FullHyderabad May 11, 2008
Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Local Search, Travel , trackbackFullHyderabad is an online city guide for Hyderabad and Secunderabad. The site has been operational since 2000 but like most of the bottom-up web startups, hasn’t gained a lot of traction (see the compete.com stats below- although I dont trust compete 100%, there is a story that the almost-real numbers tell).
What I like about the site is it’s perseverance. FullHyderabad has stuck it out for more than 8 years with what seems like little outside financial support (they seem to have the usual ad-based business model). The site is fairly well designed and navigation is not hard to understand. Even though I know little about Hyderabad, the site content seems to be significant. There are classifieds, event info, hotel info etc. that seem to be fairly uptodate, although I do think that homepage is a bit overstuffed.
I think local entrepreneurial efforts like FullHyderabad are essential building blocks for web as an knowledge infrastructure. Once the physical web-connectivity starts being ubiquitous, what India will need to attract and retain internet users is content. The data gathered by initiatives like FullHyderabad will collectively fill that gap, and make internet useful for the masses. Hope they survive on their own and resist being consumed by one of the horizontal portals like yahoo/rediff/Indiatimes etc.
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