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.
I would surely consider myself to be an advanced user on the internet and a pretty ‘net-aware’ person, but I realised that even guys like me can be tricked by spammers or let’s be more specific, by phishers !!
Cody Moya at FreeInternetMarketingCourses.com recently announced in an email the benefits of commenting on his blog. His subject line says - “Saumil, Here is how to have free link on my PR4 and high traffic page”. In his mail, he goes on to explain how he has added a new wordpress plugin which shows the “top commentors” on the main page of his blog and hundreds of other pages.
While this is surely a valid claim, and people who do end up as the top commentors will get some footage on Moya’s blog; what caught my attention was the somewhat dodgy subject line.
BusinessWeek recently came up with their BusinessWeek 50 list, which represents their choice of the “best in class” companies from the 10 economic sectors that make up the S&P 500. Essentially, BusinessWeek has short-listed companies based on 2 main factors;
* Average return on capital and sales growth
* A comparative analysis of companies with peers in their sectors
Want to attract MBAs? Be more like Google !!
It was only a couple of months back when I was going through my friend Anuj’s application essays to ISBand was particularly intrigued by a question. The question was “You are applying to your dream job after ISB. Please prepare a cover letter accompanying your CV.”
Although Anuj, did a wonderful job at answering the question, I started to think what could have been my answer to the same question. And soon enough I had my mind convinced on drafting a cover letter to the ‘Big G’.
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.
