just some random stuff

I was getting curious for a while on how good an idea it was to start some sort of a classifieds web site for just Bangalore but apparently I am totally out of touch with the classifieds space here :-) Took me five minutes to find 5 such web sites, Didn't like any of them in particular ,somehow they seemed overloaded with information and mostly the GUI was bad (but neither can I think of how to make a classifieds web page look uncluttered)

http://classifieds.sulekha.com/bangalore.htm
http://www.indiagrid.com/bangalore/index.shtml
http://www.indianflyer.com/
http://classifieds.webindia123.com/classifieds/asp/by_state.asp?city=Bangalore
http://bangalore.indialist.com/

But what I did find useful was flipkart.com, a startup which is basically an online book store but the GUI is much better I thought than the other online book stores like Amazon for example.It didn't seem cluttered and I just hate web sites( or any other application) which clutters lots of information and controls in a small area.Not to mention the book prices I thought were really good and it says they will ship free of cost anywhere in India.

And last but not the least google has this interesting page called google trends where they rank what is the most searched items in India http://www.google.co.in/trends.
Looks like today India was today mostly interested in an actor's suicide and a doctor getting arrested for taking lewd pictures of his patients :-)