ICICI Bank.com is one of the highly visited website by Indians. Needless to say, its online banking feature is the most loved aspect of the bank. Of late, I notice that the infinity login page of the website is featuring an MSN favicon. Don?t know if it was my updated Internet Explorer 7 or the server of ICICI Bank Login page was brining it. However, the favicon disappears after logging in to the website.
Favicon is a big branding option available for web marketers. Many top internet ventures such as Yahoo, Nike, CNBC etc. have used favicon as yet another channel to remain in the minds of their customers. Indian websites however are a bit lagging behind in using this medium.
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:74:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/23/icici-bank-favicon/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:301:"ICICI Bank.com is one of the highly visited website by Indians. Needless to say, its online banking feature is the most loved aspect of the bank. Of late, I notice that the infinity login page of the website is featuring an MSN favicon. Don?t know if it was my updated Internet Explorer 7 or the [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:698:"ICICI Bank.com is one of the highly visited website by Indians. Needless to say, its online banking feature is the most loved aspect of the bank. Of late, I notice that the infinity login page of the website is featuring an MSN favicon. Don?t know if it was my updated Internet Explorer 7 or the server of ICICI Bank Login page was brining it. However, the favicon disappears after logging in to the website.
Favicon is a big branding option available for web marketers. Many top internet ventures such as Yahoo, Nike, CNBC etc. have used favicon as yet another channel to remain in the minds of their customers. Indian websites however are a bit lagging behind in using this medium.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1161663984;}i:1;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Problem accessing HSBC India webiste";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/14/problem-accessing-hsbc-india-webiste/";s:8:"comments";s:96:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/14/problem-accessing-hsbc-india-webiste/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:38:08 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/14/problem-accessing-hsbc-india-webiste/";s:11:"description";s:313:"The other day I was hooked to the Internet using a Reliance Internet connection. I was surfing various sites and everything seemed to be okay except for one site(s) - the websites of HSBC Bank. When I type hsbc.co.in, the site shows the title but nothing appears beyond that. I tried opening the website in [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:834:"The other day I was hooked to the Internet using a Reliance Internet connection. I was surfing various sites and everything seemed to be okay except for one site(s) - the websites of HSBC Bank. When I type hsbc.co.in, the site shows the title but nothing appears beyond that. I tried opening the website in Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla and even in Opera but the site nor any of its pages opens up. I thought there might be some problem with this particular .co.in domain. I latter tried visiting their asia pacific site but this too did not open. Guess there is some problem with HSBC network sites or with Reliance. Of course, in situations such as these, each of the companies blame the server of the other company are the problem. Need to check back later on a different ISP to confirm if this is an ISP-specific problem.
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:92:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/14/problem-accessing-hsbc-india-webiste/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:313:"The other day I was hooked to the Internet using a Reliance Internet connection. I was surfing various sites and everything seemed to be okay except for one site(s) - the websites of HSBC Bank. When I type hsbc.co.in, the site shows the title but nothing appears beyond that. I tried opening the website in [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:834:"The other day I was hooked to the Internet using a Reliance Internet connection. I was surfing various sites and everything seemed to be okay except for one site(s) - the websites of HSBC Bank. When I type hsbc.co.in, the site shows the title but nothing appears beyond that. I tried opening the website in Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla and even in Opera but the site nor any of its pages opens up. I thought there might be some problem with this particular .co.in domain. I latter tried visiting their asia pacific site but this too did not open. Guess there is some problem with HSBC network sites or with Reliance. Of course, in situations such as these, each of the companies blame the server of the other company are the problem. Need to check back later on a different ISP to confirm if this is an ISP-specific problem.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1160829488;}i:2;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:49:"Browser incompatibility problem with AMFI website";s:4:"link";s:100:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/11/browser-incompatibility-problem-with-amfi-website/";s:8:"comments";s:109:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/11/browser-incompatibility-problem-with-amfi-website/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:52:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:100:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/11/browser-incompatibility-problem-with-amfi-website/";s:11:"description";s:294:"The other day, the Association of Mutual Funds of India gave a big color ad on the last page of The Hindu. The ad dealt with how mutual fund investors take steps to securely rise your money. AMFI has been doing good in promoting and education the public on the concept of Mutual Funds. An [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1360:"The other day, the Association of Mutual Funds of India gave a big color ad on the last page of The Hindu. The ad dealt with how mutual fund investors take steps to securely rise your money. AMFI has been doing good in promoting and education the public on the concept of Mutual Funds. An estimate says that the penintration levels of mutual funds in India is very poor (i guess it is at 6%).
