Wednesday 18 July 2012

About Planet Bollywood

PlanetBollywood.com belongs to the INDOlink family of websites, which is the first and largest ethnic internet media network serving South-Asians and Indians worldwide since 1995. PlanetBollywood.com gives weekly box-office updates rather than a daily on. It also gives recommendations from the website (in terms of what movie to watch and what not), movie reviews, public ratings, music review, top songs of the week, and news about daily happenings in Bollywood.
This website's load time is pretty fast despite of having so many images and advertisements on it. Color theme and layout is quite soothing to the eye and easy to understand, but nothing special stands out in terms of creativity knowing that this is a well-funded and maintained website

About Koimoi

Owned by Contest2win.com India Pvt Ltd, Koimoi.com is devoted to providing authentic Bollywood news, box-office reports and film reviews. In terms of layout, color themes, and templates, this website is better than previous 3 websites mentioned in this list. Movie review of new releases is updated by the afternoon of Friday for all the new releases.
It also has a community page making this website a social network for fans to share their views and insights of their favorite films and stars. It allows you to make friends, fight out discussions and last but not the least it offers you to write a blog on their website for 500 INR, if their blog is chosen by the moderators of the website

About Box Office Capsule

BoxOfficeCapsule.com was launched on 14 November 2011 and released on December 2011. It is owned by Khyati Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. This website allow users to give their opinion also making it a total entertainment package.

It also provides movie reviews, previews, box office collections, analysis, predictions, rate critics, Bollywood news, southern cinema news, Hollywood movies review, My ADDA, etc. It gives daily updates of Bollywood domestic and overseas collection updates for all currently running movies, news and analysis of box office collections. It gives solid prediction analysis every Thursday for movie that is going to release next day. It also has a unique and interesting section which has the ratings of the critics given by users themselves.

About Box Office India

Formed in 2003, BoxOfficeIndia.com is dedicated to reporting the box office collections of bollywood films. Over the last few years, this website has become one of the most respected sources for box office details within Bollywood industry. It has a huge viewership in India and is also popular in USA, UK, Canada, Pakistan, UAE, Australia, Norway, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands and France. A lot of Internet statistics related websites confirm this claim.
This website estimates and analyzes business of Hindi films using all sources and contacts available. Numbers on this website are all indicative as actual numbers are rarely given out by producers and distributors. This website aims to provide accurate and informative news and figures, rather than gossip and rumors.
If you can ignore slow loading time, abundance of advertisement, irritating pop-ups on this website, then this website is by far the most reliable website in terms of accuracy of box office updates.

About www.BoxOfficeDay.com

BoxOfficeDay gives the latest news of box-office collections of Bollywood movies on daily basis. This portal is run and maintained by Rohit Tripathi who is author of all update articles on this website. It has horizontal menu on top of the page which has sections like News, 'You Asked Them', Actor Profiles, Movie Reviews, Records, Yearly Database, First Look and Ask a Question.
Website follows a very simple template with a latest big release picture at top, followed by Horizontal menu bar, followed by 2 column - Daily updates in blog-wise fashion and links for these individual blogs on the right side. At the bottom of the website are few links for the answers for some frequently asked questions, along with facebook, twitter and some other social app links.
This website only gives updates about big releases not about all the releases, but it does so without fail on daily basis. Also whenever a big budget movie is announced or its poster is released, this website updates about it immediately.

Monday 2 July 2012

Online Data Posting review

onlinedataposting.org is one of those website which almost slipped past the radar of my negative review. Simply because there is nothing new in this website. Once you visit this website, you would feel that you have already visited here and you have already been disappointed with it. Look and feel along with template design is seen in many work-from-home-job-posting websites. So most probably you will scroll down to the bottom of the page to see if they are talking about making any sort of payments to the website. And yes, this website asks you to pay 1299 INR, which apparently is a low price due to a running promotion on this website, which is going to end very soon.
So, without bothering to get into much details and probing about their work offerings and opportunities, I closed that portal. Wish I had a 'Block' or 'ignore' button on my browser or on the google search results page, clicking on which i can tell my browser to not to open that website again. And similarly that page won't come in the search results either.
Funniest thing about the website is, that they have put some user testimonials on the website apart from a user agreement in which they mentioned that they don't give any guarantee of the payments or the work been given to me.

Sunday 1 July 2012

Online Writing Jobs review

www.online-writing-jobs.com is website for posting and bidding for freelancing jobs online. Website has a pretty weird looking structure and it looks as if it is build in a hurry. Almost everything is placed in one page, right from header, menu, advertisements, long job menu, featured job menu and footer at the bottom. I had to scroll down to see if they are asking to me pay any money, which thankfully they were not. I started exploring the jobs mentioned by them, and few things did appear impressive to me
-- Job posting rate: Last job was a day ago, which means that website has nice user base and the projects get posted and taken regularly also.
-- Different categories of Jobs: Jobs are posted under many categories, most of the jobs are under content-writing categories.

Now getting to the business, I did tried to choose a proof-reading job and see its details. I noticed that job poster has mentioned that they will pay me via net15 pay only. I also checked other jobs then, and I noticed that they had mentioned another mode of payment. It means that this website is not going to facilitate payment to the workers here. This is quite risky since the employer can always get away by not paying to me. This had happened to me once on Freelancer.com more than 6 months ago and Freelancer.com is still asking me to wait. I choose not to go further in this website. It is real pity that this website showed a lot of promise and only the lack of 'payment facilitation' has altered my decision to not to pursue this website further.