By Abhijeet Mukherjee on November 26, 2012
A interesting article on how Opera is the most used browser in Belarus.
By contrast, all the Norwegian company behind Opera can offer is the best feature set it can craft and the fastest browser it can make. But that turned out to be the best strategy in Belarus, which remains a largely socialist state with the infrastructure to match, including a state-run communications monopoly, Beltelcom. “One of the main reasons why Opera has a large market share in Belarus is because of the Internet infrastructure in the country; it was pretty bad a few years ago,” Espen André Øverdahl, one of Opera’s community managers wrote in an email, pointing to features that allow users to strip out images and other bandwidth-gobbling web extras.
Looks like Opera’s Turbo feature did the trick for them. It’s a useful feature to have, especially in the developing world where internet speeds are still nothing to boast about. It’s a bit surprising though that none of the other major browsers have this feature built-into them.
Why Is Belarus the Only Country Where Opera Is the Most Popular Browser?
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By Abhijeet Mukherjee on October 8, 2012
What are your blog’s goals? More importantly, do you really know what they are?
Is it making more money through Adsense or other types of ads?
Is it getting more RSS subscribers? Email sign ups maybe?
More traffic? From where? Google?..No? Then? Continue reading “Do You Know Your Blog’s Goals?”
Posted in Blogging |
By Abhijeet Mukherjee on June 18, 2012
I have always believed that marketing without selling your soul is possible. You need not resort to questionable tactics to sell your product. Earning trust the right way is how you should go about it. And that requires time, patience, consistency, persistence and willingness to be in the game for the long haul. Continue reading “The Right Approach to Web Marketing”
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By Abhijeet Mukherjee on April 10, 2012
Facebook just acquired Instagram and the best place to get that news was, of course, Twitter. A number of hilarious reactions emerged and I decided to share some from my timeline here. Have a good laugh! Continue reading “The Funniest Instagram-Facebook Tweets”
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By Abhijeet Mukherjee on January 30, 2012
Saw this tweet from Brian yesterday.
This why twitter is flawed. You can treat it as a narrative stream all you want, but people react to the most recent tweet with no context. Quite true. It also applies to our lives, isn’t it? We tend to assume and draw conclusions from a sentence, a look, a sound, an appearance, a situation or a moment. We rarely care about the context. If we did, life wouldn’t be so much fun, right? You know, less misunderstandings, more respect for the individual, less conspiracy theories, constructive curiosity…who needs all that simplicity!
Posted in Life |
By Abhijeet Mukherjee on January 11, 2012
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a bill which, if passed by the US Senate in the last week of this month, could have unprecedented consequences for small businesses, publishers and individuals not only in the US but around the world.
Copyblogger has an excellent piece up on their site that explains why the bill needs to be stopped now. I urge you to read that article word by word, and then act by signing the petition here – americancensorship.org.
If you are in the US, it clearly states what you should do but if you are not in the US, you need to scroll down a bit and put your email address in the box that says Not in the US? Petition the state department.
You need to understand that a bill like this getting passed in the US could cripple your internet usage no matter where you are in the world. That’s because whatever sites you can’t live without, like Google, Facebook etc are headquartered in the US and bound by the laws of that land. Also companies like Paypal, which form the backbone of Internet businesses around the world, are based in the US and will need to adhere to the provisions of this draconian law (if the act becomes a law that is).
Spread the word about this and pray that US Senators get some sense in their head and vote against this bill on January 24th. If it does become a law then God help the Internet.
Posted in Announcement
How Publishers Can Make the Most Out of Reader Comments
By Abhijeet Mukherjee on August 14, 2012
One of the most important things that separates a blog from other mediums of publishing like a newspaper or a static website is its dynamic nature. The word dynamic not only applies to the ability to post new content or update old ones in real-time, it also means reader participation in a quick and effective manner through comments.
The comments section of a website or a blog is a platform for the reader to express his opinion about the article he just spent time reading. This feature used to be limited to blogs at one point of time, but now, almost every content website that updates regularly has them enabled. Continue reading “How Publishers Can Make the Most Out of Reader Comments”
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