College time encompasses action packed days where books, friends and fun tend to become a way of life. It is regarded as the most memorable phase of life when you are filled with boundless energy, ready to unleash your talent and take the whole world on stride. One not-so-good thing which bothers most of us day in and day out while in college and continues to bring back unpleasant memories after the golden days is that never ending struggle for ‘food’ as ‘good food’ anyways becomes a completely forgotten thing and a luxury most of us left back at home. If you also belong to that league of college folks finding it difficult to take time out for shopping and living on a shoe-string budget, food2dorm is the right online portal for you.

Food2Dorm is an online initiative by for the college students and best of all, by the college students who truly understand the needs and the constraints of students. It is an online grocery store which offers all the grocery under the sun at extremely competitive and discounted prices. All the ordered items will be shipped free of cost to your door via FedEx within 2-3 business days which will save you from additional transportation expenses.

The site can be browsed for ordering wide range of products like beverages, cookies, and school and office supplies which on being selected get added to the cart. The minimum order has to be of $25 to make it a profitable venture for both the parties. One interesting and useful feature of this shopping portal for college goers is that parents get a chance to be vigilant about their child’s spending habits without being invasive. All they have to do is deposit into funds into their son or daughter’s account by entering the email id of the recipient. This helps them ensure that money is being rightfully spent. The services are currently operational in almost all schools in United States.

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Over 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to electricity. For these people, life comes to a standstill after dusk. Inadequate lighting is not only an impediment to progress and development opportunities, but also has a direct impact on the health, environment, and safety of millions of people, as they are forced to light their homes with kerosene lamps, dung cakes, firewood, and crop residue after sunset.

Recognizing the need to change the existing scenario, DoGoodHeadquarters have taken an initiative of turning our everyday web browsing into donations that will support Green initiatives and movements for positive social and environmental change all across the globe.

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Often budding talents slowly fade into dark morbid lanes of oblivion unable to find a platform to showcase their products and talents. IndieMart is the perfect online avenue for all the talented but still struggling artists, musicians, craftsmen, store owners or for that matter anyone out there dying to show his product to the world. This virtual market is essentially for all the aspiring businessmen with no money to invest on setting up a stage for selling their product.

The owners of the website have tried to make it cost-effective by following a very simple revenue model. No money is charged for listing up to 10 products and reasonable fees is charged once you start selling your products. You have to become a registered user on the website and have a “PayPal” account to kick start your business.

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Going green with envy seeing your neighbor flaunting his new mobile, crockery and many other things? Wondering if he has hit a jackpot or if there has been sudden accidental windfall of money? The truth of the matter is that he is a “smart shopper” while you still need to catch up on that. We often get to know about the best bargains only after the last date is over and how we curse our luck and our eyes for not keeping a close watch on such “not to be missed “ offers. Readers, here is a website which literally searches the best offers  for you and notifies you about them.

The website meticulously collates all the discounts and offers and lists them down for your quick reference. You don’t even have to dig down too much for the details as the customized search functionality comes to your quick rescue. You can even search for offers on the basis of stores if you have a certain fixation for a particular store.The website provides you all the information about clearance sales, special offers, discounts and deals.

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The word ‘negotiation’ has taken a center stage in today’s Globalised world. That is what everyone is doing at home, office, national and international level. WinWinBooks is an auction website where you can buy, sell, negotiate and trade(coming soon) your books.

Where you do not want to keep a collection of all the books you’d read in the past or you are content with buying a used book, it gets imperative to sign into WinWinbooks because it is one place where the buyers as well as the sellers come together and negotiate the price for almost any kind of book.

How Does Winwinbooks Function :

• A seller can lists from Audio books to braille to college text books and any types of books.The seller chooses to accept only bids for the item (an online auction) or to offer the “Buy It Now” option, which allows buyers to purchase the item right away.
• In an online auction, the bidding opens at a price the seller specifies and remains on for a certain number of days.Buyers then place bids on the item.When the listing ends, the buyer with the highest bid wins!
• In fixed price listings that offer “Buy It Now”, the first buyer willing to pay the seller’s price gets the item.

In simple words, you can “auction” your books and get the highest bid amount.

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Your next-door friend manages to watch all the latest flicks, cricket matches while you are left high and dry. You brave those long queues, sun, wind and travel related problems and just when your turn comes, the tickets get over and the ticket counter window is slammed at your face. Still wondering how your friend gets it all while your sob stories of ticket troubles don’t cease. Kyazoonga is the answer to all your ticket related problems.

Kyazoonga is India’s first ticketing website which is a complete one stop shop for tickets. You can buy tickets for movies, sports, cricket, entertainment, live events etc. In their words, they help the customers “jump the queue” ” with easy access to all forms of ticketed entertainment. The website was launched in 2006 and has rapidly grown in a very short span of time. It has already sold more than a million tickets to people in India and other countries.

The website has a strong presence in almost 40 cities across the country. They have partnered with all the leading multiplex operators, concert and event organizers and cricket and sports franchises to make it a seamless transaction and to ensure bulk availability of tickets. The online services are trying to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers by using cutting edge technology, strong centralized database and scalable platform.

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