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(Offtopic): From Blogger to WordPress.com – what a bummer and I am to blame

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, offbeat on April 3rd, 2008

You know, one would think a person interested in technology always would do his research before adoption. Well, in my case, my heart always conflicts with my mind. Consider my sudden move from blogger to wordpress.com. It went sort of like this “oh cool, there are some neat wordpress.com templates, I’m bored of blogger, so let me migrate”. I know, it was a ridiculous reason. I did not research wordpress.com’s limitations. After migration, I realized: No google-ads allowed. Darn. I had just about started to see a reasonable return on my old blog The import tool imported the articles alright but did not import images – they kept the blogger URLs. Once I removed my blogger blog, several of the images disappeared. My guess is others will disappear over time No detailed stats. WordPress.com’s own stats is very limited. Statcounter was far superior, but since I can’t plug in JS code, statcounter works with wordpress, but cannot show referrer stats No linkage to analytics. No customizations to CSS unless I buy it. Article URLs were not rewritten – so if you go to my yearly roundups (which I forgot to do for 2007), they will all point to my blogspot.com

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Conceptualize your startup in 1 minute

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, offbeat, world 2.0 on August 16th, 2007

Presenting the most powerful framework for conceptualizing your company. Credit: here Source I read it from: here See this: http://www.tdbspecialprojects.com/ Click on the central ‘shuffle’ button for ‘innovation’. Technology, VoIP, SIP, IMS, Marketing, Corporate Management

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When have you just about had enough with the ‘Always on’ Blackberry?

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, offbeat, world 2.0 on August 2nd, 2007

When do you know you have had enough of ‘always connected Blackberry’ ? When your blinking of the eye matches the rate of the red LED blinking of your Blackberry When you wake up at 2AM to drink water, check your emails instead, then go back to sleep wondering why you are still thirsty When your hand automatically reaches down to your holster because it ‘vibrated’ only to find your phone is in your pocket, or worse, not even with you When you promise your wife not to sit with the laptop all the time only to scroll through your blackberry hidden on the other side of the couch When you like to keep holding your phone because of its ‘warmth’ When you make it a point, while traveling, to smile at someone else using a blackberry and then take yours out for a second, polish it an place it back thinking this is some sort of camaraderie of blackberry users When you have spent more money buying ‘screen protectors’, ‘glass replacement screens’, ‘skintight covers’ and other gadgets as compared to the cost of the phone itself When you get withdrawal symptoms if the red ‘new mail’ LED does not

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2010: A year of so many promises

Published by in Arjun Roychowdhury, offbeat on June 6th, 2007

A friend and I keep talking about how magical 2010 is going to be. No matter what report you read, they promise 2010 will be the harbinger of wealth and prosperity for any market.For example: “…mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market will reach $10.7 billion in service revenue by 2010″ “..the IMS market ,…,investments on IMS equipment are expected to reach US$4.5bn” “…WiMAX revenues increasing …to $3.3 billion in 2010″ “….consumer VoIP market revenues will reach $4.07 billion in 2010″ “…The mobile entertainment market …will grow to $59bn in 2010″ “….worldwide RFID spending to surpass $3 billion….” “…mobile-Phone Premium Content Market to Reach $40 billion by 2010 ” !!Awesome!! Then, I actually searched:”What will fail in 2010″ And the response was: More than half of global tier-one telecom carriers trying to establish new lines of business will fail through 2010 Is this irony or is this irony :-) Technology, VoIP, SIP, IMS, Marketing, Corporate Management

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Off for a few weeks

Published by in offbeat on February 25th, 2007

Hi Readers, Just a short post to let you know that this blog just may be quiet for the next few weeks (hopefully shorter). I am in the process of discovering how lovely yet strenous it is to manage our newborn son :-) A Note to my friends from Russia: Thanks for your email – I apologize for not having responded yet – I will certainly put some thought on your questions and write back by next week. Technology, VoIP, SIP, IMS, Marketing, Corporate Management

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