Friday, December 21, 2007

Lawsuit threat from CEI America

I got a call from Legal Consul for CEI America today complaining about the offending posts about the company. Throughout the conversation he was trying to give me numerous hints that if the comments are not removed the next step for them was a legal action against me.

Hence I had to remove all the content. Its surprising that within one year of the website being live not one soul from this company who enjoyed working there had the heart to write a good opinion about them. Forget that, there is hardly any website at all where there is a good opinion about this company!

Makes you wonder what these guys do for a living!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Lawsuit threat by Adequare Inc

This post is to report that I received a legal action letter from Adequare Inc today. The letter threatened to file a lawsuit against me if I do not delete all the comments from the goolti.com

Since I cannot afford the expense of fighting back I have removed the posts from the website.

Monday, July 30, 2007

Know at what date was the comment posted on

The date on which the comment/opinion was posted can be seen now. This was a missing feature wanted by many users and was added recently at http://www.goolti.com

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Now you can email the people posting opinions on the forum

Goolti.com's undergone its spring season upgrade.

The upgrade now makes it possible for people posting on the forum to tag their email addresses along with their posts/questions. If others are interested to talk to you further on your opinions or question they can now pick your email addresses and mail you directly.

I believe this will be immensely helpful for people who want to desperately talk directly to someone who has already worked for the particular Goolti (Desi consultant) company or knows quite a bit about the company.

I've received several emails from users to provide email addresses of the people who posted their opinions on the forum. This is an upgrade to help such users out.

The spring season will see several more upgrades to Goolti.com which will increase the usability and the user friendliness of the site. Stay tuned.

P.S. - To protect the email addresses of the users from falling into the hands of the spammers the email addresses are not directly published on the site.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Avoiding the Login

I have been consistently being told via user emails that one of the first things I should do it get users to login into the site. Several times I myself feel that thats the way to go.

Disgruntled employees from a Goolti (desi consulting) companies will time and again try to impersonate as someone else and keep slandering the company and its Management. Up till now I've been continuously monitoring and mentoring the forum to detect these slandering and defaming posts and deleting them promptly.

I agree that getting users to login will enable be to determine and restrict these posts. However, I don't see how will it stop such attacks totally. If someone wants to defame some company he/she can open a fake email account and start posting under impersonating names. Given this fact there is absolutely no need to let the users create a login id on the site.

I guess the best way to keep the forum clean from anti-social elements is to keep moderating it affectively. And I guess I am doing that.

I would like to know what the Goolti.com users think of this. After all if majority of the users express their desire for a login I will uphold their demands and enhance the site for login functionality.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Goolti.com is up again

The site is up and running again.

Thanks

Downtime regretted

There has been a programming messup due to which the site is down today. It will be back up by tonight. Inconvenience is regretted. Please bear with me for today!

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Another attack of profanity

Last 2 days I was traveling back from Pune to New York after a very satisfying vacation. These 2 days I could not check the Goolti.com site since I was in transit. Right on these very days of transit there was a profanity attack on the site.

I would like to apologize to all my readers /contributors for this and would like to assure them that I will make all the needed efforts to avoid such attacks in the future. As of now all the offending content has been removed and the site is back to normal.

Thanks for all your continuing support and contribution.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Browse Goolti companies Alphabetically

I get numerous mails from users/readers who asked whether they can browse every opinion posted on goolti.com rather than just the first 20 opinions which are posted on the dashboard.

This functionality is now available. A new link "Browse Goolti companies alphabetically" is up and enables you to browse Goolti companies by their starting alphabet.

You can now read all the opinions/reviews which were ever posted on Goolti.com.

Monday, January 8, 2007

Fighting profanity on the goolti.com site

I understand that there has been heavy profanity/swear words/spam on the goolti.com site. Someone has been continuously using the anonymous posting functionality to completely overwhelm the board at the homepage itself.

Please be assured that I am working towards a solution to this and am currently developing a profanity filter. This filter will completely block out profane words and even the posts. However, if any of the readers have a better idea to block profanity please let me know. I will be more than glad to implement any feasible idea.

Please be assured that Goolti.com will continue to work towards enlightening Indian IT professionals.

Sunday, January 7, 2007

List of companies to be avoided - Goolti.com blog.

Somebody sent me a list of the goolti companies to be avoided if you want some peace of mind.
I am pasting them as it is as I received from the mail.

Remember this is just a mail I received from someone. So authenticity is always under question. But I believe information shouldn't be restricted. So here it is:

1. CYBERTHINK,NJ
2. SYSINNOVATE INC,CA
3. Ajay International
4. xterrasoft.com
5. PARADIGM INFOTECH INC, MD
6. Inteliant Technologies (santa clara)
7. EBS Inc in falls church, VA
8. Friendly Consultants Inc.,
9. DATAGROUP INC in NJ
10. http://essit.com/
11. enterprise software solutions
12. Indusa Technical Corp
13. Global IT in Chicago and Irving, TX
14. SolutionNet Intl....www.solutionnet.net
15. Marlabs
16. EBSInc
17. CYBERSOFTECH
18. RK Techinal Services
19. InforSpan or EBS
20. Igate Mastech
21. "Glob" is in chicago
22. ALTSOFT
23. RK Technical Services
24. Satyam
25. BCC USA Inc, NJ
26. GPMD SYSTEMS (FLORIDA BASED COMPANY)
27. VakTech Corp LLC, New Jersy
28. bay area based Alphasoft
29. PTSI/CSSI San Francisco
30.Vision Systems Group
31. ECRM Labs
32. Mar Labs
33. Makro Technologies
34. VLS Systems
35.ACE Technologies
36. Compunnel
37. Object Soft - Great Jay Talluri
38. Hall Mark Global - Delaware operation - Great Jay Talluri
39. Cambridge Resource Group
40. PK Global
41. Ace Technologies,
42. GSS America. They place full page ads in www.sulekha.com
43. PK Global -> Owned By Ram Madiraju
44. Supreme Soft, Inc.
45. Infobizz
46. Premier IT Solutions
47. Innovatek Inc
48. VISIONSOFT INC
49. Techlogix
50. SHUBH SOLUTIONS
51. ClearLogic Systems
52. Idolasystems
53. SS CONSULTANTNET, LLC
54. Company Name = RHT InfoWay, Inc
website = http://www.rhtinfo.com
55. www.optimaresources.com
56. Magna Infotech Ltd
57.BrilliantSoft Solutions Inc
58.Adler-tech.com and Darwin-tech.com( $1500 Fees for Training 500 extra)
59.indian business analyst !!! ( company name??)
60.Leading C
61.ADVANSOFT INTERNATIONAL INC( Lot of Ads on University Groups for Freshers)
62. Abacus Software Technologies ( Promise to pay 75k for Fresh MS Graduates)
63.Millennium Consultants
64. Edge Technologies Parsippany NJ
65) US info ssytems of MS,LLC
66) metasense,NJ
67) neo-concepts,MI

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Threatning by some lawyer

I've been getting repeated anonymous mails and also some messages on goolti opinion board that if I don't close down the site a lawsuit will be filed against it.

Wow! I didn't expect that the site will get popular in so less time that people will feel threatened with its success. This only doubles my confidence to keep promoting the site further and help the Indian IT professionals like me and all the others in making prudent decisions.

I am not going to be afraid of any lame threats of lawsuits by some lame ass guy who anonymously calls himself a lawyer and sends threatening e-mails.

I only want to say to such people that 'Grow Up', its time now.

I also want to extend thanks to all the people who are contributing their experiences and opinions on the site and in the process helping the Indian It professional community in general
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