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It's like Tarantino explaining about Web 2.0
2007-06-13 23:08:00 Clear and precise. A must watch video. More About: Tarantino , Anti , Like , Tara , Web 2.0
Share Promote and Profit : Interview with Ramesh of Best Of Indya
2007-06-13 22:39:00 This interview is with Ramesh, creator of Best of Indya.com, a social bookmarking site, who tells us about his experiences with starting the website.It has been just two months since it started, but the site is now loaded with features. He says he owes the surge of traffic on the site to Best Of Indya's philosophy of "Share Promote and Profit ". There is also a Hindi Section coming soon. Do read on to find some great insight on his ideas.What was the idea behind starting BestOfIndya?I have been an avid "geek news" reader since the best days of Slashdot and started using digg immediately after the website went public. I like the idea of users moderating the news articles and deciding what is worthy of being the top news article. Basically "User Moderation" of content is the basic idea behind BestOfIndya.Can you give us some idea about yourself and how you started BestOfIndya? Are you funded?I am in the software industry for a while, love programming and try to keep myself current wit... More About: Interview , Ames
Interview with India's hottest Job Blogger : Founder of Walkin and Chalowal
2007-06-03 07:44:00 Continuing with our series of interviews with Indian Online Entrepreneurs, I bring to you the interview with the founder of Walk in.wordpress.com and ChaloWalkin.com. ChaloWalkin is a blog devoted to Walkin Interview s in India, while Walkin caters to the Asian Job Scene.He is one of the biggest job bloggers in India, and almost 12,000 people read his daily RSS feeds. It might be hard for some to imagine, but other than working on his regular job, he puts in 4 hours every single day, and has been doing so for the last one year.Here is the rest of the interview.What was the idea behind starting Walkin, and then ChaloWalkin?I am myself a techie and I used to look out for information regarding Walk-in interviews of Oracle India.So, I realised that there should be a place where we can get such information about Walk-in Interviews.Could you give me some idea about yourself, and how you created Walking and ChaloWalkin.I am a Databases guy who became a job blogger by chance which has become... More About: Blogger , Founder , Logger
Shaking the market
2007-05-18 11:14:00 This is how you do business.When I started looking for a place to host this blog and the company website, Mr Google told me that there were thousands of places where I could do it. Eventually, after a lot of digging I reached this site called HostMySite, and a couple of other web hosts, and I mailed them my requirements.Most of them never came back to me. Some of them mailed automatic responses, yet this one, HostMySite.com, replied within 20 minutes. At first I thought, it was like a one-hit wonder, so I mailed them again. Another 20 minutes later, they were back, with the solution. I liked it so much, I bought everything there.This is basically what you need to do in order to succeed in business. It is not about how big your company is, or how much revenue you get, but about how well you can respond to your customers needs.And just yesterday I came across this article on ITSolutions. It is about how HostMySite has managed to grow by 573% in 3 years. If you are still not impressed ... More About: Market , Mark , The Mark
Getting rid of Adsense and Paid Posts
2007-05-15 23:12:00 While going through an older entry in a diary, I remembered that the sole idea of using Adsense and the myriad collection of advertisements on my blog was to recover the amount of money I had put in to start this blog. So yesterday I sat down to calculate how much I had earned off the blog in the last four months, since it has been up, alive, and kicking.It turned out that I had actually exceeded that amount. So choosing wisely and carefully, I decided to put an end to the idea of trying to make money off the blog. It meant saying bye bye to PayPerPost which helped me make the most amount of money, and Adsense which brought in hardly anything yet took up a lot of space, and Reviewme, who had just accepted my blog a few days back.The latest resolution is that I would start the monetizing thing again after I start getting around a 1000 unique visitors a day (I get around 150 now). So if you don't want to see anymore ads here, don't come here in drones, read it up on feeds and email ... More About: Paid , Posts , Sens
Sponsored Post : Pay Per Click Edge
2007-05-15 20:04:00 This is a sponsored post.Online advertising has been growing at a very rapid pace throughout the world. And the more you haggle with the marketing fundas on the internet, the more experience you get. In some ways it is like the stock market, where it's just your intuition which works, but still there is so much of expensive research which makes it possible to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the market.This is why I would like to tell you about Pay Per Click Edge , the market leaders when it comes to online advertising. They not only optimize your campaign structure by removing non performing keywords and putting more stress on keywords which are useful, and keeping an eye open for keywords which help you get the most out of every advertising dollar that you spend. Other than that they provide compelling copy writing for advertisements, so that you get more people to click on those links you are paying for.You can look at a few cases where Pay per click edge has made a co... More About: Post , Sponsored
Why is there no social component in startups in India.