The ad invited interest people to register at the website for a free booklet. I have some interest of mutual funds and always keep an ear on it. Hence, needless to say, i opened my browser and visited the website. The site is good but at the first instance, i could not locate the “Register for booklet” button. I took a second view of the website and was able to locate the link. The page initially opened fine but later, the footer began to come over the form thus not allowing me to type in the fields (or see any content at that position). Uninterested, i closed the browser.
Later i was doing some market research and visited the AMFI website. I clicked on the Register button again and this time, the site opened well. I wondered what went wrong the other day. A few second of thought popped me that the site is incompatible with Firefox. (It appears well in Internet Explorer but there are few problems in layers in Firefox).
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:105:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/10/11/browser-incompatibility-problem-with-amfi-website/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:294:"The other day, the Association of Mutual Funds of India gave a big color ad on the last page of The Hindu. The ad dealt with how mutual fund investors take steps to securely rise your money. AMFI has been doing good in promoting and education the public on the concept of Mutual Funds. An [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1360:"The other day, the Association of Mutual Funds of India gave a big color ad on the last page of The Hindu. The ad dealt with how mutual fund investors take steps to securely rise your money. AMFI has been doing good in promoting and education the public on the concept of Mutual Funds. An estimate says that the penintration levels of mutual funds in India is very poor (i guess it is at 6%).
The ad invited interest people to register at the website for a free booklet. I have some interest of mutual funds and always keep an ear on it. Hence, needless to say, i opened my browser and visited the website. The site is good but at the first instance, i could not locate the “Register for booklet” button. I took a second view of the website and was able to locate the link. The page initially opened fine but later, the footer began to come over the form thus not allowing me to type in the fields (or see any content at that position). Uninterested, i closed the browser.
Later i was doing some market research and visited the AMFI website. I clicked on the Register button again and this time, the site opened well. I wondered what went wrong the other day. A few second of thought popped me that the site is incompatible with Firefox. (It appears well in Internet Explorer but there are few problems in layers in Firefox).
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1160571120;}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:33:"OurCP Control Panel Usage Summary";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/20/ourcp-control-panel-usage-summary/";s:8:"comments";s:93:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/20/ourcp-control-panel-usage-summary/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:14:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:84:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/20/ourcp-control-panel-usage-summary/";s:11:"description";s:306:"Web Hosting Control Panels are really a boon for web masters who run websites remotely and are far away from the servers. While CPanel is the most popular control panel for Unix and Linux Servers, OurCP is a leader in the Windows Hosting areana. Of late, one of our domains are running on a Microsoft [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:832:"Web Hosting Control Panels are really a boon for web masters who run websites remotely and are far away from the servers. While CPanel is the most popular control panel for Unix and Linux Servers, OurCP is a leader in the Windows Hosting areana. Of late, one of our domains are running on a Microsoft Windows 2003 server and OurCP Ver 3.6 is installed on it.
Out of curiosity, i checked the Usage Summary section of the page and was surprised to note that it does not have much information/documentation/help for novice users. I am particularly interested as to how often the summary sheet is updated (realtime/hourly/daily/weekly/admin set time period). Statistics are criticial for web masters who do market research and control panel should keep in mind about web master usability aspectes when they are designed.
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:89:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/20/ourcp-control-panel-usage-summary/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:306:"Web Hosting Control Panels are really a boon for web masters who run websites remotely and are far away from the servers. While CPanel is the most popular control panel for Unix and Linux Servers, OurCP is a leader in the Windows Hosting areana. Of late, one of our domains are running on a Microsoft [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:832:"Web Hosting Control Panels are really a boon for web masters who run websites remotely and are far away from the servers. While CPanel is the most popular control panel for Unix and Linux Servers, OurCP is a leader in the Windows Hosting areana. Of late, one of our domains are running on a Microsoft Windows 2003 server and OurCP Ver 3.6 is installed on it.
Out of curiosity, i checked the Usage Summary section of the page and was surprised to note that it does not have much information/documentation/help for novice users. I am particularly interested as to how often the summary sheet is updated (realtime/hourly/daily/weekly/admin set time period). Statistics are criticial for web masters who do market research and control panel should keep in mind about web master usability aspectes when they are designed.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1158729274;}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Visa Clean Bol - Profile page";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/18/visa-clean-bol-profile-page/";s:8:"comments";s:87:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/18/visa-clean-bol-profile-page/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:01:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:78:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/18/visa-clean-bol-profile-page/";s:11:"description";s:335:"Few days back we wrote on Password problems with the VisaCleanBol.com site. I tried the forgot password link and it seems it is working fine now. I rechecked various sections of the website and found more usability issues with this website. The Edit Profile page for instance, does not display or allow to change the mobile phone [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1639:"Few days back we wrote on Password problems with the VisaCleanBol.com site. I tried the forgot password link and it seems it is working fine now.
