Pictures of Terror Attack on Mumbai

It took three days for National Security Guard, Indian Arms Forces to crush out the violent terror attack on Indian commercial capital city Mumbai and it also took three days for me to decide whether I should share these pictures with you, showing this tragic event which tool nearly 200 lives. But then I decided to put them on to my site to show you how few senseless people want to disturb the peace of this beautiful world.

I glued myself to television set watching on various news channels what’s going on at Mumbai which came under unprecedented night terror attack. Prominent Hotel Taj, Oberoi were under siege, the whole nation was stunned to see this brutal act.

I know all of you have got some idea through internet and international media that how much damage has been done. Many thanks to Indian armed forces, police, Para Military forces, navy and above all Indian Security Guard who on Saturday wrapped up and eliminated three terrorists in Taj hotel after 60 hours. Taj freed from terrorists, but this battle have taken a tragic toll nation’s top police officials -chief of the anti-terror squad Hemant Karkare, Mumbai’s additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte and celebrated encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar was also killed.

Pray with me for peace for the family members of all those who lost their lives in this heartbreaking cruel attack.

Picture Courtesy; Getty Images, AFP, REUTERS, AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror/The Times of India. Many thanks to these brave cameramen who took these pictures showing us live action of terror attack.

Please Note: Some of these pictures here are of graphic nature and not suitable for children and a person with soft heart.

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Twitter Poll – How Much You Would Like to Pay for Using WordPress

I fall prey to twitter mania, I’ve been watching from quite some time every one tweeting tweets at twitter. Problogger Darren Rowse advocate the use of this valuable service and can’t resist being additive to it, he is so obsessed with this new phenomenon that he has dedicated one blogging site of his giving twitter tips to users. The best thing which I like about twitter is this whole “Twitter Poll” thing. I had seen so many times at john Chow’s and Shoemoney’s blog, various poll conducted by these bloggers and lots of twitter user tweeting their opinion on a variety of issues.

To start with I ask my follower that “WordPress is an open source blogging software, but if they ask to pay to use WordPress then how much they would like to pay?’

As am not a hot shot bloggers only few twitter users responded to my opinion call.  But i was more curious to present this on my blog rather then looking for plenty of responses, then the question was; how to integrate these twitter’s tweets into a WordPress blog post? One more time I am very thankful to truly god sent john Chow who comes to my rescue and guides me how I can integrate twitters tweets in a blog post in a more professional way.

Short Conversation between dot Com Mogul and dot Com Guru

It seems I am enjoying interviewing fellow bloggers and biggies of blogsphere these days. First of all it was with blogging buddy Gyutae Park then coder craftsman Andy and now comes short conversation with Mr. John Chow. There is one more coming your way in a very short time. If you go through various pages of this blog I had quoted it at many places that I started blogging only after reading some great stuff of Mr. Chow on his blog, before that I was not even aware any such thing like blogging exists on this earth. So I’m very humbly and respectfully owe this whole blogging thing of mine to Mr. Chow.

Way back somewhere in October 2007, I won this prestigious million Euro Wiki Page from John Chow dot com in a contest where Mr. Chow and Shoemoney were fighting with each other on who could get more RSS subscriber in the month of during contest period, so like many other things John is also pioneer and expert in this blogging contest things, so before starting this lets Win this contest together -Season 2 I had a short conversation with him in which he guide me how to go about it.

Shanker Bakshi: I am starting a big contest, it’s a contributory contest, Am trying to contact big shot of blogsphere to make it big but they are not responding positively.

John Chow: That’s too bad; did you answer the “What’s in it for me” question?

Shanker Bakshi: “HOW TO RUN A CONTEST AND MAKE IT BIG?”

John Chow: That might make a cool blog post

Shanker Bakshi: they can at least response.

