Posts Tagged ‘CF in Media’

The CommonFloor Journey 2011

Jan 10th, 12 / 0 Comments

First and foremost CommonFloor team would like to thank all our users for bestowing on us their support and for being such great mentors. It was all because of your contribution and appreciation; we are what we are today. With all the encouragement and feedback from our valuable users, we could add on to our success and sail smooth till now.

CommonFloor, India’s largest real estate online portal wishes you a Happy New Year and brings to you another set of new features for easy handling and better experience. What better way to start 2012 than with user friendly and technologically advanced features on CommonFloor!

We have so many things in pipeline for 2012 for better real estate services and apartment management. The features just get better and better each day of the year keeping in mind the need of home seekers and apartment owners.

Some of the features like enhanced accounting for the community moderators, new User Interface for better usability & navigational flow and unrestricted SMS sending to the previously unavailable DND mobile numbers are just the start. There are lots more which will get added to the list and will equal all the features you love and so much more.

Let’s have a look at the year 2011, how it was and what has improved since your last visit:

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“The Hindu” features Commonfloor on Property Plus page

Dec 29th, 11 / 0 Comments

One of India’s leading newspapers “The Hindu” recently published a feature about Commonfloor.com.

The story spoke about the efforts and vision of Lalit Mangal, Sumit Jain and Vikas Malpani, the founders of Commonfloor which was started in 2007.

Hindu covered Commonfloor as: “a tool to empower the committee and the owners for better and transparent management.”

The story also spoke about the splendid journey and expansion of Commonfloor from 2007 to 2011. In the initial stages, Commonfloor took its roots by introducing E-enabling to residential communities (apartment complexes, gated layouts, villas or colonies) serving major cities in India.

The integrated portal to relive issues in concern with apartments and communities has been successful in providing a helping hand to its users. The four solutions that CF provides are Communication, information, management and accounting.

CF now serves more than 28,000 gated communities across 100 plus cities in India (and is establishing its presence internationally too). CF is the first consumer-centric real estate portal and also has active communities from smaller cities like Vishakapatnam, Coimbatore and Kochi.

CommonFloor (CF) has a long list of free services for apartment owners and has Twin towerz, Olympia opaline, VGN Minerva, Ceebros, Sunnyvale and Atrium etc. as members.

It provides the best information on the available properties along with buyer reviews, and helps the seeker connect to the seller. It is an integrated portal to satisfy real estate services and apartment management needs.

By: Commonfloor Editorial

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CommonFloor awarded “Best website of the year 2011″

Nov 30th, 11 / 1 Comment

Website of the Year India 2011 announced winners of the 2011 edition of the Website of the Year India awards. CommonFloor.com bags Best website of the year 2011 in the housing and interior with highest score on content, design, navigation and recommendation likelihood.

Website of the Year India awards – India’s most important people’s choice award for websites – are revealed on www.websiteoftheyear.co.in. 264 websites were nominated for over 22 categories across India and in each categories two prizes one for Best Website for website with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood and another Most Popular Website for website with the highest number of votes.

CommonFloor.com was nominated in the housing and interior category and more than 15,000 votes were casted over 22 categories between 14th of October and the 21st of November.

Website of the Year India award is an award initiative by online research agency MetrixLab. CommonFloor.com bags Best website of the year 2011 in the housing and interior category.

Commonfloor.com thank all its users for casting their votes and encouraging them to grow.

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CommonFloor as Web 2.0 panelist at FICCI-India R&D 2011

Nov 28th, 11 / 0 Comments

The panel

I had the pleasure of talking to a niche audience from academia and government involved in research in upcoming areas of Interest.

CommonFloor represented the consumer web application in India and we talked about the various challenges we face and how academia can help us with research and help advance the use of Web 2.0 applications.

The panel consisted of eminent personalities in the field of web and we discussed on how it was shaping up in India.

The other panelist were:

Mr.Ananth Krishnan- CTO TCS

Mr.Satyendra Garg- Joint Commissioner of Police, Delhi

Mr. Randy Zadra- Director Carleton university, visiting prof MIT media lab

Mr. Ashok Krish- Head Web 2.0 Innovation labs, TCS

CommonFloor as Web2.0 Expert

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Thanks FICCI, Fellow Panelist and delegates.

Cheers!!
Vikas

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Property Buying in Internet Era- Best Practices & Common Mistakes: Property Buyer’s Summit ‘11

Jun 26th, 11 / 0 Comments

My talk on Property Buying in Internet Era at Property Buyer’s Summit- Bangalore, 25 June.

Property Buyer's Summit

The presentation:

Property buying in internet age

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Cheers!!

Vikas

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CF Shortlisted among 25 companies for Young Entrepreneur Award by Business World

Feb 23rd, 11 / 0 Comments

Young Entrepreneur

The Businessworld Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2011 contest has entered the final leg of the selection process. An eminent panel of 11 venture capitalists helped  screen and shortlist 25 companies.

This year the awards have been split into two categories:
Category A: Companies that are at least 2 years old and less than 5 years old
Category B: Companies that are less than 2 years old

CommonFloor has been nominated in Catergory A.

We thank all our users, patrons, friends and communities who have made us what we are.

Looking forward to continued support and patronage.

Cheers!

Vikas

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Experience with CommonFloor has been wonderful – TOI, Pune

Nov 27th, 10 / 0 Comments

Housing societies getting tech-savvy

The Times of India

Nov 25, 2010, Prasad Kulkarni & Kalyani Sardesai, Pune

With internet technology reaching out to all spheres of life, several housing societies in the city are giving a thumbs-up to managing their affairs through online portals …..

Nitin Pandya, vice-chairman of Cloud Nine, a residential complex on NIBM Road said, “Our society is using a portal called Common Floor. With the help of this portal, the society facilitates easy online communication. Residents can register their complaints about a variety of issues, avail information and issue notices, too.”

According to Pandya, the society of around 200 households has been using the site for about a year. “The experience has been wonderful,” he said.

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Thanks Mr. Nitin for the mention and appreciation. We look forward for the continued support from all our users.

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CommonFloor features in Financial Express’s story on Indian Social Media

Sep 5th, 10 / 1 Comment

Goutam Das
Posted: Monday, Sep 06, 2010

financial-express “… CommonFloor is a social media platform for apartment owners, helping in local networking. Know what book your neighbour is reading; what he thinks of the swimming pool no one visits; of dog menace in the locality; is he open to car pooling? … ”

” …There are 20,000 apartment communities on the platform from 95 Indian cities. About 500 businesses—starting from banks to car makers—are either advertising on the site or paying a fee to get recommended to consumers who need a product or service…. ”

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