Comments on: Has ‘project go online’ for Indian newspapers failed?

By: Nikhil Narayanan

Nikhil Narayanan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:28:06 +0000

Mahesh- Okay.
May be too long a beta-time for a newspaper.

By: bgmahesh

bgmahesh — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:59:12 +0000

Nikhil – running beta is perfectly fine and legitimate. I have never said it is wrong. But running it in beta since August 15, 2009 is a long period

By: Nikhil Narayanan

Nikhil Narayanan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:35:20 +0000

Mahesh,
I buy everything here except the line
One needs to wonder why The Hindu has been in beta forever?
Afaik, The Hindu was the first Indian newspaper to go online. I am talking about the days when they were hosted on IndiaServer.com
The current beta stint started recently(Aug 15,2009).So, picking on that seems very trivial to me. It is not *forever*. Been just over 6 months.
Since you have said that online and offline spaces are different,we have to accept the fact that like any online offering, TH’s new version also goes through a beta (testing) stage.
-Nikhil