Comments on: ‘India’s 1st Web 2.0 Matrimony site is SimplyMarry!’ hahaha.. What a Joke?!!

By: Bala sengottain

Bala sengottain — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:05:54 +0000

I have come across a fairly growing matrimonial service in down south http://www.swayamwara.com – it has all good features and a sizable list of Brides and grooms.

2 of our family members found fruitful alliances thru this swayamwara and promises for its quality service.

The membership cost (750 / 3months) is very affordable and the best part is all members who have given thier mobile numbers while free registration recieves sms alerts whenever a free proposal or direct message they receive from other users. It saves lot of time and many parents are conveniently enjoying this sms service too….So, check out please…

By: Saumil Patel

Saumil Patel — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:08:59 +0000

Web2.0 is also an attitude – esp. for designers. Web2.0 has its pangs in various aspects of the entire web, for e.g. in technology with AJAX, RICO, Ruby on Rails, etc. In design with advent of curved borders, colour gradients, more CSS styling, etc. With respect to end users by facilitating networking, sharing and promoting UGC.

It's important to understand that all these put together defines a truly web2.0 site because all things put alone were existing in the web1.0 times also … for e.g. you could network and share, forums are based on UGC – technology was also there with XML/JS/CSS and some people must have made some web2.0ish templates from a design point of view. But lately, its just the amalgamation of all these in completely new ways which has generated this buzz. I also feel the advent of flash and the effects it could bring out has also contributed a lot to the upcoming technology advances with people realising that much of these amazing things can be done in AJAX without making the sites too heavy and also allowing the SE's to index the content at the same time!

Personally, I have nothing against SimplyMarry and they can surely pompom their rise to web2.0 but I agree that they cannot claim themselves to be the 1st, because its not just technology that makes you web2.0ish

Just my 2 cents!

By: Big V

Big V — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:38:56 +0000

@ Sarathy – there would not have been so much disagreement if the term actually meant something solid and discrete. The fact is – its fuzzy, sounds sexy and provides just a rough reference to what's being discussed. You probably have seen this already, but here's Eric Schmidt's (the CEO of the search engine that shows 9.5 million references for Web 2.0 says
http://www.odrakir.com/blog/2007/08/10/eric-schmidt-defines-web-30/

By: Ekalavya

Ekalavya — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:32:28 +0000

@ sankaranand:

You said "Also many
believe that web 2.0 is just about adding ajax, giving clean
and fresh interface and validating their xml and xhtml"

So what exactly is Web 2.0?
User Generated Content?

By: Sankaranand

Sankaranand — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:47:52 +0000

sorry rajiv, i thought neha wrote this article !

By: Sankaranand

Sankaranand — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:47:05 +0000

Neha what you said is 100% correct! These starters just don't have another way to show up in market. bharatmatrimony.com and shaadi.com stands first ! Also many believe that web 2.0 is just about adding ajax, giving clean and fresh interface and validating their xml and xhtml thing. the ceo of simplymarry should try some web 2.0 validator tool before giving their words.

By: Sarathy

Sarathy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:09:10 +0000

Web 2.0 is not a marketing Term:
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=define:web+2.0

From: http://www.oreillynet.com
In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless MARKETING buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

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By: praveen

praveen — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:53:04 +0000

Lol, india's first matrimony 2.0 site?,
they are jokers., atleast JS and Bharatmatrimony have rss feeds,
Web 2.0? HA HA

By: Big V

Big V — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:47:36 +0000

Web 2.0 is a marketing term and thats what they have used it for. Taking a plug out of Seth Godin's – Aren't all marketers liars, anyway?

The PR did make me go visit their site – so I guess it did do what it was supposed to do.

v-slog.blogspot.com

By: Mahesh M P

Mahesh M P — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:36:43 +0000

The True Web 2.0 is ZOHO: The Incredible Suite.

Web 2.0 = RIA + SOA + Social Web.

Ajax is the Tech Term and simply a piece of Web 2.0.

I am wondering why still indian people are not getting meaning of Web 2.0 though it has already got so much matured and WATneers had made lot of effort to bring the meaning and insight of Web 2.0.

I think some one should advertise on Star Plus during Kunki Saas be Khabhi Bahoo Thee serial show about what Web 2.0 is all about.

By: Ekalavya

Ekalavya — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:09:04 +0000

Just wanted to add to what Rajiv' already said:

I like the look of SimplyMarry.com though. They are the closest to what ClearTrip has done for Travel. As far as Web 2.0 is concerned – it's a niche. Especially in India and the Times Group is looking at using the term for their marketing initiatives.

So though we might not appreciate this move – it's an age old marketing move. Push PR and a campaign for an – ALL NEW – product. Just gets the prospective buyers curious enough to visit the site.