It seems Infy has blocked pluGGd.in (confirmed from few readers) 
and that means you guys won’t be able to access pluGGd.in.
While we don’t know the real reason for this special treatment, we do suspect that this post (TCS/Infy – axis evil for Indian startups?) prompted ‘somebody up there‘ to ‘save’ their employees from ‘getting distracted‘.
In any case, if you still want to read pluGGd.in (much to your employer’s wrath), you still have following options:
- RSS Feed
- Daily Newsletter
- Mobile: Just hop to pluGGd.in on your mobile and you will witness a no-frills version of the site.
- SMS alerts: SMS “join pluggdin” to 567673434
I would say congratulations, Ashish. On the other side, what has happened to Infosys? Are they serving the chinese too much?
pluggd gives a spark for thought, a very good read, and an opportunity to think big. Not necessary entrepreneurship, but can help any company to promote intrapreneurship.
After all, its motivational.
I do not think Infosys blocks website one by one. They might be using some tools to filter requests and your website might have qualified in the banned list. These basically depends on keywords.
Even here in US, at my client’s place pluggd.in is blocked. Your website getting blocked in Infosys, means they are improving on filtering websites in their company.
Once in a discussion with a network administrator, he mentioned about a software they use which blocks websites, if the website is being accessed many number of times to reduce pressure on the bandwidth.
Some company might have done something similar to OpenDNS.
quite possible they did this intentionally. ..!
Its purely because of non-business usage / bandwidth consumption of resources. Many popular sites are blocked (for example, you can not access yahoo/gmail etc in any of the top IT companies) for this reason.
The way it works is this.
IT administrators pull a top10 list every week or so and block those sites if they are not business critical.
Actually not..most of the other blogs/sites are still accessible (confirmed from my friends in Infy).
Email services have been blocked since the last 3-4 years.
They may not come in top10
Check the referer logs of your server, you would find a link for infosys top 10 log or something similar
Congrats buddy !
Infy has confirmed that ur blog makes an impact !
Good Going….
And mind you…Those who’re really loyal to ur blog will keep reading pluggd some way or the other.
nope!atlst not in Mysore.im writing from infy rtnow.
That’s a good news..but I guess it’s blocked for blore IPs.
Good News for startups . This means there are ppl in infy who love to startup and infy want to protect them . like Odysseus trying to save his sailors from Siren’s Lure.
Well Done Ashish
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