"GIFTMATE" - A living e-Magic!

I am sure you must be knowing about GIFTMATE if you vote on your favourite (even not so favourite) TV shows or if you know me!

Everyone is amazed how and why giftmate guys are shelling out e-money. Is this all for publicity purpose? If yes, dont you think they have gone too far?

Well, i think its not just publicising their own product, it is also about popularising e-shopping trends. Although e-shopping is available for long time now, but still it is not that rocking as it should be. Reason is simple, e-shopping sites do not follow WYSWYG (What you see is what you get!). This is my personal experience, though it is not that things turn out bad, sometimes actually you get things worth a lot more.

But you need to think all that if you are talking of YOUR money! When its upto GIFTMATE, its free! Who cares what you get! I got tempted and bought a vaccuum cleaner for 175 that turned out a total rip-off! But it gave me fair bit of attention from freinds!

As of the question, WHY?
Its all publicity! If they gave advertisment with SRK dancing, probably people would never log on to their website. Now if they give same 10 crore to audience instead of SRK, now people are atleast getting a demo! If they sponsored a Cricke series, after shelling out 100 crores, what is the gaurantee that anyone would ever type in giftmate.co.in in their browsers!

What is the future of giftmate?
My personal opinion! Its a total flop show! Consider this, if i buy a giftmate voucher of 250 from my credit card, why should i not purchase directly the product from my credit card in first place? Why is this medium in between?

Point is:
Vaccuum cleaner: Rs. 175
2 Movie CDs: 75
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2GB Pendrive: Rs. 349
e-Shopping: Priceless!

We guys dont use the vouchers till last date, coz we just love to do shopping! It is so much fun! Simply awsum!

Offers:
Kisko milega cash?--Star 1--Rs.250 voucher--Weekdays 10PM---First 50000
Chhote Ustaad---Star Plus---Rs.250 voucher--Till 5April---3000 daily
India-Safrica---Neo Sports---Rs. 100+ 10*10--During matches---No idea!
MTV Roadies---MTV---Rs. 200--- No idea if it is still on!

Cry Baby (CB) series is over!

Cry Baby Australia series is now over!And best part is, australia has been fucked by India in Australia!Both, in cricket & in image as well!Australia has been exposed and they are running naked with their crushed pride!Finally!
Anyways, world has another legend now, Adam Gilchrist! Atleast one man still holds his respect, pride & honour!

Audio CAPTCHA

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) as the name suggests are used to differentiate automated computer programs or bots from humans. CAPTCHAs are used for various purposes such as preventing automated account creation on websites, prevention of traffic flooding on websites and spam-protection etc., but CAPTCHAs deny access to visually impaired humans as well. Most visually impaired people use narration softwares, so visual CAPTCHAs deny access to those considering them as bots. Audio CAPTCHAs help the visually impaired people pass the test, though they possess major challenge as bots may pass such a CAPTCHA by voice to text translation. Hence, some trivial or lingual techniques need to be employed in order to make them effective against bots but easy to crack for humans.

Me along with my team-mates approached National Student Symposium, part of IEEE tech-fest Fervour'08 at Bhartiya VidyaPeeth College of Engineering(BVCOE) with this topic of ours. The event was Technical Poster Presentation. We were ale to score 2nd rank out of 31. You can have a look at my poster in my orkut profile.
http://www.orkut.com/AlbumZoom.aspx?uid=3164082510346742246&pid=1202236926539&aid=1202211527

The basic plus points of this topic are:
1. Almost every user of internet has been through a CAPTCHA, but very few know about it. So this is something people have passed but do not know why they even had to encounter the same.
2. You can make your judges sentimental by adding a SOCIAL ISSUE along.
3. Quite easy to implement and has a lot of available literature.


I'll be putting up many more project ideas here as soon as my classmates start working on them!