John Chow: That answer is pretty easy, you need to answer the question, “What’s in it for me?” Well, you need to answer their questions, it’s not yours, when emailing others to help, tell them what’s in it for them

Shanker Bakshi: okay – that’s a great tip. What is best place/way to promote a blog contest?

John Chow: any place you can, facebook, other blogs, twitter, etc

Shanker Bakshi: These days commenting helps more then anything -what’s your take on this?

John Chow: Yes, if you’re among the first

Shanker Bakshi: If I put a condition to participate in the contest like “TO BLOG ABOUT THE CONTEST” would it be amount to duplicate contents for Google? Lots of bloggers will copy and paste the contest post.

John Chow: Not unless every blog writes the exact same thing, you can solve that by asking a question like “What do you like about it?” that forces them to write something unique.

Shanker Bakshi: That’s a great advise again, thanks for your time, you been always so kind towards me.

John Chow: That’s good for you

Interview With Andy Bailey – The Man Behind Plugin CommentLuv

We bloggers are living in a world where we need Plugins to show our love (or hate for that matter) towards our readers and commentators. Andy Bailey understood this need and crafted one of most downloaded Plugin for WordPress – CommentLuv. At the moment it is processing approximately 150000 Comments per day, that’s enough to establish the fact that how much bloggers love this idea. CommentLuv is a WordPress Plugin which enables bloggers to reward blog readers by leaving a titled link to their last post automatically whenever they comment. This also encourages readers to make more comments.

Andy is a busy man, he has been associated with some other popular projects elottery affiliate, Magnetic Sponsoring, Oceanside Wealth etc. In the following short interview I will ask him about his brain child CommentLuv and some other cool features that he wish to add up in CommentLuv.

Shanker Bakshi: When exactly you got this idea to create a WordPress plugin which rewards readers on a blog?

Andy Bailey: it was at the time that blogrush came out with a widget that showed links to other sites on your blog. I thought it would be better to show links to the sites of the people that contribute to the blog rather than some stranger who already gets traffic I spent a while on a test script and it worked, so I installed it on my own blog after a while, some people asked if they could have it too. The rest is history (in the making)

Shanker Bakshi: Yes it’s a History in the making, how were the initial reactions from its users?

Andy Bailey: Great, if it wasn’t for the reactions I wouldn’t have made it as a release. My only goal at that time was to reward my own readers and it seems to be a common want among bloggers (especially the nice ones!)

Shanker Bakshi: You are totally fallen in love with CommentLuv or there are some other projects you are handing at this moment.

Andy Bailey: I have quite a few projects on and a company to run, I have to do  CommentLuv stuff in my spare time or fit it around doing a project by slipping a couple of extra hours in here and there (mostly late at night)

Shanker Bakshi: what’s your take on Automattic acquiring IntenseDebate? What kind of changes in whole commenting system you were expecting with WP 2.7?

Andy Bailey: I’m not sure on the merits of ID being integrated into WP 2.7. One of the things I like most about CommentLuv is that it creates the community on your own blog, you don’t have to go to a 3rd party site with different details to see what your community is up to. I have tried it out on 2.7 Beta 3 and got CommentLuv to work on it in a rough form so when it comes out I will have an option for it.

Shanker Bakshi: would you like to share some of the new features that you are going to introduce in CommentLuv?

Andy Bailey: The JavaScript file will be remotely hosted this time so I can implement updates without the user needing to download/upload files and more secure and reliable feed handling with easier to understand error messages and the contest is going really well so I want to put in a way of notifying the user that they have won. A long distant future feature would be a way for blogs to allow an ad to be shown as the last blog post when the user doesn’t have a feed. Something that works as a revenue share using a generic term for the anchor text like “just bought a new LCD TV, my review” so it can point to a product page that’s a long way off though.

Shanker Bakshi: Okay – What else Andy Bailey has in store for us?

