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Stumbling upon torrent of visitors

August 12, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

As such if this site attracts about 60 unique visitors on a day, I reach out with my tired-from-keyboard-hitting hand to pat my back. But today was different. Sundays are usually dull but that didn’t prevent my site to receive nearly 230 visitors with open arms. It’s rather receiving them to my post, Effect of […]

Filed Under: Life on Web

Millionaires, yet no respite from hard work

August 12, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

How do you think a man with $2 million in bank, living in a fully paid-off $1.3 million villa overlooking the Pacific, and having a net worth of $3.5 million with his wife will be leading his everyday life? Well, if you’re Hal Steger, a Silicon Valley resident, you’ll continue to work hard 12 hours […]

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Google Universal Search

August 11, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Trust Google to make it light for you even though beyond the veil it perhaps is a vastly different picture. Here’s a video that explains Google’s new avatar, Universal Search. This however is a creation of FathomSEO. When you search Google the results page usually show a list web pages. At the top there are […]

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A web watcher’s night

August 10, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya 2 Comments

Often I run out of ideas what to write. Eminent bloggers say you write like hell everyday to make money from blog. I find that true enough. I run 3 blogs – one (Words2Content) scarcely attended to (short of time you see!) – and I have learned just about that much to say that content […]

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Wikimania 2007

August 7, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Wikimedia Foundation, that has several ongoing ‘online collaborative projects’ like the Wikipedia, organizes a yearly fest of wiki-inclined Internet geeks called Wikimania. This year the event just concluded in Taipei, Taiwan from 3-5 Aug. Wikimania started in 2005 in Germany. The second edition took place in US. For the third conference there were willing hosts […]

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TutorVista

August 4, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya 4 Comments

Sometime back (June 23 issue to be precise), The Economist ran a story on Krishnan Ganesh, an entrepreneur who owns TutorVista. The catchline was: If you want to see where Indian outsourcing is going, keep an eye on Krishnan Ganesh. The Economist story is about the entrepreneurial acumen of Ganesh as he traveled from one […]

Filed Under: Career, Life on Web, Make Money Online

Shvoong debarred in China

July 16, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Shvoong is a content site run by Israeli webpreneurs from Tel Aviv. It is unique in that it collects summarized essays on virtually any topic under the sun. The focus though is in the areas of literature and scientific research. Content submitters can earn money calculated based on number of visitors to their essays. In […]

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No anonymity for Chinese blogger

July 11, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

If you’re in China and happen to post comments on a blog, be prepared to disclose your identity, which must be your real name as it appears in your whatever identity card you’re carrying. This has become mandatory for some 100,000 websites registered in Xiamen, a Chinese getaway for the wealthy. The reason? Recently, Xiamen’s […]

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Strike for progress

July 11, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

BSNL employees start an indefinite strike from today. It has been called by Joint Forum of Executives & Non-Executives Associations that include even the rank of divisional engineers – altogether some 3.7 lakh employees. What makes the almost entire gamut of BSNL staff to close ranks? The issue is that of survival. No longer a […]

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Owning a website that rewards

May 19, 2007 By Partha Bhattacharya Leave a Comment

Truly speaking, owning a website today is nothing more than a child’s play. Scores of web hosting companies and website designers are there who, once they’re paid, can launch your site in less than half an hour. However to make your website a success, to have visitors come to your site and like it, to […]

Filed Under: Business, Career, Commentary, Life on Web, Opinion

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