tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32845538926405125092024-03-14T09:25:44.400-07:00Sauron's Eye on InternetRanjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-39737883114005432512013-09-28T04:25:00.000-07:002013-09-28T04:28:07.740-07:00Bean Bags Online in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/63-filled-bean-bags" target="_blank">Bean bags</a></b> are the best option to relax after the hectic day. These chairs are so relaxing and comfortable but also look so stylish. So if you are looking for the comfortable and the stylish furniture you can choose these stylish <b>bean bags online</b> in India from <a href="http://mebelkart.com/">Mebelkart.com</a>.</span><a href="http://blog.mebelkart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/110-288-thickbox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://blog.mebelkart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/110-288-thickbox.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-25420363450179734642012-11-26T11:06:00.002-08:002012-11-26T11:09:01.082-08:00Furniture shopping becomes easier with Mebelkart.com<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Bangalore based<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">MebelKart Technologies Pvt. Ltd</b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> recently launched<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/">http://www.mebelkart.com</a> </b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>focussed on making furniture shopping easier, reliable and cost-effective. Currently they have focussed their operations in Bangalore and Mumbai. Mebelkart is currently targeting categories like <a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/30-buy-bean-bags-online">bean bags</a>, <a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/35-executive-office-chairs">executive chairs</a>, <a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/36-computer-office-chairs-online-shopping">computer chairs</a>, <a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/33-buy-office-chairs-online-india">office chairs</a> and <a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/38-cafeteria-chairs-online-shop">cafeteria chairs</a>.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Company is formed by professionals having expertise in the ecommerce Industry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.mebelkart.com/"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Mebelkart</b></a></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> intends to use various technical tools to make the process of furniture selling Customer Friendly and seamless.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">India’s infrastructure is growing at the rate of 30%. e-commerce market in India is expected to touch $ 24 billion by 2015 . The Indian furniture market is currently worth $8 billion and growing at a rate of 30 per cent compounded annually with the organized Indian furniture accounting for 15 per cent. There are very less recognized brands and there are a lot of problems while buying furniture. This excites the founders Ranjeet and Nikhil to enter into this difficult but promising market.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">“<span style="color: blue;"><i>While we keep our focus on B2C, we recognize the potential of B2B market. We are about to launch our B2B site namely<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><i><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://supply.mebelkart.com/">MebelSupply</a> (supply.mebelkart.com)<wbr></wbr></b><span style="background-color: white; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for bulk deals and corporate supplies. This site enables Companies and bulk purchasers to get various office supplies at one single place. Through<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://supply.mebelkart.com/"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">MebelSupply</b></a></i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>we are providing a platform to small and medium enterprises to buy bulk deals online or request for quotes through MebelSupply</i></span>”</span><wbr style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></wbr><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>says Ranjeet, the co-founder of MebelKart who graduated from IIT-Bombay and worked previously for Arcot Systems and CA Technologies.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">“<span style="color: blue;"><i>Customer Delight is our focus. Anything which makes the Customers happy is what we are targeting at be it better delivery, more options to choose from, lesser prices, more brands. We intend to achieve this through local partnerships to make our entire process more efficient and fast</i></span> ” says Nikhil ,the co-founder of MebelKart, a BITS-Pilani graduate and having previously worked with Travelocity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Mebelkart</b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>also offers product customization in some categories like Beanbags. If you have a design then<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">MebelKart</span></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span>will get it custom manufactured for you. You can post that design to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mebelkart"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">MebelKart’s faceBook page</b></a></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and request the fans to like it. If the number of likes on that particular design reaches a benchmark of 200, MebelKart will get that converted into a product.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In the near future, ©MebelKart plans to expand its portfolio to other categories like Tables, Wardrobe, Paintings, Bedsheets, Office Cubicles and other office / home supplies.</span></div>
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Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-44523278123497781082012-08-19T09:43:00.000-07:002012-08-19T09:43:47.445-07:00How to ByPass Website Blocked by ISP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Disclaimer: I am not against the Gov. policy to block websites;<br />
But they should verify before blocking anything. Very recently BSNL blocked <a href="http://fatcow.com/">Fatcow</a> and all its hosted sites. I have my blog and few other sites (including <a href="http://dreamstarts.in/">DreamStarts.in</a>, <a href="http://mindcron.com/">MindCron.com</a> and <a href="http://bloggersqa.com/">bloggersqa.com</a>) hosted on FatCow. FatCow is the most reliable hosting with very good customer support.<br />
Similarly other ISPs like RCom, Airtel have also blocked content/video/music sharing websites.<br />
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Simply point your ISP DNS to google DNS ie.<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> 8.8.8.8/</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">8.8.4.4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I request to all my users who are using BSNL broadband and not able to access these websites, please use this trick to bypass it. I have already filed a complaint to BSNL. If BSNL doesn't unblock my sites in 2 days I will move these websites to other hosting. Ya, it costs me a lot but I will have to do that.</span></span></div>
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Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-78060203433277616352012-02-29T06:13:00.005-08:002012-02-29T06:26:35.089-08:00Rowdies: A viral video by GeekOnNet's co-founder & TVF(The Viral Fever)This is the<b><span> best spoof </span></b>ever in Indian television history. Close to 1 million views on youtube. The guy who is playing the role of Raghu-Rajiv is the co-author of GeekOnNet and my good friend, Mr. Deepak Kumar Mishra. Watch it, enjoy it and share it.<div>I AM STUNNED!!! :P<br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8sgYXNwNLXg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-63379711141231872262012-02-13T19:25:00.000-08:002012-02-13T19:50:11.128-08:00NEN E Week 2012<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhoCf4FgZF-e7h9K2lLkwy5O86SR5DelpqsN7LjvYOHinpxTF-w9IQAyn8yCWLVJeE8DJwkPoL-z3475C0W9WH926sWR8GsDk3BOeAHAIJapYe2aL1AF1TcJD_n9eF_1wccgs2g265fLZH/s1600/nen.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 152px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhoCf4FgZF-e7h9K2lLkwy5O86SR5DelpqsN7LjvYOHinpxTF-w9IQAyn8yCWLVJeE8DJwkPoL-z3475C0W9WH926sWR8GsDk3BOeAHAIJapYe2aL1AF1TcJD_n9eF_1wccgs2g265fLZH/s400/nen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708833194073947698" border="0" /></a><span style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;" >E Week India 2012 urges youth to ‘</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; ">Invent the Future</b><span><span style="font-size:100%;">’ through entrepreneurship</span></span><br /><ul style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >E Week theme calls upon young entrepreneurs to ‘Invent the Future’ by providing innovative solutions for the biggest problems</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >Led by Entrepreneurship Cells in 540 academic institutes and their 80,000 student members across India</span></li><li><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >Supported by 30 entrepreneurship organisations</span></li></ul><br /><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >Entrepreneurship Week India (E Week 2012, <a href="http://eweek.nenonline.org/">http://eweek.nenonline.org/</a>) – the largest national entrepreneurship event that reaches out to lakhs of people to build awareness and support - will take place from the 11 to 18 February 2012. E Week India is run by the National Entrepreneurship Network, supported by the Wadhwani Foundation and is led by over 80,000 student members and 1200 faculty from NEN Entrepreneurship Cells (E Cells) at 540 member institutes.</span></div><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><div style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >The theme for E Week 2012 calls upon young people to ‘Invent the Future’ as successful entrepreneurs, by providing innovative solutions to address the many large issues that communities across the country strive to cope with: availability of clean water, garbage and waste management, accessible healthcare, reliable power and growing pollution. .</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >As a special feature of E Week - “EWeek@Schools” - will reach out to school students in the age group of 7-16 years in schools across the country. They will be introduced to the possibilities and ideas of entrepreneurship through the Rs. 50 exercise - an experiential business lesson, by college students and faculty from NEN E Cells.</span></div></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;" >The week-long campaign also involves more than 30 organizations that support entrepreneurship and corporate, business leaders, experts, non-profits and faculty leaders to inspire, encourage, and mentor students.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;" >During E Week, participants on and off campuses across the country - students, entrepreneurs, faculty members, industry leaders and key members of the community will take the E Week Pledge and engage in thousands of events. These include competitions, expositions, educational movie screenings, leadership and motivation talks with successful entrepreneurs, panel discussions, business plan and skills-building workshops, business and tech bazaars, awareness campaigns and more. In addition, participants can sign up on the E Week website to share their experiences, view events information, and connect with the larger NEN community.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >E Week will culminate on 18th February, 2012 with a gala Awards Ceremony in Bangalore. NEN member academic institutes will be chosen for the E Week India 2012 Championship Awards as well as 3 Special Awards: <b>1) E Week @ School Award</b> <b>2) Nilima Rovshen Creativity and Innovation Award</b> <b>3) Most Effective Public Awareness Campaign Award</b>. Student representatives of the Award winners will be flown to Bangalore for the Awards Ceremony attended by students from various institutes, eminent people from the industry and the government.</span></div></span></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-31908526774677178282012-02-03T13:21:00.000-08:002012-02-03T22:15:48.471-08:00Junglee.com : Welcome to the Jungle<a href="http://junglee.com/" target="_blank"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGBm6z9tOoyusFCny_AaxTgPkMFwxbt7OCZm93QMNAhbxb3nGYwHByhzdd05bBS21TimnARD2XtAyNM_Q62oplEOXNajTnUhk2O-dyk0KtikmSaNSSVywxuFEci239hYUhUNRfUoGdpiT/s400/junglee.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705023487722459682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/amazon.com" target="_blank"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhtXTUWVjxnfCE5h3hNuBuh7M1I-qskLk09Tc0tOwLVOIIL9FDxKfnWO9NRrHE_YG5Nev6K8xSUS0vEJhjlubaSLeJenmY6uIi3eT7kKihk8YOM2RYTtO9NA75Bep-KU7xZofmLCO5Dm42/s400/amazon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705159673698915138" border="0" /></a>Here comes <b>Amazon.com</b> at last as <b><span><a href="http://junglee.com/">Junglee.com</a></span></b>, a company (domain name) that Amazon had acquired in 1998.