Andy Bailey: that’s it I’m afraid, CommentLuv takes every sliver of my spare time. the forums, the help desk, the site, the newsletter, the new versions, the updates, the help requests by email, the twitter requests, interview requests (lol!), promotion, prize sending, address getting… it goes on! it’s a great way for me to pass the time doing something I enjoy I have other Plugins I have written but not released but the maintenance time is what stops me , any other plugin would take away time from CommentLuv and I luvs my CommentLuv

Shanker Bakshi: which are other things that excite you besides coding for your projects and all?

Andy Bailey: I have been going to the gym and swim regularly for the past 5 months, that’s pretty good and makes me feel awesome (especially when I have to buy new trousers coz the old ones are too big!) I really like reading sci-fi books but I don’t have the time these days so I have been listening to the dragons of pern series by anne mccaffrey while I am driving on business mostly I like to spend time with my partner, she is the glue that stops me falling apart I like helping too, running a business and an affiliate network is fun (when it doesn’t go wrong or deliveries get lost)

Shanker Bakshi: tell us about your inspiration, the Idol you follow.

Andy Bailey: I’ve been really impressed by Barack Obama speeches, I guess you could say I look up to him in a way. My inspiration is a quote I heard once saying “you can have anything you want just by helping others to get what they want” and the instructions for life taped to the wall behind my monitors , my favorite is number 5 – “Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly”

I’ve always thought Richard Branson was a good role model.

Shanker Bakshi: Any other thing you want to convey to your Comment LUV user and to Shanker Bakshi dot Com Readers.

Andy Bailey: spread the luv!

Shanker Bakshi: that’s so cool, Thanks very much for your time, all the best for all your future assignments.

Andy Bailey: thanks, you too.

Thank You Very Much Entrecard

Let’s Win This Contest Together -Season 2 has completed its half way journey. Responses so far are enthusiastic. There are few things which made this contest bigger and better this time around and one of them is association of Shanker Bakshi dot Com with Entrecard blog. Entrecard has collected 65000 Entrecard Credits from 33 Ad Spot Sponsors. This made my task to make this contest bigger and better very easy. So I like to take this opportunity to thank Entrecard for their Support.

Waterrose from Entrecard was taking care that everything should go all right. Initially few participants were a bit confused on how one can sponsor “Lets Win This contest Together -Season 2″ by purchasing ad spot on Entrecard Blog. Okay, alright, in total 65000 Entrecard credits collected and 33 ad spot booked by contest Sponsors. As I said few sponsors were puzzled as how to go about this .More over Inclusion of Sponsors name in Contest sponsor list delayed when the contest was already on, I got the list from Entrecard on 3^rd Nov and made necessary changes in Contest sponsors list. One last comment I guess on this post on EC Blog from Bintang fuel the fire and graham pull off this whole contest idea from Entrecard blog. You can now promote your contest stuff in Entrecard Forum only and not through Entrecard Blog.

Anyway I thank Graham and his team for supporting Lets Win This contest Together season 2 and thanks again to all sponsor of joined through Entrecard Blog Ad spot purchase.

Here is the list of sponsors from Entrecard Blog

5000 Credits from Techbypc, 5000 EC Credits from slamblogger, 5000 EC Credits from nukeit,  5000 EC Credits from snapshotcap, 3000 EC Credits from semuaorank, 3000 EC Credits from abhinavsonkar, 3000 EC Credits from gewgawwritings, 3000 EC Credits from JoeTech, 2000 EC Credits from babyerika, 2000 EC Credits from sofhaljamil, 2000 EC Credits from wpbeginners, 2000 EC Credits from realmofprosperity, 2000 EC Credits from jdoqocy, 2000 EC Credits from suki-desu, 2000 EC Credits from days of my Life , 2000 EC Credits from impnerd, 1000 EC Credits from Kisahberuang, 1000 EC Credits from Random Detox, 1000 EC Credits from Google Stalking, 1000 EC Credits from Moneyne.ws, 1000 EC Credits from communicatebetter, 1000 EC Credits from work-at-home-wealth, 1000 EC Credits from Getting Personal, 1000 EC Credits from theonlydevice, 1000 EC Credits from tenforty, 1000 EC Credits from skidzopedia, 1000 EC Credits from eleanormordenoaguilar, 1000 EC Credits from sofhaljamil, 1000 EC Credits from seo-tuneup, 1000 EC Credits from medandaily, 1000 EC Credits from lolcelebs, 1000 EC Credits from bestjoanne, 1000 EC Credits from ajabgajab

Lets see who wanna win this HUGE amount of Entrecard Credits.

