Joining Samsung Korea Expats google group

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

This to help friends who want to move their accounts on this group from Samsung official id to personal email id. Follow the below steps and you are done :)


  1. Click on the group link SAMSUNG GLOBAL EMPLOYEES

  2. You will get blow screen. Click on Apply for group membership.


  3. Follow the steps.

  4. Don’t forget to give a message to moderators about you. Like name and work place and other stuff otherwise I don’t think they will approve it.
    Also give your official email id, where you don’t want to receive group emails. You can also send an Email to samsung_expats+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com to delete previous id.




Mailing on group:


If you are member of the group use samsung_expats@googlegroups.com to send mails from your membership mail account.

In case of any doubts or problems related to membership do not hesistate to post a comment.

Cheers :)

Is rediff trying to be next google with this search centric design?

Tuesday, June 02, 2009


It was really good to see the rediff new design for international web site. It gives a feeling of rediff’s intensions to be next Google or competitors to them. I have few serious questions about the design and its impact on their traffic. It is really surprising to see how an experienced company can make mistakes like this one.

Rediff is mainly used as an email service with some additional feature added, such as crispy headlines and now music, videos and some other shopping features. All these helped them to increase on time on site.

With new design they tied to imitate google and tried to look more search centric than earlier version, which was a copy of yahoo for Indian audience.

I have a rediff account since last 8 years and used their service when I was young and not familiar with the leaders in the same domain.

I think the following design changes may hurt the traffic at rediff.

First their search engine centric looks. I have the best search (google) for me. I never used rediff search for anything (I m sorry) and may not that in near future.

Cricket: I used to refer to quick cricket scores while tying to check email. Now if need to click for this I better click on cricinfo in new tab of my browser. Cricinfo give a better specialized info to me than rediff.

Similarly a vedio clip or movie song name attracted me to click and go through them. But now it’s all behind a click. If I need to click for music I go to imeem for vedios I go to youtube and other specialized services instead of using going and searching for on rediff.

News: I used to read it on rediff because of their headlines on front page. Stopped it because of repeated old stories and third graded uncivilized comments from their audience that were never moderated. If need to click on news and search through it, why not go to NDTV, TOI, or some other professional services.

I never used their Money and Mypage services so don’t have much to comment on it. I use blogspot for blobgging and use orkut and facebook for mypage. Also have a twitter account and no more interested in any other profile page sorry !!!!


The only thing I would like to share is, I used all these services because they were available on the front page. If I need to go for a click I use my browsers bookmark toolbar to click for expert and professional services.

Anyways, good luck rediff for the new design.