When I wanted to get the Phone No of listing, it has a small banner sayin -

You need to register and verify your mobile no. to contact this advertiser.

Yesterday I had logged in the site and chose “Remember me on this computer” and it was still showing me above message. After I clicked on Contact Advertiser, this is where it all started to go wrong. Something happened. All this code is AJAX and somewhere their code goofed up and did something which had a bizarre consequences.

Without me doing anything, Sulekha.com updated my verified mobile phone number with the Advertiser’s phone number. The same applies to email. Within minutes, I started getting lots of emails.

I also got a call on my phone saying that – “Hello Shivprasad, you have a Swift Dzire for sell na, its posted on Sulekha.”…. damm.. until this I was not aware of what’s happening. I had never owned Swift Dzire let alone selling

Next, my mailbox started getting filled with mails such as –

1) You have viewed details of Washing Maching
2) You have viewed details of Honda Activa
3) You have viewed details of PG Accomodation for Girl

WTF…apart from this, also started getting mail that I have created new listing such as this one – Only 28000 Milage and few more.

This is pretty much fcked up my privacy with my email and phone number being associated with god know how many accounts.

I started getting mails from site users who are interested in listing like above which is attributed to me or from Advertiser’s whose details are seen by me..(PG for Girl)..

I just couldn’t imagine how dumb the developers of Sulekha.com are. Is there any testing performed on site at all? If you don’t get AJAX.. don’t do it….

I had contacted Sulekha.com and informed them abt the issue and through their site’s feedback mechanism, informed about the issue.

In the mean time to stop myself from this abuse, I had used http://www.guerrillamail.com and updated my email address with disposable email address.

Not sure how many others faced this issue today, but in future I am going to be very careful about Sulekha.com. Don’t trust them.

Neha Singh
Head, Customer Care

TECHGIG.com (in collaboration with TimesJobs.com)

Enough.

I really hate websites which even after unsubscribing from  email subscriptions still keep sending you emails.

This time it is yours truly TimeJobs.com and your new venture Techgig.com

I must have unsubscribed three to four times from the link that you have provided at the end of your marketing emails. I still continue to receive mails.

You dumbs  can’t even spell Techgig.com,

Fresher Jobs on TaechGig.com

Can you pls tell me what it would take for you to remove my email address from your system. Heck I don’t want account at your website. Is there any way I can close my account.

Seems TimeJobs  don’t give a damn about user privacy….

1. 1999-2000 – This was the first attempt while I was in my Third year..was quite obsessed with DHTML…
2. 2000-2001 – This was in the Final year…Flash had taken over by then……

There is still final version of site still trying to find…. something for this weekend…

Below is the what you will need -

1: Vim Drop Dishwash Gel – Any neighborhood Kirana store would have it…
2: Glycerin – Medical Store…

Use Glycerin as 1:5 ratio w.r.t. Dishwash…

You can even create different shapes like star etc.. using cloth hangers….

Happy Bubbles….

Quite happy, I tried to login after few days on http://www.onlinesbi.com, guess what…. it didn’t allowed me login showing “Invalid username or password.”

There is a link on login page “Trouble Logging In” which is nothing but a form mailer. The reason for this blog post is this “Trouble Logging In”

It asks for all the details in 6-7 fields like account number,email etc… after submitting the request, it threw me below error…

Where is all the data that I have entered….????

I do not understand, when will the people like those at Online SBI understand the user experience…

The same is true for number of other Indian News sites.

I always wanted to try out Yahoo! Pipes.

Below are the steps that I did –

Step 1:

From Sources, drag a new Fetch Feed and use URL – http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/13357270.cms

The above gives us a RSS output -

Output

Step 2:

From Operators drag a Loop

Drag blue bubble connector from Fetch Feed of Step1 to the Loop.

From Sources drag a Fetch Page to the center section of Loop.

From Fetch Page URL drop down, select items.link
As the Fetch Page gets a page as string, to get the actual story contents only you extract the contents using the “Cut content from:” and “to:”, for economic times the contents of the actual story resided between google_ad_section_start –> and google_ad_section_end.

The above contents can be assigned to any items. I have assigned it to the items.link.

Output:

Step 3:

To restrict the output only to news title and contents, we can again use a Loop and drag a Item Builder from Sources.

Please note the value used for description – item.link.0.content

As in Step 2 we have assigned contents to items.link, actually the contents are inserted as child items.link.0.conent.

Output:

Notice the “google_ad_section_start –>” as a start of description. We will remove it in next step.

Step 4:

In order to remove the google ad related message, we will use loop again along with String Replace from String.

The final output is what I wanted

Output:

Below are some of the pipes that I have created, hope you find them useful –

Economic Times Infotech – ITes

eSakal

IBNLive
Swaminomics – SA Aiyar – Columnists – Opinion – The Times of India

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The plus of this system is that it has a Aux-in so I can use it with my laptop or TV… perfect.

ITS PLAIN AWESOME… Just what we wanted. No registration etc, just enter the expenses, who paid, for whom .. done.

You get a perm URL for the report in case you want to share/modify.

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