Hello Suratis,

Kem chale che navratri? I hope all of you are enjoying it in pure surti style! and be safe from Swine Flu!

There is huge public demand to invite friends to OurSurat.com through their existing friends or contacts. So we are planning to do it in two ways. First is email and second is via mobile. We will also planning to add some more value to inviting friends by giving some points, Free T-Shirts, Free Gifts and Free SMS like offers.

About emails, We currently planning to support inviting contacts from following emails:

1. Gmail
2. Yahoo!
3. Hotmail
4. MSN
5. Microsoft Live!
6. in.com
7. RediffMail
8. IndiaTimes
9. Sify

You will also able to invite your friends (by sending them emails through orkut automatically) from Orkut. I did not see that many surti’s are using Twitter otherwise we could support that too!

Second option is SMS. You will able to invite your friends by SMS. It will be like creating your AddressBook and You can use the same AddressBook to send FREE SMS later when we will introduce that feature.

We are really working hard, towards getting as many features as we can add to OurSurat.com and making it more useful to All Surti’s! And as always, We welcome all of your suggestion from bottom of our heart. Keep supporting us to fuel more energy to make OurSurat.com better and better.

Ashvin Savani,

Leading OurSurat.com

Hello Surti’s!

I am back again with another feature for Friends section of OurSurat.com

We are doing final testing of friends before we go under beta currently. So at that time, I thought – How it would be pain for users to enter their profile data again with OurSurat.com? And of course we are here to reduce the pain! So that more and more surti’s can be part of OurSurat.com. So in Friends, we will provide a feature where you can import your Orkut profile directly as your OurSurat.com profile. Me and the team was so happy about this feature and we were sure that people will like it.

But, My security team told that, people will hasitate to use it because, We need to ask his username and password of orkut. And Yes, its very valid threat. But we are here for trust, privacy and for free service so there is no point of stealing your valuable usernames and passwords of orkut. So we decided to get some twist in the Idea. We will not ask you for your username and password. Here is exactly, How it will work:

1. User will login to OurSurat.com portal.
2. Visit Friends Section.
3. Go to your profile and Edit it.
4. Inside Edit section, User will find an option to Import Social Profile.
5. It will ask to enter page source as input.
6. Page Source, will be the HTML code of your Orkut profile. Here is how you can get it.
7. Open Browser / New Tab and login to your Orkut account, and goto your profile.
8. Right click anywhere in the page and click on View Source Code.
9. Simply Copy all text from there and Paste it inside OurSurat.com Site.
10. Click on Import Button to import all your profile data into OurSurat.com
11. You can change some fields which, you want to change or remove.
12. That’s the feature! And we will also provide support for other Social Services too later.

Enjoy OurSurat.com!