I rechecked various sections of the website and found more usability issues with this website.
The Edit Profile page for instance, does not display or allow to change the mobile phone number entered at the time of registration.
Visa is known for its security of credit card numbers. But this security should not come in the way of troubling users. The Edit Profile page for instance displays the first digit of my credit card number. Yes, you read it right - First digit. I checked with my credit card(s) and all of them have the same first digit. Seems Visa forgot about it.
Also, the site has no consideration for people with multiple credit cards. There is simply no way you can add transactions from your second credit card. You may, i guess, register at the website again (probably giving a different mobile number during registering at the site, which, i presume, is very difficult and unlikely..
Finally there are issues with the Telephone number field. I tried entering the STD code and the telephone number and the site does not accept. It throws up an error: “Enter a valid Telephone phone number.”. It would have been nice if some example telephone number is displayed. It is no surprise that many Indian often get confused with entering telephone numbers of websites - particularly those who got used for the fields of the US Telephone numbers..
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:83:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/18/visa-clean-bol-profile-page/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:335:"Few days back we wrote on Password problems with the VisaCleanBol.com site. I tried the forgot password link and it seems it is working fine now. I rechecked various sections of the website and found more usability issues with this website. The Edit Profile page for instance, does not display or allow to change the mobile phone [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1639:"Few days back we wrote on Password problems with the VisaCleanBol.com site. I tried the forgot password link and it seems it is working fine now.
I rechecked various sections of the website and found more usability issues with this website.
The Edit Profile page for instance, does not display or allow to change the mobile phone number entered at the time of registration.
Visa is known for its security of credit card numbers. But this security should not come in the way of troubling users. The Edit Profile page for instance displays the first digit of my credit card number. Yes, you read it right - First digit. I checked with my credit card(s) and all of them have the same first digit. Seems Visa forgot about it.
Also, the site has no consideration for people with multiple credit cards. There is simply no way you can add transactions from your second credit card. You may, i guess, register at the website again (probably giving a different mobile number during registering at the site, which, i presume, is very difficult and unlikely..
Finally there are issues with the Telephone number field. I tried entering the STD code and the telephone number and the site does not accept. It throws up an error: “Enter a valid Telephone phone number.”. It would have been nice if some example telephone number is displayed. It is no surprise that many Indian often get confused with entering telephone numbers of websites - particularly those who got used for the fields of the US Telephone numbers..
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1158577297;}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:19:"New Yahoo Mail Beta";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/17/new-yahoo-mail-beta/";s:8:"comments";s:79:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/17/new-yahoo-mail-beta/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:05:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:70:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/17/new-yahoo-mail-beta/";s:11:"description";s:342:"Yahoo Mail interface is one ‘the’ most popular standard interface when it comes to web-based mails. A majority of other web mail companies have mimicked the email interface from Yahoo. Yahoo Mail has more impact on users than that of the next popular - Hotmail. But with Gmail making ripples, Yahoo is serious about brushing [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1719:"Yahoo Mail interface is one ‘the’ most popular standard interface when it comes to web-based mails. A majority of other web mail companies have mimicked the email interface from Yahoo. Yahoo Mail has more impact on users than that of the next popular - Hotmail. But with Gmail making ripples, Yahoo is serious about brushing up the interface.
Over the past few months, Yahoo went on making minor changes to its mail interface. First there is the Login screen update (amidst many problems for users who consistently complained that they could not login the first time). Later there was news and some links to Photos and Attachments.
And finally here it is now .. Yahoo recently announced the Yahoo Mail beta. I tried switching to the new interface from Mozilla Firefox but after a little effort, Mozilla crashed showing some Just-In-Time error. Next I tried logging in from Internet Explorer and it did login. The first thing you might notice is that the folders names to the left have been remodeled. They appear in text (rather than as an underlined linked). Clicking on the link opens the list of files to the right in an ‘Outlook’ like listing. Ads are now of type 160×600 skyscraper and are to the right. These ads looks like to be in a frame and hence are auto-refreshing every few seconds.
What’s good with this new interface is that you can use the regular windows commands such as Ctrl A (for selecting all mails) etc. more easily.
RSS feeds now appear more prominent. The folders section to the left now has links to RSS feeds that you might have added.
