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What you may not know about Ganesh Festival: An appeal !

by Arun Prabhudesai on August 17, 2009

Ganesh Festival is really a time for festivities; it slowly starts to get Indian people into festive season mood that spans till end of Diwali. If you live in cities like Pune and Mumbai, you will know the kind of celebration that happens for 10 straight days. The streets are overflowing with people to see the beautifully decorated Ganesh Idols. The roads are closed at night, loud music and expansive lighting greets you everywhere.

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Blogging in India: A Research report

by Arun Prabhudesai

Blogging scene in India is steadily growing. I remember when I started blogging in May 2007, there were hardly any blogs that were popular except, Labnol and couple of others. But now the blogging scene in India is improved. There are number of Indian blogs catering to various fields that are [...]

1 comment July 11, 2009 Continue Reading →

Are bloggers entrepreneurs?

by Sriram Vadlamani

Dictionary.com has this definition for entrepreneur : a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.

I think business is something which produces something and in return generates some money. Blogging fits that. Post is the product and the advertising money is the revenue.

Now, for us to separate [...]

10 comments May 31, 2009 Continue Reading →

Will 2009 be the year of Blogging in India?

by Sriram Vadlamani

3 incidents mark 2009 and it is all set to become a year of blogging in India. It first started with Chetanye Kunte and the Mumbai blasts. It marked the way blogs has gained prominence at a broader level when NDTV took it seriously.

Next up in the chain is the fake IPL player blog. I [...]

1 comment May 31, 2009 Continue Reading →

Lets bully the poor blogger

by Sriram Vadlamani

Indian Blogosphere is abuzz with the recent incident of blogger Chyetanya Kunte. He has (oops had) a post about NDTV and Burkha Dutt’s coverage of Mumbai attacks. I read the post from google’s cache and the whole post is supported with logic. Many people have said the same thing but it came down to the [...]

2 comments January 31, 2009 Continue Reading →

Trak.in amongst the top 50 business blogs worldwide !

by Arun Prabhudesai

BusinessPundit’s Drea Knufken has compiled a list of Top 50 Business Blogs globally and Trak.in features in the coveted list. Infact, Trak.in is the only Indian blog that features in the list. Wow ! I am flattered.

The elite list contains blogs like Freakanomics Blog , Seth Godin’s Blog, Copyblogger, TechCrunch, and Silicon Alley Insider . Being in the same list as these blogs is a big big complement.

Thanks Drea and Business Pundit!

Oh…and Thanks goes to one more person – Srikant Vadlamani – who has been associated with Trak.in since Sept 08 and has been doing bulk of writing over last couple of months.

16 comments December 19, 2008 Continue Reading →

Can blogging land you a job?

by Sriram Vadlamani

I read this really un-interesting piece from BS. The title read : Blogging could ‘even’ land you a job. First thing which caught my attention is the word ‘even’. I found that word condescending. It sounds like among other fun and silly things, blogging can do something serious like landing you a job.

I overcame [...]

6 comments December 11, 2008 Continue Reading →

Trak.in October stats and more…

by Arun Prabhudesai

So how was October for trak.in ?

Hmmm…I’d call it a decent month, considering that most of the month was full of festivities and people wanted to enjoy rather than read about grim business and economy rants !

Honestly, apart from Diwali there was nothing really to cheer about this October. My startup was in middle of discussions with number of VCs for funding, however, everything has suddenly come to standstill.

I am digressing here…back to how trak.in fared in terms of traffic and subscribers.

October 2008 saw 333,741 pageviews from 123,101 visits, marginally more compared to September. This is off course in addition to roughly 25,000 post views that I get from regular feed subscribers (based on feedburner stats). Pageviews per visit stands at healthy 2.71. As it usually is, most of my traffic comes from Google – nearly 80%.

0 comments November 3, 2008 Continue Reading →

Bloggers do not trash your company, either you already are trash or you are doing it yourself!

by Arun Prabhudesai

I read this really disturbing news. Companies are employing agencies to clean-up negative feedback online. Their target is “crazy blogs”. The definition of crazy is at best undefined. Who will be defining crazy? If I narrate my experiences about some product or service which I bought or experienced and if that helps someone to make a better decision, what’s wrong with that.

This is a direct stab at our democracy and freedom of speech. India is more becoming like China. A police state. Through official and sometimes not so official channels, India slowly but surely is becoming a police state. Yesterday was the ban on smoking in public places where the definition of public place is debatable.

Now this is underground Internet Mafia Style Company !

Companies who are offering these services are eBrandz, Communicate2, Value Pitch, and Id8lab.

Their main targets are the websites like mouthshut, complaintboard and customercomplaint.

