TheAnand

Category: Just Ripples

  • 5 Ways to Benefit From Recession

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    My cousin and I were trying to figure out ways to escape/reduce the problem of recession. Every person I have been talking to have worries over recession and especially those in IT related services. They are a worried lot, with huge housing loans over their heads, with their net worth in the marriage market falling.…

  • Orkut Pictures on Google Search

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    Guess what I found when I searched for myself on Google? Looks like Orkut is being integrated into google search results now. That is good news! Suppose I want to find any other blogger or a friend, I only need to do a google search with his name. Neat, but it seems that the results…

  • 595 Feed Subscribers!

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    I would to clarify that I have not been doing any experiments about the relation in context of blogs, thir traffic metrics and not posting. 😉 Just that I was busy trying to figure out where the Indian stock market is heading to. 🙁 I would like to welcome all my 595 Feed readers to…

  • Investment Headaches and Buying Websites

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    I was too busy looking at the footer of CNBC TV18 for the past week and finally have decided that buying websites is a way better investment than trying to make money in the stock market! This is a screenshot of my current holdings Though I was able to make some money over the last…

  • Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

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    Last week I was again struggling with server issues and downtimes on all my sites which made me look at ways to reduce the load on my poor server. I currently have about 50 wordpress installations and some 10 php based sites on the server. Though wordpress is considered to be a efficient script, having…

  • Happy Celebrations: The Winners

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    The contest finally came to an end last week and I am putting up the winners and their winnings here. If you have been selected as one, get in touch at Yahoo! or Gtalk IM or use the contact form to claim the same. First, here are the participants. John Shypy Aravind Sreehari Tito Haroon…

  • Blog Contests And Traffic

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    With my own blogging celebrations coming to an end today by 18:00 Indian time, I was back to thinking about how contests can help gain more traffic to our blogs. I know at least 10 bloggers who usually put up contests on their sites and giveaways to make their blogging community active and interesting. But…

  • Where are those who feed on me?

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    Today I was checking my dream run on my feedburner increase since last 2-3 weeks using my proprietry techniques 🙂 But logging into my feedburner account, this is what I saw The other day TheNextWeb wrote about a way to increase your feed subscribers using some really evil ways! Maybe Feedburner is busy plugging this…

  • TheAnand is on the Small Screen

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    Yesterday was the day of MoviCamp at Technopark here at Trivandrum. In the morning the popular director, Mr. Hari Kumar addressed us, the set of amatuer cinema dudes to teach us about how movies are made and what the usual technical jargons in the movie industry are. He explained how the director should have an…

  • TheAnand 2008 Coded by Slice-And-Stitch

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    The blog is finally up and running. I was having a hectic time tweaking the plugins and design to get that perfect look that I missed the posting for a few days. 😀 Presenting, TheAnand 2008! Also, I will be putting up my old theme for public download soon since some people seemed to like…