You can now get images of the marks you have made on the map by simply adding “image” at the end of your mark url.

e.g. if your mark URL is http://www.sadakmap.com/p/Nisarg-Restaurant/

you can get a static image at http://www.sadakmap.com/p/Nisarg-Restaurant/image/

By default, the size of this image is 300×300. If you wish to specify a custom size just add /size=wxh/ at the end of the above URL

e.g. http://www.sadakmap.com/p/Nisarg-Restaurant/image/size=300×200/

Here is the above image embedded in this blog post using the <img> tag

Here’s how to embed a Public SadakMap Group map into your website. Simply add the following code anywhere on your site:

<iframe src=”http://www.sadakmap.com/embedgroup.php?group=Green-India&w=600&h=300″ width=”600″ height=”300″></iframe>

Notes:

1. Replace “Green-India” with the name of the group you created on SadakMap.
2. change the height (600) and width (300) accordingly in both places

Click here for an example.

You can now embed your sadakMap Group on your Blog. See the example below where we have displayed the Map of the “Indian-Startups” group and below it are instructions on how you can do this too.

Title:	Indian Startups
Description:	"A Group displaying Startups located across India

Instructions:

First, these instructions apply ONLY if you have installed wordpress on your own hosted site. These instructions WILL NOT work if your blog is hosted by wordpress.com (e.g. yourblogname.wordpress.com). This is because unfortunately “plugins” are not allowed on wordpress.com

1. Download and install the “Pageview” plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pageview/

2. Make sure you have activated the “Pageview” plugin

3. When writing a blog post, insert the following text in your post where you want your sadakmap group to show up. Make sure you put this text inside of square brackets “[" "]”

pageview http://www.sadakmap.com/embedgroup.php?group=GROUP-NAME “GROUP-TITLE” “GROUP-DESCRIPTION”

replace GROUP-NAME, GROUP-TITLE, GROUP-DESCRIPTION with appropriate values.

For the Group you see above, we inserted the following in our blog post (inside square brackets)

pageview http://www.sadakmap.com/embedgroup.php?group=Indian-Startups “Indian Startups” “A Group displaying Startups located across India”

The TATA NEN Hottest Startup Awards are a result of the combined efforts of TATA, a rapidly growing business group in India with significant international operations, and the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a non-profit organization, and India’s leader in entrepreneurship education.

SadakMap is happy to be one of the nominees and is vying to be amongst the top 30 in the phase I selection and eventually amongst the top 5 in the final phase. The selection is going to be based on ratings by an expert panel (we are honored to be rated 8.3) and public votes. You can help us get in the top 5 by voting for us online or by sending the SMS message HOT 15 to 56767.

Thanks for your support.

It was brought to our notice that the google map-related pages on our site had stopped working on Internet Explorer 6. On more investigation it turns out that the problem shows up for users who have IE6 and have upgraded to XP Service Pack 3. The fix was to add a ending “</base>” tag to our map pages. Unlike other standards-compliant browser (Firefox being one of our favorites) IE6 wasnt able to handle a perfectly valid HTML. One of the many headaches we have had to face dealing with Internet Explorer. Thanks to those who pointed this out - we would also urge you to switch to Firefox today

Yahoo Users can now login to SadakMap without having to register for an account. We are all for a single-identity on the web and this is a step in that direction. Just like you we are not too happy registering for accounts on multiple websites. Hence our efforts in in this direction. We first started by enabling Facebook users and now we have done so for Yahoo Users. We are working to OpenId enable our site as well.

A big welcome to Yahoo Users. Make your mark.

We just released “SadakMap Updates”. Users will now receive an email feed for subscribed topics. Any time a user adds a mark or joins a SadakMap Group, the user is subscribed to the mark or the Group. Any future updates on the mark or the Group are then sent to the user as an email feed. A great way to keep track of updates to the map. Soon, users will also be able to subscribe to a feed for specific regions on the map (e.g. cities, neighborhoods, etc).

Happy mapping…

We are slowly turning into a “Blog on a Map”. With our new “sadakMap Groups” feature, one can create custom maps regarding any topic, invite others to collaboratively manage the content of the group (think writing a blog post) and once it is published, allowing anyone to post comments. Track your classmates around the globe, plot your last travel vacation, express yourself. Some of the groups:

• Indian Startups
• DLF Indian Premier League 2008

Coming soon, a RSS-like feed for posts on the map. Lets you subscribe to Groups, updates on specific markers, areas on the map. Sure does sound like a “blog” - just on the backdrop of a map, though.

Our “Personal Online Business Card” feature, which we call the SpotMeUrl, now looks more like a real business card. It allows users to select an emotive face (actual photo upload coming soon) and display a personal message. We track the user’s activity such as the number of marks they have made on the map and how many unique visitors have they had (those visiting their SpotMeUrl page). Here is a snapshot of what it looks like.

Thanks to our selection at this years Innovation 2008 (http://www.innovations-pune.com), we got interviewed by Times Of India and were profiled in its Pune edition. Checkout the article (http://www.sadakmap.com/pr/timesofindia.jpg).

The Innovations 2008 was an excellent venue for us and we benefited a lot from the exhibition, presentation Q&A, and listening to the special invitees. Above all, we benefited the most by being able to talk to a lot of users who stopped by our stall and gave us valuable feedback and suggestions.

Thanks IIT-Bombay Alumnus Association for giving us this opportunity and platform.