web 2.0 revolutionizing browsing

Lately, I had been thinking of how web2.0 has changed our usual browsing experience. Then I started thinking about my own experience of web 2.0 and listed sites which made my daily browsing lot more efficient and flexible.

1. www.phulki.com

I used to hate listening songs online from bulk sites like raaga.com until I looked at www.phulki.com . I browsed it for just 10 minutes and my response was “wow”. On this site one can listen Hindi and Tamil songs online and manage play list and if possible it also gives a download link to download song. Sounds nothing great, huh? But the user interface is so lightweight and very innovative. You can search songs based on year, artists, music, singers, year, albums etc. Searching music does not change the current audio. It does not take you to different page. Entire site is on just one page. Nice use of Ajax and flash. Phulki itself does not store any songs. It plays the songs from other sites which keep songs online like http://www.dhingana.com , www.fmw11.net. etc.
Searching, adding/deleting songs, login/logout does not disturb the current music being played.
One more thing, When I accessed this site on my iphone then it does not run because iphone browser can not run any flash content. but hang on, phulki has a solutions for it. they made a special version of it for iphone. It can be accessed here. bookmark it.
overall a great startup idea.


2. erail.in

How many times you have browsed the Indian railways’ pathetically designed site www.indianrail.gov.in for PNR, accommodation etc enquiry. A simple query would take you through the multiple pages. If you type the name of city wrong, it gives up. To modifying search, you need to begin from first page again.
www.erail.in does all this on single page. Ajax based innovatively designed website which gets data from indianrai.gov.in site, but searching, querying is a lot easier on this.