In an interview with Hindu Business Line, Mahatta claimed his Website would usher in the “third revolution” in the communication world. The first being emails, and the second Facebook.

After the first wave of media stories about Worldfloat last year, tech entrepreneur Puneet Kumar Sharma wrote on his blog that he had been able to hack into Worldfloat effortlessly.

It is an incredible PR coup, said Ashish Sinha, founder of Nextbigwhat, which chronicles startups. ”I have met almost every investor in the country and nobody has ever talked about this website,” says Sinha. “Hats off to the founder that they have managed to create this media buzz without creating a product.”

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