Amit Gupta

Rule of life from an email doing rounds (Claiming these are actually delivered in a high school speech by Bill Gates). Whatever they sound very realistic and the best is kept for the last.
 
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
 
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
 
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you …

There is a interesting contest running on Indian Blog and new Media Society http://ibnms.com/2009/03/03/seagate-contest/#more-31 .
The Contest
You have to write a blog entry on the following topic: Seagate FreeAgent Family and I: What would be the most creative use I could put it to if I had one? And what would I expect from Seagate’s storage solutions that will enhance my content management experience?
So here are my thoughts on the use of Seagate FreeAgent external storage drive (This is my wishlist).
I am looking for “my space” to be myself and do …

Cost Per Click better known as CPC advertising is one of the most popular ROI (return on Investment) driven model in online world. Google has build in a complete empire revolving around this model.
This model provides a win-win situation to publishers (websites), ad-networks (like Google, Komli etc) and advertisers (sellers). Advertisers pays to the ad-networks only when a visitor (prospective buyer) clicks on the advertisement (thereby presumed he expresses interest in the advertiser’s services) on the publisher’s website. Thereby justifying the advertising cost as paid by the advertisers. On the …

This is an absolutely great presentation by Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot, that was originally posted at OnStartups.

I attended my first bar camp which happens to be sixth edition for Delhi. The event is being hosted at MDI Gurgaon. It was quite an interesting experience to attend the sessions in the daylong event. Anybody and everyone was free to pick up a available slot of 30 min to present the topic of their choice. 
The day started with introduction of Bar camp and followed by a three word introduction by all the campers (mine being “Google for amitguptaz” :p ). BTW Bar in Bar Camp is acronym for …

I met Matt Mullenweg last saturday @ wordcamp India. I must say , I am damn impressed by this young champion of new media. He is such a nice and down to earth guy with no air about giving world a whole new medium of expression in way of WORDPRESS.
He shared his journey so far and his vision for the product. He was full of energy on podium and it was flowing across the audience. He was very enthusiastic talking about every update and new features to be introduced in wordpress. Matt’s philosophy …

  
 I’ll be attending the India’s first WordPress Camp to be organised on 21st and 22nd February. To know more and register for event visit :
http://wci.eventbrite.com  
 
 
PS : Event is Co-hosted by Mayank Gupta.  An internet freak , wordpress fan and my sweet little cousin.  I’m proud of you.
Best of Luck …
 

Many many happy returns of the day.  Google always stands for innovation and usability. I wish you many more successful and innovative products. 

I have downloaded  Google chrome today. I am impressed in the first glance. Though it will take some more time to understand how will the brower perform. BUt few features which make it stands out are ;
a) Neat and clean look : A new browsing experience and the window seems to gain that extra screen space. The tabs and search bar are intelligently integrated in the browser. Every pixel is optimally utilized.  
b) One stop shop : Search , Address bar, suggestive search all integrated in one box. Google makes me LAZZZZY
c) Most …

Off-sites trainings are fun and this is my second off-site training camp in People Interactive within six months. Now this is advantage of managing multiple portfolios and slogging.  I got to go out with both software and product offsite to take break from work at makaan.
My last visit to Daman with software team was close to sea and this one at beautiful Karjat near Mumbai. The weather was awesome and it almost rained for our entire stay at karjat.

We had a training, presentations, Jam …