This blog appears on the first page of Google search results for this creepy expression. I was just going through my search engine traffic stats using 103bees, and somebody searched for this expression and found my blog on the first page. This is sad; I don’t want my blog to be found for such bloodcurdling terms.
A few months ago I had written how Airtel was trying to fleece money out of me. Now my sister has been having umpteen problems with TATA Indicom whose Internet service she uses. I’m sure the management at the top level of these companies doesn’t intend to pursue such spurious measures (or maybe they do) and it all happens at the level of their incompetent staff but if this trend continues they’re going to leave lots of ripe ground for new, more efficient and sincere companies. Interestingly, more information can be found at the India Broadband Forum and it seems people even share their problems there with other users. This complaints board is a good option too.
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I think this could be an ideal situation. In this connected world there should be no need to go to an office and work; you should able to do everything from home. Okay there are certain tasks where you simply cannot avoid commuting, for instance working in a factory (I think even that can be remotely operated), but still there is lots of stuff that you can do without having to go to your workplace.
Danny at the Outlaw Design Blog has decided to manage all his work from a beach in Costa Rica. I remember another person — an SEO consultant — who works from his beach house somewhere in Australia, right now I cannot recall his name. Danny in his blog post has delved upon a few online resources that can help you manage your work from any remote location.
So is it possible for everybody to work from wherever he or she wants to? I think it depends on what occupation you follow. I write content for living and I also program for an ongoing client in PHP. Although I stay in NOIDA (a small satellite town or rather a big city near New Delhi), all my clients are from America and Europe. My livelihood is such that provided I have a decent Internet connection, a laptop, and a place to sit I can work from anywhere. But in India it is easier said than done. There is hardly any decent connectivity at the places I would like to stay. Assuming one day I decide to buy a beach house in Goa (wishful thinking of course, I am long way from that ability) and start working from there; most of my money I am sure will be going towards maintaining my Internet connection because there wouldn’t be an easier, economical way of staying connected 24 x 7. Or it may still be possible in Goa but I don’t want to go there. I would rather stay in a small, non-happening town somewhere either in Punjab or Uttar Pradesh; even the dial-up connection is not available there sometimes.
The tools that Danny has mentioned in his blog post also depend on the sort of connectivity you have. For instance it will take ages with my current “broadband connection” to manage all my files through a remote server; downloading and uploading files in itself will turn out to be an arduous exercise.
Nonetheless, this is a great idea: to be able to work from wherever you feel like. As technology and infrastructure improves I think most of us will be working from home. Just imagine working from your ancestral home in a small village, for a multinational company with cows and buffaloes mooing around you philosophically. This is not only healthy it is also good for family life and of course it is safe. With so much traffic congestion, choking pollution, and so many accidents happening routinely, it is better that you stay at home and work from there.
It is much easier to be able to work from anywhere if you work as a freelancer just as I do.
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This is a bit hard to believe. The famous social news bookmarking website Digg.com has struck an advertising deal with Microsoft to display ads on its website that gets 17 million unique monthly visitors. It’s a 3-year deal.
Most of its users will term this deal as a “deal with the Devil”. Digg used to display the Google ad network’s ads prior to this. Microsoft struck a similar advertising agreement with the social networking website Facebook last year.
I think it’s not a loss for Google, but a definite gain for Microsoft. I’ve never considered the Digg audience as a serious audience, although Digg can be a good source of accidental traffic surges, especially if you run a technology, web designing or blogging related blog. They act like a herd, and most of the digging is controlled by the top 100 diggers. So I wonder how much ad revenue Google is going to lose by not being able to display its ads there.
For Microsoft it’s a new entry into the Web 2.0 world (it never actually hit the Web 1.0 world). Compared to Google advertising network, Microsoft’s advertising network is a tiny one, so it is a significant stride for Microsoft.
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