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Dear Akshat,

Congratulations, the judging for the Mobile Search Awards has now been completed, and I can confirm that Alabot has been short-listed for the following category

· Award for best technology innovation – Software

We would like to invite you to attend the Mobile Search Conference and the Awards Presentation Ceremony Gala Dinner, which will be held on the 16^th September, 08 at the prestigious Hilton Olympia Hotel, located in London’s functional and stylish Kensington High Street.….

wohooo….maza aagaya!!!

Alabot Help Video here -  http://t.alabot.com/demo.html

Alabot Travel FAQ

Q:     Why do the links expire after some time?
Ans : Our Session expires within 5 minutes from the time of search.

Q:        Which cities do we support currently?
Ans      http://blog.alabot.com/2008/07/19/list-of-cities-handled-by-alabot-travel/

Q:  How about some sample conversations guys?

Ans: Good point - we know this stuff is new and our users need some hand holding at first.

Our help video is being made so please bear with us. In the meantime please check out some sample conversations below.A word to the wise….alabot has not been injected with the sarcasm present in most human interaction….but it has everything else. speak to it like you would to your buddy, spelling mistakes and all. It understands…. and doesnt judge you……….:)

Q:  How do i restart the conversation - sometimes Alabot doesnt respond. Why does this happen? grr
Ans:    Just type exit anytime in the conversation process - you can then restart from the top. This may happen in instances when our engine is not able to comprehend certain spellings and iterations - it will go away in some time as Alabot will self learn and heal itself. The more users interact with him, the more intelligent he becomes.


Q: Are the flight prices the cheapest compared to other portals?
Ans: Our intent is to tie up with “best of breed” content partners, we do not add any surcharge or fees on top.  Check the rates out for yourself!!

Q: Is this a free service?
Ans: Yes - it will be free for all our users.

Q: Do you support other languages?
Ans:  Our vision is to make applications interactive across language and demographics. Our next release will have a flavour of a few Indian languages as well.

Q: Are you adding anything else?

Ans: Yes, lots more - including deep dive local search, scores, news, other travel related stuff.. soon… we are waiting for Ala’s brain to get mature..

Help File

We Cater to the  following cities for our travel alabot (flights only , no train or bus currently)

• bengalooru,chennai,
• goa,hyderabad,kolkata,mumbai,
• new delhi,pune,agartala,
  
• agatti island,agra,ahmedabad,aizawl,
• allahabad,amritsar,aurangabad,bagdogra,
• bangalore,baroda,belgaum,bellary,bengalooru,
• bhavnagar,bhopal,bhubaneswar,bhuj,bombay
• calcutta,calicut,chandigarh,chennai,cochin,
• coimbatore,dehradun,delhi,dharamsala,
• dibrugarh,dimapur,diu,goa,gorakhpur,guwahati,
• gwalior,hubli,hyderabad,imphal,indore,
• jabalpur,jaipur,jaisalmer,jammu,jamnagar,
• jamshedpur,jodhpur,jorhat,kandla,khajuraho,
• kochi,kohlapur,kolkata,kozhikode,kulu,
• leh,lilabari,lucknow,madras,madurai,malanpuri,
• mangalore,mumbai,nagpur,newdelhi,pantnagar,
• patna,poona,porbandar,portblair,pune
• raipur,rajahmundry,rajkot,ranchi,shirdi,silchar,
• simla,srinagar,surat,thiruvanantpuram,
• tiruchirapalli,tirupati,trichi,trivandrum,tuticorin,udaipur,
• varanasi,vijayawada,
• visakhapatnam,vizag

Non Tactile, Natural Computing Interface: The idea of interacting with computers without any mechanical interface has long been a desirable goal in computing. Some of the many challenges that remain in this area include the ability to detect gestures, developing a gesture dictionary and the need for real-time processing. Another set of challenges relate to natural language processing, which include speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language understanding, natural language generation, machine translation and translating one natural language into another.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=643117

Alabot tech comes under one of these challenges - and we have cracked the best part of the code!!!

You want to know more - send a mail to akshat@alabot.com

After getting delayed for couple of times barcamp delhi 4, was finally held on May 17 at Amity Innovation Incubator at Noida ,around 250 campers registered on wiki and around 220 turned which is fairly good turnout , BCD4 had around 25 sessions this time on topics ranging from usual blog , social networking (facebook api, opensocial etc) , Indian IT scenario , startup best practices and product demos (check http://wiki.barcampdelhi.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Product_Demo.28s.29 for info) besides Bug Stories and Quiz at the end of the event . One of the interesting product demo was of entrip.com (social travel mash up ? ) by two buddies from London Imperial College(Nick & Anthony) , for which they choose Pune for their startup (talk about reverse brain drain !! ) . Entrip.com UI has an intuitive interface which shows your trip tagged on Google Maps , on each trip location or tag , you view upload , videos, photos and notes . Another worth thing mentioning about is about venue itself Amity Innovation center , which is DST supported Incubation center (Dept of Science and Technology, which also means incubated start-ups can avail tax rebates etc ) which offers among other things(business plan , VC funding & Legal and IPR, Assessment assistance), a affordable infrastructure . They have good links with many VC firms land also fund themselves . Right now there are couple of companies being incubated and most of them got funded .

Also present were SIDBI( Nilajana Shrivastva), India larges t SME bank Ventures ,for which Govt. has set fund of whopping 2,500 crores ( http://www.sidbiventure.co.in/) , Mukul from Canaan partners and Bakshish from Sun Start up Essential program . Overall its seems BarCamp is becoming an essential part of startup ecosystem in India with big institutions supporting it. So whether you are planning startup or already running one , or just want to meet some cool creative people , you might want be there at next barcamp , I know I certainly will !