Hello world!

Posted by Tengku Zahasman on April 12th, 2007 filed in Ramblings

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Hello World! Ahh… The usual “Hello World” post that comes out immediately after installation. I decided not to delete this post as it marks the date of when I had this blog installed… which also marks the very first day I’m getting serious about building Web2.0 businesses and applications. While I’m at it, I’ll try to explain briefly about what I’m up to and what this blog is all about.

I love the web. I love what people do with it. Everyday we hear of new web2.0 startups building cool, sometimes simple, other times advanced web applications using various types of web technologies. And they look good too. And best of all these applications get a whole lotsa money rolling into them. Now a lot of people came to me and said that making money on the Internet is easy. When I asked how, they went on talking about blogging for profit, writing ebooks on certain niches, creating salesletter minisites to sell digital products or resell master-right copies, dropshipping, google adsense, payperpost and all that stuffs. While yes those things can make money, my gut tells me those are not to be treated as the main real business.. at least not in the entrepreneurial sense. To me, satisfaction in entrepreneurship means realizing new and unique ideas. Ideas that are different. Something creative. Something big. One that has a bit of brainworks to get it done. Something which has value of knowledge in it. The thing that contributes to the community. Developing them. Craft them. Deploy them. Market them. And see the money flowing.

That’s when I started to look into Web2.0. Having an IT background myself, I believe I would be able to indulge myself in this lucrative Web2.0 market. But it’s not gonna be easy as I still have lots of learning curves to go through in this journey. So basically this blog is about building successful web applications as well as how to profit from this business. In this blog I’ll be providing useful tips and tricks on both designing and programming Web2.0 as I go along building my own web applications. I’ll also include marketing and monetizing web apps as part of the topics in this blog. Sometimes I will go down to talk about technical aspects but I will always remember to swim up back to the surface. Let’s see how this goes in my venture