Can you imagine a village in the southern tip of Tamilnadu having a google group for them, a completely live up-to-date website for every single event in the village and to top it all a village that speaks cloud computing!
Yes! Here it is- Kasangadu. A village in Tanjore district near Pattukottai. They have a website called kasangadu.com. One that is created completely in tamil.
I was searching google groups for some groups which has interest towards trecking, biking etc., And I saw a group called – Kasangadu – http://groups.google.com/group/kasangaducom. I was curious what it could be. Then observed it is a group for sharing news and there is a whole website at the background. And startled to know – all these are for a small village near pattukottai.
This website have all that is to stay social and to share news.
These are some, but not limited to, list of interesting sections in this website:
1. News & Events : Any thing that happens in this village cannot go un-noticed, from Birth to death, from Public-gathering to Panchayats.
2. History : This has the complete history of the village
3. Matrimony : Has a web 2.0 site for matrimony within and around the village. [know-what this is powered by Sugar CRM]
4. Statistics : Everything from the population to average-salary in the village.
5. Market & Industry : They post all the great opportunities out there that would interest investors to start business. And also share information on all that is happening in the local market.
6. Google Map: To show you where this little [only by size] village is present on the globe.
7. Requests/Needs : This page gives info on what the village needs and how they can be achieved. This is a open forum. In one of these forums they were speaking about cloud computing.
They use many web 2.0 tools, like blooger.com/blogspot, google events, google groups, google maps, google sites, Sugar CRM.
Do spend some time to visit this website. www.kasangadu.com
