The Top Indian Bloggers - Amit Agarwal (www.labnol.org)

In this article, we are going to talk about some of the top Indian bloggers who have made their mark in Indian Blogging Industry and these online entrepreneurs are called Webpreneurs. 

So our first Webpreneur is Amit Agarwal who is the founder of Digital Inspiration (www.labnol.org). Amit Agarwal is a Computer Science Engineer from IIT Roorkee and he has worked for ADP. In 2004, he left his job to become the first Indian Professional Blogger. 

 Amit was working in Bangalore in a Technology firm but he wanted to live with his family in Agra but the biggest question was what he will do in Agra because Agra was nowhere in comparison to Bangalore when it comes to jobs and career. Freelancing was one option and this idea gave birth to www.labnol.blogspot.com which is now www.labnol.org.

The first post dealt with the new printer and its review, which was purchased by Amit Agarwal, who knew at that time that it was the start of blogging era. How big Amit Agarwal’s status is, can be understood by the title given to him by HT, which is “Founder of Indian Blogging Revolution”

He has also previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Express as a technology columnist; he has also been interviewed by many TV channels such as NDTV, CNN IBN, BBC, CNBC, STAR TV and Blog TV Singapore. Amit Agarwal is a prominent speaker in the Technology seminars, Blogging conferences and Webinars.  He has also been awarded the Most Valuable Professional Award by Microsoft for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. 

Amit Agarwal has been actively involved in advocating the freedom of speech and bringing an end to Internet Censorship.

About Digital Inspiration

Digital Inspiration is a technology blog, founded in 2004, deals with the topics related to social media, software reviews and web technologies. Digital Inspiration is among the top 100 technology blogs out of an estimated 130+ million blogs. Digital Inspiration has won the Best technology Blog Award twice at Indibloggies. 

The average pageviews per month that Digital Inspiration gets is 4.5 millions and monthly income of Amit Agarwal is $50,000 with the Alexa rank of 2.6k.

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Simple but very useful Inventions

Before we discuss these inventions, let us first discuss what is the difference between a discovery and an invention. Discovery is finding something which was already available in this world, for eg., the gravitational force was present in this world but it was Newton who founded it, so Newton made a discovery and not an invention. On the other hand, Thomas Alva Edison invented light bulb which was not present in this world, so it was an invention.

Inventions

Safety Pin – the age of safety pin is almost 200 yrs and its history is associated with Ancient Egypt. These safety pins were based on hair clips. The lock and key is also an invention made by the Ancient Egyptians.

Frisbee Plates – The Frisbee plates were invented by Joseph Frisbee. Joseph got the idea when he saw some of his customers playing with tin bottle caps in the park. This led to the invention of children’s favourite Frisbee plates.

Tooth Brush – In 1930, the American company Dupont invented Nylon which was then used in tooth brush. However, it does not mean that tooth brush were not used before that, Chinese used hair of swine in tooth brush.

Currency notes – the paper was invented by Chinese and approximately 1200 years ago, Chinese started the use of currency notes. Chinese also invested tea blocks which were used as currency earlier. The use of currency notes replaced the Barter System.

Elastic – In 1820, Thomas Hancock invented elastic and he wanted it to be used on the top of the pockets so it can hamper pick pocketing. But it was put to a wonderful use when it was used for making belts in undergarments.

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