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At least that is how it comes in the dreams of most webmasters

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next…
So true

This is my “Today’s fortune” on Orkut.

The first step of any journey is the belief that you can reach the destination. Is it possible to earn a million dollar from adsense alone? Well to put that number into perspective a million dollar is what an average software professional in the US earns in more than 10 years. So when I suggested that we can earn that much money in one year simply by running a couple of blogs, none of my partners believed me.I wrote this post primarily to convince my partners that there is serious money that can be made through adsense. Hope it will convince some of my readers about the possibility of earning a million dollar through adsense as well.

So here is the proof.

Markus Frind runs a free online dating site called plentyOfFish.com and he rocked the Internet world when he posted a photo of his latest Google AdSense check for nearly $1 million CAD. You can see it for yourself here

The following is an image of a 1 month cheque for 1.2 Lakh dollars from adsense to the author of shoemoney.com.

Jason Calacanis was making more than $4,000 a day with adsense. He sold Weblogs Inc to AOL for $25 million dollars.

There are even more bloggers who have made more than a million dollar a year from their blogs.

I hope I have made my point. is it possible to make a million dollar from your blog? Hell yes. Is it easy to make a million dollar from your blog? Hell No.

A million dollar is a lot of money. It is not like anyone can start a blog, make some posts, put some adsense units and make a million dollar. Life is not that easy. (I wish it were though). A lot more dedication and descipline is required for that. I am definitely trying to reach there. I shall be posting about every step I take and every progress I make on this blog. If you will like to learn from my experience then go ahead and subscribe to my feed today.

Was just going through Alan Kay‘s quotes on Wikipedia. Found some interesting ones on Java.
Read on . . . I am sure, after reading these even you will say . . . So true!!!

* Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
o Source: ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 – Dec/Jan 2004-2005

* If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
o Source: ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 – Dec/Jan 2004-2005

* I fear —as far as I can tell— that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
o Source: ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 – Dec/Jan 2004-2005

Isliye rah sangharsh ki ham chune
Zindagi ansuon me nahae nahin
Shaam sehmi na ho, raat ho na dari
Bhor ki ankh phir dabdabai na ho

(We must choose the path of struggle, so life shouldn’t get drowned in tears. The evening shouldn’t get enveloped by awe and night shouldn’t be fearful. And the dawn shouldn’t crack with tears welled up in its eyes)

A quote by Baba Amte One of the best quotes I have read till date. See my other favorite quotes are The Best Speech Ever and Painful times in life

Yahoo’s board and users may not like microsoft. But yahoo’s shareholders love microsoft for sure. Since yahoo’s board has rejected microsoft’s offer, shareholders are starting to file case against yahoo.

Why are the shareholders so upset?
Before microsoft made the offer, yahoo’s shares were trading at 19$. So the 31$ offer by microsoft is almost 60% premium on the market price. More importantly yahoo has lot of cash on its balance sheet. The cash is equivalent to 12$ per share.

Now the market price of a share (19$) = cash on balance sheet (12$) + value of its operations. So the value of yahoo’s operations was only 7$. Since no one pays a premium for cash, you can safely assume that microsoft is offering 19$ per share for yahoo’s operations. That is almost 200% premium over the last market price. Is it any wonder that yahoo’s shareholders are so upset?

Apple launched Apple Air in India today. It is the thinnest Notebook on earth, so thin that Steve Jobs had introduced it by pulling it out from a standard envelope. Considering that Apple Air was launched in US in january only, that was quick.

The retail price in India is Rs 96,100 ($2,421). Apple Air sells for close to 75k Rs in US. So if you want to buy one, then it makes sense to get one from US.

You can read our initial review of Apple Air.

Imagine your boss telling you, you will get a 200$ or 10,000 Rupees per month increament after 6 months if you work for 2 more hours everyday. The best part is you get to choose the work you want to do in these 2 hours. Will you say no?? Then you will be surprised to know that everyday this deal is being offered to you and you keep saying no !!!

Here is a list of things you can do to accept that offer

Trust me earning money through these options are easier than you think. However make sure that you are ready to work for those 2 extra hours everyday. If you are interested in blogging but do not want to handle the problem of marketing it, then please leave a comment with your contact details. We will like to talk to you.

I chanced upon http://www.techtracer.com while researching for the last post about searching for movie timings through Google. I was impressed by the clean and intuitive design of the blog. By the time I had finished reading 3-4 posts on the blog, I was hooked. I started reading the about me page and liked what I read there. So I sent an email to Nitin, asking him for his contact number. He agreed. We had a chat today and here is his story. I am putting it here because I am sure many of you will like his story.

Tell us something about yourself and your blog.

I am Nitin Pai, author and creator of TechTracer. I work full time as a software engineer in Larsen and Toubro Infotech. I am a certified Java EE developer. That is why you would primarily find many Java EE articles as you continue to browse this site for a while. TechTracer speaks about web technology. As far as the name is concerned it traces technology. It follows the complexities of technological artifacts and leaves behind a simplified trace of knowledge. This trace is very much useful to those who sometimes come across the same complexities and do not have the time to resolve them. TechTracer comes to the rescue of such people and helps them by the traces it already has encompassed.