2007-05-15 06:24:00 This post is really a comment I had posted on VentureWoods :What we lack is a medium of interaction. We talk about Techcrunch and how it empowers the startups in the valley, but the part that we miss is that the valley is well connected. Not on the internet, but also off it.Consider this. This February I decided to start working full time on an idea. I went looking for experienced entrepreneurs to get some idea about issues I had never thought about before, like pricing the product, or how to get a team together. Or what about financials, how to get the marketing strategy together.But the worst news was that I found none. The only couple of guys I met were those who did try to startup but the companies eventually closed down without making any money.Everybody doesn't think alike. And this creates even more problems. My last company was a startup too, and I went to my boss for advice. He was quite interested, but he had been running the company for the last three years with less tha... More About: Social , India , Startups , There , Component
Uday of IndiaSphere wants websites to Differentiate, localize and enhance
2007-05-14 23:22:00 Welcome to the the interviews section on Gyaan Sutra. Today I had the pleasure of talking to Uday, who started IndiaSphere. In an email interview, Uday talks about his site, the latest changes, and why it is doing better than its competitors. And also the best Indian website that he has used - Indianpad. Uday works at a large software company, and works on IndiaSphere in his free time.IndiaSphere is a new web 2.0 site tracking the Indian blogosphere. The main site is an aggregator of popular Indian social sites like rambhai and compilation of recent posts from popular Indian blogs by category.What was the idea behind IndiaSphere?I think the idea behind IndiaSphere is best represented by our tag line: Pulse on the Indian Blogosphere. IndiaSphere aggregates popular Indian blogs, social bookmarks, and news sites. The idea originated from looking at Popurls was localized for Indian content and modified to be more social than just being a single page aggregator.Could you let us know a li... More About: Websites , Rent , Indias , Loca , Diff
The Rat Race
2007-05-07 06:01:00 An interesting but violent and kind of a video. Apply the same principle to entrepreneurs and the market place as a whole, and you come out with the superbly disturbing and comforting fact that the guy with the most destructive ammunition will win in the end. Unless it gets clobbered in the beginning.So where do you think you are going? More About: Race , Rat Race
Sponsored Post : 1800NoDrugs.com : Free help for addicts
2007-05-02 16:22:00 Sponsored Post :Fighting any addiction is a complicated and expensive procedure. Even since the problem started gaining exposure, more and more drug rehab centers have built all all over the country. And when you're looking for help, finding the right rehab center for you can be quite a headache.This is why I believe you are going to thank me when I tell you about this website. 1-800-NODRUGS.com is a unique and amazing drug rehabilitation referral service, which helps you find drug and alcohol rehab treatment centers, which are just right for you. There are thousands of drug rehabilitation and alcohol rehabilitation organizations in this country, but 1-800-NODRUGS.com will help you find out just which one is close to you and how much would they charge, so that you can plan everything sitting in your home.If you are affected, you know how important it is to get the right kind of treatment. Because it is imperative that the patient ceases to use the substance they are addicted to. An... More About: Free , Sponsored , Addict
Digg launches API
2007-04-20 21:32:00 Digg's Kevin Rose announced on his blog today that Digg's API is now publicly available. It comes along with a Flash Application Toolkit and a competition for creating the most innovative visualizations and applications.The API has been created to allow developers to interact programatically with Digg. Currently you can use the API to request very specific information about news stories and videos submitted to Digg, digging activity, comments, and users. The API accepts REST requests and offers several response types: XML, JSON, Javascript, and serialized PHP. In addition, a PEAR module is available for PHP.To access Digg's vast information database, a request is sent with the Application Key and a User-Agent HTTP header, and the API returns a UTF-8 encoded xml.Digg the blog | Flash Application Toolkit | Competition Details | API Community Support More About: Digg
