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From Gapingvoid
These are interesting days in the world of social bookmarking. Diigo is trying to position itself as an alternative to both del.icio.us and Digg, Weblogs is willing to pay bloggers $1,000 a month for their social bookmarking rights, and two very active Indian bloggers - Kingsley and Chandrachoodan - have started ‘PutVote’.
Now, PutVote is not the first indian social bookmarking site; Indian Pad, Indiagram and Forums of India have existed in the Indian blogosphere for a while.
I started an experiment about a week back and submitted the same stories (55-fiction pieces from my blog) in all these four sites. The idea was to track the relative number of responses from the four sites. In six days, India Pad generated 156 hits, PutVote 27 hits, Indiagram 7 hits and Forums of India 3 hits. Evidently, Indian Pad seems to be the most popular of the four sites in terms of traffic.
In terms of appearance and functionality, Indian Pad once more is the best (but also the most impersonal with an off-puttingly high amount of porn), Indiagram is OK, PutVote is work-in-progress and Forums of India is quite bad.
Where PutVote scores, however, is in its content and its sense of community. The choice of words is engaging (“You Putting Vote, Computer Selecting!”) and Kinsley/ Chandrachoodan comment on a lot of stories. Both these factors help in creating a sense of community. As Kingsley says:
When you go to PutVote.com, we want you to not only enjoy our really immature humor,we also want you to find the same bloggers you enjoy reading already, sharing the new cool things that they’ve found. So it’s not about the concept, it’s about the the community.
Guys, if that’s what you wanted to do, you are already digging it quite well.
Check what DesiPundit, Neha Viswanathan, Varnam, Gilli, Selective Amnesia and Snap Judgement have to say about PutVote.
For the sake of completeness, there is also IndiaHappenning and Humdigg, but more about them in an update.
And finally, do check out this cute post on digging it by Dhoomketu.
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55-FICTION POSTSCRIPT
“Weblogs offers bloggers $1,000 per month for their social-bookmarking rights.”
$1000. $1000. $1000. The number repeated in his mind, multiplied like a viral code.
He thought of his yacht moored on the trendy Mediterranean coast, the Dom Pérignon flute in his hand and the bevy of beauties around him… and posted another link at PutVote.
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Comments (11)
There was also shunya.com (based on Slashdot, not Digg though). It seems to be up to speed.
http://en.shunya.in/webalizer/index.html...
Thanks Gaurav
As for the hits, we just started, and not full fledged yet. We are still at beta (not son). So, in the words of the famous poet, Give us Time, Give us Time.
Thanks though for the good words about our words.
‘Chandrachhoran’ is spelt Chandrachoodan, though.
Gyani Baba: Thanks for the link. Looks a little tech-oriented, but will spend more time there before making up my mind. Will also be looking forward to more posts on your blog.
Ravages: I’m becoming little addicted, putting too many votes, almost. Even writing like PutVote. Must stop visting PutVote, before writing similar in offcial mail. Big people, big names, what to do? Making spelling correction. Apologies accepted, na?
I haven’t seen such a vibrant social bookmarking site like PutVote. It’s this that’s going to make it very successful in the long run, methinx.
EB: It is vibrant and I’m quite sure it’s here to stay. BTW, nice site (yours); you are on my Google Reader now.
Honoured
Thank all you Gaurav people and you EB people. We are very thank you no medicine for the esteemed praise you give us no?
“@”Ravigis: Hai. Correctly speaking, I like good online internet websites only. The reason behind my liking is, there is good availability of feechars in a good website. Vote puting is important due to sharing of links which is according to the Tamil dictum “whatever pleasure we receive let the world receive also.”
@ Ravages & EB: Me liking your commenting and writing 55-fiction on PutVote. You seeing it above?
hmmmm… intresting
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