About MIBAZAAR

I just finished with my 100th post on Blogger. It's been exactly a year since I registered the domain - mibazaar.com, but the site became active sometime in October 2005.

How did MIBAZAAR start?

It all started with Hurricane Katrina. I had created a site weshallrise.org (no longer active) showing where businesses were opening up (on Google Maps) in the New Orleans Area after Hurricane Katrina had struck the Gulf Coast.

Mike Pegg of GoogleMapsMania made a mention at the time in this blog post. It recieved a fair amount of traffic at the time.

This is what motivated me to create a Google Maps powered Website for our Michigan Indian Community. So that's how MIBAZAAR started. I love Google Maps because I could express my thoughts/ideas using Google Maps better than I could do in text.

So how am I doing now. If you take a look at alexa.com, MIBAZAAR is doing pretty good.

Also should take this opportunity to thank Alok Manchanda of mimantra.com who was kind enough to share information related to latest Bollywood Movies coming to Michigan, otherwise it can be extremely difficult for a newbie to recieve any information related to community news/events.

What about me?