Perspectives

I just came across Zipazap, which apparently claims to be the first online and mobile TV guide for India. I was thrilled and wanted to check it out. But, sad that they asked me to come back later.

Undeterred, I screwed around a bit to see what is the best we have otherwise. I came across indiatimes TV Guide. Now what the %^&* is that ? If you guys dont have anything better to do, please dont write websites. Anyways, Star seems to have a pretty decent but cluttered site that has all the programming info that one would look for. And then, I headed over to Sun Network. They have an even better site and their schedules are sweeter. Point is, by writing a small screen scraper for these two sites, I would have already covered 25 channels. The same is true with Zee and covers another 10 channels.

Now that we are confident we can create a compelling TV guide, both on mobile and web for about 35 indian channels in about half day this saturday, the only thing I am worried about is, can I get into trouble ? Do you guys think I should just do it anonymously anyways ? Should I call these TV folks and try to explain I am probably driving more users to their channels which is their primary business anyways ?

A more basic question, do you think it is a worthy enough service ?

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