Anand’s blog

I was reading someone’s blog post listing the online apps that the author couldn’t do without. As I read the list, I mentally started making up my own list. Well, here is mine (in no particular order)-

• WordPress – Cool blogging platform. Let’s you write a blog post without too many distractions. Usage – once a week.
• Google Reader – My daily peek into 45 sources of information that I want to consume. I don’t read all my feeds, but a quick cursory glance is guaranteed.  Usage – daily.
• Gmail – I started with a “free” Hotmail account waaay back in 1996. While I opened a Yahoo account too, it was never the one for me. I was a happy :-) Hotmail user until I setup my own mail server a few years ago. And then when Gmail launched, I switched over to it.  Usage – keep it open whenever I am online.  My Blackberry connects me to my email at other times.
• Google – We all know why.  Usage – I use it so much, I guess they’ve put up a dedicated server just for me :-)
• Timesofindia – I loathe the site, but twice a day I goto there to do a quick 3 second scan and then close it. If any news is big enough, they’ll put it up in big font. So the 3 second scan does it for me. Usage – insignificant
• burrp!TV – I don’t watch TV, but on days when I want to catch a movie on TV, I goto burrp!TV. – Usage – twice a week
• ICICI Direct – Competes with the TOI for the most kachra (garbage) site ever. Usage – once a fortnight, just to make sure that none of my shares did a Satyam on me.

That’s all. While I might visit Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon etc once in a while, I don’t use them on a daily or weekly basis. As you can see, there are NO indian sites that compel a once a day usage. Do you know of any?