http://urmad.pagalguy.com/2005/10/21/blogosphere-adding-up/ || uRmad || Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:16:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://urmad.pagalguy.com/2005/10/21/blogosphere-adding-up/comment-page-1/#comment-581 :: Sense - The Way I Sense :: » OK-Tata-ByeBye ! Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:56:25 +0000 http://urmad.pagalguy.com/blog/?p=94#comment-581 [...] India, as an online business, is still in its nascent stage. There is an acute lack of good sites/communities on a variety of fields and that essentially opens up a wide range of sites that one could get into. Communities have been hard to come by, since the Indian populace is unique in that it tries to look for alternate grounds once it sees the first signs of any monetizing of communities that is inevitable after a time. Questions are raised on credibility, feasibility and veracity once communities start looking at raising monies. India still does not have your Weblogs, Inc style chain of blogs where user-generated-content is pretty high. People still have a very push-pull relation with websites where they either subscribe to feeds/newsletters or just browse around to sites that offer what they need. The interaction levels, are abysmal, to say the least ! Elsewhere, building communities around blogs written with an attitude seems to be a sure-shot way of off-setting some of the concerns of members on credibility ! Of-course, Content still rules and thats the reason why blogs such as Gizmodo/Engadget still attract the kind of premium rates for ads that many other full-blown sites can only dream of. No wonder, Weblogs found a suitor for $25million a while back ! Sure will be interesting to see if and when someone comes up with communities on these lines [...] [...] India, as an online business, is still in its nascent stage. There is an acute lack of good sites/communities on a variety of fields and that essentially opens up a wide range of sites that one could get into. Communities have been hard to come by, since the Indian populace is unique in that it tries to look for alternate grounds once it sees the first signs of any monetizing of communities that is inevitable after a time. Questions are raised on credibility, feasibility and veracity once communities start looking at raising monies. India still does not have your Weblogs, Inc style chain of blogs where user-generated-content is pretty high. People still have a very push-pull relation with websites where they either subscribe to feeds/newsletters or just browse around to sites that offer what they need. The interaction levels, are abysmal, to say the least ! Elsewhere, building communities around blogs written with an attitude seems to be a sure-shot way of off-setting some of the concerns of members on credibility ! Of-course, Content still rules and thats the reason why blogs such as Gizmodo/Engadget still attract the kind of premium rates for ads that many other full-blown sites can only dream of. No wonder, Weblogs found a suitor for $25million a while back ! Sure will be interesting to see if and when someone comes up with communities on these lines [...]

]]> http://urmad.pagalguy.com/2005/10/21/blogosphere-adding-up/comment-page-1/#comment-224 tony Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:17:32 +0000 http://urmad.pagalguy.com/blog/?p=94#comment-224 So blogging's arrived after all.. So blogging’s arrived after all..

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