10 Sep 07
Be first!
Entrepreneurial Proverbs
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial_proverbs.html
Some really interesting proverbs for the entrepreneur in all of us
“Cool ideas are useless without great needs”
“Start with nothing, and have nothing for as long as possible”
“For investors, the product is nothing”
“Great things are made by people who share a passion, not by those who have been talked into one”
Ahh goto run … a new bug to resolve and so much more to think about in my spare time :p
10 Sep 07
Dipankars on the net
Well like all geeks and nerds i am obsessed about the ranking of my page when i search for “Dipankar Sarkar” , “Dipankar” 
. The good part is that there are very few “Dipankar Sarkar” to challenge me …. the sad part is that there is some competition on the “Dipankar” space … and i am 12th on that list …
So the challenger’s are : (google term : ‘dipankar’)
- Dipankar Bhattacharya - http://www.rri.res.in/~dipankar/
- Dipankar Dasgupta - http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~dasgupta/
- Dipankar Banerjee - http://www.iiap.res.in/personnel/dipu/index.html
- Dipankar Raychaudhuri - http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/pub/docs/faculty/RayBio.html
- Dipankar Das - http://dipankardas.blogspot.com/
- Dipankar Kasaju - http://dipankar.com.np
- Dipankar Ghose - http://www.kolkatabirds.com/odipankar.htm
- Dipankar Dey - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223336/
- (Crappy search on HT for Dipankar Gupta)
- Dipankar - http://www.kuzzuk.net
- (A bangladesh university ) - www.atishdipankaruniversity.edu.bd
The cool thing is that the top 4 are all research people, which makes sense. They will have publications and research linking to other sites thus increasing their popularity. I cant explain 5 , 7 , 8 , 9 , how exactly have they beaten me on this list. Will need to do a bit more research and see how i can hit top 5 on this list .
The coolest part is that i think google search has started to falter on search results, this is going to open a whole new phase of the search battle. Waiting to see what people at poweset and cuill will do to improve search …. lets see …
6 Sep 07
Start of another blog
So today marks the beginning of a new blog here . This will be a blog dedicated to my financial ambitions on and off the internet. The content of this blog will be completely non-technical and will look at what drives most people in my honest view ($$$). In an effort to improve my rather sad looking blog, i have gone for a looks upgrade. The following changes have been made :
- After looking at techcruch’s 900px+ width, i have decided to increase the width of both the blogs for maximum space utilization.
- The right content bar with two sidebars for ads, widgets , etc. has really caught my attention and i have modded my wordpress blog acordingly. I have registered on some ad networks to see if they deliver on what they state. Adsense it seems hates my blog :P, wont let me register.
- Widgets will play a useful role going forward, so the space will be useful, would love to have a small social networking widget on my blog. Hopefully i can get sometime to implement something like that. I checked out a very cool forbes.com list widget on widgetbox , it looks very impressive.
Some of the ad networks i registered for are :
- Textads
- Amazon
- Yahoo Beta (yet to get an invite actually)
- Connection junction
More as i learn about the blogging world … see you on the other “blog”
3 Sep 07
Whats up ….
Just a reminder post on what all i am tackling this week :
1. Joomla extension development , its awesome fun . Will release something real useful soon.
2. pidgin(formerly known as gaim) development. I think i will join their patch submission group soon.
3. Fixing Net::POP3 on ruby … i think its kinda buggy …. lets see if i need to dive into some hacking to get it working for me …. 
more randomness to follow …..
I think i need to finish the 3rd … really stuck up some stupid errors … that is forcing me to develop on my X2 at home .. need some RAD action 
….
