Rediffmail NG is really the mailbox ready to compete with GMail, YMail or Outlook?

Rediffmail which used to be the default mailbox of the many in India, will now be surprise to know is still alive. Rediff.com is no more the default home page. Rediff has lost everything from default portal to mail to chat. Rediff used to be the default home page for the most people in India (being the fastest loading portal, many times faster than yahoo) but now Google is the only home page it seems. Yahoo has taken the leap in being the portal of choice.

Rediff Bol which used to be a popular chat client is dead. Rediffmail NG which they call as next generation is also seems to be taking its last few breaths. At the time when hotmail is set for overall makeover to metro style outlook to survive against GMail and YMail, Rediff seems to loose the race and is showing no innovation. Rediffmail NG even don't have push notification. Integration with other Rediff services is poor. Also, Rediffmail NG on web look unfit and the mail interface is poor.

Rediff should understand that they have seen a stiff competition in all fields and companies like Web18 and Indiatimes are producing better innovative products than Rediff and Sify which used to be the top companies earlier.

Also, Rediff always competed with Global Giants like Google and Yahoo. But with the emergence of Orkut they start loosing and then lack of innovation kept them on back seat and now out of the bus. Rediff need to set a line up of products which people like, for example, Rediffmail, Rediff Bol, ZaraBol, MyPage and Portal(news etc). Then they need to innovate on all of these with full focus and try to compete aggressive with global giants. Standing out and watching the global do business won't help them much and in the end they need to sell the company.

Rediff need to be more focus on its main product and try to be number one in those in India, then only they think of being in profits.

Major Bug: Folder disappears from mail in.com

Many have seen, many a times (including me) that each time we create a new folder in mail in.com, all the folders and filters created earlier gets disappeared. It seems like they gets deleted and all the mails in them also get deleted. This is the major bug in there mail service.

If they don't act fast on this, then it may lay them to loose trust of users as they are saving several mails in there folder for future reference, loosing which may incur a loss of information. Though its the truth that mail in.com is not the primary mail ID for anyone as still we love gmail, ymail, hotmail and rediffmail more than any other mail service.

Still, I would say that if in.com is offering mail service then they should offer a strong solution and should be serious about that else its like cheating with your users. Same is the case with indiatimes mail which is most of the times out of service and i can't access my mails 24X7.

Such mail service is good for nothing and we need new Indian start-up in the field of mail service else we can be happy using western mail services because they offer a better solution and we can rely on them.

Indiatimes mail down

Today Indiatimes mail is down and still i can see the company working on it. This shows that they are not serious about the business at all. Indiatimes is known for its news as well as entertainment content, gaana.com is a good start in the streaming content, but apart from that they do not seem to be serious about the business. Mail is treated as non-existence part of the company. If its is so they should not offer it as service to consumer.

I am using tumblr account which was registered using indiatimes mail, that also comes to the danger zone due to all this. This is really a bad experience for the user.

Same kind of approach I see among many other Indian mail service providers like in.com, india.com etc. who are bad in delivery of mails. This means I not aware that whether mail will be delivered or not, will I recieve all the mails sent to me or not.

So, if you want to be away from all these, its my recommendation that sign up for mail services like gmail, hotmail, ymail, rediffmail etc. whose main focus is email as they have a separate department in the company which works on this specific product.

Email is an essential solution for any web user and should be build seriously. Each company should have a separate department working on email solution, then only they can give user a better experience and robust system. Never forget email is a big source of revenue on the web.

This brings to the focus of the need of good start-ups in the Indian Internet Industry who can bring innovation in new dimensions like micro-blogging or already saturated dimension like email, social etc or may discover new dimensions. They need to bring !dea as well as polish the solution to be world class. This will not only generate new source of income but also jobs.

Hope, Indian Internet Industry will realize soon and will bring a better ecosystem to fight against multinationals. 

gaana.com a well organised music library

Indiatimes new creation Gaana.com is a good library for the music lover. You can search and listen the music of your choice as well as create your own playlist by signing in using FB or Twitter and even create your own gaana.com account.

Being an alpha version still its very stable and works smooth for me. I was able to search all Hindi as well as English songs. Even some of my Punjabi friend told me that he can find many old Punjabi songs which he used to love listening. But i was not able to find the Pakistani song nahi-re-nahi. Anyways i find this gaana.com a good !dea and overall had a good experience.

Google, Facebook and Twitter have eaten up all the internet market share from the Indian Companies like rediff and sify. But Indian Internet companies have found a way to survive and work on innovation other that competing with the Giants. E-commerce, Jobs and news are still dominated by the Indian Internet companies like Flipkart, Naukri, Times Of India etc.

So such innovative !deas like gaana will help Indian Companies to servive against Internet companies like Facebook and Google.

Indian web companies letting things go away

Indian companies don't seems to be serious about business. Product up-time is very necessary for it to gai market share. But i saw things going in the wrong direction today.

Indiatimes mail is not working. Just think the mail service used by few is not up and people will move out, so they will be left with nothing. Also there mail service use Zimbra and hence do not launch new service in a shorter period, making user get bored. There is a bigger issue with Indiatimes mail is that you cannot export contact. So, user may fell like a jail.

Second problem is with rediff. Rediff has services like Page and Zarabol which do not require rediffmail.com account and you can very well use rediff account which is created by using your mail id. But this advantage they loose as registration cannot be done and it throws an error while trying to register.

Hope Rediff and Indiatimes will become little serious and will provide India with better products and services.