Go Yaar!, Indian Social Networking Site Debuts

India’s very own answer to international social networking sites like Orkut and Hi5 is finally here. Go Yaar! is introduced as an easy-to-use tool to connect and interact with friends, batch mates and colleagues online. Once registered, a user can design a personalized profile, interact with and meet new members of their academic and company communities, invite friends to events, and form groups. Go, Yaar! also provides email facilities, video, photo album, blogging, instant messaging and peer-to-peer collaboration tools.

Go, Yaar!’s founder, 29 year old Phalgun Raju said, “With more than 40 million Internet users, India has just discovered the potential of social networking,” said Raju. “There is a tremendous opportunity for Go, Yaar! to redefine the space and become India’s premier social networking destination given its focus on India and NRIs, its multitude of features, and its rapidly growing member base.”

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The site automatically creates communities for users when they register, according to their preferences, schools or colleges. Users can also indicate their school and college affiliations in India, the U.S. and Canada if registering using their personal email addresses. Raju added, “To continuously enhance our users’ experience, we are targeting adding key new features every month to the site. The growth of 4.5 million new mobile phone subscribers per month across the country will be a key driver for Go, Yaar!’s growth as we unveil mobile capabilities in the future.”

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