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

So I am back here again!

We got some requests from users, specially girls. Cell number is required to join and use friends. And who are not your friends, can see that number. It is not good for your privacy. You can make them private in Friend’s settings, but it was not there by default.

As OurSurat.com’s social responsibility, we took this very seriously and we have now this feature built in. Means your personal details will be private by default. If you want, you can share those details with your friends and even if you don’t want to share with your friends, you can keep them invisible from them. Not only that, We also applied this privacy settings for already registered members.

Always here to have better society in Surat with power of IT!

Ashvin

Hello all OurSurat.com users and well wishers!

I am creating this blog post, so everyone can give us feedback about OurSurat.com and its features. What we can do to make it better? If I want to say that in simple words, What is Public Demand?

Please continue sending us suggestions as comments to this post.

Ashvin Savani

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!

I really thank you Viral for your feedback and suggestion about Jantri Values.

As we all know there is much happening about Jantri Values and Land / Property Agreement taxation in last few months.  And we really think that this will be valuable feature for OurSurat.com and it will help many people in many ways. So I give +10 to this feature and we will mostly try to add it in our first beta if possible, otherwise it will be surely part of second beta.

Viral, If you have any online or offline resources about Jantri Values, Or if anybody else have such information – Which can help us in anyway, Please send it to oursurat-at-avinashi-dot-com.

Once again, Thanks for the wonderful suggestion, Viral.

Viral is a System Administrator in SVNIT, Surat. Just so others know about his techincal knowledge.