India is a cricket crazy country and while Cricinfo rules the traffic curve, there is surely an opportunity in this space.
oCricket is a newly launched portal that lets you create cricket related content (including rich media) , meet other cricket frenzy fans (groups/forum discussions) and has regular blogging features (content creation/voting/tagging/commenting etc).
oCricket
Pretty Cricket Fans
If you look at the cricket market in web, CricInfo and Y! India Cricket are the topmost sites and one of the main reason is the traction they receive during cricket seasons (live score/commentary etc).
oCricket, at this stage seems to purely rely on UGC for the content (no editorial content?) – an area I’d really like them to warn against. They first need to drive the engagement (seed lots of content) and then UGC will come into the picture.
Most importantly, the site looks like just another CMS based social networking product – and the model, as we all know has failed.
pluGGd.in friends can get register by following this link - Do give oCricket a spin and share your comments.
Sure why not another social network for errrr may b Kho Kho too.. what ever… if this is the so called kick ass technology then i might bring back my 486..
I checked out the website. I have a question to ask. How much does this Join by invitation methodology have an impact? Or to put it in other words – Is it a good way to start?
I checked out ocricket.com.. must say the site is barren.. theres no content worthy of a dekho.. a google search on cricket can be more interesting. dunno wat are they upto.
@RC.. in my opinion a beta invite methodology will only work if ur product has/is able to generate a significant buzz… otherwise u are shooing away a potential user who might never turn up again.
@RC From our point of view, we’re doing the beta because we’re on a lean machine – slicehost’s cheapest hosting option. By way of invites, we can let only a handful during our initial start and see our growth prospects and thus also steer our plans according to user feedback. Moreover, in our current scenario, we’re moving everything to Amazon AWS – EC2, SQS and CloudFront. Thus, we want to take it slow.
@S It is barren because we’re just starting. I’m beginning to talk with media providers, et al but we’re just starting.
@mayank Well, let’s watch. I won’t even say anything at this moment even though I’m an insider and know what’s happening here. You’re are pretty smart to predict our stuffs by looking at our primary screenshot! Awesome.
Brajeshwar,
Let me congratulate you for the buzz that you have managed to create with oCricket. Ill savemy other compliments when the portal gets on rolling full on!
It’d be great if you can share your thoughts on the genesis of oCricket and how it would be differentiated OR the USP of the portal that would be projected to drive users.
Any insights into the not so obvious biz model (if any) would be synergistic with pluggD.in too
Good Luck!
Try out http://cricketr.com
It enables cricket lovers to do commentary on everything that is related to cricket. It is a realtime platform which delivers scores, news and commentary as soon as it happens.