• Name and photo of the blog's owner and an email-form if you want to contact him. The RSS feed for the blog is also available. You can also review the blog, give it. There are also quality indicators for the blogs content:
  
  
  • BlogRank - The position or rank of your blog relative to other blogs listed with BlogStreet. It is decided by a number of factors which are wieghted and a composite figure is arrived upon. BlogRank of a blog indicates its popularity and standing in the Indian blogosphere.
    
    
  • Rating - A blog's Rating is decided by the votes given to it by BlogStreet users. One can vote "Occasional Read", "Regular Read", "Like it", "Love it" or "Worship it" depending on how much he/she likes it and accordingly the blog will have a higher or lower rating as compared to other blogs.
  
  
  
• BlogBack - Lists the blogs that have added your blog to their Blogroll. Authors of these blogs want to advertise the fact that they like reading your blog and recommend it to their visitors.
  
  
• Linkbacks - If a BlogStreet member refers to some other user's blog and provides a link to it in one of his posts, then that link-containing blogpost is called as a Linkback to the latter blog. So Linkbacks of a blog is a good indicator of how much that blog is being talked about in other blogs.
  
  
• Books - It provides a list of all the books that have been talked about in the blog. Here all the books that have been linked to Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Powells in the blogs. posts are displayed. If you click on a particular book you will get some specifics on it like the book cover, author, its price at Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Powells, release date and ISBN number.
  
  
• Reviews - Comments and suggestions given to the blog by BlogStreet users.

This feature provides you with the cream content from BlogStreet blogs i.e. the best of the best blogposts from Indian blogs. These posts were submitted as well as voted to be the top ones by BlogStreet users themselves, so they will give you the essence of what Indian bloggers like talking about; what Indians think is important or influential to them and what is not. Goal of Blog Buzz is to direct people to good quality content on the internet relevant in the Indian context.

How does it work

The idea behind this feature is that Indian bloggers themselves recommend what makes an interesting read and what doesn't to each other. When a BlogStreet user comes across an interesting post he/she submits it to the site. Depending upon the quality of the post, it is Buzzed (voted upon) by users and if it gets Buzzed enough number of times, it gets posted to Blog Buzz. Here is what actually happens:

• A blogpost is submitted.

  There are two ways to submit a post to BlogStreet.

  1. Directly - when you find something worthy of mention on the internet go to the Blog Buzz section and click on "Add Story" link.
  2. If a blogger has included "Buzz It!" link along with each post on their blogs you can click on "Buzz It!" to submit a new story or Buzz it. If you visit their blogs and come across posts that you think are good, click on the link to submit them.

  The procedure for submitting a post remains the same in both the cases. In the "Add Story" page enter the URL of the post (permalink) and submit. In the next screen specify a title, description and category for the post.

• It goes to the "Upcoming Stories" page in Blog Buzz.

  After submission the new post goes to the "Upcoming Stories" section of Blog Buzz. This is like a waiting lounge for the new posts, waiting to get promoted to the main page or category page of Blog Buzz. The category of the post along with the number of times it has been Buzzed is also displayed along with the post. At the time of submission it has been Buzzed just once (by you).

  The posts can be listed according to the category to which they belong.

• Other users of BlogStreet buzz your post if they like it.

  Eventually when the post has been buzzed enough number of times it gets posted to Blog Buzz homepage or its category page.

What are BlogStreet bloggers talking about?

Their verdict on what.s hot and what.s not amongst blogs, music, books and DVD.s. You can safely assume that content here is in sync with the Indian tastes and interests.

• Blog Tops - A "topside" view of BlogStreet blogs.
  
  
  • Popular Blogs - The popularity of a blog is a factor of its BlogRank which is decided by the number of blogs blogrolling it. More the number of people that add a particular blog to their blogroll, higher will be the ranking of that blog and greater will be its popularity in BlogStreet. These blogs are liked and recommended by the majority of the bloggers. 500 of the most popular blogs are listed here.
    
    
  • Influential Blogs - The influence of a blog depends not on the quantity but the quality of the bloggers blogrolling that blog i.e. who is blogrolling that blog. An influential blog is one which has been blogrolled by blogs with high BlogRanks. You can say that these blogs play a significant role in determining and moulding the content of BlogStreet blogs. They are recommended for reading by the most popular blogs and so they influence the views and opinions of other bloggers. 500 of the most influential blogs are listed here.
    
    
  • Popular Books - The popularity of books is judged on the basis of the number of blogs they are talked about on. More specifically, the number of times the link to a particular book at Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Powells is provided in BlogStreet blogposts is counted and the most .linked. book is the most popular. Here you can even find out if a book with a particular ISBN number is being talked about amongst the BlogStreet enlisted blogs. The top 50 most popular books are displayed here.
    
    
  • Popular Music and DVD's - The methodology followed to determine the most popular music titles and DVD.s is same to that for finding the most popular books, except that only the links of music albums and DVD.s to Amazon are counted in BlogStreet blogs. The 50 most popular music titles and DVD.s are displayed here.

BlogStreet's search engine and lists of blogs slotted into cities and topics.

• RSS Search - A search engine that looks for a particular word string or keyword in all the Blogstreet enlisted blogs and then displays all the posts containing it. This lets you know how much a particular issue is talked about by Indians and their diverse opinions about it.
  
  
• Directory
  
  
  • City-wise categorization - The blogs are categorized on the basis of the various cities where the author (who is Indian) is located. This system of organization shows how widespread the Indian blogger community is across the globe; listing bloggers from New York to New Delhi, from Maryland to Meerut.
    
    
  • Topic-wise categorization - The blogs are organized into various categories depending on the topic they primarily emphasize on in their posts. For example a blog which constantly posts about life experiences will be categorized as Personal. The various categories are . Personal, Politics, Library, Education, Law, Eclectic, Technology, Business, Science, Religion. Users of BlogStreet can decide the category to which a particular blog belongs by going to its Blog Profile.
  
  
  
• Blog of the Day - This is a featured blog on the BlogStreet homepage chosen by the editorial team for its quality content.
  
  
• Fresh Blogs - A section which highlights the blogs recently added to the BlogStreet family. These are new and upcoming blogs and it.s a good idea to go visit them, who knows one of them might turn out to be very interesting.