Go2IndiaWeb20.com

BlogAdda is a platform for Indian Bloggers to showcase their blogs. BlogAdda can be used by blog owners to promote their blogs and blog readers could easily discover blogs of their interest. And this is somewhat similar to Rediff BlogShowcase.

If you are a blog owner, you could promote your blog by registering in BlogAdda and listing your blog in it. Blog readers could discover your blog through BlogAdda and there by it subsequently gets more readers and more exposure. You could get interesting data like the ratings for your blog, number of visits today and total visits for your blog. Another good feature is that your recent posts will be listed in the blog page in BlogAdda and users could either digg your story or add it to del.icio.us.

All the blogs are tagged and Blog Readers could easily find blogs of their interest by using the tagcloud. The home page. One thing I like about the site is that, you need not have to register to search for blogs and to read the recent posts. However you need to register to add comments.

I really love the UI. It’s very neat and simple; I love the design and usability perspective of the site. Looking at the site one could clearly say that it’s a web 2.0 site.

I also have some comments…

• A person could have more than one blog. Right now there is no way to add more than one blog to your BlogAdda profile.
• How about ranking blogs based on their viewer ship. See spotplex it has a good ranking system
• A widget for bloggers to display the number of visits today and total visits data on their blog

And finally, what do you think about BlogAdda.com? Provide your feedback as comments to this post.

Today Microsoft announced the official launch of Silverlight (via techcrunch), which can be used to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA). And if you remember Sun gave an answer to Microsoft’s Silverlight, that’s JavaFX, in the Java One conference last May (link here). Adobe also came up with its own RIA platform called Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly code-named Apollo. I believe all these products are boon for the developers but not for RIA. Sun, Microsoft and Macromedia are guilty of the same thing trying to tie RIA to their own platform. What they are missing is that RIA wants to be free.

We should not tie RIA to any platform. All we need to do is specify what the client should do and let the execution / interpretation of that be unspecified. This is what HTML is about. It specified what the client (the browser) should do, and focused on marking up content. All we need to do is to apply the same concept in RIA and build something like a RIA markup language. If that’s the case we could build runtimes in Java, .NET, C++ or in whatever language you want. This is what OpenLaszlo did. The specification itself is technology agnostic and they focused on Java/Flash as the runtime. Similarly, Mozilla’s XUL could be interpreted by engines written in any language.

So all I’m saying is do not tie RIA to a specific platform. I would be glad to see a RIA Consortium that focuses on building something like a RIA markup language.

This is the first time I noticed that Yahoo has portals in Indian Languages. Yahoo has portals in the following Indian Languages

• Hindi (link here)
• Tamil (link here)
• Gujarati (link here)
• Kannada (link here)
• Malayalam (link here)
• Telugu (link here)
• Punjabi (link here)

And Yahoo has tied up with Jagran, a Hindi portal, for its Hindi Content. Information sourced from ContentSutra.