Parentree named one of India's 25 Hot Web 2.0 startups, by Dataquest magazine

Parentree (www.parentree.in) today announced that it has been named to Dataquest magazine's India's 25 Hot Web 2.0 Startups list.

Dataquest magazine's editorial team and Indianweb2.com, a startup focusing on the Indian startups market created the list based on publicly available information and essential Web 2.0 criteria like collaboration, user participation, rating, and user-generated content.

Gita Dayal, a Founder of Parentree, said "At Parentree, our focus is on building a community by bringing together the voices and opinions of parents across India to facilitate the easy exchange of information on the practical aspects of parenting. Parentree's selection to the Dataquest list shows the importance of this collective approach and the power of our user community"


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Parentree in The Hindu Business Line

Parentree was featured in The Hindu Business Line today

Parentree in The Hindu Business Line

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Parentree in The Hindu Business Line

Parentree launches online growth tracking charts for Indian children and babies

For the first time in India, parents can store and track their child's growth online and compare it to the growth standards for height and weight published by the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. The new service was launched on Parentree's website - www.parentree.in.

Surveys have shown that one of the major concerns of Indian parents is how well their babies and children are growing. Previously growth records were maintained on paper and often lost. Measurements also had to be plotted on a paper based growth chart to check if the child was keeping up with the prescribed standards.

Using this new service, parents can store the date of measurement and the height and weight of the child online. As the child grows, additional measurements can be added. This provides an easy and convenient record of growth that can be accessed at any time. The growth tracking charts display the child's height and weight growth over time and also compare those measurements to the published standards.

Shobha Durairajan, a Founder of Parentree, said "For Indian mothers like me who track and monitor their children's growth closely, knowing at the click of a button that their child is keeping up with the growth standards is a very satisfying feeling. We are very excited to bring this new service to Indian parents".

The growth tracking charts for babies (0 to 36 months) and for children (0 to 18 years) can be found on www.parentree.in.

(http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/online-multimedia/2009031121292.htm)


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Parentree launches online growth tracking charts for Indian children and babies

Parentree - New look

Today, we launched a new look for Parentree.

Why did we change?

To make the site easier to interact with. Our community thrives through parent to parent interaction and the new look makes it easier for you to find and share information.

Here are some significant changes

1. Our front page shows the latest activity in each of our 3 major sections - Journals, Groups and Reviews. Since comments are also part of the dialogue, they are also shown in the Journals section.

2. The Groups page now shows all the discussions across the site. This makes it easier for users to see and comment on discussions across the site. Of course, if you are interested only in particular groups, you will find them listed on the left sidebar of the Groups page and you can click through to them.

3. We have gone to a 3 column layout on most pages. Slim left and right columns flank a wide middle column. The middle column carries the primary content of a page while the left and right carry other information you maybe interested in.

4. My Page has now become a slimmer more relevant cockpit. It shows your inbox messages, what your friends have been up to, new responses in discussions you have participated in etc., all in one page.

5. We have taken our article collections and compacted them along with some of our most popular content, to the sidebars on various pages.

6. We have made Buzz slimmer and more relevant to what has been popular over the last 7 days. And now we are showing all types of content - journals, groups and reviews on the same Buzz page.

There are many more changes on the site, which we are sure you will discover.


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Parentree - New look