2008-07-16 07:33:00
Users Can Now Get Updates of Their Friends’
Activities From Orkut and Facebook Straight Into Their Rediffmail Inbox
MUMBAI, India–(EMWNews)–Continuing to evolve its offering to meet the changing needs of the
users, Rediff.com, India’s leading online
portal added yet another first to its flagship product Rediffmail by
introducing feeds functionality from popular social media sites likes
Orkut and Facebook into the users Rediffmail inbox.
With the addition of this feature consumers will now be able to register
and receive news feeds from popular social networking sites with out
actually having to visit them, helping them to keep up-to-date on the
activities of there friends and family on the sites.
The objective of introducing feeds into Rediffmail is to help users
discover content on social networking platforms which is relevant and
useful in an effective and non-intrusive manner. News feeds within the
mailbox will help users to find interesting content like photos, videos
and music that their friends and family are sharing on the social
networking platforms in their mailbox itself.
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How to subscribe to feeds in your inbox your rediffmail account in your inbox which you would like to receive feeds in your inbox your username and password and hit go it – You will receive the feeds right in that page same process can be repeated to subscribe to feeds from other social networking website
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Commenting on the launch of this new feature Venki Nishtala, Chief
technology officer of Rediff.com said, “With
email transforming into becoming a dashboard of users activities on the
internet, introduction of feeds from social networks into Rediffmail is
an evolutionary step in the direction to make Rediffmail a more social
email application. The new feature will help users to conveniently, and
efficiently keep abreast of the activities of their friends and family
on various social networking platforms.”
In its launch phase Rediffmail will allow users to receive news feeds
from Facebook and Orkut and will soon extend it to cover more social
networking sites like Linkedin amongst others.
User can sign up to receive news feed by simply providing their username
and password details and Rediffmail will automatically import news feeds
from their chosen social networking sites, helping them to engage with
their friends more conveniently. Users can choose to use the service
just as a way to see what their friends are up to, or for browsing and
reading the stuff their friends share and actively engage them through
email by sending comments and messages.
About Rediff.com
Rediff.com (NASDAQ:REDF) is one of the premier worldwide online
providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and
shopping services to Indians worldwide. Rediff.com provides a platform
for Indians worldwide to connect with one another online. Founded in
1996, Rediff.com is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New
Delhi and New York, USA.
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statements.” These statements involve a number
of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those that may be projected by these
forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include but
are not limited to the slowdown in the economies worldwide and in the
sectors in which our clients are based, the slowdown in the Internet and
IT sectors world-wide, competition, success of our past and future
acquisitions, attracting, recruiting and retaining highly skilled
employees, technology, legal and regulatory policies, managing risks
associated with customer products, the wide spread acceptance of the
Internet as well as other risks detailed in the reports filed by
Rediff.com India Limited with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Rediff.com India Limited and its subsidiaries may, from time
to time, make additional written and oral forward looking statements,
including statements contained in the Company’s filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders.
Rediff.com India Limited does not undertake to update any
forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on
behalf of the Company.
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