Updates on Locomi
July 24, 2007
Well yeah, thats what we have decided to call it. In this world of crazy Web2.0 names, Locomi actually means something. Lo, stands for local, co for content and mi – for me ( we didn’t get Locome – it didn’t sound half as cool anyway) – essentially its a social networking platform for giving me locally relevant content.
Other updates apart from the name? Well – we are still working on the logo and should have something soon. The backend work has started and we should be ready for a private beta by mid-September at the very latest. A big thanks to our development team at Anblik for devoting long crazy hours to this.
On another note, our team is out scouring Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Calcutta with GPS devices for hangouts that are popular with our target demographic – restaurants, clubs, gyms, theatres, salons and the like. We hope to have the most comprehensive database of such locations by September. Its costing us a bomb but is worth every penny and then some more. It gives us significant IP that we could sell later to the likes of Google.
That’s it for now. Will keep updating this blog as and when I can. Which reminds me, I need to work on the blog’s visibility. Time for some much necessary PR.
‘rb’