<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span>Junglee.com</span></b> is still in its beta and offers 1.2 crore products, 90 lakhs of them are books, from over 14,000 brands and hundreds of retailers. Some of the big retailers listed on Junglee are <b>homeShop18</b>, <b>UniverCell</b>, <b>Hidesign</b>, <b>Gitanjali</b>, <b>The Bombay Store</b>, <b>Fabindia</b>, <b>Bata India Limited</b>, <b>Dabur</b>, <b>Microsoft India Store</b>, <b>Reebok</b>, <b>Indiaplaza</b>, <b>bookAdda</b> and <b><span>Amazon.com</span></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Due to government restriction on FDI in multi-brand retail, <b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span>Junglee.com</span></b> is just an “<b><span>Online Shopping Service</span></b>” which helps user to compare price and availability from other e-retailers. You cannot buy products directly from <b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span>Junglee.com</span></b>. As of now <i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span>IT’S NOT AN E-RETAILER</span></i> and acting as a postman.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><b>Few Observations:</b></span><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Price offered by Amazon on<b> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">junglee.com</span></b> is just a currency conversion from dollar to rupee. Check the snapshot given below. I searched for a book on <b><span>jungle.com</span></b>, 4 Indian retailers + Amazon are offering this book. Look at the price differences there. Amazon is selling that book 10 times costlier than others, also note the price offered by amazon, its 2,430 rupees and 40 paise. Where the heck does this 40 Paisa come from?</li></ul></div></div></div><span id="fullpost"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFVxZXBvnzQZtyrO4qefltCMTlsnuYnVKnBqiXiZhbGsmBc3wg_HGjVr6S3QAMeHP50ydDSag01AheeCDRscKRdY89k-vZ2R2hJuxnVp6_wxLW5qYvJAw12Cnmjx4GAwvbYNKMKKLjJ3F/s400/Untitled.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705026616041954802" border="0" /><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I wasn’t expecting this from Amazon. All my high hopes of Amazon India went down the drain.</div><div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Existing Amazon users can login using their Amazon credentials. Users can then review products and even ‘Like’ products as well as sellers. "<i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span>Hey Zuck, I think you should take a closer look of Amazon’s like button. Forget about raising 5 billion$ by going public, just hire a lawyer, pay him few hundred thousand dollar and get few billions from Amazon."</span></i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> :P </span></li><li><span style="text-align: justify; "><div style="text-align: left; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpX-vxzfD6Azqd9vI6fmjFzkLtN0ILYQllXeOFzxHOgTPGJR3CO_5HWXNn-Gwnga-RpYDRxvu8uMKbyYIc60LzAJftfxwXxAN4L9Fhpz-qr2kE34GvArniGnoOSR4v80JOfjbXZCg4-Pz/s400/amazonlike.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705030097023013746" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 43px; " border="0" /></div><div style="text-align: left; "></div>Junglee doesn’t have prices from </span><b style="text-align: justify; ">FlipKart</b><span style="text-align: justify; ">, </span><b style="text-align: justify; ">myntra</b><span style="text-align: justify; ">, </span><b style="text-align: justify; ">infiBeam</b><span style="text-align: justify; "> and </span><b style="text-align: justify; ">Yebhi</b><span style="text-align: justify; ">.</span></li><li>Indian retailers can sign up for Amazon Product Ads to list their products on Junglee.com and advertise their product selection to drive targeted customer traffic to their websites and physical stores at zero cost. To get their products on to Junglee, retailers have to sign up for an account, upload their product catalog and Junglee takes care of the rest.</li></ul><div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span><i>Do you think, Amazon is so dumb that it is helping its own competitors to grow their businesses?</i></span></b><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Here is the <b><span>master plan</span></b>:<i style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span>By providing a common platform to consumers and retailers, Amazon knows what a customer wants and what are the prices offered by other Indian retailers (competitors) in real time. So it’s simple, Amazon will be selling products cheaper than what other Indian retailers are offering. Eventually, this will kill the competition.</span></i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amit Agarwal</span> (the author of leading tech blog <span style="font-weight: bold;">labnol.org</span>) has developed a bookmarklet that lets you compare prices of books on Junglee.com with that of Flipkart and Infibeam in one go.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Check this out “<a href="http://www.labnol.org/india/compare-junglee-prices-with-flipkart/20785/" target="_blank">Is Junglee Cheaper than Flipkart or Infibeam?”</a></p><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p></p></div></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-52332957354114527542011-11-19T11:51:00.000-08:002011-11-19T12:04:40.054-08:00HTML5, the future of the web.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_tto7AxExRPWPAzGhVsRqlYf2y2B2aPVfkyBFzl_BmJ782UBFFF5HB0vVS3UJWFjEF2tz53mr_iCu2E7s_2bEBLJEAyjVLxtg9nfxPb0-pe1yyviEdNPlP-U0iKseyzeSgg_MiGCYFZx/s1600/HTML5_sticker1.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_tto7AxExRPWPAzGhVsRqlYf2y2B2aPVfkyBFzl_BmJ782UBFFF5HB0vVS3UJWFjEF2tz53mr_iCu2E7s_2bEBLJEAyjVLxtg9nfxPb0-pe1yyviEdNPlP-U0iKseyzeSgg_MiGCYFZx/s400/HTML5_sticker1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676800027441112194" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">More and more game companies are turning to the <strong>HTML5</strong> web format to create cross-platform games. The latest is Pangalore, a social and mobile game startup based in Seoul.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://pangalore.com">Pangalore</a> was founded in May to create games that can run on multiple platforms by using HTML5 as their technical foundation. Pangalore built from scratch a game engine that can work within the limits of HTML5, said Doyon Kim, chief product officer and co-founder of the company who runs the office in San Jose, Calif., in an interview.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pangalore is announcing two new Facebook and mobile games today: Artfit and Wild West Solitaire. Both are slow-moving, cartoon-like titles that accommodate the main weakness of HTML5 now: slow speed. Pangalore is also working on two more titles, Pop the Candy and Bubble Prince, for release later. Kim says the company will release titles every couple of months.</div><span id="fullpost"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The benefit of HTML5 games is that you can start them on one platform and then finish them on another,” Kim said. “We designed our games from the start to be multiplatform games.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While young, the company has a big staff. It has 25 employees and funding from NHN, the largest online game portal in Korea. The good thing about HTML5 games is they can run on just about any platform, from Facebook to Android phones and tablets. It runs on browsers on mobile devices, PCs, and Macs. Pangalore is also making native format games for the Apple iPhone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kim said that deeper strategy and role-playing games are in the works as well, using the Unity 3D game engine. Those games, including a simulation title, will be coming in early 2012. Among the team are some experienced game creators including those who created Ragnarok Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game with 3 million players in North America.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The games are free-to-play and are accessible from a single Facebook account that works across all devices. Kim co-founded the firm with Brian Kang, former chief executive of Gravity and a former venture capitalist. Kim previously founded Dialpad Communications, Opinity and Spotplex. Rivals included other HTML5 game makers such as Moblyng and Zynga.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Wild West Solitaire game sets players on a card-playing journey along the historic Oregon Trail, where you race against the clock or friends to play solitaire challenges. Artfit is a falling blocks game where players must place the pieces into forms to score points and advance through increasingly complex levels. Over time, HTML5 is expected to show better performance so that a wider variety of games will be playable on it. Pangalore hopes to be ready when that happens.</div></span></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-35343328553868827682011-11-17T10:15:00.000-08:002011-11-17T10:18:10.233-08:006th Grader, iPhone Application DeveloperThis is a must watch video.<br />Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. When Apple released the Software Development Kit (SDK), he began to create and sell his own applications. "My parents, my friends and even the people at the Apple store all supported me," he says, "and Steve Jobs inspired me".<br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ehDAP1OQ9Zw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-45207771282330750252011-11-15T10:25:00.000-08:002011-11-15T10:29:03.117-08:00Pitch It! - An opportunity for Startups to get funded by Top Investors of IndiaThe Entrepreneurship Cell, <b>IIT Bombay</b> presents <span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Pitch it!</b></span> for the startups who are looking for funding.<br /><br />With it's unique format of express funding, the participants of Pitch it! get an opportunity to pitch before panel of investors. The best 10 entries will be selected from all over India for the finals at E-Summit 2012, where they will get exposure to funding opportunities from top Angel Investors viz.Mumbai Angels, Indian Angel Network(IAN) and many more. Some of previous year's investors are Blue Run Ventures, Seedfund, Canaan Partners, Telnet Ventures etc.<br /><br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Pitch it! is a three phase event:<br /><br />1. The first phase is online submission of the questionnaire by the start-ups. 10 entries will be shortlisted by a panel of investors for the final closed-room pitching.<br /><br />2. The second phase comprises of mentoring, where these top 10 teams will be mentored on “pitching tactics” for funding from experts.<br /><br />3. The third and final phase would be held at E-Summit on 29th January, 2012, IIT Bombay wherein the start-ups will be required to present their final pitch in their quest for funding by the Angel Investors/Venture Capitalists.<br /><br /><br />Don't miss out on this opportunity. Registration for Phase 1 closes on 5th december, 2011.<br /><br />For more details and registering visit <a href="http://www.ecell.in/pitchit">http://www.ecell.in/pitchit</a><br /><br /></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-64626365950584194362011-10-10T20:20:00.000-07:002011-10-10T23:52:30.104-07:00Go Skydiving or Trekking to 13000 feet this Diwali by Tushky.com<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioywBTvoba-erlAQJaRvGEW6VR9wylv0cnU6N5axvvM9nx4AvDJl8_-sCvwgEkQzBvqMQoxSYBb3Ztqyqg08b2PS-ki7TMGtX361h3tQJhtCUWBs0rD1vm2V90din0YS7QlRCtpSd4eFg_/s1600/tushky.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioywBTvoba-erlAQJaRvGEW6VR9wylv0cnU6N5axvvM9nx4AvDJl8_-sCvwgEkQzBvqMQoxSYBb3Ztqyqg08b2PS-ki7TMGtX361h3tQJhtCUWBs0rD1vm2V90din0YS7QlRCtpSd4eFg_/s400/tushky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662070433801643842" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.tushky.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky.com</span></a>, a state-of-the-art ecommerce web portal providing unique travel and event experiences, is coming up with a big experience for all ardent adventure lovers.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">True to its vision of providing never before experiences, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky.com</span> has announced its extravagant diwali vacation, in line with promoting green diwali- authentic skydiving camp in India followed by a trek to the 13000 ft high beas kund in Himachal. When the festival of lights is around the corner, celebrating a Green Diwali near to the Mother Nature without crackers is a unique idea.<br /></div><br /><div><span id="fullpost"><div style="text-align: justify;">After the super success of its first commercial skydiving camp in picturesque locales of Sagar in MP and setting a record of the youngest tandem skydiving, Tushky.com proudly presents second skydiving camp in UP and trekking unfolding the magical experience at Himalayan Valley. Trekking alongside the beas river and stunning landscape with soaring mountain, one will finally reach the breath taking destination Beas Kund.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr.Talvinder Singh</span>, founder of Tushky.com shares “<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">What differentiates us from other large companies is our ability to reach and appeal to small and independent tour guides and individual who will share their beautiful world with the travelers.</span>” He adds “<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">This adventure aims to go beyond the limits of your fear and spend a gala time living a life amidst of nature. Go back to mother nature, there is no better way to celebrate green diwali.