Will the Indian IT industry (BPO and Call Centers) revive..

Will the Indian IT Industry (BPO and Call Centers) revive which suffered a huge setback due to the Global recession revive. Not very soon, as recent results show. What will be near future. Not very hopeful too.

Whether we like to accept or not, the Indian IT Industry is heavily dependent on the American Industry. If the American Financial markets revive, then there will quick revival of the IT Industry. However, the Obama adm, with a clear mandate to revive the American Industry, has put in several restrictions on the Financial markets in exchange for bailouts and support. And, separate measures seem to be enforced to ensure work stays within USA.

And, the employment still hovering around 10%, the American economy will take a while to offload work to other countries.  Till then Indian IT companies will have to bid for projects in India and elsewhere, or Innovate and bring out their own products.

Will the conservative Mr. Narayan Murthy succeed with his Venture fund

Last week, we got the news that Mr. Narayan Murthy, Chief Mentor of Infosys, has started a Venture fund. Now, venture fund is an altogether different ballgame compared to the running of a company.

Of course, he is a proven tough negotiator and hard nosed businessman, but, running  a venture fund requires one to be prepared to loose money in some projects and gain in others. Not that Mr. NRN, is not aware of this…

Let us build a relationship on what you do and what I do

“Let us build a relationship on what you do and what I do” rather than who am I and who You are is the philosophy of webmasters and site owners in the world Internet.

I thank Mr. KSR Murthy (K. S. R. Murthy), retd. DGM SBM,  for giving this idea.

And I wholeheartedly agree. Those webmasters or simply put, site owners, who understand and build upon this philosophy can get a steady traffic to their website. Of course, you have to take a little bit of help from “Google Pagerank” to evaluate a site.

A blog about C# and other interesting stuff

 

Peter Bromberg’s blog is the blog to visit if you wish to read about varied topics right from Politics to C#. And, his views on politics are extremely interesting. Not that others are not, but, his views are more than interesting as they take you right into the core issue and he provides a solution. His post titled “Doomed to repeat history” brings out the point which many in US around the world fail to acknowledge. The bush administration did indeed protected Americans from any attack for seven years.

Started back in 2004, when blogging probably really took off, Peter has posted more than 500 posts. The blog posts on C# and programming, and general computer usage tips are very useful to all. He covers various topics on programming such as registry, IIS, backups, getting a software for free, web config files, explorer shortcuts, and f#.

A man can be judged by his actions. I believe he can also be understood by the quotation he likes. Peter has around 43000 quotes, all stored in a database his site :  myidentityplus.com. Constantly adding new posts, with a wide topic range always to the point, and willing to link back Peter’s blog truly participates in the philosophy of the internet “An interconnected world”.

Peter Bromberg’s blog is the blog to visit if you wish to read about varied topics right from Politics to C#. And, his views on politics are extremely interesting. Not that others are not, but, his views are more than interesting as they take you right into the core issue and he provides a solution. His post titled “Doomed to repeat history” brings out the point which many in US around the world fail to acknowledge. The bush administration did indeed protected Americans from any attack for seven years.
Started back in 2004, when blogging probably really took off, Peter has posted more than 500 posts. The blog posts on C# and programming, and general computer usage tips are very useful to all. He covers various topics on programming such as registry, IIS, backups, getting a software for free, web configfiles, explorer shortcuts, and f#.
A man can be judged by his actions. I believe he can also be understood by the quotation he likes. Peter has around 43000 quotes, all stored in a databasehis site :  myidentityplus.com.

Constantly adding new posts, with a wide topic range always to the point, and willing to link back Peter’s blog truly participates in the philosophy of the internet “An interconnected world”.

 

 

Useful topics for ASP.Net application developer

This post is about the topics a programmer has to be thorough with when he/she is about to be begin developing an ASP.Net Database driven Application. The topics and a brief introduction about the topic with a link to web resources is given below.

1.  Server Controls

2.  Validation Controls

3.  State Management

4.  Master Pages

5.  Site Navigation

6.  Themes

7.  Autentication

8.  Gridview controls

9.  User Interface design

10. Enforcing Validation programmatically

11.  Error Pages

12.  Data Sources

13.  Detail View controls

14.  Form View controls

15.  Setting properties of controls

16.  Using Field Validation

17.  Displaying reports in a form

 

The best site for information on ASP.Net

A good thing MS did is to have a dedicated site for ASP.Net.  This is the official Microsoft site for ASP.Net. Includes links for downloading AJAX, ASP.Net framework and Visual Developer and has a bing search bar at the top.

A new book on developing ERP software

A new book on developing ERP software using VB, SQL for the .Net platform was released last month. Features include developing software using layers which enables easy porting of the app onto the Web.

Covers Accounting, Manufacturing, Purchase, Sale and Inventory modules. Useful for those who are developing software (erp) for factories and companies.

