Comments on: Few Suggestions for Rediff, Sify, Indiatimes

By: Prasath

Prasath — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Very interesting post and Vijay Rayapati , very valid point.

By: Raxit Sheth

Raxit Sheth — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:53:36 +0000

Hi,

Interesting post… “Feature driven development ?” Was having meeting with early stage social-nw type web 2.0 startup…(my friends only!) They are also telling we are going to do something cool and related to few of stuff mentioned here !

Its nice observation…

-Raxit
“Mobile 4 Mumbai” Launching Private beta soon !

By: Malapati Raja Sekhar

Malapati Raja Sekhar — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:58:55 +0000

@Boomerang, Rediff’s strength lies in focus on Indian users. Unless they make their current users to get addicted to their services, they will chucked by global majors.

I did not understand your statement “Rediffmail users are usually the old folks “??? Do you have any supporting data?

@Anand, As I mentioned previously Rediff’s strengths lies in focus on Indian users. So their goalis to make sure that users are constantly engaged.

Searched over Internet for their ids.

By: Vijay Rayapati

Vijay Rayapati — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:11:25 +0000

Nice post with interesting points for improvement.

By: Vijay Rayapati

Vijay Rayapati — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:09:40 +0000

I feel one feature that is missing in all email service providers (Google , Y! & MSN ) is we cannot schedule a delivery of the mail on particular date/time while sending email from web interface.
I think this feature will be useful in many scenarios for normal users also apart from other[business] users.

By: Anand

Anand — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:04:08 +0000

I agree with Raja’s suggestions at a broad level. Rediff may benefit by interlinking their offerings and provide a better experience to its users. This need not necessarily be done as Raja suggested though. I also agere with Boomrang that Rediff is better off consolidating its position in News offerings rather than concentrating on Search & Mail, unless these products are improved 10x from what they are today.

BTW, Where did you get the Rediff top brass mail ids from?

By: boomerang

boomerang — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:43:18 +0000

I dont agree. If I were Rediff, I wont spend any effort on improving things like mail etc. I would simply stop any development and partner with yahoo or google to handle mail and search. I dont even know why rediff have thier own search engine. It doesnt make any biz sense.
Instead they shud just concentrate on thier core for which the users come- news. and try to provide better experience and value adds there, instead of igoogle widget and crap.
Rediffmail users are usually the old folks who probably dont embrac e stuff like igoogle widgets. Rediff mail is like hotmail. they dont like tagging,archiving,ajax etc… just old style mail.