Will be adding more on this later.. Keep reading (and adding your comments)..
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:75:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/09/17/new-yahoo-mail-beta/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:342:"Yahoo Mail interface is one ‘the’ most popular standard interface when it comes to web-based mails. A majority of other web mail companies have mimicked the email interface from Yahoo. Yahoo Mail has more impact on users than that of the next popular - Hotmail. But with Gmail making ripples, Yahoo is serious about brushing [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1719:"Yahoo Mail interface is one ‘the’ most popular standard interface when it comes to web-based mails. A majority of other web mail companies have mimicked the email interface from Yahoo. Yahoo Mail has more impact on users than that of the next popular - Hotmail. But with Gmail making ripples, Yahoo is serious about brushing up the interface.
Over the past few months, Yahoo went on making minor changes to its mail interface. First there is the Login screen update (amidst many problems for users who consistently complained that they could not login the first time). Later there was news and some links to Photos and Attachments.
And finally here it is now .. Yahoo recently announced the Yahoo Mail beta. I tried switching to the new interface from Mozilla Firefox but after a little effort, Mozilla crashed showing some Just-In-Time error. Next I tried logging in from Internet Explorer and it did login. The first thing you might notice is that the folders names to the left have been remodeled. They appear in text (rather than as an underlined linked). Clicking on the link opens the list of files to the right in an ‘Outlook’ like listing. Ads are now of type 160×600 skyscraper and are to the right. These ads looks like to be in a frame and hence are auto-refreshing every few seconds.
What’s good with this new interface is that you can use the regular windows commands such as Ctrl A (for selecting all mails) etc. more easily.
RSS feeds now appear more prominent. The folders section to the left now has links to RSS feeds that you might have added.
Will be adding more on this later.. Keep reading (and adding your comments)..
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1158545105;}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:36:"MSN API still gives 250 results only";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/msn-api-still-gives-250-results-only/";s:8:"comments";s:96:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/msn-api-still-gives-250-results-only/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:56:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:87:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/msn-api-still-gives-250-results-only/";s:11:"description";s:318:"In continution to what my views on how Microsoft is having its strategy on the Internet space (Read my view on Hotmail earlier), there was an update from MSN, Microsoft’s search engine. MSN till now is giving only 250 search results which is increased to 1000 recently. But the latest in thing is that MSN [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:447:"In continution to what my views on how Microsoft is having its strategy on the Internet space (Read my view on Hotmail earlier), there was an update from MSN, Microsoft’s search engine. MSN till now is giving only 250 search results which is increased to 1000 recently. But the latest in thing is that MSN API is still showing only 250.
I was wondering if MSN has too little bandwidth to support this or something like that?
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:92:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/msn-api-still-gives-250-results-only/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:318:"In continution to what my views on how Microsoft is having its strategy on the Internet space (Read my view on Hotmail earlier), there was an update from MSN, Microsoft’s search engine. MSN till now is giving only 250 search results which is increased to 1000 recently. But the latest in thing is that MSN [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:447:"In continution to what my views on how Microsoft is having its strategy on the Internet space (Read my view on Hotmail earlier), there was an update from MSN, Microsoft’s search engine. MSN till now is giving only 250 search results which is increased to 1000 recently. But the latest in thing is that MSN API is still showing only 250.
I was wondering if MSN has too little bandwidth to support this or something like that?
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1156517790;}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Of Google and ?ESOPs??";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/of-google-and-esops/";s:8:"comments";s:79:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/of-google-and-esops/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:55:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:70:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/of-google-and-esops/";s:11:"description";s:355:"Here is a message hovering in the SEO and Business circles “Google’s top executives have offloaded about $7.4 billion of stock, equal to about a third of the company’s starting market value when it sold shares at $85 each in the August 2004 IPO,” says Bloomberg columnist, Mark Gilbert. Not only that, he reports “not a [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:766:"Here is a message hovering in the SEO and Business circles
“Google’s top executives have offloaded about $7.4 billion of stock, equal to about a third of the company’s starting market value when it sold shares at $85 each in the August 2004 IPO,” says Bloomberg columnist, Mark Gilbert. Not only that, he reports “not a single Google insider has bought a single share of the company in the 18 months since the IPO lock-ups expired.” Can you believe that!
“that over the past 18 months that neither founders Larry Page or Sergey Brin have been selling. That’s because they already said in 2004 that they’d spend the next 18 months diversifying their portfolios through planned sales.”
