New Social Network Site launched in India by Yahoo!!
Posted by: dsocialweb on: September 27, 2008
SpotM is an India social network owned by Yahoo!, SpotM better be good, different, fast, high on usability and wide reaching. 
Yahoo India announced that it has launched a new social network for the 16-24 age bracket, reports TechCrunch. Although it’s questionable if the world (or India) needs yet another social networking site, the new venture, dubbed SpotM, offers two potentially differentiating features: secret friends and anonymous SMS chat. “SpotM will allow users to make friends with other users and if they choose, make those friends private so other users don’t know about the relationship. SMS integration with anonymous chat will let users correspond via SMS without revealing their phone number”.
It’s nice to see Yahoo try something new, but whether or not its privacy initiatives will really work in its favor remains in doubt. As social networks become more popular, it’s transparency that parenting groups are looking for, not privacy. And once those issues arise, every social network buckles under the pressure. Will Yahoo be any different?
SpotM is currently in private beta.
Here are some Comments i collected regarding this new Move by Yahoo!!!
Another dumb move by Yahoo!. Its really hard to gain any substantial market share from Orkut, Facebook and 10 other local social networks.
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When MySpace banged the internet, no one had a clue that Facebook will thrash it out so badly in a span of less than 2 years. And like ‘Sampad’ above talked about Usability, many users still find Facebook difficult to use.
Its also true that every moment a new social network is getting born, with search for its guardians. You know what, I came through this brightkite.com which looked much like linkedin.
My personal opinion is Yahoo! can give tough competition to other players, with its unique features. I would love to buzz people around from my iPhone without giving my name and no. How cool is that?
And private friend, wow, again… my girl friend will never know which girl I’m peeking at. LOLzzz. On Orkut, she always see my friends, and what they talk. Damn! someone send me an invite to SpotM.