Tracing the spike... its on Mumbai Mirror!

Earlier this month, on 7th April precisely, visits on writeKA went up 400%. It has tapered down now though there are more visits on average now. It was strange because the increase was proportional across organic searches and direct visits. Now I know the reason. :D writeKA was featured on the Mumbai Mirror newspaper (in print). I don't know if coolsitetoday came first or that (the content is the same), but here's a link to the newspaper's online edition. Now I am all enthusiastic to put out more features again... :-) If anyone has a copy of the print, could you save it and give it to me?

writeKA is the cool site of the day

writeKA has been featured as the cool site of the day on CoolSiteToday - heres the direct link - http://www.coolsitetoday.com/?coolid=1239042600.

writeKA on Twitter

Like everyone else these days, writeka has joined the twitter bandwagon. Follow the latest updates here - http://twitter.com/writeka.

Out of the dark....

Boy, this was such a long week! My regular job sapped up all my time, and I messed up my new server so badly trying to get things customised/upgraded that I had to spend more than a couple of days just getting it into working condition. So yes... my latest feedback was: "You need to choose a better server!" :D Regular users of writeKA - sorry for the inconvenience! I promise this sort of an outage won't happen again unless its beyond my control. I'll plan well in advance before I do something as major as moving to a new server.

Ok, so finally everything is working again, the news is online and so are the scripton services and directory.

A second look....

Its been a long time since I've updated anything on writeKA technologically. I guess the time I devoted to this little hobby project of mine has been realloted to many things including my family, work which has gotten more interesting recently and other projects. Recently I've had to evaluate the amount of money I've been spending on my personal projects and I realized that its way too much. I've been paying out of my pocket to keep writeKA up the last couple of months. I don't think I can afford to continue doing that. I wish I could, because I've really enjoyed working on this website - and the hosting provider is really good. I've decided to move it to something a little less expensive, so the services of writeKA could be down for some time. Considering that I did make changes to improve responsiveness, I don't expect the move to really have any negative impact.

Services Restored

WriteKA Scripton - Hindi and Malayalam transliteration, and the WriteKa Indian Language News portal are back up again. The service server have been upgraded and you can expect a lot more improvements soon.

WriteKA services are down! :-(

My server is down, I've outgrown shared hosting and my account has been suspended. I'm hunting for a new home for writeKA. It'll be back up in a couple of days...