</span>”<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky.com</span>'s diwali celebration begins with the sky diving camp, starting from 22nd October to 25th October 2011 at Uttar Pradesh. The three day camp ensures, to provide a life time experience of skydiving from 10000 feet. The event is partnered with seasoned and celebrated skydivers having a collective experience of almost 50 years and over 8000 jumps with highest rated USPA (United States Parachute Association) certification. The celebration continues with a 7 day all inclusive trek, taking you through a route rarely explored while also allowing you the leisure to explore the pristine tourist hot spot from its starting station-Manali. During the trek you will luxuriate in vast area of green carpet with colorful flowers which goes through Solang Valley’s lush-green fields and orchards.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Tushky, a young and passionate start up by IIT Alumini, believes in taking home a memory and cherishing them life long. It’s a one stop solution providing experiences like Adventure and outdoor; art and culture; leisure and entertainment; wining and dining; mind and body rejuvenation and many more at spectacular places across India.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">To be a part of this unique experience and celebrating Diwali with Nature, log on to <a href="http://www.tushky.com/">www.tushky.com</a><br /></div><br /></span></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-50854748326956332242011-10-03T11:46:00.000-07:002011-10-03T11:56:27.692-07:00Study from Yahoo shows that 50 percent of all tweets come from just 20,000 users<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjWeH2urt47NJ_rcjSRm85R_FDJhaMHIiZ2ORIjFYzefMj14lMpRwLaIN_fK08W5U43LFhIyvI09PnUJItVE65rI46NDqEecdJVUsRKGTISwI56Cwdj0BzEs2-uqg65Fcw9cj83c7rIpZ/s1600/twitter.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjWeH2urt47NJ_rcjSRm85R_FDJhaMHIiZ2ORIjFYzefMj14lMpRwLaIN_fK08W5U43LFhIyvI09PnUJItVE65rI46NDqEecdJVUsRKGTISwI56Cwdj0BzEs2-uqg65Fcw9cj83c7rIpZ/s400/twitter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659340364538992370" border="0" /></a><br /></span><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />This is a shocking result. 50 percent of all tweets come from just 20,000 users. Via: <a href="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/10/03/study-from-yahoo-shows-that-50-percent-of-all-tweets-come-from-just-20000-users/">TheNextWeb.com's Article.</a> View Full Article:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">In a recent study by <a href="http://research.yahoo.com/pub/3386" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(9, 130, 223); ">Yahoo Research</a>, 50 percent of all tweets consumed are reportedly generated from just 20,000 elite users. Media presents the bulk of the information, where celebrities are the most followed.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">These supposed 20K elite users only represent 0.05% of the actual Twitter population, though dominate the information that most of us on Twitter regurgitate to others on the platform.</p><div><span id="fullpost"><p></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); border-left-width: 6px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">“It’s really dominated by this media-celebrity-blogger elite,” says Duncan Watts, one of the researchers. “It’s a small number of users who are hyperconnected, and then there’s everybody else just paying attention to those people.”</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Of the 50 million Twitter users who actively log in every day, not all of them are tweeting. In fact, we already know that most of these users are simply digesting tweets and consuming content. The study also confirms what I’ve previously mentioned: <a href="http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/08/18/twitter-users-are-more-likely-to-impact-your-brand-than-any-other-social-network/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(9, 130, 223); ">Bloggers rebroadcast the most information</a>, with other bloggers tending to follow blogging accounts, celebrities following celebrities, and so on.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">From personal experience, I definitely tend to rebroadcast or tweet content from accounts that have more credibility — I like knowing that my own followers can rely on me for sourcing accurate or credible news. However, it’s true that the Twitter experience would not be what it is without the mixing pot of content streaming in from friends and family.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">If Twitter content was restricted solely to tweets from the 20,000 elite accounts, I just wouldn’t enjoy the platform as much. Half the fun on Twitter for me or any other active user, I’m sure, is the back-and-forth feedback coming in from both those we follow as well as our own following.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Knowing the above, however, I’m curious:</strong> <em style="font-style: italic; ">Do you think you’re following one of the 20,000 elite users, keeping in mind that these accounts mainly consist of celebrities, bloggers and media broadcasters? And do you tend to rebroadcast content from these accounts, or more typically from your friends and family? Weigh in below.</em></p></span></div></span></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-66417761561187311542011-10-02T10:48:00.000-07:002011-10-02T11:19:55.448-07:00DreamAge Entertainment: from the World of Media and Entertainment<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dreamageent.com/" target="_blank"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 101px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHYI_JoEiupevMhuPOVcBbc-VrCLEtjErbfQjuqZs3HcL3qACy92GzUFGcvYCiNmR0GTrDJ5nb_sImgbZ57oW5_3bDIiz2JTqIw1OCfmbiXGmAdDRRTKFbQtZNbqpluOLo-hEuCd7UdLq/s400/dreamage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658957250281191202" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.dreamageent.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">DreamAge Entertainment</span></a> is one of India’s leading production house also the most contemporary one.<a href="http://www.dreamageent.com" target="_blank"> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">DreamAge Entertainment</span></a> is a fully integrated media firm, based in Mumbai. We represent a company that includes Innovation because <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">DreamAge</span> use the latest cutting edge equipment, the best and brightest media and production professionals in the industry. The best methods and the newest techniques to produce content that gets stunning results.<br /></div><div><span id="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">We execute any project in well organized and effective manner because we have sharp strategic planning and also in-depth knowledge of local resources. We understand that every project has a unique set of objectives and specific requirements. Therefore, we take great precaution in accessing the specific creative and production needs & other parameters like the deadlines and the budget always keeping in mind. We specialize in affordable contemporary Content Video Production and Ad Film Production.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Established in February 2011 by the joint efforts of<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Gaurav Agarwal</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Vir Singh</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Rupesh Kumar</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Shweta Sudhakar Gautam</span>, We provide a full service video production that specializes in sectors like content creation, corporate films, tutorial videos and Ad Film making. DreamAge will have some unique qualities in their products which differ us from others. We think and truly believe in creativity, experience and work intelligently and always matter to produce our dream project. We are the architects of our concept and Together, we create our vision, and hammer out the key elements that are important to an industry. By understanding the essence of concept, we lay a plan that produces great results.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">This is a guest post by <a href="http://www.dreamageent.com/">DreamAge Entertainment</a>. You can contact DreamAge Entertainment at <span style="font-weight: bold;">deepak@dreamageent.com</span></span><br /><br /></div></div></span></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-57243584064644126522011-10-01T05:00:00.000-07:002011-10-01T10:36:50.294-07:00Get A Job at Startup Using DreamStarts.in<a href="http://www.dreamstarts.in" target = "_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrLloK1SN4rKiLYkB8Bhne8zRvclOoupXTTghebALqVNrTFQ99VYKCNgPWy7mx6nGozkRagp6Za6LovOnIekTOCncmz3tyYaKnEM0tumL7WzdqMjzY25JNlxJrVifuUioH_DkiIOQXSwD0/s400/dreamstarts.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658493980075119378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you ever wonder how people get involved with the up and coming startup companies?</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Are you hungry to find meaningful work with a company who has the potential to really make it big?</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you love to work on ideas those are just written on tissue paper?</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Do you have such passion to climb with new entrepreneurs to reach from 10 $ to Billion $ organization?</span> If you have such interest then here is the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://www.dreamstarts.in/" target = "_blank">DreamStarts.in</a></span> to connect you with the world of startups.<br /><div><span id="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><a href="http://www.dreamstarts.in/" target = "_blank">DreamStarts.in</a></span> is a Job Portal/Job Board where Startups post job vacancies and potential employees (Talents) apply to the jobs, which is absolutely free. Startups can explore their ideas, thoughts, services, achievements and vision to the emerging market.<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">What makes <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">DreamStarts</span> different than other job sites in India?<br /></span><ul><li>Talents can find jobs offered by emerging Startups.</li><li>We do not ask users to create login/profile.</li><li>Talents can apply online and post resume to the employers directly.</li><li>We do not collect resumes. We provide a platform where talents can directly contact to Startups.</li><li>We do not display company’s contact information without prior permission.</li><li>Startups can find talents without any involvement of third-party recruiting agency.</li><li>Company profile page for the startups.</li><li>This service is absolutely free for both Startups and Talents.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">What’s in it for the Talent?<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;">The jobs on DreamStarts offered by startups are not just your everyday office job. These jobs will test your skills and creativity, lead to all sorts of opportunities and often come with a decent sized pay.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are all types of jobs on board <span style="font-weight: bold;">FULL TIME JOBS</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">PART TIME JOBS</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">FREELANCE JOBS</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> INTERNAHIP</span>, further these types of jobs are arranged in different categories<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">WEB/UI/Graphics</span> - contains all jobs related web designing and graphics,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">JAVA/C/C++</span> - Contains software development jobs,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">PHP/PYTHON/RUBY</span> -contains scripting language jobs,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">APPS</span> - Contains all mobile apps/iOS apps and android apps design jobs,<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Content/Journalism</span> - content developer and SEO jobs<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Sales/marketing jobs</span> – Sales, marketing and management jobs .<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZkenLcHmaNJ8WGugNNJrXQXlbWWs5RdDitJK4r16OON0tOtqUIVUo5dpNeYXfJxP09a6vQaACVnnchGVJdagsgPH0zOt1nJBheZaQKO34q4gDDhVtSIzR4Y-KISEjmPRaGmUeKwQZbLm/s1600/DS-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZkenLcHmaNJ8WGugNNJrXQXlbWWs5RdDitJK4r16OON0tOtqUIVUo5dpNeYXfJxP09a6vQaACVnnchGVJdagsgPH0zOt1nJBheZaQKO34q4gDDhVtSIzR4Y-KISEjmPRaGmUeKwQZbLm/s400/DS-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658501067617037250" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Working at any startup is entirely different from working at big companies. So Mr. Talent, before applying for a startup job from the list of opportunities we publish on board, you will need to ask yourself and answer first before applying for startup jobs.<br /></div><ol><li>The first decision you must make is to conclude on what stage of the startup ladder you are comfortable slotting into.</li><li>Are you fine being the third/fourth employee and sharing a table with the two co-founders in a shared co-working space?</li><li>Are you more comfortable joining the team after they’ve raised a seed or series A round?</li></ol>You can be kept in the loop via <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/DreamStarts.in" target = "_blank">Facebook</a></span> or <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://twitter.com/DreamStartsin" target = "_blank">Twitter</a></span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">What’s in it for the Startups?