Blog Marketing Journal has good collection of posts on different techniques for marketing and promoting your blog. They cover SEO, email surveys and more.
Pranav Mistry was a junior in school with me and we worked on a few science projects together. He was actually the person who took over Young Scientist Club I established in my hometown when I moved to Mumbai. I knew he was bright, but my jaws dropped when I saw his latest project!
Quickies are super stickies. They do handwriting recognition, sync with your computer and can alert you on the mobile. They even know their position. And sure, you can stick them around as well. Check out the video above, and pay a visit to the project site to know more.
Great work Pranav, I am thrilled about you!
BTW, Kartik told me about this, and Pranav and Kartik are cousins!
Work has been very hectic these days. Lot of new project discussions going on. My to-do lists are getting longer and I am not satisfied at the end of the day. Most of the things are not completed by the end of the day, and goals just keep on getting dragged. Everyday I come into the office, there is a new task at hand, which takes half my day. Everyday I think I will go out to the tech team and review what they are doing, solve some technical problems (which is something I love). Everyday I wish I complete some personal tasks (I haven’t still selected the wedding photos to print nor have I told about my book to a lot of friends!). But these things just don’t get done!
So what am I doing wrong? Why do all days go busy and only little gets accomplished? Why are there so many “open” items? And really, what can I do about this?
The post is excellent, and you must go read it. I am putting the points down here for my reference!
10. Make a lunch or dinner date (to create a deadline).
9. Write down the first thing you have to do tomorrow morning and put it on your keyboard before you leave the office.
8. Don’t check email for the first hour of the day.
7. Decide NOT to do one task on your to-do list and cross it off.
6. Edit that email you’re writing down to less than five sentences.
5. Cut someone off.
4. Book a meeting with yourself.
3. Master the art of the qualified yes.
2. Block out distractions and set a timer.
1. Do a free jot brain dump.
I know of most of these, and have practiced them at some time or the other! But it takes practice, and ongoing reviews!
Every week, I learn a lot of new things. From blogs, comments, books and people. Here are some of the things that caught my attention this week, that you may want to take a look at.
Automate Your Online Business -
4 easy steps that will save you time, make you money and free you up to run your business from anywhere in the world.
Invent Now - Have a great idea? Want to invent something? Go ahead and try out!
Best4c - a superb online charting tool, developed in Flex, by LenovoLabs. I wish they opened the source!
Sphinx -
Free open-source SQL full-text search engine. Works directly over MySQL (or other DB), no extra modules necessary to work with PHP.
iPhone Open Application Development - Do you want to develop native applications for iPhone, and not get limited to web apps? This book tells you how to unlock the phone and develop iPhone apps in Objective C.
Try Phone - Test-drive Mobile Handsets before you buy them. It gives you fully interactive online virtual handsets to test-drive mobile devices, applications, content and services, from within your browser! (this was a business idea a friend had, but looks like Mobile Complete did it faster!)
stock.xchng - Stock Exchange - high quality free stock images
Finally! Here are some of the photos from Sangeet, Wedding, Reception and Honeymoon. Click on an image to see the photos. Add a comment where you like!
