What do Indian Blog Readers like to do? Part 2
In my previous post we discussed that very few (around 10%) readers of Indian Blogs leave comments. One of the reader (Vikas) left a comment saying that there aren’t enough bloggers in India who write posts which can be commented on. Most of blogs are informational. I think I agree to that point. I decided to dig some more data from Pluggd.in blog by Ashish, which had the most comments (around 260) in April 2008. Here is another beautiful graph.
In Search of a Better News Aggregator Part 2
This is the continuation of my quest to find a better news or blog aggregator, which aggregates contents from Indian bloggers or news websites. I am yet to find a aggregator, which will helps users to keep track of the news without cluttering the feed readers with junk and repetitive posts! In this post we will be looking into the structure of the RSS feeds from the aggregators.
In Search of a Better News Aggregator Part 1
Everyone one wants to be a News Aggregator Website. I have observed a couple of them and found that they are far off from adding any value add to the reader. Most sites convert RSS feeds from websites or blogs into a page and claim to be the Aggregator of Indian BlogoSphere.
What do Indian Blog Readers like to do?
I echo the thoughts expressed by Vijay. Majority of the blogs I follow are from non-Indian Bloggers. There are only few quality blogs from India. We definitely have more scope for new bloggers to cover different aspects of start ups and entrepreneurship.Some of our fellow bloggers do work hard to bring stories. The visitors to these blogs prefer to stand outside and watch the show. Very few of them actually leave quality comments on these blogs.
Google eagerly needs to learn Hindi Grammar
According to the Google’s press release, 87% of the literate population in India don’t know or don’t use English. Such users are deprived of the valuable resources available on the internet, which are mostly in English. In order to help such users, Google has introduced tools to facilitate blogging in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. It will take time before users get into to vernacular blogging. Google has also introduced English to Hindi translation. This is targeted at Non-English speaking internet users of India.
BharatMatrimony delivers SoulMates through RSS
BharatMatrimony (Consim Info Private Limited) delivers the list of brides or grooms as RSS Feed. This feature is available on the regional sites of BharatMatrimony like Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati and 12 other regions. The regional sites provide RSS feeds based on Religion, Caste, Country, State, City, Education, Occupation and Marital Status.
Yahoo to Give Access to User’s Ad Profile
What is the best way to know the need of a customer? Ask them. There is no better way than asking a customer what they want. Yahoo is planning to develop an advertisement model, where an user can tweak their advertisement profile.
Cash Cards account for 28.8% of all online transactions in IRCTC
Using Cash Cards for online transactions is becoming popular in India. Based on the information available from IRCTC for April 2008, 28.8 % of all transactions in IRCTC were done using cash cards. The transactions using cash cards fails the least number of times.