InstaBlogs : Bringing bloggers and readers closer!

  22 Jan 2008 by ReviewSaurus | , , ,

instablogs InstaBlogs is not a startup really, as they’ve already crossed 2 years and are already in profits but in order to scale up, they want funding and that’s why they decided to showcase InstaBlogs in Proto.in 2008 in front of the VCs and the entrepreneur’s.

InstaBlogs was started by Ankit and his wife Nandini Maheshwari and became the first blog network of India, although now it has gone past that stage of a blog network as now it’s more like a blogging platform where anyone can go and open an account and start maintaining a blog.

The unique selling point of instablogs is that they have got a good community around their blogs from various parts of the world and they all engage in conversations and thus it really proves that InstaBlogs is bringing bloggers and readers closer.

Their blog platform was built in-house and as far as the site navigation and highlighting the author and commenter is concerned, they’ve done a pretty neat job. I do believe that if anyone who’s feeling that their blog is unheard, then they should actually go and start blogging at InstaBlogs because the community will definitely respond to your posts.

Here’s the presentation which Ankit gave in front of all the entrepreneur’s and VCs at Proto.in 2008 (unfortunately, he wasn’t able to finish the presentation as 6 min. got over) :

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3 Responses so far

  1. pooja kashyap January 22, 2008 10:10 am

    Instablogs is really an emerging news source, the new UI is a plus point as it gives readers power to customize their preferences, also the big names like BBC and MSNBC too are moving in the same direction - of giving power to its readers.

  2. ReviewSaurus January 22, 2008 10:57 am

    @ Pooja : Well, I’ll rather disagree on that it’s more like a place where people discuss matters around a particular news which was covered by some news agency ? Citizen journalism is not so much evident in Instablogs at this point of time, however I don’t doubt the capabilities of the community at all.

    I’m sure it can definitely turn into a big citizen journalism and If I’m not wrong that’s what Ankit and Nandini have in their mind and that’s why they are looking for funding.

    Best of luck to InstaBlog guys. Great job in bringing Instablogs to such a level.

  3. pooja kashyap January 24, 2008 9:56 am

    @ ReviewSaurus

    I do agree with you that INSTABLOGS is a place where people all around the web / world come and shed their views on variety of topics be it politics, environment, tech, health, sports to name a few. I just wanna put forth the feature which the new interface incorporates, “news in focus”, which till some extent would act like a news source.

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