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Blogging was “the in-thing” with netizens 5-7 years back. Thanks to Google’s blogger platform & Auttomatic’s WordPress platform, literally anyone could setup their own blogs and publish their views & opinions in minutes. It had good as well as bad consequences – Netizens had lot more quality content through blogs, but even more …

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Bloggers beware–Indian Govt moving towards online censorship!

by Aseem Rastogi
mobango ban

According to some latest statistics around 770 million people in the country have access to a mobile. Around 1/10th of them have access to the Internet. This shows that Internet penetration is still very low in this country. But there is an increasing penetration of social networking sites (around 80% of Internet population) and other [...]

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Watch what you write, Wipro tells its Employees – comes out with Employee Blogging Policy!

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Indian Corporates are slowly waking up to the hazards of content going online, often damaging enough for the company to sit up and take notice. Last month, Infosys was the first company to come out with official Social Media Policy for Employees of the company. Now, Wipro has gone ahead and …

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Drastically Improve your site-speed or get your search rankings killed !

by Arun Prabhudesai
site-speed-performance

Google is God when it comes to search – more than 70% of traffic to majority of blogs / sites comes from Google. Most of you know than Google has around 200 parameters on which it ranks a particular webpage. It has now added one more parameter that will determine where your site is placed [...]

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Copyright issues for bloggers, website owners and other content creators [Part 5]

by Navin Kabra

This is the last in my series of articles that give a practical, simplified overview of Intellectual Property Rights. It would be a good idea to skim the overview article, and the article on understanding copyrights further before jumping into this one. There is widespread ignorance of copyright issues amongst website owners a bloggers. Many [...]

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

by Arun Prabhudesai
Ganesh Idol

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
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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 …

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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 [...]

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Will 2009 be the year of Blogging in India?

by Sriram Vadlamani
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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. [...]

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Lets bully the poor blogger

by Sriram Vadlamani
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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 [...]

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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.

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Can blogging land you a job?

by Sriram Vadlamani
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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 [...]

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Trak.in October stats and more…

by Arun Prabhudesai
October Stats

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 Stats

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%.

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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.

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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.

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