Monthly Archives: May 2007

The Man Who Owns the Internet

The Man Who Owns the Internet  -  The best part about owning domains is that  you can work from home and no one can find out much about you (unless you choose to reveal info)
If you own a lot of domains, developing websites is the best option.  Search engines like Google are useful for certain kinds of  [...]

AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts

AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st
A lot of Adsense publishers have been affected, but the amounts they are making are fairly substantial – 20K to 70K USD (or even more). I don’t spend much money on Adwords, but it seems to be a cleanup. I wish people would add more useful content to their [...]

End of the India BPO story?

Eclipse In The Middle Of Glory?  – from this week’s issue of Outlook India.(from next week, registration will be required) some the interesting facts  mentioned are
Puffed-up projections by consultants, followed by a steep cost escalation for manpower, infrastructure in last 2 years due to searing salaries, real estate prices
High rates of attrition coupled with low levels [...]

Net surfing hits small towns big time

Net surfing hits small towns big time
One of the reasons why there is such a boom is that BSNL which provides internet connection in the rest of India has very reasonable internet charges and unlimited plans. In Mumbai, MTNL does not have an unlimited broadband plan and most of the other ISPs are very unreliable, [...]

Freelance online marketplaces

Got a PC? Work for $20 bn market - article on IBNLive on freelance online marketplaces.
I had spent a lot of  time checking out these websites – Guru, RentaCoder, GetaFreelancer, Elance since some of  my websites are on related subjects. There is some safety in payment, but a lot of time is spent bidding on projects and [...]