Diggindianews is now MinkIt

Diggindianews is now with a new avatar as Minkit. The concept of MinkIt is simple. Open source happens when the demand side starts supplying itself. As Open source came as a revolution to proprietorship, the same way MinkIt is born as a revolution to current indian mainstream media. Presently mainstream media is in the few hands and is easily manipulated and influenced by rich and powerful people. MinkIt has the power to turn readers into news editors and transform conventional journalism to Distributed journalism.

For those of you who haven't heard about MinkIt, it's a news site for india that relies on its readers to determine what the most important news stories/headlines are that day. With lots of newspapers being in india, each one it either gives a scattered news or even if it is local there is still no platform that gives local news for a location on internet. MinkIt brings localised concept to news. Any local news for a particular city from classifieds to jobs to news can be published by any user. The most minked news comes in the front page. Any person from a local city can bring his news/blog/matrimony/resume/advertize his shop/classifieds for anything, and submit in MinkIt. He does not need to visit newspaper publishing houses and spend money in getting his news published because MinkIt provides this facility free of cost. A common man can simply target the local public for his business through internet. Lets say for example i stay in noida and i have a car that i want to sell then i simply join MinkIt and go to classified section and make a posting for my maruti car. The people of that city who are interested in buying my car can contact me by seeing my classified posting.

MinkIt has been launched at a perfect timing when indian mainstream media has made normal public frustrated of the way how they manipulate news as per their business. MinkIt is powerful because the public has right to vote down the news which is absolute junk. This is why MinkIt is called Distributed Journalism. We have the right to enjoy democracy in every aspect and with Minkit we can surely bring transparency to indian news content.

Online photo rating site for india ------ratehotindia.com------

Are you interested in knowing how hot you are??How people rate your attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10??If this is what you are looking for then RateHotIndia would be the best place.

RateHotIndia is an online photo rating site where community rates a users photo on a scale of 1 to 10.There are already similar successful companies like HOTorNOT in USA. As internet user growing at an exponential rate in india, it seems RateHotIndia could be an exiting space targeting indian internet market. Plus the timing seems to be right for the launch. Lot of other startups have been running after rating engine but rating photos is by far the best concept that i have come across because of the charm that a photo carries. Any two people can have different choices in defining how HOT a person is on a scale of 1 to 10.

The revenue stream for RateHotIndia would be advertisements as of now. But as they expand their target would be around subscription for dating i suppose. A question that has come to my mind is how are these people connecting users? Is it through comments or sending emails or something else which is going to get launched soon?? Well thats a mystery i suppose. And as of now comments and messages are meant to connect users.