• My Indiatimes to Set Individual Free!

    My Indiatimes to Set Individual Free!

    Techtree News Staff, Aug 14, 2007 1646 hrs IST

    The service promises to deliver on the larger Internet promise of super customization by letting users select from any site that provides RSS feeds...

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Celebrating 60 years of independence, Indiatimes.com is launching a service which it says will give each individual the freeedom to personalize the World Wide Web.

'My.indiatimes.com' will empower users with a single window for all their content to reside within.

The service promises to deliver on the larger Internet promise of super customization by letting users select from any site that provides RSS feeds, and customize so as to get featured on their page.

The page is changeable -- users can drag and drop boxes, delete content at will, and add whatever they prefer from anywhere around the Web.

All users need do is sign-in with their Indiatimes id, add content, and save their page. As such, they can access the page from anywhere simply by logging-in. And they can change preferences as often as they wish.

Elaborating on the service, Dinesh Wadhawan, managing director and chief executive officer of Times Internet, said, "the consumption of Internet is a very individual process; merely providing one kind of content for all does not work. Here every individual is a niche; his needs have to be met. 'My.indiatimes.com' is our attempt to do just that."

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(31) Comments
ashok acharya
,sakleshpur, on Aug 18, 2007 09:01 PM
Fine . This looks very promising . I look forward to exciting features.
mayank
,akkalkot, on Aug 17, 2007 08:52 PM
excellent job
Subrata Dey
,Bangalore, on Aug 17, 2007 12:29 PM
Thats a excellant concept...
amit
,ghaiziabad, on Aug 17, 2007 10:43 AM
what is new in it?i google is already there.
Rajesh Unni
,Alleppey, on Aug 17, 2007 09:50 AM
Being 39 year of age, graduate, unemployed, show the way of life
Dr.srikanth.s
,gannavaram, on Aug 17, 2007 09:37 AM
its really very nice to hear from you
Editor - Indiat
,India, on Aug 17, 2007 04:11 AM
Bogus! These guys are Anu Malik n Bappi Lahiri of the Internet world...
Rmr
,California, on Aug 17, 2007 01:24 AM
No clue why would indiatimes would want to do this.. Mere showing up their tech team AJAX adaptiveness .. Nothing new ..Guys Jokes section is in hindi.. better make indiatimes in hindi version
Jack Sparrow
,Mumbai, on Aug 17, 2007 12:03 AM
Indiatimes always love to bang their own drums - as it is the site looks horribly cluttered with no clear focus or direction. And cloning google cannot be claimed as something unique.
Kumar K
,Hyderabad, on Aug 16, 2007 01:11 PM
Indiatimes should be ashamed about coming up with this so late. Fools. People have already gone with my.yahoo.com. igoogle, live etc.
Binoy
,Pune, on Aug 16, 2007 11:01 PM
K. Kumar exhibits his UNCOUTH persona, FOOL word being used.
Pawan
,Bangalore, on Aug 16, 2007 10:51 PM
igoogle has done the same thing in a better way...
Vivek
,Bangalore, on Aug 16, 2007 10:04 PM
Indiatimes is the biggest spammer and the only known spammer who spams their own users with thier own ads.
Pravin
,London, on Aug 16, 2007 07:47 PM
there is no free lunch, my friends. a big business deal is hidden.
Mickey Mair
,Brampton, Canada, on Aug 16, 2007 07:03 PM
Great idea & strategy, but make sure to handle this idea properly to make it long lasting plan to bring indiatimes name among top few. All the best & keep it up, as IndiaTimes.com has improved a lot since it started few years ago.
vijay gaikwad
,mumbai, on Aug 16, 2007 05:41 PM
do not allow advertisment without taking permission of user. i facing this for last 3 years
F.Dosani
,Heidelberg,South Africa, on Aug 16, 2007 03:52 PM
Excellent idea
alphamax
,hyderabad, on Aug 16, 2007 03:04 PM
haha.. its nothing but a crow in the swans skin.. Indiatimes people, its time to work on the content. Not the presentation..
Anonymous
,Delhi, on Aug 16, 2007 02:26 PM
I wish the experience is better than the sites already providing this service. Kudos to the team...better late than never!!! indiatimes coping or copying?? only time will tell....cheers!
shakti prasad
,hyderbad, on Aug 16, 2007 02:06 PM
this is a little late but should have some better technology ....and i hope it has.
Siddharth Kaush
,Candigarh, on Aug 16, 2007 02:05 PM
When would India Inc start coming up with innovative and fresh ideas, instead of just copying what is happening in the world for quite some time.
mbawmba
,Jamaica, on Aug 16, 2007 01:34 PM
Pakistan.
Satish
,Nagpur, on Aug 16, 2007 01:10 PM
This has been done more than 2 years ago. Old technology.
vijay
,bangalore, on Aug 16, 2007 11:20 AM
this is already available in igoogle and live.com in a better way
Siddharth
,Pune, on Aug 16, 2007 11:17 AM
Its an awesome feat. Kudos to Indiatimes. The Beta version seems astoundingly userfriendly. They need to add more widgets though.
gopal
,bangalore, on Aug 16, 2007 09:30 AM
I do not think so, INDIATIMES is just following the Orkut.
Vijay
,Dombivli, on Aug 15, 2007 10:36 AM
They advertise for unlimited Inbox but inside you get only 6MB for mail and 20 MB for briefcase? Why they fool customers? This shows that they do not have capacity to serve as Google?
vinay
,mumbai, on Aug 15, 2007 09:03 AM
Indiatimes seems to be hell bend on copying Yahoo and google ideas and sites as it is with very little effort to put in their own creativity.Be it the style of my.indiatimes or the yahoo images used on their main site they just blindly pickup stuff.
Ajit
,tvm, on Aug 14, 2007 10:51 PM
no big deal.its easier to put the rss feeds as a bookmark than putting it in a webpage of "yet another" portal.
jobby
,hyderabad, on Aug 14, 2007 08:54 PM
how this is different from google page creators and such similar things floating on the web???
Amit
,cal, on Aug 14, 2007 05:19 PM
nice article

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