Rediff Redesign, like we mentioned earlier was one of the most gutsy step by any content player – removing ads from homepage (and even otherwise) isn’t an easy decision – and the impact of removing those intrusive and non-contextual ads has resulted in 16% decline in revenues for quarter ending Sep 30, 2009. Key numbers...
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Rediff has announced an investment in Imere, Bangalore based startup that provides location-awareness platform. Imere gives service providers and application developers the ability to quickly and easily location-enable their applications. This includes integrating digital maps and database content drawn from multiple sources for enabling. Imere relies on cell-id and wifi id to decode the geographic location...
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Rediff has launched the minimalistic design (similar to Rediff Abroad) in India and before jumping into reviewing the redesign, here are a few data points for you: Rediff’s Falling Pageviews Inspite of all the ‘sizzling’ slideshows, overall pageviews are not going up! Infact,
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Rediff has published it’s Q4 results for the year ending Mar 31st, 2009 and here are some highlights: Quarterly Revenues dropped by 50% (as compared to Mar 31st, 2008) : $4.49mn vs. $9,06mn last year Annual Revenue stands at $25.43mn (as compared to $32.25 last year) Net Loss of $11.26 million for the year ended March 31,...
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Rediff’s Q3 08 results follow the industry trend: Advertising revenues for Rediff India dropped 41% (compared to same quarter, 2007; and 34% compared to last quarter)) : $4.1 million. Total # of Advertisers : 229. US publishing dropped 29% compared to last quarter, and 50% compared to same quarter, 2007 : $1.2 million Total revenues stands at $5.3million...
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Rediff has launched it’s content portal in Pakistan – and is probably trying out the new interface as well (which Ajit talked about earlier). The Pakistani site runs on Joomla (can easily make out from the URL structure), interface is a lot cleaner (has a slightly NYT appeal) and is currently ad free (almost! though...
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Rediff has launched a new service called webinmail that enables one to receive webpages in their inbox. All you need to do is send a command in the subject (e.g. website url, google:<query>) to browse@webinmail.com The received email will convert
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Rediff’s quarterly revenues have stared showing signs of downturn. Here is a quick snapshot: India Online services are down 2% to
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Rediff opened it’s developer platform few months back and today went live with third party applications on its video and music platform, Rediff iShare. iShare APIs supports any app that is compatible with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) and has been launched with 3 apps: Dedicate a Song - an app
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For the past many years, I had some ideas regarding how to utilize e-mail service and offer various other services effectively. As I have weakness with my writing, I never put it down until last year. I wrote the following...
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Signs of a successful company is agility!, i.e. how quickly it can embrace change. Rediff, I am glad to mention is opening up its verticals and user base to developers, transforming itself from a pure content portal to a platform on which other businesses can operate. Code named ‘Sociali’, the platform will enable developers to...
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Rediff is taking the threat from Orkut and Facebook very seriously – they do understand that they can’t build another orkut/FB, so integration is the way to go. Rediffmail has integrated news feeds from Orkut and Facebook into the mailbox enabling users to stay up-to-date on the activities of their friends/family on the sites. Once...
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Rediff has launched Train Fare search that enables users to check availability of seats with fares, check PNR status, get detailed schedule of trains including real-time arrival and departure status by using a simple search engine query. I believe Rediff is right in it’s positioning as a utlity search engine (few days back
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Very recently I covered destinations for independent musicians/artists to showcase their talent, and am glad to see Rediff taking a plunge in this space. Rediff has tied up with anEcho, a startup which promotes non-commercial music. “The idea is that the site, (http://anecho.rediff.com), will be a platform where music labels and TV channels...
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