I happened to check my stats after a long time and was surprised to see a lot of traffic come by for a term which has like 126,000,000 (w/o quotes) competitive pages on Google! The search happens to be for “top 50 companies” and I did a post on a report by BusinessWeek. Here is a screenshot for all those who visit my blog for any SEO info!
What you are about to experience is an amazing amalgamation of - hope, hard work, preparation, and opportunity - I am sure if you read this post (and that of Mark Hendrick’s -Thanks for sharing this Mark!) and watch the videos mentioned, you’ll be left inspired.
To start with … A confession.
I never thought I could ever listen to Opera. In fact, I used be one of those guys who would think why are the thousand odd people wasting their time trying to watch a few souls screaming their hearts out!
Not any more though!
First of all, a very happy 60th Independence day (belated) to all my fellow Indian readers.
I had no particular intentions of writing a post on the 15th of August this year, because I was more interested in being a part of the celebrations. It was after a gap of 3 years that I was in India for the Independence day and I wanted to make the most of it! I had a decent time yesterday, although it was no where close to what we used to do when we were at school. I also watched a brilliantly made film called “Chak de India” which added in its own sweet way to the flavour of Independence day celebrations.
Okay, I’ll agree that the title is not exactly one the most fancy ones that I have managed to pull out, but read on and you’ll get the essence …
I just got back from yet another of my “leisure roams” and decided to “surf up” before hitting the bed. Well, having decided not to do any work I took the liberty to check my virtual spaces on Orkut and Facebook as well as dabble around in some of the forums that I actively participate in.
After I re-vamped my blog and jumped on to the Web2.0 bandwagon with the ‘ever-so-cheesy’ tech verbiage of everything being v2.0, I noticed that my good friend Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan left me a comment and tagged himself as “Abhi2.0”
Well, it seems that Abhimanyu has indeed gone 2.0 with his new blog - Life In The Chakravyu. Manyu who already blogs at MoneyControl’s Evening Edition blog and IBNLive has launched his personal blog as a personal journal & mirror blog.
Well … Well … that was a really long break from the world of blogging. I had last posted an entry on the 15th of November last year. Between then and now, much has happened so let me give you a very quick update.
One of the most important things that has changed is …. I have city hopped again. This time from London to my home town Baroda. I am now in Baroda and have set-up a firm called Whirlwind. Whirlwind is a start-up close to my heart and offers progressive services like search engine marketing, online campaign management and corporate web(blog) development amongst a host of other services. In the first 2 months of its existence we have ramped up 7 clients and are on our way to expand further.
I just came across a brilliant post by Joe Lewis at WebProNews, where he has summarized Guy Kawasaki’s opening keynote address at this year’s PubCon. In his talk, Guy has given a detailed overview outlining ten specific points that innovative companies should heed when developing new products and services.
Having long read Guy’s amazing book ‘Art of the Start’, I know the points outlined in Joe’s post and can vouch for a fact that this is some very, very useful information. Infact, I would urge each one of you to invest in Guy’s book if you haven’t already done so. Its a brilliant read, and there is so much more that he talks about.
Here is something new for those of you who have got used to my flashy post titles. This one, as you can see is very simple … so then why have I used it? Well, there are quite a few reasons, the foremost being the context of this title is much more than just me talking about some generic updates in my life. But more than that, I used it ‘coz I couldn’t come up with anything else. (there you go!)
So, rather than doing an essay type post, lemme do a quick list here …
I would admit to the fact that I just love Wordpress and I believe it is one of those amazing apps that turn people into Evangelists! And having created or atleast started the entire Wordpress project, Matt Mullenweg has branded himself as a ‘demigod’ in the blogging community… but it seems that something has got Matt pissed. And I believe that something isn’t a bad something!
It turns out that, Matt has sent Sherman Hu (who is a well known Internet Marketer) a cease and desist letter, asking him to stop violating WordPress’ trademark and intellectual rights — apparently for using the word “WordPress†in his domain name -WordpressTutorials.com
Remember my post from coupla months back on the subject of “The Long Tail“? Well, if you do, I am sure you can also remember my fondness for Joe Kraus’s idea about the ‘Long Tail of Software’ and especially his PowerPoint pitch for his company JotSpot.com
Well, I guess someone at Google must have seen the same pitch, because Google recently announced its acquisition of JotSpot.
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