Post Vacation Decluttering Stress Disorder

A vacation away from the usual distractions – laptop, cellphone, tv, Techmeme, Google News, Twitter, Facebook etc is great.

But settling back into work after a long vacation has become dreadful for some, nightmarish for several others.

Other than the long list of unread messages in your inboxes, you have the hajjar unread items in Google Reader, the several hundreds of Twits (depending on how many folks you follow) and countless other to-do things.

There’s no better way to recover than hitting the ‘mark all as read’ button – if you know a better alternative, do let me know.

I call it the post vacation decluttering stress disorder !!

Ah, the times we live in !!

Brief Blogging break

I’ll be out on a much needed vacation next week so there’ll be very little or no blogging this next week.

FeedPlusPlus – my personal project for RSS Feed Analytics

If you have been subscribing to my blog feed via RSS or email, you might have noticed that over the past several months, links in my feed point to the site www.feedplusplus.com. Here’s some insight into the whats and the whys.

I started Feedpluplus as a personal project in an effort to get additional analytics data on my feed subscribers. FeedBurner does a decent job at estimating the number of feed subscribers, email subscribers, reach etc. However, it does not provide any data on what links were clicked from within your feed.

So for example, this post that I did on Monday provides a link to Andrew Chen’s blog. Feedburner does not provide any data on how many people clicked on that link. Or where the links originated from. In fact there’s no other service available that will provide you that data. I started working on FeedPlusPlus in an effort to collect this data. It is mainly a url redirection service – think of it as TinyURL but for the links in your RSS feeds. So, when you click on a link from within my feed, you get forwarded to FeedPlusPlus, which redirects you to the original link. But before doing that, does the analytics bit of it.

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Wish you a very happy Holi

Here’s wishing you and everyone a very happy Holi. Have fun and enjoy !!

(photo credit bobby)

Sorry about the feed republishes

Sorry about the feed republishes — there were some syncing issues with Feedburner and while tweaking it around, got feeds republished by mistake.

Apologies !!

Taking a week off

Time for a quick break.

I’m taking a week off from blogging & shall return some time middle of next week.

See you in 2009

I will be gone for later part of this year and will return some time first week of 2009. Hope you guys have fun and wish you a very happy new year. Stay safe and stay healthy !!

Looking for a freelance web designer

I’m looking for a freelance web designer for a personal project. Work will include logo + graphic design and web design as well. If you are one or know of a good designer, please drop me an email at contact[at]startupdunia.com. Please provide a link to your portfolio as well.

Note: this is not a job opening but a freelance project.

Online campaign to show solidarity for Mumbai blasts

I’m still unable to recover from the shocking events in Mumbai.  As a means to show support and solidarity for all those who have been affected, I was wondering if we can do some type of online campaign ?

Something similar along the lines of what followed in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings. I for one am eager to show my whole hearted support on my blog, my Orkut and Facebook profile.

If we have a graphic designer in the audience, probably we can have a symbolic graphic like the VTech ribbon ? Drop me a line at contact@startupdunia.com if you can design such a graphic.

I’d also like to know what you think about this idea or if you have any other suggestions.

Yet another sad day for India

Most of you must have known by now about the terrorist attacks on Mumbai earlier tonight.  Its just sad and unfortunate that such attacks continue unabated and keep terrorizing our country and citizens. 

I just hope that unlike the other recent attacks, this attack doesnt become just yet another attack that is forgotten with time. Its high time we take a stand and put an end to this insanity. 

I am just shocked by how brazen and daring this attack has been and my sympathies go out to all families that have been affected by this senseless act of horror.

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