Well, it's been in planning for a while, and OneIndia has finally pulled the covers off One.in, a news aggregator build on the lines of the Drudge Report, providing a single page access to news content from external news sources. (Hat Tip: @centerofright) Headlines and images at One.in are linked to external news publications, including The Hindu, DNA, NDTV, TimesOfIndia, HindustanTimes, MSN News, Asian Age, Sify, among others. While the Drudge Report has a conservative outlook, OneIndia founder BG Mahesh told MediaNama that there is no such plan - The headlines at One.in, though, are tongue-in-cheek. One asks a question I've sometimes wondered about: "Pitroda Sir, how do you find time to be on so many boards?" One.in went live two days ago, and OneIndia founder BG Mahesh says he is still tinkering with the site, and didn't expect it to be written about just yet; "the structure will be crystallized more over the next few weeks, and the focus will keep changing, based on what is hot on a particular day. At team will be set up to do the editorial selection, and the plan is to update it every couple of hours." Aggregators: Algorithm Based & Human Intervention Now aggregators aren't new to India - Rajesh Jain, the founder of Netcore (which acquired OneIndia last year), has launched Samachar.com many years ago, and for a non-resident Indian audience before the turn of the century, it was the primary online resource for news. Samachar.com is now owned by Sify.com. Jain…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...