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Alpha version – Shipped!

Posted November 17th, 2009 in launch by Arjun Ram

Sincere apologies for the lack of communication at our end. We dug ourselves into a cave and didnt wanna get out till we got something out to folks outside the core team.

After months of hard work and sweat, we shipped our alpha product to select friends & family. It is not fully baked and hence it the alpha tag. As someone said “Shipping is a feature”. So we have shipped it with minimal features that we would like to iterate on. The results so far have been promising. We wanted to keep you update to let you know that work on the product is going full speed.

To Friends & family who have stood by us during these difficult months, a heart felt “thank you“.

P.S: We are looking for senior associates/team leads to help us take us to the next level.

Beta IDs for Taazza

Posted March 13th, 2007 in launch by admin

We have been rapidly signing up beta users. If you have ever written about taazza or mentioned it in your blog, you should have received a beta id from us. If we missed any of you please feel free to email beta [ @ ] taazza [ dot ] com and we will have one sent your way.

If you are stopping by at this blog and want access to Taazza please leave a message and we will try and get one to you soon.

Psst … a little birdie tells me that there are exciting goodies for you Taazza newbies out there… More to come in next day or two.

Stay tuned!

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Taazza beta unveiled at proto.in

Posted January 21st, 2007 in events, launch by admin

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.

Proto.in The venue - IIT Madras
proto.in audience Taazza and others showcased in the Web space

Taazza screen Taazza editions

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