How did you start Blogging?

It was in my mind to have a personal web site. I started with a simple web site in geocities which provided free HTML uploads to have a static site. I was happy but only for a short while. The static nature of the site did not appeal to me. I had seen some blogs round this time and thought about having one as one can atleast update a blog and have it hosted for free with a URL having the blog company’s name in it. I did blog for a while with personal adventures and emotional overturns. But one thought was always ringing a bell in my head. What is the purpose of my rants to anyone? They are no more good than just plain text for someone else.

This was something which made me think about a different avenue in the field of blogging. When I got employed I got inclined quite deeply in Web Technology and its vast arenas. I thought maybe if I wrote on technology at least it would be of use to someone somewhere. The thought that someone would thank me for something I had done for them gave me a kind of deep satisfaction. With this in mind I entered the field of serious blogging. I wanted to have a professional administration for my blog and so I tried out with WordPress. With WordPress I got addicted to professional blogging.

WordPress helped me to get fame and recognition. My technology blog was in the meantime listed among the top most blogs and I was becoming happier by the day. It was only during this period that I got knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Internet Marketing. With the power of this knowledge I strategised my blogging activites. This bore its fruits and my Google ranking improved day by day. And today, after having launched Techtracer about a year ago, I am really glad to say that Techtracer gets on an average 30K visitors per month, 68100 rank on Technorati and has a subscriber base of 500.

Is time a constraint and how do you manage that?

Yes, time indeed is a big constraint. Since I have my full time job as a software developer on one hand and the ambition of becoming established as a blogger, time goes unnoticed. Sometimes I get into a big low when I am not able to push up my spirits even to care about writing. And other times when some of my articles become popular it makes a large impact on my level of confidence and boosts up my self esteem. That is why I make it a point not to try to pump too much into blogging. After writing one quality article I try to learn altogether some new concept which refreshes my mind and then when it gets rejuvenated I concentrate on my next article. That is probably why you won’t notice follow up on the same article as most other bloggers do. My articles come alternatively on different topics and I occasionally follow up on an article when I feel that people are craving for more. Of course feedback acts as a major foundation for writing quality articles. I dont have a routine as such and it is the sudden accumulation of new ideas which strikes me that I produce it to others through my blog.

What is your motivation behind blogging?

My readers and the blog statistics. I constantly monitor what people tend to read more on my blog by keeping a hawk’s eye on the page views and the keyword analysis that brought readers to my blog. The more I come to know what are peoples expectations the more I become determined about the direction to give to my ideas. I also take a lot of care for my subscribers. Its because they don’t come easily. There was a time when my subscriber list was not moving ahead of 50. It was only a few months ago. But now I feel really happy to have a 500 subscriber base. I always maintain the quality of my articles by keeping them in mind so that they don’t feel like having done anything odd by subscribing to my blog.

How do you monetize your blog? How much do you earn?

My blog is completely and solely monetized on adsense. It acts as a savior for a small time blogger like me who does not have the adequate amount of time or resource to hunt for sponsers. I frequently face this question “How much do you make from your blog”. I would like to make one thing clear over here is that my blog is a collection of my ideas and ideas cannot be commercialized and I do not intend to either. When I think of money making I don’t get new ideas and which in turns ruins the spirit of blogging. But I don’t blog for charity too. I make a decent amount from my blog though, but I treat it as a side effect to my efforts and not my mainstream goal. My aim to blog is to make a repository of my knowledge as I traverse into different worlds and to make a way of others so that they could easily tread the same path as mine without having to reinvent the wheel. I would like to impart a small piece of advice to the readers of this site, please do not make money your main goal. Let it come naturally as a cause to your initiatives.

Advice to fellow bloggers?

Do not blog for money. Have a particular direction set for your blog if you want to get established quickly. This is something I learnt over these months after I started to blog. Write quality content which is upto date and also relevant to the site. The most important thing is that whatever you write must help people in some way. This is the principal which I follow. That is why I am really satisfied when my article strikes a chord with someone and they write me some feedback in return. I do not intend to sound like a preacher, but whatever I have I said till now is a way of my working. One last thing, have faith in yourself. To all the upcoming bloggers and reader of this site I extend my good wishes and luck.

Do you have any question for Nitin? Leave a comment below and I will try to get it answered by him.

Planning to go to a movie over the weekend. You will be surprised how easily you can research for the movie using google.

Find out all the latest releases in your city http://www.google.co.in/movies?near=Mumbai Replace mumbai in that url with your city name to find the latest releases in your city.

Find the showtime of a particular movie http://www.google.co.in/movies?q=superstar&near=Mumbai Replace superstar with the name of the movie of your choice and Mumbai with your city name.