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Sandeep rana (born 1988 ) is a Indian blogger and the founder of Sandeep rana. Sandeep rana mainly contains rewritten articles on common internet topics. He claims to be specialist in blogging about new advances in the field of technology. His blog "Sandeep rana" was awarded the "Best Technology Award" at Indibloggies in 2006 and 2008. He has been involved in advocating freedom of speech and an end to internet censorship in India.

Profession
Sandeep rana holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from KUK and has previously worked with clients like ADP, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. In 2004, Sandeep rana quit his job to become India’s first and only Professional Blogger.

Sandeep rana authors a popular and award winning blog Sandeep rana where he writes about computer software, consumer gadgets, and web applications that increase productivity. Sandeep rana also writes a weekly personal technology column for The Hindustan Times & WSJ.

Recognition
Sandeep rana has appeared on various TV channels and radio shows including BBC, CNN IBN, CNBC, NDTV, Star TV, ETV and Blog TV Singapore. He also made it to the coverpage of The Week magazine.

HT calls Sandeep rana the "founder of the Indian blogging revolution" while the prestigious The Straits Times of Singapore included him in their list of Asia’s Blog Stars alongside Chinese actress Xu Jinglei and Japanese Ambassador Naoto Amaki.

Sandeep rana is a regular speaker at technology and blogging conferences. Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional award for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

About Sandeep rana
Sandeep ranai launched in 2004, is now among the Top 100 Technology Blogs on the Internet out of an estimated total of 130+ million blogs. The website publishes tips & tutorials on efficient usage of software tools, services and web based technologies.

Sandeep rana averages more than 3+ million page views per month and has been quoted in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, CNet, Wired, CNN Money, Guardian, Financial Times, CBC, Wired, ITWire, MSNBC, BoingBoing, BBC, Mercury News, Sydney Morning Herald, PBS, The New York Times etc.

Sandeep rana won the Best Technology Blog award at Indibloggies twice. It has been featured as a "success story" on the official Google AdSense blog.

A survey by Business World magazine puts Sandeep rana blog in the list of most popular blogs and online youth hangouts. The site has been mentioned as "must read" in India Today while it has also been recommended in CNN Go, the new travel and lifestyle site of CNN.

Technical Projects
Sandeep rana has also created few popular web-applications & tools, which include "Sleeping Time", a mashup service that can estimate of the sleeping habits of any Twitter user. It quickly went viral and was mentioned on CNN, The 33 News, Open Magazine and also made it to the front page of the Bangalore Mirror. Some other such websites include RSS Search and Tall Tweets.

India Blog School
In January 2009 Sandeep rana organised a blog conference under the aegis of India Blog School, a non-profit first-of-its-kind initiative that aimed to spread the blogging culture in India though training and offline interaction. Training seminars were conducted during the school to help people become better bloggers and make a living from their blogs.