Globalization may have made the world a smaller place, but for most of us it’s still not small enough. We are constantly innovating newer means of bringing people closer together. The phenomenal success of social networking sites has proved the basic need of people to connect to each other, and maintain these connections over periods of time. However, websites like Facebook, Orkut, MySpace etc. only bring people together to meet emotional needs i.e. the need for social interaction. There is still a large gap where meeting material needs is concerned. There are only a limited number of websites in India that bring people together to serve their need for merchandise or services.
What is worse is that students are a sadly neglected breed, and even websites like eBay, Cleartrip etc. that do exist to meet material needs are often restricted to the privileged lot that own a credit card, and let’s face it, there aren’t too many people handing those out to students (and maybe with good reason :P). But that does leave us poor folks in a pickle. We need cheap access to housing, books, laptops, mobile phones, jobs etc. just as much as the next working person, in...