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Amazing feedback

Wow. What a way to start blogging. I have not even had the chance to introduce myself and I have already been slashdotted. As a geek, it is a great feeling when something you write gets on the frontpage at slashdot. I now have a gif to prove that. :) Next step is to get linked by Scoble.

I have had about 20000 hits so far to the original entry and our team has got some great feedback. I like this blogging thing. :). Thanks for the great welcome. I am excited to see that people are interested in what we do at MSN. Stopdesign also has a very good article about our conversion. The comments there also have a lot of good feedback. Thanks for the feedback.

Let me introduce myself and set some expectations for the blog. My name is Venkat Narayanan and I am a SDET on the MSN Portal team. Our team works on http://www.msn.com, My MSN and some other pages. We are also responsible for some of the international portals. I am going to try and blog about once a week. Let us see how that holds up.

 

-Venkat

Published Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:47 PM by venkatna

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# MSN.co.in Front page issue @ Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:52 PM

Venkat,

The msn.co.in homepage has a problem. after the loading of Bill Gates (Your super boss :-)) letter, what's happening is that even if you close the letter, the parameter setup of flash (transparent, I suppose) remains. This blocks the front page headlines as hyperlinks, as Flash takes the predominance. Cross Check

Narain

# re: Amazing feedback @ Thursday, February 03, 2005 10:44 AM

"Next step is to get linked by Scoble"

Heh. I don't think being scobleized is anywhere near as big as being slashdotted :-) But I may be wrong. Anyone have any hard stats?

David Naylor

# great blog @ Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:48 PM

I really enjoy reading this blog. It is a great example of what can happen with corporate blogging. More companies need to start embracing blogging as a way to communicate with their users.

Justin Thorp

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