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If you are a webmaster or have your own blog, uploading and sharing pictures from your own or hosted webserver usually is a pain especially if you exceed bandwidth limitations and you end up paying extra money to your host ISP. To avoid all this, I use Flickr and before that I used to use Photobucket.

I have come across this free service called Shareapic which not only matches the quality levels and ease of use of Flickr and Photobucket but goes a step further that makes it different from the rest. You also get to make Money $$$ simply by sharing your photos online. When you host a picture gallery on Shareapic, you can shown this gallery to your family and friends and also to your blog visitors. Every time someone views a picture, you get paid.

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The TechCounter linkback program aims to connect with you whether you are an established expert in your field and have been blogging away for a while or for those who are new at blogging and would like to be part of a link exchange program.

Why Should I participate in TechCounter’s Linkback program?

1. For starters, getting a link from another blog helps boost your rank on Technorati and other blogs. If you add me to your Technorati Favorites, I will add you back. Add TechCounter to your Technorati Favorites

2. I am a CEO of a company and also a partner in a VC firm where we are constantly on the lookout for fresh content online. One of our most successful sites is AskStudent, a top Student portal. Staying in this program gives you a fast track to me and under the spotlight of a Venture Capital firm where we can get you started on making megabuc$s the fast way.

3. You will get increased traffic from TechCounter with a linkback and the my other affiliate blogs who are participating in this program.

4. The two other affiliate blogs participating in this program are AskStudent ( a Page Rank 5 Blog!) and ajit1 (Page Rank 3)

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The Government of India is proposing to offer all Indian Citizens, a nationwide free broadband service and it plans to implement this high speed broadband connectivity by the year 2009. The good part is it has the financial capability to implement such a measure. Unknown is if it has the technological capability.

The Government according to Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran has set a target of 9 million broadband subscribers by the end of this year of which 7 million are expected to come from the State owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited. According to the Telecom Minister

Key Points:

1. Broadband connections in India posted a growth of 70% to touch 2.3 million at the end of March as compared to 1.35 million last year. Broadband subscribers were 2.21 million in February’07 to 2.30 million by March’07 thus adding 0.09 million new subscribers in the month of March

2. The government plans to achieve free broadband connectivity at a speed of 2MB per second across the country

3. The idea is to boost economic activity in general

4. Project can be financed by spending only a portion of the burgeoning corpus of the Universal Service Obligation Fund

5. While consumers would cheer, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business handling the broadband sector in India.

We in the United States have seen such offers of free high speed broadband being offfered by a lot of cities. Many Municipal corporations across the United States have in general complained about the lack of affordable and reliable broadband options for their citizes. When there was a lack of a major initiative coming out of Washington, these cities have taken matters into their own hands. These cities in the US have blanketed themselves with wireless broadband connectivity and offering this to the city residents for free. Many cities, concerned about their ability to respond to terrorist attacks or natural disasters, also hope to beef up their sometimes unreliable emergency communications systems using Wi-Fi technology.

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