Rajesh Jain says exactly what I’ve been predicting over the last several months:
My belief continues to be that in India social networking will need to take a mobile-centric rather than a PC-centric approach. So, from that perspective, the space still remains wide open.
A mobile Orkut would explode usage in India – the mobile phone is the perfect tool for an application service like a social network. It fits snugly into the lifestyle of urban Indian youth. And it wouldn’t take much – Opera Mini has shown how a sophisticated application like a web browser can be built in Java under 100KB.