</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Startups are not like other companies, so why hire people the way other companies do? Why do startups need to pay big bucks to recruiting firms? With DreamStarts.in, you can post your jobs for free and talents can reach to you directly. Startups can post any number of job advertisements and receive applications from skilled, experienced and best suitable talents. Startup can sort the profiles through the applications on the basis of experience, skills and qualifications.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Startups can also mail their job requirements to DreamStarts @ <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">info@dreamstarts.in</span> which will be published on board.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">DreamStarts also features Startups in Indian-Satartups section and provide them unique URL according to their name. e.g.<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> http://dreamstarts.in/company-name</span> in simple English it’s “<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Dream Starts in ‘company-name</span>’”.<br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wr1RotJ5SQ9EMIxY-ty6zctSufK9aDhO2XU12RA2BS9dTYPCPt5SrxfNO8NKawWID7ydl583x0FmU-tAj9VIDKpDRe9OouYsp67r6jFKkYQkmqCQMXuvGWgzgpqg1OHXVBqpxAbyKuxI/s1600/DS-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wr1RotJ5SQ9EMIxY-ty6zctSufK9aDhO2XU12RA2BS9dTYPCPt5SrxfNO8NKawWID7ydl583x0FmU-tAj9VIDKpDRe9OouYsp67r6jFKkYQkmqCQMXuvGWgzgpqg1OHXVBqpxAbyKuxI/s400/DS-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658500329183788194" border="0" /></a><br />Indian Startups are going through a golden age and this startup world is hiring fast. If you want to work in an enthusiastic, frenetic, “anything’s possible” environment or if you want to publish your job ads I highly recommend checking out <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">DreamStarts.in</span>.<br /><br />Follow DreamStarts on <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.facebook.com/DreamStarts.in" target = "_blank">FaceBook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/DreamStartsin" target = "_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Twitter</span></a>.<br /><br />We really appreciate feedback!!! E-mail us at <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">info@dreamstarts.in</span> and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.<br /><br /></span></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-19077179351475933982011-09-28T12:46:00.000-07:002011-09-28T13:09:08.999-07:00I'm attending "Startup Saturday" Bangalore chapter on Oct 8th.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The next session of Startup Saturday Bangalore will be held on 8th Oct. I am attending this session, are you?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The main topic of this session will be "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Term Sheets</span>", a often neglected but important topic. Term sheets are an essential element of the fundraising process and they contain a lot of details which if not properly understood could cost an entrepreneur lots of value and cause problems downstream. This talk will walk through pre-money, post-money, capitalization tables, exclusivity, options pool carve outs, liquidation preferences, founder vesting, anti-dilution protection and many other terms.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Event Date</span> : <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">8th October 2011</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Event Venue</span> : Room No. 301,Central Block,<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Christ College</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Bangalore</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Register for the Event at : <a href="http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event.php?eid=161">http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event.php?eid=161</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">If you are planning to attend this "Startup Saturday" in bangalore then let me know. Leave your message as comment to this post or mail me, my id is </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ranjeet@geekonnet.com</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">. Lets meet up. It would be great to discuss ideas and blogging experiences over a cup of coffee. :)</span></span></span></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-37611781028577618472011-09-22T14:04:00.001-07:002011-09-22T14:12:46.053-07:00Facebook Now Has Over 800 Million Active Users<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCv1Huk5D0IhECm8b-DlmHJqZtZnZRLsiXX9Um5oopXnm1WVFLAXWUNelBf2LOFfERc7PqoAkI1FSZrj8LNKLAHtYlWZn8dXe8DWK1HqtpU9FJh543I56Xbfx6NcJa30cTebJLW98Wweo/s400/facebook.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655293116319554850" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 140px; " /><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); ">It has been announced that the world’s most popular social networking service has reached ove</b><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); ">r 800 million active users.</b><b></b><div style="text-align: justify;">The 800 million figure isn’t just the total number of signups, these are 800 million active users: users who have logged in to Facebook at least once during the past 30 days. Now that’s a big, big achievement for FaceBook!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read more: <a href="http://blog.dreamstarts.in/facebook-now-has-over-800-million-active-users/">http://blog.dreamstarts.in/facebook-now-has-over-800-million-active-users/</a></div>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-6629847593916260302011-09-16T14:26:00.000-07:002011-09-16T14:44:03.233-07:00InMobi Raises $200 Million<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eSCkTB5eV06-L9vJAs2JgORQvRJEXfXPdv6F6R84PvHTbnCIZOpRAq52YL2xgKyZNF73T8xZ4pbGqIomQYWnuvjywTkvK6dtPdInWloJKk9bjduDnyBYMPfCrlTB9gjNDpvun1Iwrder/s1600/inmobi.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 47px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eSCkTB5eV06-L9vJAs2JgORQvRJEXfXPdv6F6R84PvHTbnCIZOpRAq52YL2xgKyZNF73T8xZ4pbGqIomQYWnuvjywTkvK6dtPdInWloJKk9bjduDnyBYMPfCrlTB9gjNDpvun1Iwrder/s400/inmobi.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653075629292746258" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangalore based mobile ad network company <b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.inmobi.com/">inMobi</a></span></b> has raised <b>$200 million</b> in funding from Japan’s Softbank which would come in two Tranches one of <b>$100 millon in September 2011</b> and the other <b>$100 million in April of 2012</b>. Including this huge money, InMobi has raised <b><span class="Apple-style-span">$215 million</span></b> till date.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.inmobi.com/">InMobi</a></span></b> was founded in India in 2007 where it become the dominate ad network across the Asia Pacific Region. The company launched in the U.S. and Europe in early 2010. <b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.inmobi.com/">InMobi</a></span></b> helps advertisers and developers serve up mobile ads, a fast-growing industry that has been fueled by the rise of consumer cellphones and multimedia-rich smartphones like Apple’s iPhone, android’s phones.<span id="fullpost"><div><br /></div><div>Everyone is just talking about this huge funding (probably this is the largest venture funding of year-11) but there is no news about the valuation or the current revenue of InMobi. How InMobi raised such a large funding? On What basis they got it? There would be only 2 possibilities behind InMobi’s $200 million funding.<ol><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.inmobi.com/">InMobi</a></b> would have shown a valuation of at least $ 2 billion in front of investors. Mobile ad marketing is growing but still it is a small market. According to a eMarketer “<i>Mobile advertising is still a fairly small market. The total spend for such advertising is projected to hit $1.1 billion in the U.S. this year. That spend will hit $2.5 billion in 2014, the researcher estimates.</i>” We should note that InMobi has big competitors like Google and Apple and these 2 companies hold the control on majority of smart phones (Andriod phones and IPhone). Would not this $2 billion valuation fairly big figure for InMobi.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">So the 2nd thing that would have possible is, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">InMobi</span></b> must be generating at least $20 million revenue so it got funding of 10 times of it's current revenue. This can be possible, because InMobi has good market capture in Asia Pecific and they are growing rapidly in latin American and in European market.</li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;">It really doesn’t matter how they pitched inmobi’s future in front of investors or how much of revenue they are generating currently. The thing that does matter, this company is doing extremely very well, growing rapidly and giving a good competition to the players like Google, Apple in the field of Mobile Ad networks. This funding will definitely help InMobi in its expansion. It might possible that they make their head count double or tipple. This means, InMobi will be opening many jobs for we Indian.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indian Startups are going through a golden time currently. They are doing extremely well (<b><span class="Apple-style-span">FilpKart</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">Myntra</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">YeBhi</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">RedBus</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">SnapDeal</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">inkfruit</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">HomeShop18</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">SMSGupShup</span></b>, <b><span class="Apple-style-span">JustDial</span></b> and many more) and giving a good fight to American’s giants. <b>Flipkart</b>, <b>InMobi</b>, <b>Redbus</b>, <b>SMSGupshup</b> and <b>JustDial</b> are already in the list of <b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/20-hot-international-startups-you-need-to-watch-2011-9?op=1">20 Hot International Startups You Need To Watch by Business Insider</a></span></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">GeekOnNet congrats InMobi for its funding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Company: InMobi</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Head Quarter : Bangalore, India</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Founder and CEO : Naveen Tewari</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Funding: $215 million</b></div></div></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-87885377968447152452011-09-06T12:09:00.000-07:002011-09-06T12:14:38.258-07:001st Commercial skydiving in India by Tushky.com<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://tushky.com"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >Tushky.com</span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" >, Mumbai’s No. 1 site for unique activities, tours and getaways; brings to you all, a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience the 1st commercial Skydiving camp in India!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></span></div><br /><iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XQfQRUEFO1I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Watch the video to know the people behind this piece of history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Led by a team of celebrated and seasoned Skydivers in Asia who are registered USPA (United States Parachute Association) coaches!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Feel the rush as emotions like excitement, nervousness, fear and freedom collide, when you are about to do a free fall from the edge of a plane at a height of 4500 ft. Fly like a bird, float like a cloud and hear the wind whistle as you descend towards the ground at a speed of 200km/hr. The Ariel view of the landscape below, guarantees an amazing yet a surreal experience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be a part of this exciting, enthralling, once-in-a-lifetime experience on the 24 September, in the beautiful state of Madhya Pradesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Only 30 Seats! Book now!</div><br /><a href="http://tushky.com">Tushky.com</a><br /></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-60634184740651676922011-09-04T03:45:00.000-07:002011-09-04T03:53:30.181-07:00SMS GupShup Raised $10 Million in series E funding<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrM4iyqMnsfoMcunpi3jkCtdDyEjcZXkpYMxGJn7z4jeFOsR0TPjxkEqMn5uxsWGfEXj5v_GfnXBL3U0ipMn6MbzSI5ZmF2mr5bOfOkv9Ysim82wh56OCZvEkRYtgCV3sv5MX-qER2M-V/s1600/logoGupShup.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 231px; height: 72px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrM4iyqMnsfoMcunpi3jkCtdDyEjcZXkpYMxGJn7z4jeFOsR0TPjxkEqMn5uxsWGfEXj5v_GfnXBL3U0ipMn6MbzSI5ZmF2mr5bOfOkv9Ysim82wh56OCZvEkRYtgCV3sv5MX-qER2M-V/s400/logoGupShup.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648455091068716146" /></a>Mumbai-based social networking site, based around SMS and bulk messaging, <b><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.smsgupshup.com/">SMS GupShup</a></span></b>, has raised $10 million from Tenaya Capital. Including this, SMS GupShup has raised $47 million till date. Money is raised at the valuation of 1,000 crore though company is targeting a revenue of 100 crore by the end of FY-12, ie. valuation is more than 10 times of its current revenue. Majority of revenue comes from GupShup’s bulk messaging system.
