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by offering a place for exchanging ideas and information on its public domain.
http://www.chapalang.com
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Last Update: 28 November 2012
The Team
The Project: Chapalang
Chapalang! is a social utility that connects people with friends and new friends by offering a place for exchanging ideas and information on its public domain. People use our discussion forums to write HOWTOs, share findings, ask questions, comment on news, and many more.
Chapalang! also features a social marketplace for you to buy online, and participate in mass orders in a convenient and reliable way.
Best of all, you can browse wish lists of your friends to know what are the right things to buy on special occasions. You could buy the gift on
Chapalang! and have it sent to their doorsteps, or organize a Gift Sharing campaign to share the costs of gift with other friends.
Chapalang's Features
proposes the following unique features:
Gifts Sharing : Supported by a strong relationship-based social media such as Facebook, where an arbitrary user can add a product item into his wish list and any other user will be able to contribute to the costs of the item in part or in full. This is especially useful for costs sharing on birthday gifts or simply supporting a social cause by co-donating an item to the charity. A typical wish list function on other platforms simply acts as a bookmark to a product item and Chapalang will improvise this feature.
Mass orders : Popular on several informal online marketplaces where users of a particular interests group will contribute to a bulk order with their individual orders of smaller quantities. Thereafter, the collective order with bulk quantity will be used to negotiate for cheaper price from suppliers. However, mass orders conducted on existing marketplace platforms are largely informal, with no payment or buyer particulars tracking abilities and Chapalang seeks to fulfill this gap.
Escrow service : provided to establish trust and assurance for the transactions taken place on Chapalang’s platform, where buyers will pay payments to Chapalang instead of directly to the seller. The payment is held in trust by Chapalang and will be released to the seller upon the buyers’ confirmation on the receipt of goods or 20 days after the shipping of items if there is no response from the buyer. Currently, most e-market platform places the onus of establishing confidence in the transaction solely on the buyers and sellers.
Sponsor
Chapalang is a self-proposed project for DotCom Enterprise. Upon successful development, DotCom will commercialize the project for live operations. Mr. Eric Chew, Special Projects Manager will be the primary contact from DotCom. Throughout the development and implementation stages, our team will deploy the project on the live systems provided by DotCom.
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Academic Milestones
Acceptance
Acceptance Presentation Slides
Midterm
Mid Term Wiki
Midterm Presentation Slides