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 [...]
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Net surfing hits small towns big time
May 16, 2007 – 6:30 am
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 [...]
Freelance online marketplaces
May 13, 2007 – 2:00 pm
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 [...]
Will .mobi websites be popular?
May 10, 2007 – 12:30 pm
Youngsters drive ‘dotmobi’ craze in India (the article in the print edition of Economic Times was completely different – maybe they split articles) I suppose .mobi websites will become popular for products and services which people who spend a lot of time travelling use (and have high end mobile phones), but currently most of the domain [...]
Add Adsense, lose PR?
May 6, 2007 – 3:14 pm
Adding Adsense loses rankings? By adding Adsense to your webpages, you are providing Google all information about your website, how many visitors you have, from where they come and how long they stay at your website. Since information is shared between Googlebot and the Adsense bot, they also use it to derank your website. I [...]