Author Archives: cyrilgupta

Authority is the new digital oil

Google released a statement yesterday about what I’ve known is its most important ranking factor for years now. Authority. Google said that ‘topic authority’ is important for rankings. I’ve known about it for a while because of my close association with my mother’s YouTube channel (nishamadhulika) which is India’s top cooking recipes channel with 13.6 […]

Here’s how to handle change

I started working full-time when I was 17 and I have seen a lot of swings in fortune. Having a blast one year and a rough patch the next. Life and business are never static. Over the years I have begun to adopt somewhat of a stoic attitude. What will be, will be; all I […]

Create all the AI images you want for free

Wow! Every day when I wake up in the morning there’s a new AI breakthrough waiting for me. It’s incredible how fast this is changing. I’ve been in IT all my life but have never seen this kind of rapid change.  Here’s what happened today – Bing made AI image generation free for everyone! Yes, […]

This AI is a Photoshop killer

I wrote to you 2 days ago about how it’s the Open-Source community that is driving the most cutting-edge innovation in AI. It’s not the big corporations leading the charge, it’s independent developers spread around the world. They are thinking up freaky ideas and conjuring products that push into the realm of the impossible. You […]

Will Twitter steal YouTube’s lunch?

Did you hear the latest from Twitter last week? They finally got a full-time CEO and they also got the capability to upload 2-hour videos for Twitter Blue users. So if you are paying for that Blue tick, you can put up long videos on Twitter. Wondering how that changes things for you? Here’s the […]

If your marketing doesn’t have this, it’s 20% effective

I was watching this Netflix show the other day about a guy who goes about the country talking to couples who’ve got money problems and helping them sort it out by becoming better money managers. It’s got a lot of sensible, practical but hard-to-follow advice. Not for me, because I’ve lived by those rules all […]

Did you notice this about the web?

Have you been hanging out on social networks lately? Did you notice that they are all beginning to look the same? A few years ago Twitter was Twitter. It wasn’t the same as Facebook, and Facebook wasn’t like YouTube, and YouTube wasn’t like TikTok, and LinkedIn wasn’t like any of them. Look at them now. […]

Tomorrow is the worst day ever

Do you think it’s a good idea to wait? Wait for good things to happen to you? Wait for the wind to start blowing your way. Wait for life to turn a corner? I don’t believe that waiting is a good idea. If you learn to wait then you could end up waiting all life. […]