The Hindu Business Line : SEraja unveils event Web site

Bangalore-based SEraja Technologies on Monday unveiled a Web site, www.seraja.com, that helps track local events such as concerts and art shows online.SEraja is a part of entrepreneur Mr Rajesh Jain's Emergic Ecosystem, a group attempting to bridge the digital divide.

With SEraja, users can publish events and search for them across a wide mosaic of topics — from business to religion, sports, arts, entertainment, travel, technology as well as personal and professional. Visitors using SEraja can subscribe to or search for interesting events across geographies that can help them plan free time or even further their professional interest.

The Web site was created by Mr Ramesh Jain, Professor, University of California, Irvine, and Mr Rajesh Jain. While Mr Rajesh Jain is known as the founder of IndiaWorld.co.in, which was sold to Satyam for $115 million, Mr Ramesh Jain has been associated with Praja, Virage Inc and ImageWare Inc.

"We are moving from the document Web to the event Web. We want to move beyond the Gutenberg legacy and reverse-engineer the environment. You should be able to follow your own course through an event online. With SEraja, you can do this," said Mr Ramesh Jain, Chairman of SEraja Technologies, in a release issued by the company.

The current database has approximately 40,000 events. Visitors to the site can also comment on events.