More about the book can be seen here ERP Software development using VB and SQL

Satyam – Asatyam

Satyam computers is (was?) thought of as a younger brother of the big ones – Infosys, Wipro, and TCS. This view was more prevalent among the public and investors.

But, anyone who worked at Satyam knew the company was walking on a thin edge. Or anyone who followed trends  with a bit of caution.  The news that Satyam is sick and the Chairman admitting that he cheated everyone shows that that everything was not hunky dory. If Google is growing, climbing up the pyramid, it is bound to start hitting at the OS space, occupied by Microsoft. After limited results of the Google Desktop and Chrome, Google has opened up another front with its Android OS. So, when we do not see any kind of public announced strategies, tactics, and service improvements, etc. it is time to take stock and be alert.

On the other hand, there was an eeriee similarity when the quarterly results ( :-< ) were announced by the four top IT companies. The percentage of profits on sales were similar, there was a similarity in general trends  (increase or decrease in growth) etc. Combine this with the fact that there are few IT companies apart from the top four with high growth and huge sales, govt. should have become alert and saved hundreds of small investors from loosing their hard earned savings.

Most of what Satyam has been saying about itself is ‘Asatyam’.

The recruitment scenario and health of IT Industry in India

Given the secretive nature of Indian IT industry, it is difficult to make an estimate of the real goings on in the companies. Of all the indicators available recruitment, attrition, general opinion of employees (if you can get any) and announcements are used to make quick assesments.

Of late, companies have given a slower guidance on recruitment indicating that things are not hunky dory.

NASSCOM has also indicated a true picture, for once, by saying that recruitment is slow.

What knowledgeable people are asking what about the existing staff. Is attrition also a problem or a bigger problem now?

Link building scam

When Google thought of Links as a means to judge a site, they would never have imagined the magnitude of link building scams they would have indirectly helped to grow and fool the gullible website owners.

People who have been watching how this link building story has developed, will have seen how text-link-ads.com and textlinkbrokers.com sites and many other sites have been penalized for selling links. (text-link-ads.com has since recovered and page rank is back in place). The rule google seems to be following is that – any link purchased for boosting page rank is not acceptable. So, to the question of how to tell google that a link is a bought link is to include the rel=’nofollow’ tag. So, a directory which includes a rel tag is legit. By including the tag, no link juice is passed on from the directory and so no boost to page rank. However, you still get the traffic. This is surely going to dissuade the text link buyers, as they will not get any link juice but only link traffic.

There are some some directories which still value highly. One example is yahoo directory. http://dir.yahoo.com

A listing in yahoo directory under a category chosen by an editor, may not boost page rank, going by the google rule stated above. But, there may other benefits which in turn could boost page rank. The one benefit which i have observed is the number of pages google crawls and the frequency with which it crawls your website. A listing in yahoo has a beneficial effect.

Listing in any other directories may not bring much either in terms of page rank boost or higher web traffic.

Some seo experts state that listing in niche directories is still valued by Google. While this statement looks logically correct, it still does not hold when you apply the Google no page rank for links purchased. In fact, I see a subtle effort by certain seo blogs to keep some directories alive by recommending them.

But web site owners have to see that it is not always possible to get a link without exchanging something with other website owners. In fact, Google has no problem if you create a link resource page with links and a brief text to sites which are based on the same theme as yours. Also, you can always exchange links with websites which have same theme and topics as yours. So, if exchanging is ok, buying a link should be too, as long as you do not over do it. Buying a link, may be easier in a few cases, but not always. And a webaster of a website which has high rank may not want to link to all sites, unless he/she is sure . Remember buying a link from a website owner with your same theme is easier said than done.

Where does this leave our link building experts. Remember a link building expert will probably have created an inventory of websites from which it is possible to get links. Now, to serve you, for your website with a particular with a particular theme, a link building expert has to search and create a new inventory of websites with relevance to your website. All this means, a link building expert has to work full time for getting you links on a continuous basis. This in turn means that link building is an expensive and out of reach for small and medium website owners. So, all the low cost link building services you see on Google and Yahoo are many a times not worth the money.

So, where does this leave the text link brokers ?

Let us recall that Google hates any kind of patterns in your incoming links.  By hiring text link brokers and other such inventory based agents, you are putting yourselves under risk, you and your competitor may be getting links from similar sources. In future, the risk may turn out to be a grave risk as Google may go hard on link buyers. If you consider how the whole link building story has progressed, you will see that Google started discounting links with same anchor text. Google has now started discounting links which are purchased. Google also discounts links which are from forums and free web pages, unless the free web pages are having a high page rank. Google discounts links from directories.

So, be aware of any expert who says i will get you links for $100 per month or $300 per month, because, link building involves, writing great content, identifying web sites which are relavent to your website, contacting the web master, offering a proposal, negotiating and following up to ensure that the terms are honoured. This is a full time work which cannot be done as a part time service.

So, how did http://www.text-link-ads.com get back its rank ? You will have known the answer ….