API'(Application Programming Interface)'s allow a developer to build application on the resources created by others. In this final year project, Prathvi Palekar (2010) and project team used two well known APIs- Google Maps and Facebook Friends to create what then called " AlumniMaps". But this can be used anyone- individual or institutions to see how their friends have spread over the globe.
Currently Prathvi Palekar is setting up his own entrepreneurial venture in Mysore
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