By sinha on 14, January, 2008 | Channel: Indian Startups

New launches: FundooTrip, SeaFolks

fundootrip.gifFundooTrip is a newly launched travel portal with pretty much the same set of features (i.e. one can book hotels/flights like any other travel site).
Only different thing about FundooTrip is that the site has lots of spelling errors (fundoo journey’s, funoo journey etc) and looks more like an affiliate site of makemytrip.

Search for an hotel/flight and notice the url: http://travelpartnernetwork.net, which points to http://www.travelpartnernetwork.net/makemytrip/MMTHome.do, which I believe is MMT’s affiliate site (Travelpartnernetwork.net’s whois info also points to mmt)
What’er it is, FundooTrip is of no use and has hardly any relevance. Worth a miss.

SeaFolks.com
seafolks is a social networking site launched for Merchant Navy Officers across the world, working on ships and ashore as well. The site is a good collection of info about the lives of merchant navy/career related queries, and technical details of ships.

Why featured @ pluggd.in? Well, I know that the site is not much of relevance to you and me, but this is purely a vertical social net and i hope to see more of such sites which are targeted towards a particular community (goes inline with my 2008 prediction)

What’s your take?

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    4 Responses to New launches: FundooTrip, SeaFolks

    1. sg says:
      January 14, 2008 at 3:38 PM

      Hi,
      A vertical social networking platform doesn’t seem to be a good idea though.
      A networking platform ideally should be accross verticals.
      But in this particular case (ie seafolks) I think it makes sense because
      people in merchant nave are distributed accross geographies.

      It would be actually great if we have a big networking platform divided in verticals as per need(similar to forums but with more features).
      But still a commendable effort !
      Shobhit

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    2. Sandeep says:
      January 19, 2008 at 11:32 AM

      I totally agree with Shobhit. SeaFolks.com is a great platform for mariners across the world. Also site is very pleasant looking.

      Sandeep

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    3. Liya says:
      February 6, 2008 at 11:58 PM

      I just love this website. I could meet my Karan on the site. Thanks.

      Liya

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    4. SeaFolks Admin says:
      February 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM

      Thank you Ashish and everybody at pluggd.in for featuring our website. Also Shobhit, thanks for appreciating our efforts. Liya and Sandeep, keep rocking! Love you all.

      Regards
      Umesh

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