Jhoom points to Saffronconnect (http://www.saffronconnect.com). It should point to http://www.jhoom.in
There is a typo in the para which says mobies instead of movies.

Thanks,
Saurav

team contentsutra
you guys are doin a great job. a lill more positive feed back could help out the start ups in india.
its not boooooooooooo time in india .its boom time and i feels its not like 1999 bubble this time.

Saurav: My apologies. Has been corrected.

ramk: there are some positives mentioned. You shouldn’t just focus on the negatives.

Hi Nikhil,

The UGH ad on PrabhuTalks of Nautanki.tv is a paid ad and that makes it not too ugh for us dear friend.

The points that you missed:

This is the first attempt to use a fixed chart for programs that would be telecast

the ads will change according to user profile as we go into that stage very soon.

without ads TV will never work nor will nautanki

We are providing a platform for a lot of indie film makers to get revenue using our unique revenue share method and will very soon have two film festivals on nautanki.

MOST IMPORTANT point: We started making money! which a lot of the others cannot in this list cannot claim to have even started

I said that the prabhu clip is like UGC (User Generated Content).
Playing the devil’s advocate:
- Ads according to profile is a freedom that you have with the medium, but why have you gone ahead with a fixed chart when you can allow to choose the programs that they want to watch, when they want to watch it?
- Indie film makers are fine, but do you have an editorial team in place for selection of content? Some of the content was just to amateur...you might have ads in the trial period, but if the content isn’t compelling - people could pull out.
Great that you’ve already started making money. Hope it continues like that.

Hi Nikhil,

The fixed program system was evolved to keep content in control else nautanki might just become another youtube clone. by rolling over content like ETC / MTV we get to focus on the ones that are done well. To say the least - it is part of a larger gameplan.

We have an excellent editorial team in place. It is headed by Vikram Prabhu who was content head with ZEE and them ETC. We are also working with some of the brightest film makers on the short format. While the content currently is not too great, we do not want to expose too much of what we have during beta. Interestingly we have been getting a huge amount of traction from overseas and some of the emails we have seem to give all the content good points. Maybe it is because there is a lack of entertainment online.

We hope too to make money consistently. Thanks for being the honest devil’s advocate.

one good site is callinglife.com , it gives informations about many cities

Happy that web2.0 site count is growing very rapidly in India.
But one point they all should consider.Few of the so called Indian Web 2.0 sites are still based on old school html and tabled markup. Some point in time we should recognize that following web standards will reduce the total cost of operation of any medium to large scale website. This is not just a theoritical point but its a proven fact, for example take espn.com. There are plenty of advantages when you follow webstandards to build future proof websites which can be maintained easily.
The ceo’s of 2.0 sites should wake up at some point in time and practice web standards as a mandatory.
All the best to Indian Web 2.0 boom! Hope we will see the next big web2.0 innovation from India.

We do not know as of now if this is a one off phenomenon but the following segment:

http://www.osmos.net/nautanki/channel2.php?cid=15

has got some 105 views in less than 8 hours after it went live. the only explanation is that someone has sent out the links to people and we are getting residual hits and our advertisers are benefitting.

Cheers

Negative or positive...comments is not the issue here.

At the next down turn or e correction (which is as ineviatble as seasons)ALL these online sites will disappear!

Just remember a good idea is just a reflection of a good P&L;a year or two down the road!Everything else is folklore!And the balance ‘investment mode’

Mehboob

Readers may be interested to know that boo.com is on its way back. Check out the new holding page to get an idea of what it will be about.

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