Join Lets Win Contest together – season 2 HERE to Win these Entrecard credits and More Prizes.

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Gyutae Park -The Ultimate IM Blog Ranking System From WTW

Many of you make Money Online Bloggers might have submitted your blogs to 45n5 for inclusion in his Top MMO Blog List, now if you tried it for ten times and  fail to penetrate in that buddy’s list then you have a better option now to choose.

My friend and blogger Gyutae Park has come up with IM TOP Blog list. He has created this list of Top Blogs under various categories ranked. It uses a variety of important metrics when ranking sites on the list. Ranking is based on 10 Qualify factors weighted according to their importance includes Feedburner RSS Subscribers,  Alexa Rank,  Alexa Rank,  Technorati Rank, Google PageRank,  StumbleUpon Reviews, del.icio.us Votes, Links from his blog Winning the Web,  and User Votes.

I have a sort talk with Gyutae on his IM TOP blog list. He is very enthusiastic about this project , lets see what he has to say about it?

Me: where do you get the idea to make it?

Gyutae Park: I always wanted a list like that so i made it

Me: any inspiration behind it?

Gyutae Park: just a need for it.

Me: How is the response so far?

Gyutae Park: response is good, many people have blogged about it around many have added the badge.

Me: what you wanna say about 45n5 list?

Gyutae Park: well it was very limiting not as many factors

Me: How will you manage when the list will have millions of blogs registered?

Gyutae Park: oh that would be great but I doubt that would happen

Me: Which new features you would like to add in future with this list?

Gyutae Park: not sure yet… Still getting feedback from users.

Me: anything else you want to convey to users of this IM top Blog list?

Gyutae Park: I incorporated all of the features that i thought would be useful

It’s the ultimate list and it should more accurately show the landscape of the IM blogsphere.

Me: thanks very much for your time – I wish success for you hope more and more bloggers will use this service.

Gyutae Park: cool, thanks.

So head over to this page and check this cool list and yes if you have submitted your blog and ranked then don’t forget to place your rank badge on your blog.

Here is mine Rank Badge, I currently stand at rank 268 in Make Money Online Category and I’m very happy about it

Do You Believe This Guy ?

I told you about this guy who sold his blog for 15 Million Dollars, about the guy who make 7000 US$ per day, then about this million dollar Australian blogger Alborz Fallah. Recently we heard about this lady who was going through tough financial crises then one day she order Problogger’s e-book, learn about blogging trip and able to sold her blog for US$ 95000.

Now the question is why am telling you all these stories, the reason is I want to know do you believe in these stories, Seth Godin  stated in his latest post -these are some too good to be true stories.

There are four ways to make a million dollars. Luck. Patient effort. Skill. Risk. (Five if you count inheritance, and six if you count starting with two million dollars).

No doubt these stories are inspirational, but every other day in my g-mail Inbox get i one of such story. I ask myself “should I believe on this, are there really such system exist which make you spiderman overnight.

Now here comes this guy Michael Vincent who claims -

“Who Else Wants To Use My Personal System For Making Money Online That Can Have You Earning $150,000+ This Year…. Working Only One Hour a Day from Your Home Computer”

He has every proof to prove his point. If you go through this page you will see yourself how lucrative his offer is. See there are many people who work really hard but never make it anywhere. What no one tells you is that it’s the people who work smart who are the ones who really prosper in life. I am going to show you how to work “SMART” so you can enjoy life more, make more money and work less..

