Indyarocks impresses me

Nothing attracts or compels you when you have yet another social networking invite in your inbox - does it ?
You have a lot of them these days - in different colours, sizes and shapes. And you have strangers inviting you to join the network even!

Let’s see who is the popular one in the Indian arena. Orkut - I’ve had my share of it - i deleted my old account and managed to create one again, but this time I’m keeping away from scrapping or adding any new friends. Simply because i think it’s a waste of time and very addictive! Better if you keep out or it’s gonna eat up your time and rust your thinking channels. Although i think a school goer or college guy should enjoy it very much. Not for me!

Yes, I’ve had a look at Myspace, tried it a bit just because my firangi friends urged me to. I think it’s a powerful monster in a terrible shape! Out of shape i mean. I didn’t have any Indian friends there, and when i felt lonleyl, i quit myspace too.

I’ve received many invites so far, can’t think of their names - but from my reliable friends and for some reason i ignored all of them. Until yesterday, when i read a review about Indyarocks on this blog.Something urged me to give a try.And i did.

I found Indyarocks charming - honestly! I have a liking to this AJAXified KISS style web applications, and this one was one of it. Neatly trimmed and tailored. That’s not the only reason though - It had more cool features, which orkut missed. The background picture, custom css and stuff. It was more like Myspace - but in a very good shape, that you’ll like it. More over, i t had the sms feature,which should be a huge thing in the future, if i’m right.

The interface is all sleek - ajax helps you to do things in a jiffy . (No irritating NO DONUTS FOR YOU message!) And they’ve managed to integrate RSS Feeds, Blog, Forum and even classifieds - all of which can be integrated to your profile.

One recommendation though is that - if i could show my Dailydose blogs RSS Feed right into the profile block rather than a drop down menu in the MyBlog link.One of the staff members has scrapped me that he’s looking into it.

One more recommendation is - the name. I think if it had been a fancy brand name like “Indiez.com” it would’ve sounded sweet and more like social networking, rather than a verb - indian rocks. But hey, i could easily make out that it’s a social networking from that name and i would’ve ignored the invite. So i have an answer to my question.

All kudos to the guys behind Indyarocks -they deserve a pat on the back.

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