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<br />SMS GupShup, owned by Webaroo (an offline search engine company), was incorporated in 2007 by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and incubated at IIT Bombay’s SINE(Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship). GupShup connects 50 miilion users, 5 million user generated communities and 25,000 small businesses via Mobile and SMS.
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<br />Company: <b>SMS GupShup</b>
<br />Website: <a href="http://www.smsgupshup.com/">http://www.smsgupshup.com</a>
<br />Location: <b>Mumbai</b> (IIT-Bombay)
<br />Started in : <b>2007</b>
<br />Funding till date: <b>$47 Million</b>
<br />CEO: <b>Beerud Sheth</b>
<br />Ref: </span><a href="http://blog.dreamstarts.in/sms-gupshup-raised-10-million-in-series-e-funding/">http://blog.dreamstarts.in/sms-gupshup-raised-10-million-in-series-e-funding/</a>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-85875154671485748202011-07-12T12:29:00.000-07:002011-08-30T09:40:44.262-07:00Tushky : For Exciting Experiences in Travel and activities.<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUrZZS0F0_g6K5j9mnRPXg5iVwUZQekv0m6ytWYzCv4lBNr9TrebP_Ui8kPrs9wToq3272kvx4hsABC7I_1l8rYpWsrrkvjibnf5kit70rPWRDYNMGTZBfOxIdM4zT0flBur-MXBdgbLfu/s1600/tushky.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUrZZS0F0_g6K5j9mnRPXg5iVwUZQekv0m6ytWYzCv4lBNr9TrebP_Ui8kPrs9wToq3272kvx4hsABC7I_1l8rYpWsrrkvjibnf5kit70rPWRDYNMGTZBfOxIdM4zT0flBur-MXBdgbLfu/s400/tushky.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628553374138063186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Are you a travel freak? Do you love traveling but never have the time to plan and arrange your trip? Or you are not able to find out interesting places to go, interesting things to do.</span>
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">GeekOnNet</span> is showcasing another hot Indian startup (<a href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky.com</span></a>) that will take care of planning and arrangement of your trip to make it memorable and adventures. <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank">Tushky</a>, an online marketplace to buy, sell or promote exciting travel experiences or experience related activities, in Mumbai and nationally, to provide an alternative to the impersonal approach of large tour companies and legacy travel agents.
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<br /><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank">Tushky</a> is founded by a team of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">IIT Bombay, alumni</span>:<span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky</span></a> is a hub for any experience-seeker to connect with local experience-provider and vice-versa. <a href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky</span></a> is for travelers who will love to live through the experience instead of just looking at it. The "<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">been there, done that</span>" era of fleeting visits to famous sites is well and truly over - travel virgins excepted. The modern traveler wants to take home a memory, not a memento.”
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky</span></a> works only with a pick of providers, who can offer the best experience in their domain. Each experience is authenticated before putting them online; hence the buyer is sure of the quality of the experience.
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">“<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">We added activities in our bouquet of products since, travelers are active 14 hours a day, but typically spend only six hours with the primary lure or attraction (the primary reason for visiting). That leaves an additional 8 hours for secondary activities or diversions. What is there to do after 5:00 pm? Downtowns can fill this role: providing entertainment, events, shopping, dining, etc. in a pedestrian-friendly setting.</span>” Mr. CEO adds.
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By providing a user-friendly platform, with a built-in community to promote the experiences across Facebook, twitter and Gmail, the team believes that, they will be able to claim a substantial stake of the $26.7 billion activity and experience market, which this year has become the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel market (with revenues surpassing those of cruises and car rentals combined). <a href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky</span></a>’s goal is to become the largest destination for travel experiences and activities worldwide, with an initial focus on Mumbai, where they plan to grow organically as local experts add their tours and experiences and from there, branch out nationally and internationally.
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<br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;">“<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Travel has seen tremendous innovation in flight and accommodation booking, especially with sites like Hipmunk and Airbnb disrupting the industry,</span>”
<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">But once these reservations are booked, travelers still rely on old-school (and costly) guidebooks, travel agents, and large tours to plan their itineraries. It’s the blind spot of the travel industry.</span>”</span>
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky</span></a> makes money by taking a percentage fee from those offering experiences (“local experts”). It anticipates additional revenue streams coming from affiliate partnerships with companies offering flight and accommodations, which would also provide their users with a fun and easy way to plan a trip they feel good about in just a few clicks.
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.tushky.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Tushky</span></a> is entering a market dominated by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Makemytrip</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">cleartrip</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Travelocity</span> and other online travel agencies that have added activities to their offerings, as well as popular travel guide, The Lonely Planet, which has been expanding its online presence and recently added activity booking to their site through the large tour aggregator, Viator.
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. CEO says</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> “<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What will differentiate us from these larger companies is our ability to reach and appeal to small, independent tour guides and individuals who want to share their world and expertise with travelers while making extra cash, as well as to travelers who have lost trust in existing industry platforms and crave more authenticity in their travel experiences. Further, we are bullish about the promotion feature on our site. We are very tightly integrated with social networking sites, because we believe that people love to share and brag about their experiences and expeditions</span>”</span>.
