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    <title>Adostrophe Journal &#8212; Matterport &amp; Digital Twins in India</title>
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    <description>Real field notes, technical guides, and company history on Matterport 3D scanning, Google Street View, and web development in India.</description>
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    <copyright>&#169; 2026 Adostrophe Digital Marketing Private Limited</copyright>
    <webMaster>info@adostrophe.com (Niranjan Ramamurthy)</webMaster>
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      <title>Eight questions to ask before your first 3D scan.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Eight verifiable questions for choosing a Matterport or virtual tour vendor in India — scan density, ownership, hosting, load times, and how to check "official partner" claims.</description>
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      <title>Adostrophe's Insta360 distribution history. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Adostrophe was one of India's first authorized Insta360 distributors before moving to enterprise Matterport services — a real history, and a genuine caution about hardware distribution.</description>
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      <title>The making of SPIF.in. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>How SPIF.in was rebuilt static, mobile-first, and dark-mode aware — and why those choices matter more for a mental health platform than almost anywhere else.</description>
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      <title>Documenting Phu Quoc, after the renovation. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Returning to rescan a renovated resort villa-by-villa before 6:30am breakfast service — and a real, current correction on Phu Quoc's tightened 2026 visa policies.</description>
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      <title>Selling atmosphere, not just square footage. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Why a walkable 3D tour suits coworking spaces better than photos do, using the real Hanto Workspace project in Bangalore as the example.</description>
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      <title>575 nodes: documenting Dubai's first five-star hotel. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>How Dubai's first five-star hotel, built in 1975, was documented in full — a hybrid capture strategy, a 30-minute shooting window, and field notes from the capture.</description>
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      <title>Raw material to green tyre, in 3D. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>What it actually took to document two JK Tyre plants — over a million sq ft, split across 15 to 30 merged models — from the Banbury stairs to the final warehouse.</description>
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      <title>Matterport in Mumbai: a working guide. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Real Matterport work across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region — Ivy Homes in Goregaon, one of dormakaba's three national showrooms, and Radisson properties.</description>
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      <title>Where India actually stands. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>The real scale of India's mental health treatment gap, why insurance parity hasn't closed it in practice, and the real work SPIF and QPR India are doing at the grassroots level.</description>
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      <title>A starting path into digital marketing. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>A practical starting path for digital marketing in 2026, based on training new hires at Yahoo and leading a team on the same Overture account at Infosys BPO back in 2005.</description>
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      <title>Verifying “wheelchair friendly,” property by property. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>A real Matterport-direct project for Airbnb, auditing accessibility at four Indian properties across the country — what was actually found, and why it matters.</description>
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      <title>Why a website matters more than social reach. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Practical digital infrastructure advice for nonprofits — owning a real website, claiming legitimate subsidies like the Google Ad Grant, and a brief, practical checklist to get started.</description>
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      <title>Matterport and 3D scanning, explained properly. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>How Matterport's 3D capture actually works, what hardware costs in India, and how accurate it really is.</description>
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      <title>A real alternative to GoDaddy and legacy hosts. | Adostrophe</title>
      <link>https://adostrophe.com/blog/sustainable-website-hosting-guide</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Why legacy hosting like GoDaddy costs far more than the introductory price suggests, and how to move to genuinely free, permanent static hosting.</description>
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      <title>Migrating off WordPress, without losing rankings. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>How to actually migrate from WordPress to a static, custom-coded site — real redirect syntax, current WordPress security data, and the SPIF.in migration.</description>
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      <title>Not all virtual tours are the same. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Six real methods behind the phrase “virtual tour,” from a smartphone panorama to professional 3D scanning — what each one actually captures.</description>
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      <title>As-built documentation, explained. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>What a Matterport scan can actually do for AEC and construction projects — as-built records, E57 exports as a paid add-on, and real accuracy figures, not projections.</description>
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      <title>Two museum tours that outlasted their own contracts. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>The real story behind three heritage 3D scans in India — two museum tours kept alive independently after the agencies that commissioned them stopped paying for them.</description>
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      <title>Four campuses, four different reasons. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Why a walkable 3D tour serves schools and colleges differently than a photo gallery — using four real Indian campuses as examples, not projected statistics.</description>
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      <title>One room, several configurations. | Adostrophe</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
      <description>Why a walkable tour suits event venues especially well — using real Radisson ballrooms and banquet halls across six properties, not generic industry claims.</description>
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