Europe to America in 10 euros
2007-04-15 12:22:00 How can anybody afford this?The CEO of Europe 's biggest low-cost carrier, Ryanair, has announced plans to launch a transatlantic airline. His wants to offer tickets for as low as 10 euros for a flight to the US from Europe. But will it work?Three months after cheap-flight giant Ryanair had publicly denied interest in routes to America , its CEO, Michael O'Leary, has announced an idea for a whole new airline that will start transatlantic flights in 2010 -- for as little as 10 euros one-way. Link More About: Euros , Rope
4 Simple Steps to create ATOM feed for your web app
2007-03-30 02:39:00 On Monday, 16 June 2003 at 3:27pm, Sam Ruby published another post on his blog.It was no ordinary post. It was about the Anatomy of a well formed log entry. It was this post which evolved from a discussion on his post, to a wiki to create an open model for Web Feed Syndication (against RSS, which was copyrighted by Harvard University). Four years later, we now call it ATOM, and is the hottest way to churn out your feeds. (I hope the guys at Protolize read this)So here is my small 4 step tutorial to create your own ATOM 1.0 feed for your web application.1. Start with the Decleration2. Add the Feed Informationwhere xml:feed is the root element of the feed and the unique id is usually the url of your post (if you have unique urls for each of your posts)3. Add the Post Informationwhere id is a unique id (you can use your permalink here again), the type can be html or text and the category is optional.4. Validate your feedGo here to validate your feedAnd that is it, you're done.The feed... More About: Atom , Simple , Step , Create
Protolize : What no RSS?
2007-03-30 01:58:00 Even since I happened to come across Web Feeds, the world has never been the same again.Syndication or Feeds or RSS/ATOM have revolutionized the world. It is the ultimate way to keep track of all the blogs you would like to read.So when I happened to go over to Prot olize, a wonderful dictionary of all web tools, and couldn't find a RSS button, I was disappointed. I can't understand how does a website, which has featured even on Lifehacker fail to provide one.Do check out that page if you're interested in Web Design, there is some really cool stuff there.The feeds for this blog are definitely available, and you can get them here.(The world's biggest RSS button is via the Review Me Blog. Review Me is a service which allows bloggers to review a service or a website for hard cash. I just hope they don't have problem with me using it) More About: Proto
Alexa bullies Statsaholic ( Alexaholic )
2007-03-27 10:24:00 I went to statsaholic to get my 'daily alexa kick' last night, and I found out that Alexa has suddenly started bullying Stat saholic, and the graphs are not visible on Statsaholic site anymore. Moreover, the graphs provided by the widgets which are provided by Alexa themselves have stopped working.There is a link to Ron's version of the whole story here. Doesn't Alexa have a blog? Dumbasses.Alexa's charts arent' available in the official API given out by the site. According to Ron's blog it looks like Alexa were planning to start charging for the graphs API's but that hasn't happened. They are just blocking them. (Saying Go home Ron, play with your own toys)But Ron is accepting the challenge. He says on his blog As I was finishing this, I got an email letting me know that, once again, Alexa was blocking traffic graphs on Statsaholic. So, once again, I went and coded around the block. While I can keep this up for a long time (several kind souls donated hundreds of websites to... More About: Lies , Bullies
Zamzar - Converting Videos Online
More articles from this author:2007-02-23 12:11:00 I might be quite late on this one, but here is a service that allows you to convert videos online - Zamzar.You can take a file upto a 100MB and convert it to one of the available formats, (including 3gp, avi, flv, gvi, ipod, m4v, mov, mp4, mpg, ogg, rm, rmvb, vob, wmv).Recently they have also added an option to convert youtube videos. If you want to tutorial, check this out. More About: Videos , Online , Line , Vert 1, 2, 3 |
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