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 [...]
Continue Reading →
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%.
Continue Reading →
Watch what you write, Wipro tells its Employees – comes out with Employee Blogging Policy!
by Arun PrabhudesaiIndian 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 …