tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89578273798043210802024-02-19T06:22:39.565-08:00Limicolae in an uncanny world.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-30109147169864150632013-01-20T06:53:00.001-08:002013-01-20T06:53:57.673-08:00Game of # in 2012<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Trends(generally affixed by a <span style="color: red;">#</span>) are the topics for which we see noteworthy Twitter conversations. Trends reveal what captured our attention, rather than what terms were consistently popular.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since using twitter i have noticed the following trends this past year 2012 :- </span><br />
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<b>Conversation Starters</b> : <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hashtags help to organize conversations around topics: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#nowplaying</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> to share your favorite music, or</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> <span style="color: blue;">#blessed</span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> to enumerate the good things in your life. The popularity of terms like</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> #oomf</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> (“one of my followers”),</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: blue;">#lrt</span> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(“last Retweet”), </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#shoutout</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, and so on highlight the personal interactions at the heart of Twitter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#nowplaying</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#oomf</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#blessed</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#quote</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#lrt</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#salute</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#news</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#followfriday</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#throwbackthursday</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#shoutout</span><br />
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<b>Sports</b> : <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rooting for their favorite team, discussing an MV player's performance, or getting caught up in Olympic competitions, sports fans never flag on Twitter. And there’s never an off-season.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#nfl</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#nascar</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#mlb</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">olympics</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#sfgiants</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">jeremy lin</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">super bowl</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">dwight howard</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">kobe</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#yankees</span></div>
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<b>Politics</b> : <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year, voters discussed candidates and their ads, campaigns and conventions. Hashtags like </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#tcot </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(“top conservatives on Twitter”) invited more conversation, and real-time events like the debates saw record levels of engagement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#tcot</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#teaparty</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#gop</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#romney</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">mitt romney</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#dnc2012</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">charlotte</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#gop2012</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#rnc</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#obama2012</span></div>
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<b>TV </b>: <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People tweet incessantly about favorite contestants on reality shows like Big Brother (</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#bb14</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">) and American Idol; they obsess over plot points on hits like Pretty Little Liars. TV nostalgia is popular too, as fans reminisce about shows from the past.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">family guy</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#bb14</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">american dad</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">hey arnold</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">american idol</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pretty little liars</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">106 & park</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">SNL</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">fresh prince</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">boy meets world</span></div>
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<b>Food </b>: <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People love talking about food on Twitter. This year, trends spiked around specific eateries and that perennial favorite </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#coffee</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> — as well as a certain coffee chain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ihop</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">starbucks</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">waffle house</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">mcdonalds</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">bbq</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#coffee</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">taco bell</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">denny's</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">burger king</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">olive garden</span></div>
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<b>Movies </b>: <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Movie buffs take to Twitter to discuss the hottest releases, most buzzed-about blockbusters, and all their favorite films. Based on this list, it seems fans are drawn to action flicks and dark tales — but romance always finds a way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">think like a man</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the hunger games</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the avengers</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Red Tails</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">21 Jump Street</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dark Knight Rises</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dark Shadows</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Devil Inside</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Safe House</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Vow</span></div>
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<b>Tech </b>: <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As new products were announced (cf. the new </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">iPad</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">iPhone</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> or </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Kindle</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, they saw significant spikes in Twitter discussion. Other buzzworthy tech terms reflected the social sphere on platforms like </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Skype</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pinterest</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, or with a social game (</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Draw Something</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">at&t</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">iphone</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">instagram</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">skype</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">kindle</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ipad</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pinterest</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">draw something</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">amazon</span></div>
