Tuesday, December 18, 2007

  CollegeSpeaks, Yulop, Ubona — Startup Dunia - Indian startups and Entrepreneurship

CollegeSpeaks, Yulop, Ubona — Startup Dunia - Indian startups and Entrepreneurship: "Yulop is a local search / community site for Bangalore. They have 4 sections - Bangalore Swami (a Bangalore portal which includes events, forums, news, weather etc. for Bangalore), Cityfind (a yellow pages for Bangalore), Books Kannada (online book store for Kannda books) and Mobile (mobile access to the portal). Yulop seems to have an active user community and a decent number of listings in the CityFind section.
I have two main suggestions for the Yulop team:
1) The different sections on the site dont seem to make a lot of sense. In fact, I found them a bit confusing. In my opinion, the Cityfind should be merged with the Swami section. Also, a different ‘Books Kannada’ section for a Bangalore portal doesnt quite seem like a great idea. I think the Books Kannada should be launched as a different website. The books section kind of distorts the brand image if you were to ask me. If people want to associate Yulop as a Bangalore portal / yellow pages site, the books section skews that perception.
2) The events calendar for the site is too cluttered. Unfortunately Joomla doesnt have any chic looking event calendars."

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