<br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;">“<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The large OTA’s are not concerned about providing the unique, backdoor experiences that many travelers want</span>,”</span> says Mr. CEO.<span style="font-style: italic;"> “<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">That’s the market we’re trying to address first.</span>”
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<br /></span><span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Tushky.com
<br />11/43, Yeshwant Nagar, S.V. Road, Goregaon(w) - 62
<br />Phone– 022 28714472/3
<br />Info@tushky.com</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">
<br /></span></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-25454111986499951272011-07-02T03:46:00.000-07:002011-07-10T11:02:40.885-07:00contrich.com : Outsource your Website Content<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 86px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMPh0uU82W1ZdIPrR5xT_lNQeuCqXne4JxUIjM6k2BMzoMiFOM0vGtarElUxIdmeMoLRrYyNZ1PR2ht7Ew74HQxBIi4MbcHKNw_3n3PjtV05amEw0oVnKz1hiRh3EBg5N9_oVElsR9PowC/s400/logo-contrich.png" alt="" id="ContRich" border="0" /></a>It’s always a pleasure to write about the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Indian Startup</span> who is solving the problems of other startups/ businesses and helping them to grow. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Good optimized content with very strong SEO is the heart and soul of any web based startup/business.</span> Content outsourcing is a necessity for businesses who want to build a strong online presence with quality content but do not have a dedicated content team. Not only does content outsourcing save time and resources, it allows you to dedicate your time to more pressing things such as promoting your business and developing new product ideas.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://contrich.com/" target="_blank">Contrich.com</a> (a web product by <a href="http://www.byteclip.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ByteClip Technologies</span></a> ) helps you to outsource your web content to content writer/freelancer online. <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank">Contrich</a> aims to redefine the process of developing and tracking your website content in a collaborative manner. <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank">Contrich</a> bridges the gap between issue tracking systems and content management systems to improve content quality on web pages. It provides clean and innovative interface to capture content issues on a web page.<br /><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Company</span>: <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">BytClip Technologies.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Product</span>: <a href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">contrich.com</span></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Founder(s)</span>: <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Vinay Kumar Singh </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic;">(B.Tech.+M.Tech. IIT-Bombay)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">, Jayant Upadhyay </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic;">(B.Tech.+M.Tech. IIT-Delhi)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">, Amit Chandel</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic;"> (B.Tech. IIT-Bombay, MS - University of Toronto)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> and Manish Pal </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;">(B.Tech.+M.Tech. IIT-Delhi)</span><br /><br />Before jumping into the outsourcing business you should have some answers ready on your table :<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><ul style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><li>How do I decide the best fit provider for this job? Will a work sample from the provider help me with this?</li><li>How can I clearly specify my content requirements?</li><li>How can I monitor the work progress?</li><li>How can I review the written content and provide feedback in a timely manner?</li><li>Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : How can I effectively specify my SEO requirements and check that the content written by the provider is meeting those requirements?</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Since long, the answer to all of these questions has been communication with provider via email and word documents. These are the two most common and widespread used approaches, but it’s time we really thought about the fact that they do not provide the complete answer to any of the questions posed above. It’s time we decide whether these old ways are enough for us. These modes of communication are simple and effective for articles and blogs, but when it comes to writing content on web pages - they have some serious drawbacks. Lets list a few of them out here:<br /></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>The provider sends you his sample writings but the content belongs to some other domain and you are not able to judge whether the provider has the required domain expertise.</li><li>You receive the sample work in an email or in a word document attached in the email, but you are not able to visualize your web page with this content written on it.</li><li>The Content send by the provider does not fit in the particular section of your web page. You may need more content or truncate some of the received content.</li><li>You may want to review the content while it is in the development phase(rather than after completion) so that you can bring up issues and provide early feedback.</li><li>The provider can write the content and test its SEO effectiveness using a multitude of tools available on the internet. However, true SEO effectiveness can only be calculated when the content has been integrated into the page as search engines also consider the html tags when calculating your website’s ranking. The delivered content might not meet your SEO expectations and your integration effort may be wasted.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">All these and many more of such problems deteriorate productivity due to increased number of development/review/verification cycles, and may lead to poor content quality under pressed timelines. <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank">Contrich</a> tries to solve these issues with its collaborative nature and a very simple workflow.<br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">How <a href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank">Contrich</a> works:<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;">The following sections will demonstrate this fact with the homepage of a sample clothes website and some workflow screenshots.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBm92-2t_59zzmjDst9T4DuRbURY-YoJO0IsvqBDIuEkoUtukWn24nRXLUlZqRW4V4sP-wrushemj1rmjd5X5UbK2dEaef75f1Ax4YifTkbBAmXEKlv2ibXNcD4VQfDWxBTxgumFko1peS/s1600/Sample_Clothes_Website_HomePage1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBm92-2t_59zzmjDst9T4DuRbURY-YoJO0IsvqBDIuEkoUtukWn24nRXLUlZqRW4V4sP-wrushemj1rmjd5X5UbK2dEaef75f1Ax4YifTkbBAmXEKlv2ibXNcD4VQfDWxBTxgumFko1peS/s400/Sample_Clothes_Website_HomePage1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624709495230668594" border="0" /></a>HomePage of a Sample Clothes Website<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Requirement Specification</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can start by creating a ticket for your web page and mark the sections where you need content. You can edit the marked sections and specify the nature of your content requirements in each of them(Refer the screenshot below). Here, the sections marked in brown are where you want content to be written.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5wb3G3GVJwjJzhS0ifbKvKtz0dH6HzzTWEEino4a2jufLzFX5rOfEUPfwR5cNZXmAnmFboRCDtGsfZa1PGKUSNK7CmKU8SIKCRk2Lka0RsIfzHjoZNcSDpxqnfOoKKkXXYTUmqBkdtHgD/s1600/Ticket_Created_with_sections_marked1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5wb3G3GVJwjJzhS0ifbKvKtz0dH6HzzTWEEino4a2jufLzFX5rOfEUPfwR5cNZXmAnmFboRCDtGsfZa1PGKUSNK7CmKU8SIKCRk2Lka0RsIfzHjoZNcSDpxqnfOoKKkXXYTUmqBkdtHgD/s400/Ticket_Created_with_sections_marked1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624710484979689154" border="0" /></a>Requirement Specifications<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Getting the Sample Work</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Create a test account for the provider and assign the ticket to him. You can mark the sections where you want him to write sample content(Refer to the screenshot below). The provider will then write his sample content in these sections.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhwOHfcJr4GQNyTEH_A82WJxkl4noXowOwXQ1WZaogZeKekwqpuGdwMPgD21E1asuBhIRdi37oYJ56zJA3Fq9Q2A1ZxXeAOZ8soSTdpBkmj1JhG1SCnDZgXrtIw-W8Jj2MTPE7URMTjPR/s1600/Ticket_with_sample_content_requirements.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhwOHfcJr4GQNyTEH_A82WJxkl4noXowOwXQ1WZaogZeKekwqpuGdwMPgD21E1asuBhIRdi37oYJ56zJA3Fq9Q2A1ZxXeAOZ8soSTdpBkmj1JhG1SCnDZgXrtIw-W8Jj2MTPE7URMTjPR/s400/Ticket_with_sample_content_requirements.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624712296329026738" border="0" /></a>Getting the Sample Work<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Search Engine Optimization (SEO)<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;">The provider(and even you) can check the SEO Report for a web page which shows the most significant words and phrases on the web page. This helps him in doing iterative development where he is able to achieve your SEO expectations during the content development phase itself.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFFLMLSbbCaXCQmqfxsF7zEUgf4D12fhuMDZap9l-bQ25LPMcX5l1Kl9XD_Fqe3pa_KuBffLTu9ZG8KE7VfxisXS_VzQUti5FovMeDe33KDkLcPs8K9T-iXrQIxvLIFDDzrqpTwGE487C/s1600/Ticket_with_seo_report.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFFLMLSbbCaXCQmqfxsF7zEUgf4D12fhuMDZap9l-bQ25LPMcX5l1Kl9XD_Fqe3pa_KuBffLTu9ZG8KE7VfxisXS_VzQUti5FovMeDe33KDkLcPs8K9T-iXrQIxvLIFDDzrqpTwGE487C/s400/Ticket_with_seo_report.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624714685734408930" border="0" /></a>SEO Report<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Content Review</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can review the content written in any of the sections and report problems on it. The problem sections of a page are marked in red and thus easily identifiable by the provider. The provider can view all the reported problems on a given section and modify the content accordingly.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtwCO-5Tm0KxjuBZDUHK2ulQbPydxZ8FZemDOGlxoGVtoqZoZZGnCF62Vew1sXfN3wVuTmgkioX-8LTTLi_W2cFsHVZwxjXM_bgm9zM5d0k1JMkx5gi-XSYGST-SQkfIdQbTp5BsQ0U5qq/s1600/Ticket_with_problem_reporting_1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtwCO-5Tm0KxjuBZDUHK2ulQbPydxZ8FZemDOGlxoGVtoqZoZZGnCF62Vew1sXfN3wVuTmgkioX-8LTTLi_W2cFsHVZwxjXM_bgm9zM5d0k1JMkx5gi-XSYGST-SQkfIdQbTp5BsQ0U5qq/s400/Ticket_with_problem_reporting_1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624716209381956450" border="0" /></a>Problem Reporting<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">View Reported Problems</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhVjoAPThBmbO4FuS6udLkowGaD9n2DQkvKLwYAHQT_1N7leE2s5XfUtY_X_eqzGnjgb6jPfcMi1WRCvcYsRwUoGG8L_r8iOmZY2_puUF-sth2dn731JzZMFyD4dFe4EDhY6lROodmdPZ/s1600/Ticket_with_problem_reporting.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhVjoAPThBmbO4FuS6udLkowGaD9n2DQkvKLwYAHQT_1N7leE2s5XfUtY_X_eqzGnjgb6jPfcMi1WRCvcYsRwUoGG8L_r8iOmZY2_puUF-sth2dn731JzZMFyD4dFe4EDhY6lROodmdPZ/s400/Ticket_with_problem_reporting.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624716554922862210" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Finishing the job<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;">No more searching through your email attachments and word documents – the provider just has to update the ticket and assign it back to you. You have the final html page with the complete content written on it!! Now you can easily extract the page from <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank">Contrich</a> and integrate it into your back-end system.<br /></div>Try <a href="http://www.contrich.com/" target="_blank">contrich.com</a> and do share your experiences with us.<br />Source <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.contrich.com/blog/2011/06/07/outsource-your-website-content-using-contrich/" target="_blank">Contrich Blog</a>.<br /></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-2945329568262986462011-06-28T08:55:00.000-07:002011-06-28T10:01:21.920-07:00WDYL.com by google – What Do You Love?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="#"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 354px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1yUUFrqVfKE6ygM5Dyy_s8-xZkq1b7Q7csEJXGR1tflo3aPLzVSIxLdE-mJ7-zH3c0lD5yD0i11MvzPhnkzTUPqmQ8dsOAWf5NcrTNa7gMNz46cMUvDvfwsL_uSXw3Lh6_JRP20ncOrsX/s400/wdyl.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623304616059292818" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.wdyl.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">www.wdyl.com</span></a> is Google's new product based search engine that was launched quietly today. <a href="http://www.wdyl.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">WDYL</span></a> (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span>hat <span style="font-weight: bold;">D</span>o <span style="font-weight: bold;">Y</span>ou <span style="font-weight: bold;">L</span>ove?</span>) lets you search across all the google products like '<span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Translate</span>', '<span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Trends</span>', '<span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Books</span>', '<span style="font-weight: bold;">Sketchup</span>', '<span style="font-weight: bold;">YouTube</span>', '<span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Alerts</span>' at one place.<br /><br />As usual the user interface of <a href="http://www.wdyl.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">WDYL</span></a> is very simple and clean with single search box with a button image of white heart on blue background. Cute... The interesting part is that when you brows <a href="http://www.wdyl.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">WDYL</span></a> without<span style="font-weight: bold;"> www.</span>, you get a <span style="font-style: italic;">404 (page not found) error</span>.<br /><br />Type in search box and click on heart, <a href="http://www.wdyl.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">WDYL</span></a> will display search result from different google’s products on single page neatly arranged in a grid format. There’s a slider on the left part of the page which you can move to quickly access bottom of the page. A big thing that is missing here is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google search result</span>. I think Google search result was supposed to be the first one to be included in this. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I have no idea why Google has excluded "Google Search Result" from </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">WDYL</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">?</span><br /><span id="fullpost"><br />The concept of <a href="http://www.wdyl.com/" target="_blank">WDYL</a> reminds me of<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> iGoogle</span>, a service that lets you add simple apps/websites to your own personalized portal. Overall, it’s a cool idea. Yo</span><span id="fullpost">u will be able to browse more of the found content without leaving the page. I also found out a few Google products that I didn’t know existed.<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Cool Idea but I can’t see much use of it in long term. I am including WDYL in my <a href="http://www.geekonnet.com/2010/07/googles-failed-products.html" target="_blank">Google’s failed products</a> list. Just another <a href="http://www.geekonnet.com/2010/07/googles-failed-products.html" target="_blank">failed product by Google</a>.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="#"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkPShoyNYYKmFy6w1o9GMEXvOJ4wRQic3v3gcqLaxD6rSUREPpxUJq_7RxQXoZsR6yhScBlND6NZHJrxet3YPaxp3TcArLpXZLiMl3kPLblrHKeWlCFL2cTWa7Zcx5rxIldfCukSL9UET/s400/WDYL-GeekOnNet.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623304844739737938" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">WDYSAWDYL</span> (<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">What Do You Say About WDYL(What Do You Love?)?