Amit Agarwal holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from IIT and has previously worked at ADP Inc. for clients like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. In 2004, Amit quit his job to become India’s first and only Professional Blogger.
Amit is a personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal India. He authors the hugely popular and award-winning Digital Inspiration blog where he writes about computer software, consumer gadgets, and web applications. He has also written columns on personal technology for major publications including The Financial Express, Outlook Magazine, CNN IBN, CNBC TV18 and The Hindustan Times.
Amit is the author of The Most Useful Websites, a Kindle book that discusses the lesser-known but incredibly useful sites on the web.
Amit has appeared on various TV channels and radio shows including CNN IBN, BBC Radio, CNBC, NDTV, and more. HT mentions Amit as the founder of the Indian blogging revolution, The Economic Times calls him as an out-of-the-box thinker while the prestigious Straits Times of Singapore included Amit in their list of Asia’s Blog Stars alongside Chinese actress Xu Jinglei and Japanese Ambassador Naoto Amaki.
Amit is a regular speaker at technology and blogging conferences. Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional award for five years in a row (2007-2011).
You can connect with Amit on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google Plus. Or send him an email at amit@labnol.org.
About Digital Inspiration
Digital Inspiration, launched in 2004, is among the Top 100 technology blogs on the Internet out of an estimated total of 130+ million blogs. The purpose of this site is to help you take maximum advantage of the software tools and web technologies at your disposal so that you spend more time doing things your really love.
Digital Inspiration averages more than 3+ million page views per month and has been quoted in most publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Wired, CNN Money, Guardian, Financial Times, PBS, The New York Times and more ยป.
Digital Inspiration won the Best Technology Blog award at Indibloggies twice. The site has been recommended in India Today, Business World, Outlook Magazine and CNN Go. It has also been featured as a "success story" on the official Google AdSense blog and on the YouTube India website.
What’s next?
In 2010, Amit launched India Blog School, a non-profit initiative that aims to spread blogging culture in India. He is the curator of India Blogs, a directory of Indian bloggers.
Some of his other technical projects include Sleeping Time, Google with Social Stats, Tall Tweets, RSS Search, HTML Mail, Blogger Sitemap and very-popular AdSense Sandbox.