Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Does IndyChai.com Have The Right Blend ?

Indychai.com, the name can be a touch misleading but it alludes to the historically pivotal role chai or tea has played in discussions in India and around the world. Indychai.com is technically a hyper aggregated web 2.0 portal. But fancy terminology apart, in the vernacular tongue it can be described as a one stop for all the latest news stories as they unfold. It aggregates all the news stories from many sources. The news is based on third party websites and this website just gives you the link to it. This saves you the travails of visiting various news sources on the internet. The hard part is not actually visiting these websites but actually finding interesting news items that at times seems to be hidden on purpose. You can find all the big and small stories on Indiachai.com with relative ease on a single web page. The website is still in beta but does provide a glimpse of India Hyper Agreegated!

The stories are all listed quite immaculately on a single web page. There are news stories from some of the biggest sources in India. The list includes the likes of NDTV, Times of India and DNA etc. The news is segregated into six broad categories like news, sports, entertainment, tech, good life and entrepreneur. Within these categories a further sub-division is made. For instance under the news category there are the sub news categories like general, business and indyblogs. Though the divison seems to evade logic.

But the ether of the website is the news, which is in sync with the latest happenings. The one feature that is worth a toast of tea is the fact that on moving the cursor on the story link there pops up a laconic description of the news story. This allows the user to decide if he is actually interested in reading the article or not. On the whole it is a nice site aimed at simplifying the entire process of information and content scouting on the web.

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