</span>). Why don’t you try out <a href="http://www.wdyl.com/" target="_blank">WDYL</a> with different search query and share your interesting discoveries and experiences with me through comment to this post below?<br /><br /></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-80624761908139325092011-06-21T09:54:00.001-07:002011-06-21T11:29:06.288-07:00Google +1 Vs Facebook like button<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="#"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 83px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIynKsgQ5hIrwWfZ5dguGBr0jPyywZIf0a7YvB6YTYeX-_4_yXpyJQLJtadvYvHo9LhC8kxcYrXnANKe67jQQVgeR6ai06DMLTMKsPJMpVQVxoNBlVvErvYIJn0AYjR9hrNKD2ciRJKfGF/s400/googleonevsfacebook.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620721381617433170" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For past two-three months, google has been using <b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span">google’s + 1</span></b> button on its websites and this is also available to the third party websites. <b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Google +1</b> button wants to encourage user engagement and social interaction. This is an interesting idea, clearly influenced by the Facebook “<b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span">Like</span></b>” button.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With a single click, Google users can recommend a service, a website, an article, or a topic. Consequently, their friends, families, networks or even the rest of the world may easily see their recommendations. For example say you want to search best pub in Bangalore and you will be able to see recommended pub sites, your friend has pressed the +1 Button on. This is an interesting idea, clearly influenced by the Facebook “Like” button, but very much depends on people taking the time to press the +1 button. The <b>Like</b> button on Facebook allows users to publicly show they like a certain person, status, event etc. meaning it is far more a tool of self-expression than recommendation. Both Facebook’s like and Google’s +1 button aim to increase users’ exposure and awareness to an association of persons of the same trade, pursuits or mutual interests, and subsequently gather them through a social network.</div><span id="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Google and Facebook values what their users are sharing with their friends. They use this to know more about the users and to be able to place appropriate ads (<b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span">targeted marketing</span></b>) on web pages. Google will be able to personalize the user's search result and search ads. With the help of the +1 button, people with Google accounts who are signed in may see the recommendations from people in their Gmail or Google Talk chat list.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">In my opinion, Google +1 will not be able to compete with Facebook in the social networking arena.</span></i></b> Facebook has the edge in this area because its users spend a lot of time sharing their thoughts, links, and photos to their friends. This is a problem for Google because the Google doesn't have access to this information and it can’t be indexed as well.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My concern is, <b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">do we really need Google +1?</span></i></b> We already have FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and hundreds of social networking websites too. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span">I think Google has arrived too late to make a big impact in the social networking world.</span></b> Is google +1 another <a href="http://www.geekonnet.com/2010/07/googles-failed-products.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">failed products</span></b></a> by google?</div><br />I have added +1 button at the start and at the end of this post. Please do share it.<br /></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-11905477116906512112011-06-20T11:36:00.001-07:002011-06-20T11:58:40.168-07:00Google to scan 250,000 old British Library books<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7efXGztPqqf1MCOGHtbDafA1xxHP4B2W5UKkYuk2BKrJYT9L0nv7x09NfIclWVyp_8ksVX287XWl_QxCqFaMgLwaOF6WGx_5TCa8mUrXt5YFAO6rLRwDTJCyg6E0emAkGqtpG98Jb-wju/s1600/Google-Books.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7efXGztPqqf1MCOGHtbDafA1xxHP4B2W5UKkYuk2BKrJYT9L0nv7x09NfIclWVyp_8ksVX287XWl_QxCqFaMgLwaOF6WGx_5TCa8mUrXt5YFAO6rLRwDTJCyg6E0emAkGqtpG98Jb-wju/s400/Google-Books.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620376381978366386" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Google Books has an ambitious mission statement: "Google Books is an effort to make all of the knowledge contained within the world's books searchable online."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That's a tall order, but the company will make a dent in it with a <a href="http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-and-Google-to-make-250-000-books-available-to-all-4fc.aspx" TARGET='_blank'>new agreement</a> to scan <b>250,000</b> books from the British Library.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The books, pamphlets, and periodicals are all out of copyright and come from between 1700 and 1870. This is a nice companion project to the British Library's new <b><span class="Apple-style-span">19th Century Books app</span></b> that will eventually put thousands of old books on your iPad.</div><span id="fullpost"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To put it in perspective, these books were generated during some famous events you may have heard of, including the French Revolution, the invention of rail travel, and the end of slavery. Google will foot the cost for this mammoth digitizing effort.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The digitized books will be available free online through <b><a href="http://books.google.com/" TARGET='_blank'>Google Books</a></b> and the <b><a href="http://www.bl.uk/" TARGET='_blank'>British Library site</a></b>. Readers will be able to view, copy, and share the text for non-commercial uses. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you Google. I appreciate it.</div></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-85522970111016831372011-04-14T13:07:00.000-07:002011-04-16T16:17:53.071-07:00OlaCabs : Book a Car/Cab online!<div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We have already seen, how internet has revolutionized Train/Flight ticket booking. This technology can also be used to change our ground transportation system. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >GeekOnNet</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> is featuring another hot startup from Mumbai "<a href="http://www.olacabs.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">OlaCabs</span></a>", started by 2</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > IIT-Bombay</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> Alumnus.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjopT9RRn5Sw3ehF1avzKin5TdI2NoRKnRCUf3125PnAY0v_5n2W72qGya4mPh8Op9asstQmOpw7Q8niQictfyS0PX3MCfcsAZ0uGEniFcNBt6e3bKKOgcAxA4VNCRsl_bjnv3CuxkNZx1/s1600/olacabsLogo.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 60px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjopT9RRn5Sw3ehF1avzKin5TdI2NoRKnRCUf3125PnAY0v_5n2W72qGya4mPh8Op9asstQmOpw7Q8niQictfyS0PX3MCfcsAZ0uGEniFcNBt6e3bKKOgcAxA4VNCRsl_bjnv3CuxkNZx1/s400/olacabsLogo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596310429091886898" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.olacabs.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">OlaCabs</span></a> offers car rental services for local use as well as outstation use. You can book cab/car online or over the phone.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Why do you want to book cab/car online?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >GeekOnNet</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> is mentioning some benefits of online car/cab booking.</span><br /></span><ol style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;">You pay the right price for your journey</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The security of door to door service</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Guaranteed journey</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Ease of use</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">24 hour service</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Airport and other journeys</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Excellent for business use</span></li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In an exclusive interview to the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >GeekOnNet</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> team, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Bhavish Aggarwal</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, co-founder of <a href="http://www.olacabs.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">OlaCabs</span></a> and a very good friend of mine speaks about his company, its targets and future plans.<br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Venture Name</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">: </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.olacabs.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Olacabs.com</span></a><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Founder(s)</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">: </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavishaggarwal" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bhavish Aggarwal</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitbhati" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ankit Bhati</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks:</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >What inspired you to start olacabs? What are the services offered by OlaCabs? What is the specific problem that OlaCab is solving?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" >Olacabs: </span><span style="font-size:100%;">I had once rented a car for a weekend trip with friends to Bandipur from Bangalore. The driver turned out to be a cheat. He stopped the car in Mysore en route to Bandipur and asked to be paid more than what had been decided earlier. He was so rigid and ill mannered that we had to leave him there and continue our journey by bus. This led to the business idea of using technology to offer a better and more predictable experience to consumers and improve efficieny for the car owners/drivers.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We offer car rental services for local use as well as outstation use. You can book online or over the phone and be assured of a reliable, safe and quality experience.</span><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks:</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > What’s your Business & revenue model.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" >Olacabs: </span><span style="font-size:100%;">We work on a pay-for-performance model. We just charge a commission in whatever sales that we bring to car owners. Also, to get access to the technology platform, we charge them a small fee. Other than that, there are no other costs that operators have to bear.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks:</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >How difficult/easy for you to convince cab owners about your services? What obstacles have you overcome?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" >Olacabs: </span><span style="font-size:100%;">We have tied up with many car operators in Mumbai. They are very receptive to our concept as we work on a pay-for-performance model. The harder part is sourcing car owners. Since it is a fragmented industry, getting to the owners is a time consuming process.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks:</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >There are few big players in this market. So, how can you differentiate </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >OlaCabs</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">from them?</span><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" >Olacabs: </span><span style="font-size:100%;">most cab booking portals are plain vanilla websites with price listings. Our strategy is to focus on the backend with car operators because that would ensure a certain level of quality and predictability with respect to the consumer experience. We intend to bring all car operators and all taxis on to a single technology platform to enable real time inventory distribution, nationally.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks:</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" >What prospects are you visualizing for your company 5 years down the line? Are you going to implement something new (e.g. Mobile phone booking, smart phone’s app for cab booking etc.) to your business?</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:100%;" >Olacabs: </span><span style="font-size:100%;">The entire ground transportation industry in India is run in a very opaque, inefficient and ad-hoc manner. There is no service guarantee or price transparency for the consumer and operators are also troubled with no structured channel through which customers can be sourced. We believe that technology will help make this industry efficient and drastically improve the consumer experience in years to come. We are definitely considering developing mobile bookings and smart phone apps in the near future!<br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" id="fullpost" ><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks:</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">After working in the world’s leading S/W firm for more than 2 years, what led you to quit your job and start your own venture? What are the rewards of owing own business over a nine to five job?</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Olacabs: </span>I had always wanted to be an entrepreneur since my college days. After spending 2 years in my job at <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Microsoft</span>, I started feeling bored and restless. So I got together with Ankit and we decided to start a company. I left my job and moved to Mumbai to start Olacabs.<br />Working on a startup means you are the guy responsible for everything. The buck stops with you. The thrill and challenge of designing a company bottom up is beyond comparison and something you just cannot get in a job!<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks:</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Any suggestions for future entrepreneurs?</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Olacabs: </span>The biggest joy and the biggest challenge in entrepreneurship is finding a real and challenging problem to solve. Most of us first generation entrepreneurs have a tough time finding the right problem. But once that is figured out, the joy of solving real issues for real users and seeing people benefit from your innovation is beyond comparison! So just be persistent!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Olacabs</span> provides the simplest way to book a Cab/Car. You <b>enter your city</b> and your need. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Olacabs</span> searches the available inventory of its partners and provide you with a <b>list of results and prices of different available cars from different operators</b>. You can see rating of that operator, what other customers said of them, and then <b>book it on <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Olacabs.com</span></b>. Or you can call <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Olacabs</span> at<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span id="topbarCallText"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(022) 322-65-652</span> </span> and they'll help you through the process!<br /></div></div></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284553892640512509.post-60137278745798302502011-04-05T11:20:00.000-07:002011-04-14T11:56:24.207-07:00UniApply: One-Stop Solution for all Education needs<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;">Choosing your career is an important step because your future is at stake. It is generally observed that a large section of students are unaware of what they want to achieve in life or how they can achieve their goal. This amounts to a situation like boarding a train without knowing one's destination. Undoubtedly it may result in waste of precious time as well as money.</span>
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Team GeekOnNet</span> comes again with one of the hottest startups "<a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UniApply</span></a>" (<a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">www.uniapply.in</span></a>) of Bangalore (Bengaluru).
