You must market your blog

Why do I need to Market my blog?
This is the most frequently asked question that I have heard from blogger freinds who blog as a hobby and do not intend to earn money. As a matter of fact many of them find it beneath them to market their blog. So I will like to address that issue first.

It is your duty to the Internet Community
There are two types of people creating content on the internet. People who are creating content for easy money and people who are doing so because it is their passion. The second class of bloggers may monetize their site but money is never their primary motivation for blogging. IMHO the quality of the content created by the second class is better than the quality of the content created by people who create content simply to make money.

Unfortunately the passionate bloggers do not want to market their blog. And the quick maney bloggers have a huge incentive to do everything to get more and more people to read their blogs. Net result of it is that the normal reader is bombarded with inferior quality content while the better quality content remain hidden from him.

If you want to prevent this deterioaration of quality of content on the internet, then you must actively try to make your blog accessible to as many people as possible and try to bring other good quality blogs to the front.

Topics: Blogs, Make Money, SEO

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Acer launches “Cash Back” offer till January 31, 2007

Acer India has announced a special New Year offer to their notebook customers with the launch of a unique “Cash Back” program which will be a first of its kind in the PC market. During this period, customers buying the Acer Aspire 5570ANWXMi and the Acer Aspire 3682NWXCi Notebook models, will receive Rs 2007/- as cash back along with a host of assured gifts from Acer under its special end customer promotion program – ” The Get Gifted Offer” (GGO). The cash back offer can be redeemed by the customer directly from Acer. The offer will be available to customers till January 31, 2007

Customers buying the select models are provided with a range of Gifts to choose from by the partner in addition to the cash back offer, which is available on select models where the redemption process is direct. The gifts range from Acer branded T-shirts, jackets, backpacks, USB thumbdrives, MP3 Players, Tata SKY Satellite connections, Free Reliance USB modem worth 4500 INR etc. The customer needs to register his purchase along with his preference of Gift through the partner on the Acer website to avail of the gift offer.
For more details visit 

www.acer.co.in/press/archives/press/Acer%20cash%20back%20offer%20-%20Jan%202007.doc

Topics: offers and discounts

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Need Privacy at Work Place/Home? Install Page Title Eraser Extension

If you happen to use firefox and if you dont want other people to see some of the tab labels or what you are upto here we have a plugin available which allows to hide title and icon of the selected tab/page.

Thus it provides more privacy at workplace or some time even at home when mom or someone else go for sudden check on your screen..
The Page Title Eraser:

The Page Title Eraser extension can be used in different ways, by right clicking on a page or from

It also has a hot key Ctrl + Shift + H which will hide or unhide the title bar.

So If you want to hide the titles, then this is a decent extension you can use

Plugin can be downloaded from http://www.download.com/Page-Title-Eraser/3000-11745_4-10746639.html

Topics: Plugin

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Top Torrent Sites

Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create or use  torrents when they need to share something.

You can search latest movies , Songs , software both legitmate and pirated on this torrent sites and download them with the help of a torrent client like azures , microtorrent etc…

Here is the list of top torrents which are popular among net surfers..
1. Torrentz.com

Torrentz is a popular Torrent indexing and Torrent search engine. It does not help to track your torrents. The torrent search engine is more advance as it allows you to search for files within the torrents. If you’re looking for unique stuff you should prefer this site

2. BitTorrent

BitTorrent’s software client allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games.
It leverages on its community of over 70 million users to securely deliver files to your PC faster than anything else out there.

http://www.bittorrent.com/
TorrentSpy.com

TorrentSpy is a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. It hosts torrent and provides a forum to comment on them, as well as a graphical portrayal of how healthy the torrents are. Torrentspy was as popular as Mininova and made it to 2nd place.
www.torrentspy.com
Nowadays dowload managers are also coming with torrent supports so that u can download both normal files as well as torrent files.

Best example is Flashgates

Topics: Resources

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Google talk banned in office?..No probs

Thanks to network admin team and security policies , we see lot of websites and IM Clients being banned inside most of the office networks in India.

Though we ourselves don’t want to waste our so called precious time on browsing crap stuffs in our office but i strongly feel accessing gtalk does come under fundamental right of every office goers - no matter where he works.

So here is one work around to bypass the filters and enjoy this fundamental rights..But yes its alwayz at your own risk

Nimbuzz : http://web.nimbuzz.com is a web based application where in we can chat with gmail ids. and yes it is of course free.

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Topics: Resources

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Painful times in life

I just realized that there’s going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003

Topics: Quotes

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Simple Google tricks

Finding the definition of a word
Enter Define : word in the google search box and press enter to find the definition of the word.

Finding Reviews
Enter “nachle more:reviews” into the google search box and press enter to find all the reviews for the movie Aja nachle.

Finding User Reviews
Enter “reliance mobile more:user_reviews” into the google search box and press enter to find all the user generated reviews for the reliance mobile.

