Okay all you Abhishek Bachchan fans can take a break !
Although I would love to rap and act as cool as him … I know it would be a failing attempt. However, something I am sure I can do much better is write about ‘my kind’ of stuff, and with the new ‘Meebo Me‘ plugin now active on my blog … I am ready to do my own version of ‘Right Here Right Now’ ! Being a wordpress plugin junkie [aren't we all??] that I am, I had this urge to have this plugin added to my ever-growing list of plugins, since quiet some time! Now, that its added … I am on the look for something equally cool !
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Ohh yeahh … ;) !!
I don’t really know why I usually announce something like this after its already done .. but thats how I am doin’ it right now… ! Well, probably it should help me warm up for the next coupla hours of blogging.
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It all started last month, when I spotted the cool iPod-integration kit introduced by Mercedes. I was quite excited with the cool use of technology and the innovative idea, that I started spreading the word around [talk about Evangelism .. :)]. I also went on to blog about the same and even submitted it as a cool trend at TrendHunter.com. I was quite amazed by the TrendHunter site and the idea behind having such a site. Well, so I submitted my trend and kept checking back for the next couple of days to see if it was included or not. When it wasn’t , I simply forgot about it.
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Today, India celebrates its 60th Independence Day (59th to be precise, 60th eve)! Its a great feeling to be a part of a wonderful nation … even while being away! As APJ Abdul Kalam rightly says, Our Nation will always cherish and be inspired by the contributions of our Freedom Fighters towards making India independent, lets take this moment to thank all the worthy contributors of the past and the present who make India a free country to live in. Read more about President’s Address to the nation on the eve of 60TH Independence day here.
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While doing my daily dose of BusinessWeek reading, I came across an insightful article which absolutely warranted a post on my blog. So here it is !
In their quest to come up with a “summer reading list” , BusinessWeek asked entrepreneurs which books were most influential in helping them build their companies. These were the replies …
1. Carol Bartz - Executive Chairman, Autodesk
“A little book called THE CONATIVE CONNECTION, by management consultant Kathy Kolbe, has been by my side for years. It explains motivations and work styles better than anything else I’ve read. In any business, you have to bring out the best in people. The only way to do that is to understand them.”
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Lately, I have been reading a lot about the “Long Tail” of everything. The phrase - The Long Tail - was first used by Wired Magazine’s editor Chris Anderson. The concept drew in part from an influential essay by Clay Shirky, “Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality” that noted that a relative handful of weblogs have many links going into them but “the long tail” of millions of weblogs may have only a handful of links going into them. Anderson went on to extend on that same idea by drawing a perspective on the effects of the long tail on current and future business models.
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This is my second attempt(1st attempt was 30 mins back when my browser crashed!) at writing the very same post, and I know it won’t be as thorough as the initial one. But here it is anyways …
After I launched my blog in late March this year, I was constantly on the lookout for a good stats reporting system. After googling for related wordpress plugins, I ended up downloading the much talked about WP-ShortStat. I started using the same and wasn’t really happy with the results, leading me to opt for another plugin - this time StatTraq! It was immediately that I developed a liking for this stat reporting tool and I have been using it (and will continue to) daily to take a bird-eye’s view of what is happening on my blog.
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I came across a very interesting article on link building and thought I should share it. Its about co-citation, i.e. what other sites that link to you say about you. It is interesting for 2 main reasons : One, because it will help you in understanding how search engines will evaluate your link building efforts, and Two, because it represents a major trend of all search engines towards becoming more ‘natural’.
When you read the following article try to draw an analogy with ‘Social Proof’ aspect. It is very similar to what we have in normal lives !
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As soon as I wrote the title for this post, my mind started rushing through the entire day I spent yesterday at the Internet World 2006 event at Earls Court. There is so much to discuss, so much to tell, so much to share …. !
Well, I’ll try and post most of the cruxy stuff (also feeeding in some ‘not so important’ matter for good measure ! ) including major takeaways from the seminars I attended, what I learnt from interacting with some of the guys and some cool things I never thought I’d see in such an event !
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