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it's the individual pages made by a squidoo member, i guess! Am i right?

Absolutely ET. It is just a page, but since it focuses on one and only one subject, it is called a lens.There you go Khushi!

Renie, If I were a girl, I would have told you: "You are a darling". And you got it bang on. It is an experiment. Frankly I am quite tired of seeing Indian bloggers languishing at the bottom of the heap. And I am hoping that this will make a difference. Let us see.

By the way, I get a lot of visitor through Indiblogger. Has anyone else observed this?

ET you are at number 1, man! With 5 votes. Su, you are at No. 2 with 4 votes. Just FYI

I am obsessed or am I obsessed?

I check up the ranking twice a day. And right now it stands at 2513. Isn't that great? Has anyone noticed any increase in traffic or ranking because of this? Itmay be too early, but please do let me know if you see some movement. Thanks.

Oh by the way, 24 blogs but only 3 people have rated the lens!

Good going amitabhji!

There are visitor's from indiblogger,that's right!

Oh yeah! and I think there is movement to my blog from the squidoo side as well!

All fine and great!!

Except that I have ec lab exams tomorrow :(

@Su, The Squidoo lens is just 3 day old - or is it 4? - give it tome  my dear friend. How did your exam go? Indi blogger gets me also heaps of visitors. So that makes me happy.

@ET all the best for your EC lab exams.

Hi Amitabh,

Can you add my blog too?

chennai2canada.blogspot.com

I tried doing it myself, but I was left hanging twice.............

Thanks,

Nalini

Nalini,

It will be a pleasure.

Cheers!

Amitabh

Nalini - it is done. But yoy still have to register (free) to Squidoo to be able to vote and ghive me *****'s.

Others, I have added a new feature to my lens. Every week I will take a blog and feed its RSS. This week I have taken from the top of the heap.  Take a look at the Featured Blog. (http://www.squidoo.com/Blogroll-India)

Since I last posted the top of the heap changed rapidy. Have a look guys.

@ET, in any case your RSS feed remains for 1 week.

Thanks for the information Amitabh, it is a cool idea.

My pleasure Sanjeev.

There are some advertisements on the lens. In order that that does not repulse people who are against monteisation on Internet, let me explain how I am not directly benefited by the advertisements (I looked around to find this out).

There are two aspects of making money on Squidoo. (a) All clicks on advertisements go to a common fund. It does not come to me. So whether you click on the ads or not does not make any difference. 50% of the money through ads go to a common fund which is distributed to all lens masters (that would include me and a few 100,000+ other people) using some secret formula. I will let you know when I get the few cents  (b) If some one buys books using the Amazon links (some lens master also put e-bay and zazzle links, etc) then that money goes directly to lens master.

Going by my experience almost no Indian (I say almost because I have bought a few books on Amazon, but I do not know any who do) buys on Amazon. So do not worry about me getting rich. Please submit your blogs and promote your blogs (for voting) without fear.

In case, you are good at selling, you could try to make a few lens and try to sell using the above mentioned modules.

I hope the above information helps.

Cheers!

Just to inform you chaps - the lens now ranks at 1554. I hope there is some traffic flowing in.

i did

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in update. Was busy with the Airshow --- the business days have been hectic.

Ok here goes ...

43 Blogs submitted so far

Many comments - so that is good

Only 4 people bothered to rate but all of them rated the lens at ***** (ever the opimist)

Ranked at # 1456

Rest of you where are you?

@Amitabh,

saw your mail. will add my blog to the list today.... pakka

Su,

From our business point of view I think I can call it a minor success. I think I will get new (at least two) customers.

From the spectator point of view ... there is an aerobatics display by Mig35, Su30 (hey! your name!), LCA (our team was at the heart of LCA when I was in HAL - some other time about this), Mirage, F-16 (Fighting Falcon), F-18(Supe Hornet), Typhoon, and a host of other aeroplanes. And oh yes there is a display of aerial refueling.

The static displays are alo good. You can see a couple of ancient planes.

Definitely worth a visit.

Remember to take your cap. It can become very hot. Drink plenty of water.

This is turning out to be an interesting experiment:

Approximately 40 bloggers have submitted their blogs. Each of the bloggers can exercise their voting rights at least 40 times (for self and others). That makes 1600 votes. That would also mean every blog would have been visited 40 times. If more join in the merrier.

Unfortunately, the total number of votes registered is only 83. Many haven't even voted for themselves.

This is unfortunate because on internet the only way to be visible to others is by visiting others and leaving comments and building network.

Think about it.

@Amitabh,

been there, done that