OnYoMo Blog: Lets Share !

With the end of the year 2008, we’d like to end redemption of community credits earned after 31st December 2008. Redemption of Community Credits was an introductory offer, and will stop end of December 2008.

From 2009, users will still be able to earn Community Credits, and stay ahead of their peers in their City, or across India - however these Credits will not be redeemable. All Community Credits earned till 31st December will be redeemable, subject to redemption conditions.

Please note that depending on business environment etc, OnYoMo might restart redemption of credits earned at onyomo.com. All such decisions will be duly announced on the site.

All OnYoMo users eligible for redemption will be separately notified of the details.

We truly hope OnYoMo was able to serve you well in the year 2008. We hope to better the services we deliver in 2009.

Here is wishing you a Happy New Year 2009 from The OnYoMo Team.

Indians love movies. Want proof? Movies are among the top searched category on OnYoMo. So here are the top 10^* movies of 2008 by search volumes as searched by onyomo users throughout the year:

1. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi^*
2. Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
3. Dostana
4. Ghajini^*
5. Rock On
6. Bachana Ae Haseeno
7. Singh is Kinng
8. Fashion
9. The Dark Knight
10. A Wednesday

^*These ratings are not final as Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Ghajini are still going strong at the boxoffice.

Long time no blog - so here we are.

We’ve been toying with the idea of creating a common platform for people to express their opinions on matters related to their Cities.  So we thought we’d kick it off in form of Polls.  These Polls aim to capture the general opinion on diverse range of opinions, from City Infrastructure to Educational facilities to Recreation etc.  The idea is to bring to fore a City subject and hear the general viewpoint on the same.

On the same platform, you could also make a comment, and also suggest a poll on any City subject dear to you.  And if your suggested poll is accepted by us, we’d award you 10 Credits. Each time you vote on a poll, you earn 2 credits - the idea is to elicit that valuable opinion of yours, and thus the credits!

Poll: Do you like the idea of City issue based Polls? Yes/No - write to us at info [AT] onyomo.com, not just about your response to this poll, but anything you would like us to know - any feature, service, enhancement you think we should add/remove/..

Now that the monsoons are here, we want you to catch your favorite flick in a snug little theater.

The deal is that you search for a movie/restaurant/cafe/atm/brand or retail outlet at Onyomo.com. Write a blog post with a link to the search, an explanation of what’s cool and may be even a screenshot. If you are feeling motivated, you can post a few searches to increase your chances. On Friday, July 4th, Onyomo will post links to the 5 best blogs and send each of those users movie tickets for 2. How easy could it be?

The goal is to highlight things such as
- the ease with which Onyomo throws up the most relevant results with all required information and forward links. For instance, in movie results, you can search by movie name/actor/show timings/genre etc, and the icing could be the show timing hyperlinks that take you straight to our booking partners!
- Or you could choose to highlight how OnYoMo attempts to connect people closely with their cities, by introducing the Community Credits for people to share their experiences of their cities
- Or you could just write about the breadth of information that OnYoMo delivers - from branded stores to your favorite retail chains, Cafes, Restaurants, Airlines, Movies, Book Stores, Beauty Saloons etc
- ok - if you are a mobile fanatic, highlight the search delivery on SMS and GPRS - and how convenient OnYoMo makes life for people by delivering this search on mobiles

Try out what you find interesting - some of the above, or all of the above - get your literary juices flowing on your blog, and if you’ve delivered the punch, you’d find us waiting to hand you over movie tickets and links to your blog on our site.

If this is your cup of tea, send us an email at feedback[at]onyomo.com with Community Credits as the title, a link to your blog post about OnYoMo, and your contact details. Or just leave a comment on our blog with your blog link.

We look forward to a few surprises, a few Aha’s!, and hopefully a lot of laughs.