Comments on: More on DWAAR… http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/ Bharanidharan Viswanathan Sat, 19 May 2012 23:46:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ragu http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-21300 Ragu Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:28:58 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-21300 hi Bharani, have been reading your blog for long...dwaar.com is a good effort. You might want to check out competition from Google in the near future...the article in Livemint on "Google now takes aim at tapping local search". Google is trying to build a very large local database and planning to integrate it ultimately with Google Maps (although this is not anytime soon). hi Bharani, have been reading your blog for long…dwaar.com is a good effort. You might want to check out competition from Google in the near future…the article in Livemint on “Google now takes aim at tapping local search”. Google is trying to build a very large local database and planning to integrate it ultimately with Google Maps (although this is not anytime soon).

]]> By: raghini http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-20745 raghini Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:45:08 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-20745 I think user reviews would be a good option to add... I was searching for some restaurants in mumbai and didn't know which one to choose from the list that got displayed. Hope u are doing good :) I think user reviews would be a good option to add… I was searching for some restaurants in mumbai and didn’t know which one to choose from the list that got displayed.

Hope u are doing good :)

]]> By: Jeeva http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-19222 Jeeva Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:18:40 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-19222 interested in stats.. can you publish a chart showing number of blog postings(monthly average) b4 MBA, during MBA, after MBA b4 marriage, and after marriage? interested in stats..
can you publish a chart showing
number of blog postings(monthly average)
b4 MBA,
during MBA,
after MBA b4 marriage,
and after marriage?

]]> By: satheesh http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-17698 satheesh Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:54:25 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-17698 hi, I am Satheesh, Shankar Prakash's friend. The site looks good. I am just putting some thoughts (may be you would have already thought about it) 1. Include maps (like yahoo maps or 3D maps) 2. Now, the iphone trend is going, people like the iphone UI it seems, so change the UI with ICONS. 3. Use AJAX technology more, so that page refresh can be avoided 4. May be you can link the individual websites (like while showing college info, include the website info) By the way, what is your revenue model, how do you get money from this.. WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.. Best Regards, Satheesh hi,
I am Satheesh, Shankar Prakash’s friend. The site looks good. I am just putting some thoughts (may be you would have already thought about it)
1. Include maps (like yahoo maps or 3D maps)
2. Now, the iphone trend is going, people like the iphone UI it seems, so change the UI with ICONS.
3. Use AJAX technology more, so that page refresh can be avoided
4. May be you can link the individual websites (like while showing college info, include the website info)
By the way, what is your revenue model, how do you get money from this..

WISH YOU ALL THE BEST..

Best Regards,
Satheesh

]]> By: Indian Blogger http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-15864 Indian Blogger Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:57:17 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-15864 Nice effort. Isn't there any government information available for this to validate data. I guess, probably there is not.One of the toughest challenges for the Indian Internet Market.! Just curious..Did you guyz do some Market Research to get the details.I did some testing at Dwaar now.I searched for "Chinese" restaurant in "Bangalore" and I got awesome results. I then changed Bangalore to "Bengaluru" (the new name),the results were not fetched. Hey,you might want to check out this site created by one of my classmates- http://themenusite.ca/ . This is highly customized for the local market ( Kingston). They have scanned menu cards and even depending on the current time suggest if the restaurant is open or not. Folks can even provide reviews. Nice effort. Isn’t there any government information available for this to validate data. I guess, probably there is not.One of the toughest challenges for the Indian Internet Market.!

Just curious..Did you guyz do some Market Research to get the details.I did some testing at Dwaar now.I searched for “Chinese” restaurant in “Bangalore” and I got awesome results. I then changed Bangalore to “Bengaluru” (the new name),the results were not fetched.

Hey,you might want to check out this site created by one of my classmates- http://themenusite.ca/ .
This is highly customized for the local market ( Kingston). They have scanned menu cards and even depending on the current time suggest if the restaurant is open or not. Folks can even provide reviews.

]]> By: Bharani http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-15822 Bharani Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:16:09 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-15822 Karthik, The wiki approach will be available soon. The facility should have been built in the product long ago. But couldn't happen due to different priorities. I completely agree that doing it ourselves is not scalable and sustainable. But what we are doing is to put in-place a good initial seed... Thanks EU. Jeeva, As of now the process of adding details to dwaar is internally managed. There is no external interface for users to upload directly. The platform to add details to DWAAR is panning out. That platform will be pretty comprehensive and will take care of points like lifetime that you suggested. Please bombard me with as many questions as possible...Interesting to see the thoughts. Karthik, The wiki approach will be available soon. The facility should have been built in the product long ago. But couldn’t happen due to different priorities. I completely agree that doing it ourselves is not scalable and sustainable. But what we are doing is to put in-place a good initial seed…

Thanks EU.

Jeeva, As of now the process of adding details to dwaar is internally managed. There is no external interface for users to upload directly. The platform to add details to DWAAR is panning out. That platform will be pretty comprehensive and will take care of points like lifetime that you suggested.

Please bombard me with as many questions as possible…Interesting to see the thoughts.

]]> By: Jeeva http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-15759 Jeeva Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:48:49 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-15759 What is the process for adding details to dwaar? Who all can add data? and are you setting any lifetime for the digitized offline data? What is the process for adding details to dwaar? Who all can add data? and are you setting any lifetime for the digitized offline data?

]]> By: educatedunemployed http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-15711 educatedunemployed Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:54:44 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-15711 Hats off to the effort. Hats off to the effort.

]]> By: Karthik http://way2top.org/career/more-on-dwaar/70/#comment-15697 Karthik Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:43:22 +0000 http://way2top.org/?p=70#comment-15697 Why can't dwaar be like a wiki collecting information such as these from the users themselves? I think that will be more exhaustive without making data collection tedious for you guys and also be accurate. Why can’t dwaar be like a wiki collecting information such as these from the users themselves? I think that will be more exhaustive without making data collection tedious for you guys and also be accurate.

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