Shunya - India's slashdot?
Thanks to a friend, I stumbled onto Shunya - a site which claims to be "a community site for people interested in contemporary Indian Technology." Slashdot users will find the layout familiar.The content is India-centric. For example, today's front page has articles on whether semiconductor fabrication plants are a wise move, outsourcing, Microsoft's desi-centric applications etc.
To compare it to Slashdot would be, I agree, just too much. However, the site is good for a start. Maybe with more users and more traffic, the site can take off big time.
Shunya is also available in Hindi, which is pleasantly surprising.
posted by Vijay Krishna Narayanan | 5/24/2006 09:45:00 AM
6 Comments:
Looks promising.
Hmmm....can you believe that they don't offer RSS feeds. What sort of tech site is this?
Kaps, I felt as much myself. I've mailed them about this.
They do offer RSS feeds. I have subscribed to that on my google reader. Amazing coverage.
http://en.shunya.in/site/rss?lang=en
Karthik, the link to the feed wasn't displayed (prominently) on their site. I pointed it out to them, and now it has been added to top-left menu. Thanks anyway.
Also they offer a Hindi feed.
I believe the site was started after a slashdot submission of the shunya founder(s) was rejected. Slashdot is Slashdot, because of the community and it's going to be a while before shunya is anywhere near /. and shunya-ing enters the techie vocabulary along with slashdot-ting . One nice feature seems to be ability to vote stories up/down like reddit. Slashdot's acceptance of stories is rather arbitrary and sometimes, I have had my stories accepted after I submitted as 'Anonymous Coward' - Go figure !
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