I must say there is something in it. One more believe it or not…

Shimla – The Beauty Queen Of Hills

As the niche of this blog is make Money Online so I suppose to talk about how to make money online only but I feel from last couple of weeks am giving you all sorts of posts except giving you tips and tricks about how to Make Money Online, that’s a funny situation. I need to dig out whether I had enough of MMO talk, well that’s not the matter I guess, but then I really love to talk about so many other things which I enjoy in every business rather then just shouting out about money only.

Last day I was in Shimla, known as Queen of Hills in India. I’m sorry but can’t hold myself long for sharing pictures of this beautifully city with you, my lovely readers. It’s a hill station situated approx 100 Kilometer from the place where I live. This is actually not the right time to visit this city, best is, if you can be around there during December to February, then you probably can play with white snow which covers Shimla and make it more beautiful.

I used my Nokia Classic 3120 Mobile with 2 MP Camera for taking these pictures so the quality is not that good, I wish I could have a professional Digital Camera. One of the prime Sponsors of lets Win This Contest Together Season 2, my guide and a very good friend of mine Neil Duckett is inspiration for this post. This Guy hails from Australia Presently living in Japan. Visit his site if you wish to see babes and beauty of Japan

White zigzag are roads, another way to reach is Shimla through Toy Train,  The joy one get through this Journey is Wonderful.

It has become a concrete jungle now. Its amazing to see how they have made it.

Yours faithfully.

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Learn Twitter Tips In Wholesale From Darren Rowse

Problogger Darren Rowse is so obsessed with twitter that he has started a new blog TwiTip giving you Tips and Tricks about how you can use Twitter to drive maximum traffic to your site and product.  He is a power packed blogger so people take very seriously whatever he dose. Its only one week ago he started this blog and feed counts already crossed 1000 marks, you and I can only dream to achieve this in initial one year of our blogging voyage. His latest post on his blog has got 100 comments.

Check out his blog TwiTip on Twitter tips and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.

Download Primium News Theme for Free

Tell me how you would feel if you buy a Premium WordPress Theme for some 70 bucks and later on the company from which you had bought that premium theme start allowing its users to download it for free. I know you will feel like you have been pissed off and there are thousands of blogs installing the same theme for which you have paid your precious green money.

WOO is celebrating its first birthday and offering their Rocking Premium News Theme for free. The Original Premium News Theme was the very first premium theme that they ever released. WooThemes is a project started by three respected designers – Adii, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester – whom all share one thing: their passion for WordPress.

Believe me it’s really a Wonderful theme for your lovely blog to wear. I also know since the beginning you were roaming around this theme to download and heck. It’s for free now.

DOWNLOAD PRIMIUM NEWS THEME

BlogRush is Dead – Try And See If Something Else Works

John Reese started BlogRush back in 2007 with bang. Every blogger and his dog installed BlogRush Widget on their blogs. But soon after, few pull off from site complaining it was slowing down site loading time. Well there is no use discussing these things now, BlogRush is no more. It’s a part of internet Deadpool. Adieu BlogRush.

Here is a Official letter about closing of BlogRush by founder John Reese.

After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.

When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one of the fastest growing free services in the history of the Web. During the first year of the service it successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines and the BlogRush widget could be found on blogs all over the world; even up until the moment we closed down the service.

BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems – from security issues to abusive users trying to ‘game’ the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service’s full potential.

Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn’t work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)

I want to say “Thank You” to all of the great bloggers that at least gave BlogRush a test to see if it would work for them. We sincerely appreciate you giving the service a try.

We have received several offers & inquiries about acquiring BlogRush, but we are choosing not to go that route. While many might think this is crazy, we truly feel it’s the ‘right’ thing to do for our users. Believe it or not, it’s not always about the money. In fact, BlogRush will have lost a small fortune when it’s all said and done, and it was by choice. There were many things we could have done to monetize the service but we wanted to make sure it was going to benefit our users first.

