Update: Rediff Chairman and CEO Ajit Balakrishnan, in an emailed response, has told MediaNama that the company cannot comment on products under development; we'll update with details when the company is ready to talk. Update: As @codelust rightly points out in the comments, Rediff is migrating RediffBlogs users to Wordpress MU. They're using Wordpress 2.7.1, while the latest version of Wordpress is 2.8.4. Over the past few days, Indian Internet company Rediff appears to have begun the process of moving users over from Rediff iLand, it's blog based community, to its blogging platform Rediff Blogs: Rediff Chairman and CEO Ajit Balakrishnan's blog has been migrated from iLand, as has the old Cricket blog of Rediff and India Abroad editor Prem Panicker. A user has ranted (in Hindi written with English text) about issues faced with Rediff iLand. When contacted regarding the companys plans for Rediff iLand and Rediff Blogs, Rediff CTO Venkateshwar Nishtala declined to comment. Several attempts at contacting the Rediff spokesperson since yesterday morning have failed to yield a response. We'll update when we have more on their plans. All New Rediff Blogs? Migration To Wordpress Though users are being moved from iLand to Rediff Blogs, I was still able to sign up for both services yesterday: frankly, what's the point of Rediff running two blogging platforms? The basic look and feel of Rediff Blogs hasn't changed significantly since it first launched in 2003 (April, I think, since I had signed up then). Some of the new sites feature themes similar to Wordpress Themes:…
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