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgxM23Z1uJUWnlZVsn4G4mT1vAApZWvcQ8fAw8yDLFtXVLLjrEwf0eNdc_0PybgoOsWfvylAAAdQvUvGZDNQ5Wj6a1tjblyqdk7v3q5VPzVOJ_e0B3VV2J_XBAgCdFSbAjdns9VGYkAPwi/s1600/UniApply+Logo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgxM23Z1uJUWnlZVsn4G4mT1vAApZWvcQ8fAw8yDLFtXVLLjrEwf0eNdc_0PybgoOsWfvylAAAdQvUvGZDNQ5Wj6a1tjblyqdk7v3q5VPzVOJ_e0B3VV2J_XBAgCdFSbAjdns9VGYkAPwi/s400/UniApply+Logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592185184984552722" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Three <span style="font-weight: bold;">IIT Bombay</span> alumni started <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank">UniApply</a> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">(</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">www.uniapply.in</span></a>), an educational portal in July 2010 with a vision to eliminate information based discrimination among students. <a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UniApply</span></a> is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">one-stop solution for all your education needs</span> in terms of choosing the right institutes and most importantly applying to them. This trio furthers the goal of a successful transition of more students from high school to college and also help them in career advancements.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan" target="_blank" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 128px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrIVP6y0BATTwak7uGIrnPg16-QGJdnVXJRx1B6qU7cyEfhWyAtkts0lb_6VVHp-0nF8wZbgWkA0qGO6JqelFY9uuj3OeKfNwQc_bOHGZt4TKttJMzpNXEknrDAQ1N7M1GK4ye89xHHARm/s400/UniApply+Team+RK.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592186146965786978" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;">In an exclusive interview to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">GeekOnNet team</span>, </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Ran</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">ja</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">n</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> Ba</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">n</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">erjee</span></a>, co-founder of </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UniApply</span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (<a href="http://www.uniapply.in/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">www.uniapply.in</span></a>) speaks about his company, its targets and future plans.
<br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Venture Name:</span> <a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UniApply</span></a> (<a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">www.uniapply.in</span></a>) </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;">Founder(s): <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/banerjeeranjan" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ranjan Banerjee</span></a>, <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/kamleshladdhad" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kamlesh Laddad</span></a>, <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/akshayu" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Akshay Ukey</span></a>.
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<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks</span>: <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">How did you get the idea to start UniApply?</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">UniApply</span></a>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Each and every one of us in our student life has surely been through the "All pain, No gain" application process and it was this realization that led to the need for automation in this sector. Today, almost all the students apply to multiple academic institutions before taking admissions in any vertical. However, there is a lack of connection resulting in a huge gap between various institutes and student/parent community. Hence, we aim to bridge the gap through our products and services by bringing all the stakeholders in education - students, parents, institutes, etc into a common platform.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;">
<br /><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank">UniApply</a> aims to serve as a technological link between the educational institutions and students. While eliminating the prevailing information arbitrage, we aim to smoothen and strengthen automated education processes backed by a strong and updated technological base. UniApply team also develops innovative technology to enable students to successfully manage their educational and career plans. Its data-driven solution helps to bridge the transitions between high school, college, and career, by making certain that students take the necessary steps at the right time to reach their goals. Last but not the least; the collaboration platform will enable effective communication among the stakeholders in the educational ecosystem viz. institutes, faculty, students, alumni etc.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;">Our basic objective is to help students to take informed decision about their academic and professional career and to help and guide them in preparation for competitive examinations. We also look forward to provide all sorts of information about admissions, different colleges, various career avenues, and entrance exams to students enabling them to make the right choice in selecting a career and institute option.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;">
<br />Our highly motivated team with its indelible technological background is determined to create a benchmark in the whole education process.</span><span style="font-size:100%;">
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<br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The Geeks</span>: <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Give some details about the Team background and work experience</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">UniApply</span></a>:<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> I (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ranjan</span>) have completed my graduation / B.Tech from <span style="font-weight: bold;">IIT Bombay</span>. Post IIT, I worked at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zinnov Management Consulting</span>, a business strategy consulting firm where I got an opportunity to work with Fortune 500 companies in projects related to market entry / expansion, go-to-market strategies, offshoring advisory etc. I have always been passionate about entrepreneurship and have been part of the core team at <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay</span>. There when I met my other two co-founders,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Kamlesh Laddad</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Akshay Ukey</span>.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;">
<br />Kamlesh and Akshay, both have completed their post graduation in Computer Science from <span style="font-weight: bold;">IIT Bombay</span>. Kamlesh was Senior Consultant at <span style="font-weight: bold;">webMethods</span> (now Software AG) in technical consulting division. He traveled round the globe during his tenure at Software AG and worked very closely with Business analysts and Functional analysts of MNCs and has a great understanding of industry processes.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;">
<br />Akshay was software engineer at America Online (<span style="font-weight: bold;">AOL</span>) and worked on key AOL properties like AOL Portal, AOL Autos, AOL Real Estate, etc. He has contributed to several open source projects and features of the Apache SOLR and has a publication in <span style="font-weight: bold;">IEEE journal</span>.</span><span style="font-size:100%;">
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">The Geeks</span>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">What is your market and how has been the response?</span>
<br /><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">UniApply</span></a>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">With our aim to be the ultimate technology connect between the Educational Institutions and the students/parents community, we plan to associate with the institutes and have a parallel increase in our reach in the student community through online as well as offline campaigns. Our concept is being widely accepted. However we all know every new venture does have initial ignition issues yet undoubtedly there is arms open welcome to the concept.</span>
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">The Geeks</span>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Who are your competitors? How do you differentiate your products/services from that of others?</span>
<br /><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">UniApply</span></a>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">All the portals providing education/career related information are our competitors. However, the domain of <a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank">UniApply</a> is yet unexplored, as very few startups are offering services related to admission application process. There is certainly a huge demand from the institutes’ side for automation of the pre-admission process and helping them enhance their reach in the student community. We are different from other education portals as we provide a platform for applications and admissions into an institute the student wants to join rather than just information on the institute. We aim to revolutionize the admission application process enabled by Information Technology and to remove information based discrimination among students. Our services are aimed not only at the application stage but also at the admission stage of an educational institute. Our focus is to automate and combine the areas of admission processes and thereby provide a single window for the students to apply to various institutions.</span>
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">The Geeks</span>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">What are the rewards of running a business over a nine-to-five job? What are the challenges you have faced?</span>
<br /><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">UniApply</span></a>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">There is always a joy of creating something new. Every day brings a new challenge, together with an opportunity to learn, create and innovate. Moreover, driving a business in itself is pretty exciting as you can mould the pre-existing concepts into an advanced level ideas and figure out the best possible ways to enhance your business and most importantly we are into a business that aims at making a student’s life simpler which is a huge impetus for us to keep going.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">However, since we are in start-up phase, we face challenges like recruiting the right person, funding etc.</span> </span>
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<br /></span><span id="fullpost"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">The Geeks</span>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">What are the UniApply growth plans?</span>
<br /><a href="http://www.uniapply.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">UniApply</span></a>: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Education industry is witnessing a fast paced growth so this sector has a promising growth going forward. There is significant increase in the number of institutes and students every year. Moreover, with the entire world getting tech-savvy and internet friendly, UniApply and all other education portals would achieve greater heights. Especially with regards to UniApply we intend to transform the application procedure and we are sure we would.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">We are looking for expanding horizontally and aim to broaden our reach both in terms of institutes as well as number of students. Apart from this, we are also looking forward at launching few more products/services targeted at helping students in their exam preparation.
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<br />It was a very interactive and informative talk with the team of UniApply. If you have any queries or suggestions please write to me (<a href="mailto:ranjeet@geekonnet.com">ranjeet@geekonnet.com</a>) or </span></span></span><span class="jicons-icons"> </span> <span class="jcontact-emailto"> <a href="mailto:info@uniapply.in">info@uniapply.in</a></div></span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"></span>Ranjeet Kr. Vimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03944532317082619416noreply@blogger.com2