BIGADDA is a social networking

Social network service

A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user , his/her social...

 website

Website

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 owned by Reliance Entertainment

Reliance Entertainment

Reliance Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms....

, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is one of India's largest conglomerates, headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. The company, which was formed after Dhirubhai Ambani's business empire was divided up, is headed by his younger son Anil Ambani. It has a market capitalization of US$ 15 billion,...

. It claims to be the largest and the fastest growing youth networking site in India.

BIGADDA claims that the top 20 cities account for 45% users from within India while 40% of the users come from Tier III cities like Tuticorin, Bhilai

Bhilai

Bhilai or Bhilai Nagar is a city in the Durg district of Chhattisgarh, in eastern central India. As of 2001, it had a population of 753,837. The city is located west of the capital Raipur, on the main Howrah–Mumbai rail line, and National Highway 6...

, Amritsar

Amritsar

Amritsar is a city in the northern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077...

, Guwahati

Guwahati

Guwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...

, Surat

Surat

Surat , also known as Suryapur, is the commercial capital city of the Indian state of Gujarat. Surat is India's Eighth most populous city and Ninth-most populous urban agglomeration. It is also administrative capital of Surat district and one of the fastest growing cities in India. The city proper...

, Nasik.

Dataquest

Dataquest

Dataquest is India's oldest IT publication. A fortnightly, Dataquest is published by Cyber Media India Ltd, South Asia's largest specialty media group. The magazine targets senior IT managers in user organizations as well as the IT industry professionals in India.Dataquest has grown with the Indian...

, a popular IT journal also featured BIGADDA along with sites like IndyaRocks & BharatStudent as one of the top 25 web 2.0 start-ups in India.

BIGADDA features

Users can upload and share unlimited photos for free.

Users can upload and share music, and can listen to a varied range of songs.

An application platform that is OpenSocial v0.8 compliant is provided. It includes some games from Zapak (a partner site) and other applications.

Criticism

Bigadda's site looks like it offers free blog services, but in reality it doesn't.

Bigadda's site sells products online. They have a poor track record of dispatching ordered products. There were numerous instances where duplicate products were shipped instead of purchased originals, faulty products delivered, orders delayed for more than a month after receiving payment, etc. The customercare service is so poor that their primary lines are often redirected and some phone numbers suspiciously keep one on hold for hours together without any response repeating the pre-recorded message that all the customer service executives are busy.

See also

• List of social networking websites
• Social network
  Social network
  A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
  
  
• Social software
  Social software
  Social software applications include communication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a...
  
  
• OpenSocial
  OpenSocial
  OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces for web-based social network applications, developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks.It was released November 1, 2007....