Comments on: Rediff To Open Up Its API; Launching Developer Platform Based On Facebook Markup Language, OpenSocial

By: Rediff API - the good, the bad and the ugly | StartupDunia - Indian startups | India Web 2.0 | India business | India Internet

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:38 +0000

[...] been about two weeks now since the news about Rediff API, Sociali, was leaked. The formal announcement about the API was made by Rediff [...]

By: Nikhil Pahwa

Nikhil Pahwa — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:29:44 +0000

Shyam : that was with reference to those who claim to be commenting on the basis of what was presented at Proto, where this was mentioned, not with reference to any conversation. They dont appear to have realized it extends to news.

By: shyam

shyam — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:22:47 +0000

Nikhil,

I guess this is an extension of the recent conversation, but if you take a look at the API docs, you’ll see the calls are entirely made to profile data. Now, you may have seen/heard something that, as readers, we have not seen/heard, so the quip “most commenting on the initiative don’t appear to have realized this,” is a bit over the line.

There may well be a lot of things that are on its way from the Rediff stable, but since when is it kosher to report on something that a company’s pushing at you like it is a fact even before you have seen it in flesh and blood? Even the Rediff presser does not have anything on the timeline, nor does the developer website say anything about the news/xyz other properties, other than that it will be opened up later.

So, if they have told you something in person, which you’ve not written in your first version of the story, how do you expect your readers to realize what has happened in a private conversation?

By: Inside Facebook » Indian Social Network Rediff Launching Platform, Own Version of fbFund

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:34:08 +0000

[...] The platformization of social networks is continuing throughout the world as Rediff, one of the most popular portals in India (and publicly traded on the NASDAQ), is launching a Developer Platform, according to Medianama. [...]

By: shyam

shyam — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:30:32 +0000

Couple of things:

1) The application economy functions very differently. It has near-zero value attached to the quality of usage, as long as the usage is there.

2) Entirely about playing for scale in terms of impressions/usage and law of averages in terms of products. Run CPM on massive inventory and hope you have a good success to failure ratio in terms of numbers.

3) Unless they plan to open up email for apps, I am fairly certain there is a new big product they’ll bring out soon in the SN space. Poking or “flirting” has little usage on a news site. As they claim, ishare could be the first one, but again, limited use case since Ishare is primarily a content destination site.

4) It is a platform play and it is looking to hold on to value by lock-ins. Rather interesting how little there is info on how the application will be “hosted by rediff.”

5) Good to see a company in India finally releasing an ‘API’ which actually is hosted at an endpoint with decent documentation. Though there are swathes missing in terms of response codes etc. Still, a good start.

By: Chandan Kumar

Chandan Kumar — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:29:29 +0000

Another day another platform nothing new, But Its good that rediff is opening up.
I hope that other big Indian web companies also start taking this seriously as well.
They haven’t provided much info on the developers site till yet.

Come on pahwa get more details out yaar.