Comments on: Rediff’s IE toolbar ushers it into the big league…

By: anubha

anubha — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:35:54 +0000

its very help ful tool for every user

By: Harinder

Harinder — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:52:24 +0000

Try MapmyIndia v-2007. I think it is a great start.

By: amit

amit — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:26:46 +0000

Rajesh,

I love your suggestion about somebody (maybe Rediff) doing a good mapping application for India. The only India level mapping service, (mapmyindia.com) sucks. And you need a certain scale to attempt something like that. Its difficult to imagine a lone, cash starved startup making much headway on that. The big portals are probably best positioned to take a serious shot at that space.

By: Vikram

Vikram — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:50:12 +0000

I think when it comes to similar web-products, there will always be a sense of ‘deja vu’. Thats what google and yahoo toolbar users will think while going through the rediff toolbar. Nonetheless its an effort worth appreciating rediff for. Their new look e-mail also looks really sleek, i find it better looking than yahoo mail beta. The later looks cluttered and has too many glitches (its forced me to return to original yahoo mail). I hope rediff makes its beta version snag-free.

Vikram

By: Rajesh Moorjani

Rajesh Moorjani — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:12:07 +0000

Its honestly a great move from Rediff’s side but the question that comes to mind is how do you make out if something is indigenously developed or just skinned from a product offerring from a US company? I know that the SMS Messenger Chikka provided by indiatimes is one such product.

Also, I feel rediff should get more creative and try to cash in on its “Indianness” rather than compete with world players. (eg: getting serious of Indian maps etc.)

Indian IT has always been very good at implementing, its time we get high on creativity too?

By: Narain

Narain — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:08:18 +0000

Amit,

What is interesting to me is not even the toolbar, but Rediff’s redefined email account. To me honestly, rediff, can’t compete with the likes of Yahoo! or Google because of their licensing deals with larger corporations. For ex. Adobe Acrobat Reader is bundled with Yahoo! Search. Rediff’s email is a bold move. It somewhat resembles Zimbra [http://www.zimbra.com] suite. Works like any other typical email client you install in your system, I think, Yahoo! is also testing similar interaction for their email accounts.

By: amit

amit — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:09:34 +0000

Shalin,

Thanks for pointing out Rediff Bol; thats another dimension to its products plans; however the toolbar is different; its almost like taking the battle right upto yahoo & google & IE