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Belated New Year Wishes & Q1-2009 Roadmap
First of all, a super-belated “Happy New Year 2009” to all readers of Siddharth Rao’s Blog! It has been over a month since my last post. I’ve been stuck with a long backlog of pending work, which was taking all my time. In addition, with the holiday season in December and New Year, I had [...]
Global Economy Continues to Weaken – Consider Investing in “Online” Properties
Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s blog! As we get closer to Christmas and the end of year 2008, people in the US are still fighting to keep their jobs. “Layoffs” is latest buzzword around everyone out there. The economy continues to weaken and the following year 2009 does not appear to be very promising (at least [...]
Holiday Shopping in a “Recession”
It’s that time of the year again - when people shop like crazy. December is the month that accounts for highest amount of net sales - for almost every company, be it a product or service company. The mindset of buying “Gifts” for yourself or for some loved one gets you on the spending spree; [...]
Commission Junction Website Hacked?
*Update: Turns out they had a “technical glitch” on the front end of their web site which was fixed in about five hours…
Whoooh!! It looks like something is terribly wrong with Commission Junction (CJ). I tried hitting the home page several times this morning and here’s a screen shot of what I see. Unfortunately, I [...]
Choosing a Paid Web Hosting Service
Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s Blog and a “Happy Thanksgiving” to all US based readers!
Following up on my previous post about free web hosting services, in this post - I’ll talk about paid (cheap) web hosting services. Free web hosting is always the first choice for most beginners; however there are many limitations that would make [...]
Choosing a Free Web Hosting Service
The rate at which people are turning to the Internet and making web sites for a variety of reasons – is increasing rapidly. With that said, choosing a web hosting service that is suitable to their needs is very important. There are tens of thousands of web hosting companies that offer several types of web [...]
Phone call from Google™ - recommending a “Jumpstart”
I got a call from a Google™ Adwords™ representative this morning. For a few seconds, I was wondering what would this be all about? Since I had recently started using Adwords™ PPC advertising on a slightly higher scale for my web sites – I had all sorts or things spinning up my head as I [...]
First “Welcome” Blog Post
Welcome to Siddharth Rao’s Blog. The site is now officially “live”…
Phew, I finally kept up to my deadline to get this out there by Nov 15. I’ve been thinking about starting a blog since months. I would primarily write on various topics, mostly related to technology. I hope to build up this blog as a platform for [...]