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:75:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/25/of-google-and-esops/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:355:"Here is a message hovering in the SEO and Business circles “Google’s top executives have offloaded about $7.4 billion of stock, equal to about a third of the company’s starting market value when it sold shares at $85 each in the August 2004 IPO,” says Bloomberg columnist, Mark Gilbert. Not only that, he reports “not a [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:766:"Here is a message hovering in the SEO and Business circles
“Google’s top executives have offloaded about $7.4 billion of stock, equal to about a third of the company’s starting market value when it sold shares at $85 each in the August 2004 IPO,” says Bloomberg columnist, Mark Gilbert. Not only that, he reports “not a single Google insider has bought a single share of the company in the 18 months since the IPO lock-ups expired.” Can you believe that!
“that over the past 18 months that neither founders Larry Page or Sergey Brin have been selling. That’s because they already said in 2004 that they’d spend the next 18 months diversifying their portfolios through planned sales.”
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1156517732;}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Tyroo down briefly?";s:4:"link";s:71:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/23/tyroo-down-briefly-2/";s:8:"comments";s:80:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/23/tyroo-down-briefly-2/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:34:59 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/23/tyroo-down-briefly-2/";s:11:"description";s:319:"Ads of Tyroo - a new Indian Internet Advertising firm seems to be down briefly early this morning. The banners of many websites that are beign served by Tyroo did not apear. Instead a server error was displayed meaning some problem at their advertising server. There is no message from Tyroo to it advertisers nor [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:467:"Ads of Tyroo - a new Indian Internet Advertising firm seems to be down briefly early this morning. The banners of many websites that are beign served by Tyroo did not apear. Instead a server error was displayed meaning some problem at their advertising server. There is no message from Tyroo to it advertisers nor on its website. The impact of the earnings of the advertisers is not yet known. The ads continue to be served as usual at the time of this post.
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:76:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/23/tyroo-down-briefly-2/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:319:"Ads of Tyroo - a new Indian Internet Advertising firm seems to be down briefly early this morning. The banners of many websites that are beign served by Tyroo did not apear. Instead a server error was displayed meaning some problem at their advertising server. There is no message from Tyroo to it advertisers nor [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:467:"Ads of Tyroo - a new Indian Internet Advertising firm seems to be down briefly early this morning. The banners of many websites that are beign served by Tyroo did not apear. Instead a server error was displayed meaning some problem at their advertising server. There is no message from Tyroo to it advertisers nor on its website. The impact of the earnings of the advertisers is not yet known. The ads continue to be served as usual at the time of this post.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1156318499;}i:9;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:40:"One Event ? One Website ? Two Blogs (!?)";s:4:"link";s:102:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/23/one-event-%e2%80%93-one-website-%e2%80%93-two-blogs/";s:8:"comments";s:111:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/23/one-event-%e2%80%93-one-website-%e2%80%93-two-blogs/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:55:44 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:8:"websites";}s:4:"guid";s:102:"http://websites.greatpersonalities.com/2006/08/23/one-event-%e2%80%93-one-website-%e2%80%93-two-blogs/";s:11:"description";s:335:"Indians are no less to their international counterparts when it comes to blogging. This is evident from the recent tom-tom in the Indian and International press in the wake of the recent ban on blogger.com (instead of some blogs on blogger.com). There was hue and cry all over the world. Television channels began airing comments [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1060:"Indians are no less to their international counterparts when it comes to blogging. This is evident from the recent tom-tom in the Indian and International press in the wake of the recent ban on blogger.com (instead of some blogs on blogger.com). There was hue and cry all over the world. Television channels began airing comments from bloggers ? from Uttar Pradesh to London, England. Wondering why i was saying this at this point of time? Read on..
There was a Great Indian Roadtrip by some bikers and the presence of a website for this very elite club. The website xBHP.com was infact even more better ? It is exclusively for the biking event. The program had lots of good and solid sponsors but what surprised me is that their website had two blogs ? one at Rediff iLand and another at OkTataByeBye. In fact, Reddif and OkTataByeBye are also part of the group that is sponsoring the road trip. It is nice to have blogs on websites related to events ? but why so many of them? Won’t one exclusive online media partner suffice the need?
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There was a Great Indian Roadtrip by some bikers and the presence of a website for this very elite club. The website xBHP.com was infact even more better ? It is exclusively for the biking event. The program had lots of good and solid sponsors but what surprised me is that their website had two blogs ? one at Rediff iLand and another at OkTataByeBye. In fact, Reddif and OkTataByeBye are also part of the group that is sponsoring the road trip. It is nice to have blogs on websites related to events ? but why so many of them? Won’t one exclusive online media partner suffice the need?
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