Comments on: In India, Location-based Search Kicks Off

By: yulop people « startupcentral

yulop people « startupcentral — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:44:48 +0000

[...] launch of its location-based services or local search on mobile. For more, read the Mint report and GigaOm’s take. I had a chat with co-founder Sridhar G about their new offering a few days before the launch [...]

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:46:06 +0000

Check out Sridhar’s PPT. He also showed live demo on his mobile. It works!

(link)

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:29:27 +0000

@sridhar, looking forward to see you tomorrow (or i think its already today :)). hopefully we’ll be able to squeeze in your demo.

By: sridhar

sridhar — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:56:20 +0000

Never thought we would make inroads as such, well i had to cancel MoMO due to personal reasons, but i guess i would have to prove my point also, i spoke to Rajiv from MoMO i am around in MoMO and probably time permits could give demo, since the slot is filed up, but again i would be there for complete session, and whoever is interested i shall give them the demo in person.

and Anurag, i have mailed the App for your IMEI number, pls give a try!

Bala , see you there tomorrow in MoMo

By: Bala

Bala — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:13:21 +0000

Anurag, you said it right. Global media sparingly covers indian companies. These kind of incidents will make them looked at even genuine Indian companies with suspecting eyes. You might know that Yulop chickened out of mobile monday demo in bangalore

By: Anurag

Anurag — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:05:24 +0000

I still have not received any app from yulop.

@Sridhar, take my advice, you can be more productive by coding real app than to post fake comment by name of ‘Anoop Shastry’. Beware, you’re spoiling name of Indian startups on global space by your lies.

By: Jayanth S

Jayanth S — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:26:54 +0000

@ Anurag, Good POints out here.. But I have to agree that you may be speaking without actually seeing the facts.. Why dont you try out the application and then post your review..

As far as i can see, Its the easiest way to build an App.. Use the Hello World and modd it to your requirement, especially when you dont know the language.. But I’m pretty sure this was not the approach taken..

By: Ram kumar

Ram kumar — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:46:36 +0000

India and lbs,its great to hear…india has 260 million mobile users,i guess all this make sense if gprs penetration happens,and from whatever i hear,its going to boom in 2009.smaller companies definitely challenge the bigger ones with there local contents

By: Syed

Syed — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:57:41 +0000

this topic seems to be the hot discussion,i think you shouldn’t talk more, what i see people are here only to make you spill the bean and if you guys have the product you have shown it to people concerned, why would you worry about someones comments and demanding you.

I have heard about Yulop through Proto.in and its peers, now to be profiled from people like OM is a bigger asset, now take this forward and i am proud of ya guys, you have something to give out from India, way to go.

Om i am very happy you do support Indian products and have been helping all these small companies get noticed, carry on good work mate!

By: Anurag

Anurag — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:52:31 +0000

@Anoop, within 27 minutes of my comments, you could meet Sridhar, see his demo and posted a comment. All on a busy working day :) well done! If yulop can give you a private demo, what stopping them from releasing to public. Sounds shady - I am serious :)

@Sridhar, Vini, I sent my IMEI few hours back and my mail was replied by Sridhar but no app is so far received. Opensign takes 5 minutes.

By: vini

vini — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:05:43 +0000

Hi anurag,

Probably you can shoot all your questions/ doubts at me since i was the person involved in the development of this symbian app.

This is a 20kb symbian application developed in Native symbian c++.
And regrading the existence of the application, its very much alive just need to marry it to your IMEI :)

Please send across your IMEI [Nokia S60 3rd Edition phone] so that we can send the signed app. since we are still testing the app we havnt signed using the Publisher ID we have used the opensigned option. Symbian Signing stuff is out of scope to discuss here.

May be we could talk/discuss about the application once u install and play around with our app.

regards,
vini

By: sridhar

sridhar — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:20:46 +0000

Dont’ you think you are jumping guns, anyways…!

you can mail me the IMEI number to support@yulop.com and also let me know your availability in bangalore,
I guess it would be great to meet you as well, I love demoing it to all techie brains!

By: Anoop Shastry

Anoop Shastry — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:38:12 +0000

I must admit, after watching this post, i called up sridhar, since locating him in bengaluru was easier and i was very interested myself to see the LBS for my own city.

Disclaimer : I work with a top MNC on building LBS kind of stuff for European market.

After Reading Anurag comment : i was apprehensive with sridhar’s team pulling it off, but let me accept its truly remarkable with such a feat, ironically i met sridhar today and he did gave me a solid demo in central bangalore and its a symbian program which retrieves the cell ID from the app and sends the request to there server in response its loaded on to a browser, and its been the job well done.

Its easy to criticise , but sridhar did explain me the effort and how it enables users to get what they need at there current location.

I strongly recommend anyone in bangalore to give a call to sridhar and try out the Application yourself, lets not worry more about the technical angle here, its the effort and the streaming of focussed engineering which matters all to give the end customer what they need.

I believe they are building similar prototype for Android and iPhone apps, which have a native features to get the location, but what its remarkable is the content these guys processes that’s something truly to be appreciated, they have it for local contents, News, Events, movies,bus routes everything is been geotagged.

Sridhar did mail me to put in my views after he got Anurag comments in this post, I am not here to support sridhar and team but there efforts needs to be recognized

technology shouldn’t be a bottleneck for building apps, if you could build what consumers need, then Job Well Done!

By: Anurag

Anurag — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:11:45 +0000

I left, where shall I email my IMEI and get app (if it exist :) )

By: Anurag

Anurag — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:06:16 +0000

At last, yulop admits that those screenshot are not from their app but from native browser.

So now we know how yulop’s app was built.

Get the sample codes from nokia (and claim that they reversed it)

wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Find_Out_Cell_ID_in_3rd_Edition
wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_Launch_Browser_in_3rd_edition

Integrate two sample codes.
take screenshots
claim to be from their own great app
and send it to media to get ‘free’ publicity 
Good job so far!!!

By: sridhar

sridhar — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:26:54 +0000

I guess you seem to be overdriven with technology.

We use SYmbian feature to retrieve the CELl ID whihc is apssed as query string to pop up on a native browser.

I guess you got to test our app to conclude anything else, kindly mail me your IMEI number, and also let me know your availability in blore i shall send you the app, after which you could comment!