ExtraBed on NDTV

NDTV is doing a story on ExtraBed.in and CouchSurfing.com and they had come home to do a shoot. Alaphia Zoyeb, the senior NDTV reporter had earlier traveled for over a month in Europe and she had witnessed first hand how travelers widely used the Internet to find out places to crash and the wonderful hospitality of folks.

The story will be telecast tomorrow today (30th Jan) at 7:00 PM IST. It’ll appear in a program called ‘Southern Edition’ at 7:00 PM. Unfortunately, this program will only be viewable by folks in South India. I’ll try to capture it on video and see if I can put it up on YouTube.

ExtraBed.in has already got more people enrolled in a month what CaniCrash.org couldn’t in over a year from India. It’s heartening to see so many people open their doors to help people.

In the true spirit of a community project, quite a few people have pitched in to help. Paras Shah has helped design the new logo for ExtraBed. There are a few more variations of the logos he has done. Satish has created an Orkut community for extrabedders. And there’s even a Google group.

The only downside is the domain name isn’t working thanks to pathetic service by Sify. All the domains that I have booked through them have been having problems. I only hope the the domain gets resolved by the time the news appears on TV. In case the domain www.ExtraBed.in doesn’t work, try this http://extrabed.pbwiki.com .

Update: Sify has resolved the domain. Let’s hope they keep it that way.