Friday, January 19, 2007

Webyantra.net reviews indiainteracts.com

Got a review of indiainteracts.com from Amit Ranjan of webyantra.net. He has been kind to us by cautiously terming us as an interesting experiment :) However, I must admit that we are tinkering a lot with what is the norm both in the traditional media space and in the alternate media space. But, my reasoning for the same, as hinted in the earlier postings is that, I am only trying to do what would eventually end up happening. When traditional 1.0 companies buyout new 2.0 upstarts they start doing the hybrid model. I feel altering the platform of established 1.0 players to fit their newly aquired 2.0 properties or vice versa would be much more diffucult than building a platform from the scratch to suit this model. I guess time will tell.

In his review, there was one main issue raised by Amit on the content side, which is that its currently south focussed. This is deliberate. One, we are limited by our burn rate and content creation is expensive and time consuming. Two, our current focus is on getting the platform in shape before scaling on content and thereby users, which is in direct correlation to the content one has. Our idea is to build our the platform, model it for the south content to prove to potential investors our idea. Then we will have national content, both created by us and through partnerships with other content providers.

Overall, we want to eventually, give our users the ability to customize their user space into a media space where they can easily create and distribute content like we do @ indiainteracts.com. Our users could be an individual, a company, or a local community.

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