Be Gadha No Big Adda
That was my reaction when I heard about a networking site bigadda(be gadha=be donkey) but it actually meant big adda(big hangout). I went through the site to see what exactly was it and how good exactly was it. I realised that it was just a spruced up version of DesiMartini.com(whose ads has been making rounds of the TV now-a-days.) It was very much similar to Desimartini even the whole look and feel of the site exactly same except for its login page which reminds me somewhat of Hi5.
I checked out the whole site and it seemed kind of dull. It had around 88 members when I had logged in which obviously might have increased by now. Most I mean most are men looking for women. Then 1/4th profiles out of 88 are of women and out of those 1/4th are active. People there can just add people even without the other person knowing about it. It seems that they had added the feature just sometime back so I hadn’t known about it, it’s now quite similar to orkut in terms of friends requests. There are definitely some bugs in it. The image resizer for profile images and album is not at all good compared to the other sites. They have some kind of minimal blog for every account there which is like the usual ones we see on all networking sites. It even has video feature in it which is quite good for a site that new and which is still in its alpha stages. They definitely have lots to improve in it.
From what I have heard from here and there, it seems that the site is owned by reliance. They really want to put their heads in every other thing that they can think of. I actually wanted to know to which reliance brother does this belong, if my guess is right it should belong to the younger brother Anil Ambani. It would make sense since he is the one who has put his money in most of the internet related activities since he owns the Reliance Telecom. I personally don’t think that this site has any big hope until and unless it goes under a radical change in terms of its design and also in terms of its features. It’s trying to compete with Google’s Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace kind of rivals; it definitely need loads more than what it has now.
May 27th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
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