I had talked about this in the past that why indian news websites needs a revamp and change the way they present news. For example sify which is a premiere indian news website has no comment moderation whatsoever and the news items are filled with flame comments. The Hindu’s site looks to be very 1995ish with google ads everywhere.

Now in the competitive Indian news channel market, a new player Tadka nework has also joined in. As per the press release, they are launching 6 sites right now BollyTadka, Edutadka, MoneyTadka, SportsTadka and TVTadka (in press release I only saw 5, they may launch the rest in coming days) where they are looking to cover various verticals in Indian web space. Overall a pretty novel concept and something which has already been successfully done in USA.

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I will put the EAMCET Cutoff 2009 here in this post in few hours, You can get the EAMCET keys here

I will also appreciate if you can post your cutoff expectations too since people giving the exams know what will the cutoff be.

EAMCET 2009 is just 48 hours away and I will put the keys here as soon as the exam gets over.

It is estimated that around 3 lakh student will appear for engineering seats and 60000 for medical seats. From 2009 onwards, you must be aware that 25% weighage will be given to your intermediate higher secondary exams so people scoring good in there intermediate have surely taken a lead. It is also good initiative from teh government to keep the students focus on higher secondary studies.

I will try to find the EAMCET 2009 Answers Keys and EAMCET 2009 solutions through friends and through the websites of various coaching institutes, if you have the solutions and keys, you can post it in comments.

TimesofIndia has probably touched a new low by showing fake morphed pics of Kareena Kapoor, Here is the one which was on the site before it was taken down

This pic has been taken down but you can still the it in Google cache here 

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I was looking for some Indian hosting service providers on Google and after spending 40+ minutes to find the right host (I didn’t found any in the end) I can safely say that Indian web hosts need to pick up the pace and come on the highway.

I checked most of the hosts on first 4 pages of Google and either most of them were not having any decent site or were offering nonsense packages like 5 MB hosting for 200 rupees per year. I didn’t saw any VPS hosting on Indian servers which I was looking for. Infect what I was was Indian hosts which are offering hosting in India, offering hosting in US datacanters (does this sentence made any sense?). Now the question is, what is the point of going for Indian hosting when the prices are high, services are bad and eventually you will be hosting in USA itself.

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Last year I was working on an Indian site which was in the competitive Indian matrimony market and hence I am probably in a better position to comment on Indian marriage sites then probably most of the others. Unfortunately the site didn’t got traction and though it is still working and accepting users I don’t think after one year they are even near to breaking even.

The biggest problem for them was that they were in the niche which has players like shaaadi.com which is almost 8 years old and probably has over million members. The law of the Internet says bigger will keep on getting bigger and its very difficult to compete against them if they also have some competitive advantage against you, which shaadi.com certainly has which is the ability to take micro payment by going to members home, something which is not possible for other sites (except bharatmatrimony)

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If you looking for hindi text (which actually is Devanagari text and script) to write in websites, forums and in blog comments or may in orkut scraps and are wondering how to get such text then look no further.

You can use this link and convert any english string into hindi string and then copy paste it anywhere on the web.

There is this website voteanddate which is a clone of HotorNot American website (only launched 10 years late) which is in very poor taste indeed.

The site has put pictures of some random girls probably taken from web without their permission and are asking users to vote on them whether they are hot or not.

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In the last post I had covered IndiBlogger as how good place it is where all the bloggers can hang out, now the problem with blogging is that it is very biased towards males and is heavily male dominated.

In the whole blogosphere, I see only 4 or 5 professional full time blogger who can be called authority and the rest are part timers. In India, things are even worst and other then few handful I barely sees any female blogger blogging.

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If you are looking for a list of best blogs of India or as a matter of fact all best, excellent and good indian blogs as well as want to hang out with Indian bloggers then join Indiblogger today.

I don’t know I had never heard about the community before but now that I have heard of it, the first thing I did was to join it and submit my blog. Basically indiblogger is a community of Indian bloggers where all these blogger hang out, discuss and even plan various city blogging meets.

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