Finding Movie Downloads
nachle more:downloads

Topics: Tips and Tricks

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Bullets in Excel

I wanted to create a list like

• Point 1
• Point 2
• Point 3

in an excel cell.

Bullets and numbering is a widely used feature in microsoft word. Surprisingly microsoft excel does not have any such feature. So I did a bit of research and found the following work around.

insert the following formula in the cell where you want to put the bulleted list.
=CONCATENATE(CHAR(149),” Point 1″,CHAR(10),CHAR(149),” Point 2″,CHAR(10),CHAR(149),” Point 3″)

Keep the cursor on the cell and press Alt+Enter (”For wrap text”) and you will have your text beautifully wrapped up.

P.S If you do not want to keep the messy formula in your sheet then copy the cell and paste the value using paste special.

Topics: Resources, Softwares, Tips and Tricks

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LogMeIn

LogMeIn is a service that allows users to remotely access a number of home or work PCs anywhere they may be through an Internet connection. Users can access their computers remotely, even from Linux machines, Macs, and PocketPC devices. LogMeIn is browser-based and I was able to successfully test the program with both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Because the program is browser-based I can access the Target PC while seamlessly interacting with the PC I’m using to remotely connect.

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Topics: Resources

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Opera files antitrust complaint with the EU

Opera has files an antitrust complaint against Microsoft requesting the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft’s abusive actions.

First, it requests the Commission to ask Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop.
Second, it asks the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities.

The first request to unbudle internet explorer from windows is an old one. The case becomes interesting due to the second point. I am eagerly waiting to see if European Commission will indeed direct Microsoft about which standard to follow.

You can see the original press release Here

Topics: News

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A highly addictive game

Warning

• This game can be highly addictive
• It is not as simple as it sounds

Chat Noir

The rules are quite simple. Try to prevent the cat from leaving the board. All you have to do is click a bright green spot to make it dark green and fence the cat in. Every time you click a spot, the cat gets to move one space.
After wasting about half of the morning, I can now definitively tell you that it IS addictive

Topics: Gaming, online games

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Choice

It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

Topics: Quotes

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Managers

A good one from dilsecartoons.com

Topics: Humour

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Money making ideas for Geeks

If you are a proud geek with some free time then you are going to love this post. Here is a list of websites that pay you for what you love doing i.e coding.

The best one among the lot is topcoder. It has weekly contests for designing, testing and coding. Go here to see the active contests. The prize money ranges from 500$ to 1400$ for one component. You read that right, you can indeed make 20,000 Rs upto 60,000 rupees writing one complete programme. The only problem is that most of the projects are in .net or java. Topcoder provides a rating to each member depending upon how many times you win in competitions among other criteria. If you can get some really good rank then who knows even google may come searching for you

The other type of sites are freelancing sites. These sites allow companies in need of programmers to post their projects. As a programmer you can select projects that you like and then bid for them. If you are selected then you can get paid for developing the programme. http://www.getacoder.com/  ,  http://www.project4hire.com   and https://www.getafreelancer.com/ are some of the freelancing sites.

disclaimer: I have not used any of the sites except topcoder myelf.

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Make Money

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Selecting an Idea

I had previously writeen about the possibility of starting your own business without leaving yout job. (Here) It was based on my assumption that most people know what to do but are not able to do so as they are not ready to leave their jobs. However the comments to the post clearly showed that many of us do not know what we want to do. As Suku says so very clearly no one can tell you what to do but atleast I shall try to guide you.

Look for the problem

I think the problem lies in our education system that needs us to find answers/solutions. The problem is always defined by someone else. But entrepreneurship needs you to find a problem and then go ahead and solve it. Noone told larry and binn to develop a better search engine, they identified it themselves and then solved it. Same is true for any great startup. Unfortunately the same is true for you as well. You shall have to identify the problem to solve.

Fortunately it is not that difficult to identify. Just recall how many times in a day you wish that things were better. You get irritated everytime windows crashes, go and design a operating system that does not crash ;-).

Well jokes apart that is the exact way atleast we go about selecting an idea. Frustrated with having to go through 10 different newspaper to find a walkin in hyderabad we started mywalkin. Mostly Pari does not have anything  to do at office and we started bakarbakar

So here is a 5 step approach to finding an idea to work on

1. Carry a frustration diary. Everytime you feel frustrated note it down.
2. Mention about the situation to your freinds. You will be surprised by how many of them have already faced such a problem.
3. Once you have 2-3 problems that you think 4-5 of your freinds have faced, start thinking about possible solutions.
4. Finally select the one that you feel is interesting. This is definitely important because you will have to work on it for atleast 3-4 months before any result is visible.
5. There is no fifth step Go and start working on the problem.

Hope it helps.

P.S: These are my views. I am sure many of you have much better idea than that. Please feel free to post them as comments.

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Internet

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