Last but not least I want to say that I hope the failure of this service doesn’t in any way discourage other entrepreneurs from coming up with crazy ideas at 4AM (like I did with this one) and from “going for it” to just try and see if something will work. Without trying there can be no success. And as we all know, ideas are worthless without action. The Web wouldn’t be what it is today without entrepreneurs trying all sorts of crazy ideas.

On behalf of the entire BlogRush team, we wish the best of luck to everyone with their own blogs, ideas, and crazy ventures.

Sincerely,

John Reese

Question for you:

What do you think was the basic reason behind the failure of BlogRush.

How Many Website We Have On The Internet?

When Dow Jones stock trend is desperate to kiss the x-axis of stock graph, this trend analysis has some attractive “figures” to discuss. In October 2008 survey conducted at Netcraft noticed 182,226,259 web sites. So we are a family of 182 millions Publishers and webmasters. It reflects a growth of 948 thousand.

Numbers of active web sites are not as much of in the total counts of 182 Web Sites in World Wide Web.  Interestingly approximately 11 million sites are hosted on Google’s own web servers which tally to the 6% of total web sites on the internet.

Total Sites across All Domains August 1995 – October 2008

Like the very wholehearted stats about blogging from Technorati, stats about growth of the internet presented by Netcraft are encouraging.

Matt Mullenweg Believes In Power Of Comments And Discussions In Blogging

The kid who own WordPress, created Anti-Spam comment Plugin Akismat, bbPress and Gravatar, founder of Automattic recently acquired two potential ventures Polldaddy and IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate is a comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog or website. That means matt is taking these commenting and discussion thing much seriously.  I guess he will incorporate features on IntenseDebate in next update on WordPress.

In my previous post I detailed about BackType. But IntenseDebate seems to me the bigger venture as now its get support from Automattic. If you are wondering What IntenseDebate does then see check out these cool features IntenseDebate performs.

1. Comment Threading
2. Reply-By-Email
3. Importing/Exporting
4. Commenter Profiles
5. Reputation Points & Comment Voting
6. Moderation/Blacklisting
7. Widgets -You can display your blog’s comment stats, the most recent comments made on your blog, your most popular posts on your blog, the most recent comments
8. RSS Readers & Tracking
9. Twitter -When you post a comment with IntenseDebate you have the option to send a Tweet on a post-by-post basis letting your followers know you commented on a post. It’s a great way to share posts
10. FriendFeed -when comments are made in the context of your blog on FriendFeed, IntenseDebate will republish them back on your blog! All you need to do is enter in your FriendFeed URL and select the option in your IntenseDebate profile
11. OpenID
12. Gravatar
13. HTML Formatting

At present IntenseDebate is not ready for full fledge operation. Soon it will be up for powering your commenting and discussion habits.

Share in comment below how you find this service.

Find, Follow and Share Your Comments With BackType

Do you ever feel need to see all your comments that you have left on different sites on one page, now you can do it with BackType. All you have to do is to submit URL which you use while making comments on different sites; it will track all your comments and publish on one page.

You can also follow Comments of your favorite bloggers, well if you wonder what Chris brogan, Brian Clark Darren Rowse reading and commenting then this may be the best source where you can access all these top shot bloggers comments on other’s blogs.

It’s a useful tool to share your comments that you have made on other’s blogs and will help you track if someone else is using your URL for commenting, or spamming I would say.

You can place comment widget on your blog which will feature comments on your blog or other websites with a single line of HTML.

BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you fill out the “Website” or “URL” field in a comment form when you publish a comment on a blog or other website, BackType attributes it to you. We give comment authors a profile featuring all the comments they’ve written on the Internet. If you don’t have a website to use when you fill out comment forms, sign up and use one of ours

Only after registering with BackType I realize how lazy I’m in making comments, I should have improve that skill.

Check it out this cool tool

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