Ritesh Sapra Digitalized

With the evolution of the ‘Internet’, information seems to be just a click away.

If you want to check the latest movie running at your nearest cinema house, or you want to read reviews about a new restaurant - its all available on the Internet.

Infact, buying any new product is a breeze, since you can read first hand reviews online, and then make a decision if you really wish to go for the product.

All this sounds good and while you can find most of the information online, there still are things which dont exist online.

Recently, I wanted to travel from Vashi to Bandra, and I had coupons with me, which meant I didnt have to stand in the queue, and I could just punch in the coupons and travel. But WAIT! How do I know what is the fare for a first class single ticket to travel from Vashi to Bandra - the line was so huge that I didnt wish to waste my time standing in the line. Anyhow, I finally managed to get hold of the right amount, but thats a whole story on its own.

Later when I got home, I tried to find this information online, and to be surprise there is no single website that mentions the fares to travel from one station to another in a Mumbai local train.

Surprising eh?

When the iPhone was launched all over the world, every country had its own share of hype. The iPhone was launched in India on 22nd August 08, and barring the few who were really interested in buying the phone, didn’t even realize when the iPhone launched.

Most of us were expecting a very competitive price, but Vodafone and Airtel failed to impress and launched the base model 8Gb iphone for Rs 31,000/- and the 16GB model for Rs 36,100/- which is a very heavy price to pay, when most of the functions don’t work in India.

So did you buy the iPhone or are you like others waiting for the companies to reduce the price.

No one looks at you with surprise these days, if you tell them you own a domain. You take your wife out for a movie at a multiplex, and that could cost you more than the price you pay for a regular domain name (.com, .net, .org) for a whole year.

But I am just wondering how much would you pay for a domain name? If the domain you wish to acquire is available, absolutely good for you, but if it isnt, how much will you shell out to buy it.

I recently inquired about the domain name “riteshsapra.com”, and the owner of the domain asked me for a cool $2200. I owned riteshsapra.com in 2003 I think, but didnt renew it, and it was acquired by someone else. No way am I shelling out $2200 for a .com, if I already have riteshsapra.net

Now for the kicker. A relative of mine owns “Surat.Com” and has had it since the year 1999. For those you dont know, Surat is a city in Gujarat, and was even awarded the cleanest city in India. He has put up Surat.Com up for sale, and is expecting a whooping 6 fugure $. Any takers?

Is he justified in asking for so much, or is that a distant dream?

O2 is the sole network on which the iPhone is available in the UK. O2 said that the initial order of new iPhones had been split roughly in half between pre-orders, which can only be made online, and stores, which will begin selling the device on Friday.

O2 started the pre-orders at 8am on 7th July. Around 2,00,000 people had already pre-ordered their iPhone online, but as more and more people started getting online - the O2 website crashed. It couldnt take the load of so many users simultaneously tryign to pre-register their iphone.

Now, this is the impact the iPhone already has

Emails have surely changed the way we communicate professionally. On an average, we atleast send out 15-20 emails per day, not releasing that some people might set an image about us just by looking at our emails.

Since emails have become such an integral part in our professional lives, we should use them wisely and think twice before sending them out.

Some tips that might be useful:

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According to latest reports, the iPhone will be launched at an approx price of INR 20,000/- which according to me, is not at all expensive.

The iPhone is launching at $199 in the US, but people tend to forget it comes with a 2 year contract, which means you commit to pay a fix monthly sum. Ofcourse you get credits worth that much, but what if you dont utilise your minutes, its not worth it.

As far as I understand, AT&T have hiked their data plans, and wouldnt be less than $50 per month, so a 2 year contract would costs $199 (Iphone) + ($50 X 24) = $1399 (INR 58,758)

In Australia, telstra is launching the iPhone at $279 AUD for the 8GB model, and $399 for the 16GB model, but you would have to go on a $30 monthly plan, which works out total to around $999 AUD(INR 35,964) for the 8GB model.

If you do not wish to pay anything for the iPhone, you can do so on a $80AUD monthly plan, which works out to $1920 AUD(INR 69,120). I’m wondering who would really go in for this option?

So, all said and done, folks in India should not think that INR 20,000 is expensive.

There are a lot of bloggers out there, making a lot of moolah through Google Adsense. Some of them write articles on ‘technology’, while there are many writing articles on ‘Self motivation’ etc. Some even write about making money online, and if the figures of their reader base is anything to go by, they all are very very popular.

I know a couple of technology bloggers who are making a lot of moolah, and according to them, most of their traffic is via google.

Before going futher, lets try and analyse how a regular user would search for some information, say for eg: “iPhone launching in India”

He types in “Iphone launching in India” in Google, and suppose, a technology blog links pops up on the first page. He’d visit the site and if finds something he likes, he might explore the site further. If he doesnt find the information he is looking for, he’d ideally close the webpage and look at other search results on Google.

Whereas, someone who is searching for “motivation artciles” might tend to click on ads, if they are really relevant, coz the users might not be really tech savvy, but people who are searching for ‘Iphone’, ‘linux help’, or for that matter absolutely anything related to technology might be more tech savvy, and less likely to click on ads.

Can someone explain how people manage to earn 4 figures monthly??

I personally think someone who is searching for “Technology” related articles will NOT click on ads, so I have launched a bollywood website “http://bollywoodgyaan.com“, which according to me, should reap better benefits, and vistors to a bollywood website might tend to click on ads.

What do you have to say ??