Happy B'day Google

Many Many happy returns of the day. ya, Google is 10 years old now. Thank you so much for the great services. It has come to a state where we can't think of a life without Google. On this special occasion Google announced some surprises.

1. Google Timeline: An interactive timeline of Google history! You can Travel through time by dragging the timeline or the slider. Click on any event to see more information.
2. Project 10^100: If you have an idea that you believe would help somebody, Google will fund to launch your idea. Project 10^100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
   
3. Page Rank: Ya, finally after a long time, Google page rank has been updated. I got page rank of 2/10, just in 3 months, not bad :).

Have a blast and "don't be evil" ever.

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Indian Startup of the Month

Hi folks, thanks for your huge support and response which encouraged me and my blog to do better day by day. I haven't dreamed that my blog would grow this fast. I am heartily thankful to all you guys.

I was sitting and running my mind through the growth of different companies when suddenly my eyes halted on the Indian software market. Many multinational companies target Indian market first as they get easy customers and less competition. With all this it is difficult for Indian companies to grow as they have little capital to invest as compared to other multinational companies. It is also observed that most of these multinational companies hire Indian brains as they are the best for the job. Some young generation leave their dream as they think they wont stand this competition and some tries to fight. So the important question arises, how they will survive only on the basis of their talent.

I am starting a new column, "Indian startup of the month". This column will deal with the paths that these startups take to give a fare competition to multinational companies. To know the secret I will catch the growing startups to know their problems and the ways with which they deal it.

I am looking forward for your suggestions on this part so that I can also cover your queries. Mail me or provide a comment about your doubts and queries. My email-ID is ranjeet4u@gmail.com.

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Setup your(professional blogger's) workspace

If you want to become a professional blogger, want a huge authority in your field, want fans, supporter and to make a living with it, you have to be professional. On this article, I would like you to setup your workspace.

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War of Online Social Networks

You all know about what is social networking. Through social networking, people keep in touch with current friends, reconnect with old friends, create friendship with people who have similar interests or similar groups. Apart from connectivity people can share their ideas or experiences with other like-minded people. Some networking can also help members find a job or establish business contacts. This is the most demandable business on internet. It grows exponentially and generate huge-huge traffic on internet. There are plenty of social network websites, believe me each and every website is making millions or billions of dollers. If any one is not making that much still it's buy out price is in billion. I use Myspace, Orkut, Facebook and Hi-5. These are some leading social network website. I looked closely these sites and compared their features. See the table which I made,


MySpace has 191 million members. This site is massive, bragging the largest membership of any social networking site on the Internet. Facebook just reached the milestone of 100 million users. It was initially intended for college students. Orkut and Hi5 have 60 and 50 million registered users.
I divided the features in 4 parts.

1. Profiles: User's personal profile is the heart of any social network website. This is the place where user can do whatever they want. They can express their emotions and feelings. So, this thing should be in favour of users. Users will decide which type of theme, color or background they want to set. Myspace supports these things. You can use your own html or css code and can make own template. Only HI-5 and Myspace provide personal url for every user.
2. Security: Internet is a dangerous place to put your personal information. But we don't need to worry. These sites are secure.
3. Networking Tools: It includes additional features like chat room, personal videos, music, blog, forum etc. Only Myspace provides blogging facility.
4. Search: Efficient and Fast search is the backbone of any social network. As you can in above table, different type of search parameters. These parameters make search fast and efficient. Common parameters are search by email, name, city/zip code. Orkut is backward in searching. Orkut need some improvement in search part.

Their are several like friendster, tagged, linkedIn etc. Which one are you using?

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BarCamp Mumbai is coming

BarCamp Mumbai is coming again. This time it is being hosted in Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Versova, Andheri(W) on 27th of this month, different from it's usual place IIT-Bombay.
What?
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. You can get a good opportunity to share ideas, start conversations and build connections with people and organizations.
Who?
Anyone who is interested in Blogging, Algorithms, Networking, Social Networking, Mashups, WEB 2.0 can participate in this event.

I have registered so I will be there. If you are planning to attend the BarCamp and want to discuss over my blogging experience then let me know. I hope we both will gain something from it. Leave your message as comment or mail me, my id is ranjeet4u@gmail.com. Lets meet up. It would be great to discuss ideas and blogging experiances with you over a cup of coffee. :)

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Easy Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

In the last post you have seen "10 ways to make money online". Thanx to Tamal, a professional blogger, who requested me to publish his post on my blog. Thanks dude for sharing such a nice post.
So, Now I will tell you "how can you generate traffic for your blog?". I will tell you, what I learned from blogging. These things really work. Here we go.

1) Unique subject: Whenever I sit to write any post, I just keep on thinking about my world wide readers. Will my post give them, what they are looking for? If some one is spending his/her 5 minutes to read your post then your posts must have that much potential. Your content should be worthy of being read by thousands or millions of readers.

If your blog has good content then It will force the user to come again and again to your blog. At the time of deciding the topic, just think about the best thing you can give to the reader. The topic selected by you should also be of your interest, then only you can write a good post. Next thing is to narrow down your topic. Your blog should be of some specific topic. For Example: There are thousands of tech bloggers and I also wanted to be the one. Since tech is a relatively large area, I narrowed my blog topic down to internet. For example, if some one is interested in writing about "computer networking", he/she can select a particular topic from a whole lot of topics in computer networks like wireless (802.11) network or wired network or for wireless sensor network. So start thinking about the topic on which you are going to write a blog.

2) SEO: For any website the main source of traffic are search engines, mainly from google, yahoo, msn live and ask.com. Optimize your posts for search engines. Ohh, SEO is a very large concept. It will take few weeks or months to understand properly and implement. Dont worry, Just keep few things in your mind which I am going to describe below:

• Use your primary keyword as domain name for your blog: At the time of purchasing domain name for your blog, try to ensure that the url should contain the word which you want to optimize.
  
• Put primary key phrase in your blog header tags and the titles of your post:
• Submit your blog to search engine's directories: Submit your blog to directories like mozilla directories, yahoo directory, google directory, ask directory. Directories are essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog. I have submitted my blog to all of the above directories.
  

3) Top blogger directories and forums: Reading forums and participating in forums will help you a lot to become a good blogger. It also generates huge traffic and back links for your blog. Here are some of the top forums. You can join any one or two forums which you like most and actively participate in discussions.

1. Authority Blogger Forum:
   
2. Blog Traffic School Forums:
   
3. Bloggeries Blog Forum:
   
4. Blogger Forum:
   
5. Digital Point Blogging Forum:
   

Also join some blogger's social networks like blogcatalog and mybloglog, and create your own group there. The members of your group will be your regular readers.

4) social bookmarking and sharing: Put social bookmarks and sharing links in your every post. In blog you can find few links after each post. This link creates a high quality back links and spreads your message to millions of reader. Adding social bookmark links to your blog or web site makes it easy for readers to save and share your content. The most famous are digg.com, technorati.com and del.icio.us.

5) Surfing:

1. shout box: Install a shout box on your blog. It will help you to communicate with other bloggers.
2. Blog Hopping: Keep on visiting other's blog. Try to comment on top blogs. It will help you to create good quality back links for your blog and your page rank will increase.
3. link exchange: Do not hesitate to exchange the links with other bloggers. If possible, try to exchange with only those who have higher page rank than yours. Install alexa toolbar in your firefox to find the rank of any website.

I hope these words from my experience will help you with your effort to increase traffic. Feel free to ask any questions that may arise in your brain.

Thanx for your patience :)

PS: Try to write short and impactful post. :P

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