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5th Anniversary, Founder's Message
Welcome to the 5th Anniversary of
ApnaHyderabad.com - 2007
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Furqan Durvesh
Founder/Project Manager
ApnaHyderabad.com |
In the Beginning
On June 22nd, 2002 the Hyderabad Portal - ApnaHyderabad.com was born. The
idea at the time was very simple and much different from what you see now.
For few months we continued to provide some basic services for our visitors who
didn't exceed 200 per day.
Other Remarkable
Accomplishments
Our discussions
of our accomplishments would never be complete without talking about the Message
Board and the new .
The message board has been one of the most popular
sections in our website. In fact, it has been so popular lately. The message board
also helped redefine the role that our website has been playing in helping
visitors communicate and unite at least online. Helping us discuss issues
critical to simple, and also helping us get in touch with each other, and
finding new friends; sometimes even acting in the place of MSN and ICQ. Lately
and to take things more seriously and provide even more choice for our members,
we have added a more advanced Discussion Forum with many forums to discuss
different topics. The forums have recently become the official way of
discussions on the website.
Beside all the
above mentioned accomplishments, our website pioneered in providing many other
tools which would simplify communications between visitors from all around the
World. Such as a
free email service
(from 17th July 2007 - New AJAX Interface will be loaded),
Hyderabad Telephone
Directory (Now including Interior Cities of Sindh),
Web Directory and a
Instant Chat.
Other things to mention included
City e-directory,
Urdu News,
Sindhi News and English News Reports,
and much more.
What Make the Website What it
is?
Our website has been so popular due not only to what we
have offered our members and visitors in the last five years. It is how we
provided these services and the major theme that dominated our interaction with
our visitors. This can be highlighted as follows:
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Our website has
provided a tremendous technical support both through email or our other major
communication tools. All at no cost, and all year long.
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We have always
listened to our members and what they want to see in the website. While
we can't make every demand a reality, we still guarantee that we have always
listened to our members, visitors and audiences alike with no difference.
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Our website and
staff members helped get hundreds of visitors from Hyderabad and many other
parts of the world connected to the internet.
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The website has
survived and resisted many obstacles that came in our way throughout our five
years in operations. These include the wild dot-com collapse with which we had had online affiliation, and the most
important of all the problems created by some individuals who used our website
for the wrong purposes. Also, our website is one of few websites on the
internet that has continued to offer a free directory service.
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Our website,
unlike the majority of websites and and online sites have given a lot of
freedom to our visitors to make their voices heard using our various sections,
the latest being the ApnaHyderabad Official Forum, where the site audience are what
help this section come to live by their literary contributions.
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And finally and most important of all, our
belief in our goals of establishing this website: that is to help Apna
Hyderabadiz get together with one another in one place, as well
as representing all users under one platform.
Important Statistics
Here is a
list of some important statistics that shade the light on our
accomplishments:
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An average of 12569 visitors per day, and some
48,585 page views daily
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Some 1.4 million
page views per month.
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Our website has
been visited by people from over 25 countries
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12558 people
have signed up for our free email service
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Over 2150
discussion forum members
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25020 mailing
list members
What People Said About our
Website
Using our email, chat lines, message board or even real
life quoting, we have selected these famous quotes about our website.
"In the beginning
there was the web, then came AOL, then ICQ, then MSN. Finally there is
ApnaHyderabad.com"
"Your website has
helped me find the one I love, and will be with forever. Thanks a bunch"
"The ApnaHyderabad.com Instant Chat is the only thing I do daily more than washing my teeth or eating lol
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"I want to thank you for this great website which
has become an all-in-one stop for all my City needs, including an email with you guys."
"If not for your
website, I would never have found all the friends I have right now. Thanks you
so much"
"ApnaHyderabad.com was the best last year and so will be this year and the next year."
"Your site guys
is the reason why I got cable, so I can be on it daily"
"I would like to
thank all those in attendance today....also to thank those who created ApnaHyderabad,
because I can say Hyderabad is on the NET.
Finally
Looking ahead to the
future, our vision remains the same and so will be our goals. But our ambitions
and desires are infinite as long as there are Apna Visiotrs surfing the web, will
continue to evolve. Our website will continue to work intellectually,
thinking of the best ways to serve our online community. Because to continue as
being the biggest Apna community, we need to work even harder. Some
people think of our website as being a website only. In fact it is more than
that. It is a network with individual sites or sections. This is why a lot
of people think of our website as one individual website because
it has everything, and many more subsections.
Beside our online
operations, we are looking forward to accomplish even more in real life by
helping users get together in special events, and get-togethers. Remember, that your coming to our website has a lot to do with our
success. The more you come, the better this website will be.
Send your Wishes
here:
http://www.apnahyderabad.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=1270
Flash Intro
ApnaHyderabad 5th Anniversary 22 June 2007
With All Sincere Regards,
Furqan Durvesh
Project
Manager
ApnaHyderabad.com
Email:
furqan.durvesh@webiff.com
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