Episode # 42: Indibloggies

Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:00

Debashish Chakraborty joined us on Indicast as a guest to tell us all about Indibloggies. Indibloggies were started by him in 2003 and have become an annual online event. Its like the Oscars for the Indian Blogworld.

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Episode Notes:

Back to back tons for sachin Tendulkar. He scored his 60th first class century.
Names missing from the voter list..viva democracy
All about Indibloggies.

Yours Internetally,

Aditya

P.S : Intro music provided by Alms for Shanti

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Comments

0 #1 Nitesh Gautam 2007-02-08 14:08

Enjoyed listening to the interview.

You guys are doing really good work.
Keep it up.

Best Wishes

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0 #2 Abhishek 2007-02-09 11:28

Nitesh: Thanks! Keep listening and let us know if you have some cool topics that you think we can talk about...

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0 #3 Aditya 2007-02-09 14:10

Siddhartha,

Really cool patent and nice idea too.. i like it.

Glad you liked the service... i\'ll convey your suggestion to them...may be they\'ll have something to say

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0 #4 Kartik Jain 2007-02-09 14:32

Hi Siddhartha,

Great to hear from you.

We are working on your suggestion to link with flickr. Would definitely keep you posted once we are done with the features.

Also, we would like to hear more on what personalized products (apart from regular prints, photo greetings, t-shirts and calendars) would you like to have on the Picsquare site.

Do let us know.

Thanks,
Kartik Jain
www.picsquare.com

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0 #5 Siddhartha 2007-02-10 14:23

Kartik et al -

Your service is great from a business idea point of view. However, your UI really could do some improvement. It looks like you have copied ideas from other websites, used your own intuition, but not really done it in a professional manner.

My suggestion is rather than try and offer new products, get what you have already and do it better. Hire a UI expert. Simple things like the screen-flow, labels on buttons ... not to speak of how the whole upload process works to place an order. Would give it a serious review.

Also, this picture sharing feature ... it\'s just not worth it. Flicker and others do it better. Focus on what you do best: taking orders & shipping them in India.

If there is one addl product, then it would be to offer \"pocket photo\" service and offered by www.Fujifilm.ch

* S

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0 #6 Siddhartha 2007-02-10 14:41

So you require a recipient\'s phone number to be added. I enter a typical mobile number: 98-XXXXXX ... and am told it is invalid. try again. so i try without the dash: 98XXXXX ... now tell me, how difficult is it to programme that. you really are making the user into thinking like the programmer and not the other way around!

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0 #7 Siddhartha 2007-07-12 09:44

1) The first link to indibloggies above goes to a .com domain which is wrong. pls change to .org

2) Wonder if indibloggies is aware of this alogrithm to define \"interstingness\ " .... used by flickr, BTW.

3) Thanks for introducing us to picsquare. Great service ... if only they would link to flickr! great to get a discount as well!

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