Dont know which directory has the number now.....

Recently Google has banned the Site-Sift web Directory. Its PR reduces to 0 from 8. For the webmaster's who follow webdirectories for link purposes, Site-sift is a very familiar name to them. In fact they have got the link from a network sites having some good PR. They gained the high PR in a very short span of time only because the links from the network of sites. I dont know why it actually happens with the directory sites. On one night they have the PR of 8 and on the next morning it is 0. May be all these good directories do some kind of manipulation. Some days ago Blue Find directory is also banned by G and Web Atlas also.

Skaffe.com has launched the new mail service!

Recently Skaffe.com web directory launched a free 1 GB email service. The main features include the user profiles, spam protection, unwanted senders blocking, signature for outgoing mail, calender, my documents etc. It is available at mail.skaffe.com. Dont know whether other web directories will follow the foot step of Skaffe in future.

Additional information is available at http://www.skaffe.com/info/news.php

Have a nice time!!!

How did they do it?

When we think about the worlds largest communities, only one question arises in our mind : How did they do it?

The main point behind their success is the word "Dont loose a single visitor due to the bad behave". Not a single community in the world behave improperly to their visitors. They all are very much friendly and passionate, along with single minded.

So for a long term growth and retention of any community I strongly believes that it should be User Friendly. The main thing is "You can no longer be self-sufficient". You must bring together more and more visitors to your site. This means that distributed innovation models must address how you attract the best people to collaborate with you in your projects. For this share of the thoughts is very much essential.

We should reward the good people who have contributed a lot of their important time to make our community a success. There are basically two ways of getting rewarded for work. You can get paid for your input, for example by a salary, hourly rate or fee for service. Or you can be rewarded for the value of the final output, such as a commission, profit share or success fee. The second method generally gives the other people satisfaction.

What are the things required for making an online project as successful?

What are the things required for making an online project as successful? Well there are few things like :
1> You have a Product.
2> You have the Service.
3> You need to build the community.

Well ten years ago some people just use to make their product and distribute it to people without taking the participation of them and later on their product vanishes from the market. These days one new concept came. Now people make a product and distribute it to mass and then try to participate them also for promoting their product. By this way say if some one is fairly satisfied with one product then he will feel very much happier to promote this by his own. So ultimately that company is getting a loyal supporter for his product. This is the main idea behind the success of Network Business.

What lies behind the success of some of the giants of internet fields like Amazon, Open Directory Project (dmoz), API, Zeal, Blogs, Wikipedia, RSS etc. How these products are made so much successful. The reply is the one and only one word i.e. "people participation". Like dmoz started an idea for making the user as the editor of their categories and by doing this they have forced the people to come back again and again to their site. By this way they got the natural visitors also. So the main concept lies behind the success of all these sites are the making of the community for themselves.

Making the community also consists passing the information to the customer. Give user all the rights to do whatever they want. By this way we can achieve the goal of architectural participation. Also we can utilize the good work of other peoples.
Some drawbacks are also their as some people tries to spam your community, so we should be cautious regarding these destructive elements. Lots of community is being destructed only because the person who is responsible for maintaing the community is not so much sincere. So we need to take care about all the pros and cons of people participation. We can make one man as the community manager who can handle the community with care, with the help of his experience.

These days customer cares are taking big boost, blogs are getting so much famous. Nothing new is behind their success, accept the people participation.

So finally we should encourage the peoples to come back to our site. For that we can chose the architecture of participation/anticipation. We should engage the visitors or rather we should encourage them to take participation.