s features
- Taazza news is auto generated for the user!
- Editions – National and Metro editions.
- View news for places, people or topics that interest you
- You can choose the time window for the news (say last 4 hours)
- Different news reading modes like Headlines, Newsriver & News maps.
- Get the news context from Photos, Videos, Blogs & Bookmarks. Integration with popular services (Flickr, Youtube, delicious, Technorati, Upcoming and Eventful)
- Mobile edition
- RSS & Microformats support
And yes, we are open for a limited / closed beta. Check out our web site for more details.
And thanks for all your interest, encouragement and support.
