Sify has announced a tie-up with Sony Television for webcasting content from music reality show Indian Idol 3 at indianidol.sify.com. Sify will offer behind the scenes footage, recaps of episodes and also allow users to vote for contestants on the site via Sify i-Way cybercafe’s. They will also conduct video conferences and webchats with participants and judges. There will also be contestant fan clubs and messages to contestants sent via Sify will be read out during the show. [via release]
This certainly seems to be an expansion of Sify coverage of shows and events. I just checked the site and people can vote only from iWay cybercafe’s, by purchasing a voting code from Cyber Cafe owners for Rs. 2. Also, the Questions page is primarily being used for sending comments, it seems. So far, there are 244 questions and 467 comments. I don’t see a chat room, or a link for video conferencing…
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