A fresh day for naukrigulf.com

It has been a usual day with some small achievements giving you immense joy. One of these was making a customizable homepage for naukrigulf.com job seekers. It was my dream for last 2 years to develop a highly customizable section for job seekers. With some web 2.0 knowledge sinking in, i was able to visualize it in entirety. And i must say, i have plans for the next one year already well thought through. But, the smart way to go about it will be step by step. I know people will argue that such features and facilities will be overwhelming for a job seeker, but the fact is, you do not loose anything by providing an additional feature to them as long as their normal course of action on the site is not affected. I think, we should give them more and more so that they know that we care, and are continuously working to make things better for them. A user should feel invited to come to your site.
Have always felt and have said a hundred times that the future of web lies in customization, personalization and collaboration. It's better to experiment on this right now rather than take desperate steps when the whole world has done it. If you have the technology and vision, who is stopping you ? I like google for this approach. They keep producing stuff which many of us may not find useful. However, there will be some others who will be really thankful to google for coming up with such products.
Idea is not to satisfy the top 10 or 10% of your users 100%.. But i think, the idea should be to satisfy them 90% and satisfy the remaining 90% atleast 10%. You cannot afford to ignore the long tail.
My second step will be to provide as many components as possible to the job seekers. I'll definitely propose to make the homepage compatible with third party components as well... ofcourse, those components should make sense on my site.
I'll concentrate more on such components which will help job seekers to find and apply to jobs seemlessly.
My first step, i would like to believe, was in the right direction. It would not have been possible without the help i got from my team mates and my collegues in other departments. It could face the light of the day because my top management and collegues also shared my belief and vision. there are lot many steps to be taken further. It will be a long walk... give me one more month, the next version will be another big step in the "Right Direction".