Education firm enters Limca Book

Updated on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

A Chennai educational services firm has entered the Limca Book of Records for launching 24,000 pin code-wise websites at one go in the country in 2011.

The feat was made possible through a mobile app called Hum Thum that lets people create their own websites from their smartphones.

Hum Thum was developed in-house by city-based EdServ Softsystems, primarily for educational support services, including doubt clearing, tutor search and assessments, career services on mobile.

“The youth of the day are tired of textbooks and videos. We wanted to created an app on mobile just as a novelty,” said S. Giridharan, CEO of EdServ. Features such as a talking dictionary that gets the meaning of the uttered word intrigues many young users, he claimed.

The app also has other resources, including a bar-code reader, mobile scanner that turns the mobile camera into a scanner, a PDF converter that converts image into PDF and the extended ability to upload and share information by creating your own websites.

This has become handy for local entrepreneurs as it allows neighbourhood advertising by posting classifieds on mobile, Giridharan claimed.

By unveiling 24,000 pin code-wise websites, the application has become the largest e-commerce network in India, thus setting a national record. The app unveiled last year already has more than 1.5 lakh users.

Edserv has partnered with Blackberry and Samsung to provide its educational content from academics, tuition, skill development and competitive test preparation services and has tied up with operators, including Aircel and Tata Docomo, to promote this. The Rs 130-crore company expects two million students to access educational content through HumThum.

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