11 comments October 5, 2008 Continue Reading →

Call for bloggers

by Arun Prabhudesai

Trak.in posts have been infrequent nowadays, thanks to the shortage of time on my part. I hate to see this blog not been updated for 3-4 at a stretch, and I foresee that situation will remain the same for atleast next couple of months.

So I have decided to hire one or two paid bloggers who could help me keep trak.in updated on daily basis. There are couple of qualities you should possess. First, you should be passionate about writing and second, you should be obsessively following Indian business and startup space.

If interested, please mail me admin (at) trak dot in and we could discuss further details on the same.

1 comment September 9, 2008 Continue Reading →

Do you want to be a Successful entrepreneur ?

by Arun Prabhudesai

I just stumbled upon an excellent post by Neil Patel. He is all of 21, but is one of the most successful Internet entrepreneurs I know of.

He has written an excellent article called “10 Reasons You Are Not A Successful Entrepreneur”. If you are serious about becoming an entrepreneur, this is a must read.

All the ten points he has mentioned are extremely important, but the 1st point – You don’t know how to manage money and 2nd point – You don’t have multiple game plans are of paramount importance if you are taking a dive into entrepreneurship !

2 comments July 18, 2008 Continue Reading →

Trak.in June Statistics and other updates

by Arun Prabhudesai

WOW…What a month June has been ! The traffic went even beyond my expectation. Google seems to love trak.in. It ranks my blog very well on number of high traffic keywords.

A lot has happened in the month of June apart from registering high traffic growth. The feed subscriptions also went up, only marginally. I have moved to a new house personally. My startup hover.in also moved to new bigger office. We secured funding for hover.in as well in May.

Apart from this, hover.in is in the last phase of alpha. It will come out in Beta on August 1st. I am extremely excited about the way hover.in is turning out. I am sure Web publishers and bloggers will feast on our offering.

Moving on to Trak.in June Statistics, here is the snapshot of Google Analytics and Feedburner.

3 comments July 3, 2008 Continue Reading →

Instablogs global report: Citizen Journalism with Videos

by Arun Prabhudesai

I first met Ankit (CEO of Instablogs) at proto.in early this year. I have been following Instablogs closely since. One of the biggest positives that I see with them is that they have managed to create a vibrant loyal community through-out the world. Probably one of the most important factors of success for a startup.

Now that Instablogs is on its way to become a success, they recently launched “Instablogs Ground Report” or a video site for citizen journalism.

I sat with Ankit and his team (offcourse virtually) to find out more about Instablogs Ground Report.

Arun: Instablogs has done quite well with citizen journalism with your site getting around 3 million hits and growing, what prompted you to get into "video citizen journalism" with instablogs tv

Prince Campbell: Not everyone has the time or inclination to read all the great stuff written here. That is why we decided to highlight certain stories and opinions in a short daily video show you can watch anytime. Everyday will be actual stories from you and people like you from all over the world. We do not hate mainstream media. And this show is not designed to replace your regular reading and watching of the news.

1 comment July 2, 2008 Continue Reading →

kwippy: Close network nano-blogging through Instant Messenger

by Arun Prabhudesai

Microblogging as name suggests is extremely condensed form of no-frills-blogging. Best example of this is tumbleblog, where a user shares his content, videos etc…etc within minutes without spending time on going through routine of writing a whole post.

Nanoblogging is even more condensed form where the content shared is in form of short messages. This has been hugely popular thanks to Twitter.

Now an Indian startup – kwippy – brings you nanoblogging with couple of interesting twists. Users can actually send messages via their favourite Instant messengers like Gtalk or Yahoo. The messages send through IMs are stored on your personal page or nanoblog in threaded discussion format. The user just needs to add kwippy as a friend in his/her Instant messenger. All messages and status updates will reflect on the personal page.

6 comments June 4, 2008 Continue Reading →

The new mantra of PR: Marketing through blogging and Social Networking

by Arun Prabhudesai

Indian blogging scene has grown quite a bit over last 12 to 18 months. Last year in May when I started blogging, there were hardly any blogs that one could name which were even remotely popular, other than Labnol and couple of others. However, over last year or so Indian blogging scene has grown and now we have number of blogs that command decent traffic.

I see exponential growth in Indian bloggers in coming months , thanks to Aamir, Amitabh and host of other celebrities (latest being Salman Khan ) embracing blogging quite seriously. Yes, it is may be money making source for some, but these celebrities are bringing "blogging" into Mainstream media. Not a single day passes by without some or the other blog content being quoted in our national dailies.

With blogging becoming popular, most PR agencies are looking at bloggers as a serious marketing avenue. During early days of my blogging I used to get standard PR material mailed frequently, most of which could be termed as spam mails, as little consideration was given to who the blogger was, what subject does he write about and so on.

5 comments May 26, 2008 Continue Reading →

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