Mar
3
Making money online gets tougher – covers the business models and problems faced making money online in India. I have noted some of my observations based on personal experience, since I have a pure play online business model. Basically internet business income (not a service provider) is unstable, you can earn US$5,000+ in one month and less than $1000 the other due to factors beyond your control.
Your ability to make money online over the long term depends on a number of factors like:
- How you manage your overheads – if you keep them sufficiently low, it is much easier to survive.
- Your family responsibilities and finances – if you have a lot of loans, a dependent wife and children, it can be difficult to survive during the downturn.
- Level of technical competence and ability to learn – if you can do the server admin, content writing and manage advertising yourself it helps
- Diversification – revenue from multiple sources ensures that there are fewer variations in income.
- Ability to take risks – If your business is doing well, it is easy to become complacent, but if you do not take risks and fail, it can adversely affect your future business.
- Choice of business partners – it is important to work with reliable companies who provide good customer support.
- Compared to Western countries making money online is a lot more difficult, you cannot sign up for many advertising networks (since you are from India), affiliate commissions are routinely stolen due to cookie stuffing, so you have to spend a lot of time in front of the computer experimenting to find out what works. Some people may get bored or lack the discipline to do so.
- Lifestyle – If you lead a lavish lifestyle, parties,expensive luxury products, foreign holidays, you have less to see you through difficult times, so a job is better for you.
Dec
11
This article on women in the IT sector
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/TCS-Wipro-Infosys-go-all-out-to-check-high-female-staff-attrition/articleshow/5324809.cms
has some interesting numbers.
At the entry level, the male / female ratio is almost 50: 50 , but at the senior level at Infosys, women constitute less than 2 % ( and many of them will be HR and similar departments)
As mentioned, with a female boss ” Often male employees, are not too cooperative in the team”. So even if you are extremely good at your work, if you are woman employed in any organization (however progressive it may claim to be ) , you will rarely get a fair deal.
In other sectors like engineering (infrastructure) it is worse, engineers are expected to spend time outdoors in the sun, girls are told at some campus interviews ” Girls are like flowers to be kept in a vase, if they go outside they will wilt, so please don’t sit for campus interviews”
Oct
30
A very detailed articles on online content generation . Search engines today cannot distinguish between low and high quality content, so it is easier and more rewarding today to churn out poor quality content, then take the effort to write something really useful. Using an algorithm to find the most in demand information using ISP data is a good innovation and also shows that online privacy is non existent.
Oct
11
Interesting post on making money with a network of websites , working at home. Most of the coverage of the online media in India is focused only on the big internet companies , which have funding from various sources. It is difficult for most people to believe that a single person can manage a large number of websites, but once you set them up, they are largely a passive source of income.
As stated in the interview working from home “is much more efficient because I don’t have to spend time commuting or dressing up.” Of course, you have to be very disciplined, with no distractions, but you can also afford to take a lot more risks. To succeed you need to experiment a lot and fail often.
Oct
1
Deleting every spam post on a Simple Machines Forum (SMF) forum is very time consuming. By using the check box option , you can delete multiple posts at a time.
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=65
This works only if you go to the relevant board ( not the latest posts).
Sep
23
From http://bangalore.craigslist.co.in/sof/1385710906.html
Date: 2009-09-22, 2:58AM IST
Reply to: winningorlearning@gmail.com
Will need to be knowledgable in messenger manipulation. Skype, in particular.
Email me for further details.
Skills: Java, decent english.
At least a few times , I have seen discussions on messenger / live chat suddenly end, it seems they can be easily manipulated. At first I thought it was a problem with the chat operator, but now I know better. There is no replacement for talking on phone.
More info on messenger data interception: http://ask-leo.com/can_hackers_see_data_going_to_and_from_my_computer.html
Sep
19
One of the web hosting companies I use suddenly went out of business but Liquidweb were kind enough to provide a backup of the data on the shared hosting account I used. I had a number of wordpress blogs , so to restore them , the following steps are to be used. The shared hosting account had a Cpanel control panel and Fantastico for script installation
Locate the name of the site in the mySQL database using the siteurl field . The SQL file can be searched as a plain text file.
- Install WordPress on a different shared hosting account.
- Locate the database name, for example if it was problems_wrdp1 , rename it to the database name in your new Cpanel account useful_wrdp3 . Change the relevant prefix , account names to those on your new server.
- Use phpmyAdmin and import the SQL database.
Typically for WordPress 2.8.4, the database will have 10 tables and the import will be completed after executing 84 queries.
This works satisfactorily for smaller databases , less than 2MB in size.
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