Symbian Softwares Review is a blog based site for posting reviews of “Cellphones Games, PDA Games, New Symbian Softwares, Symbian Softwares, Pocket PC Games, Smartphone Games, etc”. The first thing that strikes me is that the word “software” is known as a zero plural word, that is it has the same form in singular and plural without needing an “s” at the end.
The second thing that strikes me is that even at my relatively high resolution, the whole first screen is ads. A massive google ad in the middle, and ad search bar under the title, 2 referral ads on the right hand side and then a directory under this whose first link is “viral marketing”. The site is a tidy package otherwise with the regular blogroll, button clutter on the right hand frame. Color coordination is fine with a distinctly light blue theme.
The content is, as you would expect from the title, all about mobile phone stuff. Some of the reviews are quite thorough, but all is not what it seems. I took some of the text in one of the reviews and googled it.. sure enough it is a straight copy and paste from the vendor website. I’m sorry my friend, thats not blogging. One review that did look original is the most recent post about a “snake theme” but it was only one line long, which hardly constitutes a “review”. Sure enough, the line “A cool snake theme for your phone. It will surely send shivers down your spine.” was also ripped from the theme author himself.
Sigh, if you read my reviews you will find I am pretty diplomatic. But I cant award this site any points. Blogging is not about copying and pasting. Free blogger services make it easy to create a blog, but the idea has been tainted by the rise of the splogs reaping revenue from ad clicks and attracting searches by copying other peoples hard work. NULL