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<b>Music</b> : <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fans share their favorite songs via hashtags like </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#nowplaying</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#musicmonday</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">. This year, hip-hop stars took center stage on Twitter. Large music festivals like Coachella also generated much live tweeting, and fans all over chatted about performances.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">rick ross</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#hiphop</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">trey songz</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">nicki minaj</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#musicmonday</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">kendrick lamar</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">chris brown</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">coachella</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">big sean</span></div>
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<b>Countries</b> : <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whether it's firsthand photos from Syria, the drama of Italian football, or the latest in </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Afghanistan</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Americans</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> are tweeting about a wide range of global issues</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#syria</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">china</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">japan</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">iran</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">India</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">afghanistan</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">australia</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">israel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So Enjoy Tweets and wish you all </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">#HappyNewYear2013</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> .</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-69970247217005630652012-12-09T09:15:00.001-08:002012-12-09T09:19:43.507-08:00 Content Marketing is Branding ! NO??<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It took the major CPG brands some convincing that content offered solutions to consumer reach and engagement that neither display advertising nor search could, and these are the companies with “exploratory” budgets for new strategies and ideas. Where does that leave SMBs who lack that luxury in the content marketing landscape?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ironically, content marketing has become something of an equalizer for SMBs competing for consumers’ attention. As the cost of Adwords skyrocket, the old dictum that you get what you spend is no longer the case. When it comes to search in fact the opposite is true. Increasing bids on keywords is a losing a strategy for many SMBs because a bigger brand who can afford to spend more in the cost-per-click market is always lurking around the corner. Direct competition over an asset like a keyword poses a serious challenge to sustainability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What makes content so attractive is that it’s truly ownable. Creating, commissioning, or otherwise earning content provides SMBs the opportunity to extend their branding in a more meaningful way to consumers. Content creates value for consumers where other forms of digital advertising like display seek to extract value with direct-response cues that consumers have now been trained to ignore, a likely explanation for why display has hit a wall in recent years…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A blog is a perfectly simple way to engage consumers with content they find interesting, educational, or entertaining. Rather than sell them on what a product can do for them, SMBs should consider what they as a company –and member of the digital community—can offer consumers. What is their subject matter expertise? What is the source of inspiration behind their company? What makes them laugh? Bringing a smile to someone’s face may not directly result in a sale, but it can increase that person’s affinity for the brand or create a share on Facebook that extends reach to a new audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Previously, SMBs seemed unaware that this kind of engaging content could produce lasting, positive results for their business. Understandably, content marketing requires a shift in mindset from “how can I get customers to buy this?” to “how can I engage this customer today?” but it’s one that can and should occur organically. We are all consumers, after all. SMBs should ask themselves “As a consumer, what would I want to click on? What would interest me?” An honest answer probably wouldn’t involve a display ad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nowhere is this empathetic approach more needed than in the Quality department. Content is an experience and should be as engaging, immersive and pleasurable as possible. Skimping on design may not diminish the impact of the content’s substance, but it can diminish the impact of the experience, and that could be the difference in repeat visits, brand recall and social sharing. Including multimedia assets like video, pictures and illustrations when possible can go a long way at a minimum cost in projecting sophistication, which can help SMBs distinguish themselves from their competition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition to owned media, earned media is a valuable component to any content marketing strategy. News coverage, press mentions or products reviews from third parties can go a long way in educating consumers without a brand’s direct involvement—which is to say consumers often trust earned media more than branded content. Look no further than the holiday season to see the role of earned media in consumer spending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the price of paid traffic getting steeper and the returns diminishing, SMBs should take comfort in the fact that increased organic traffic is well within reach thanks to content marketing. The popular SEO practice of link-building is at the mercy of Google’s algorithms, which continue to evolve in the direction of more natural, human results. Consistently producing great content that actual human beings interact with and share, on the other hand, creates quality traffic opportunities, including social, search, and viral. The greater the content footprint, the stronger the SEO.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unlike other CPC platforms (where the bigger the budget, the higher the bid and the greater the number of impressions) you should foremost try about helping people find interesting content </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">recommending SMBs’ content to engage audiences on premium publisher sites (e.g. CNN, Mashable, Slate) for as little as $10 a day.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. For SMBs, that means the more clicks they drive—purely through the interesting nature of their content—the more their content is served across our network, leading to lower CPCs over time. Furthermore our content recommendations are personalized; we’re pretty good at getting the right content in front of the users who want to read or watch it. The content is exposed in the top tier publisher space and produces high quality traffic at a cost SMBs control (see how some businesses have used their articles, video and third party reviews to double their traffic, time spent on site and save with lower CPCs than other ad platforms here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, it’s worth noting that Sunday, December 9, was Small Business Sunday, a day devoted to supporting small, local businesses between breaths for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The mere existence of this “holiday” speaks volumes about the way consumers prefer to interact with brands: if they deem you part of their community, they want to support you. What better way to foster community than content that adds value to their lives rather than extracting it.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-50934572352653700922012-11-21T06:43:00.003-08:002012-11-21T06:43:47.200-08:00Best & Top 5 Antivirus in 2012 - Global Computer Technologies <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In today’s world computer system’s and the data inside is prone to viruses and all kinds of malware. I think it’s safe to say that antivirus software is pretty much required in order to protect your computer. There’s literally a handful of completely free antivirus software from reliable and trusted brands that you can easily download for your Windows computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Here’s a list of the top 5 best free antivirus software for 2012 which are best for the protection of your computer system and your precious data provides by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/GlobalComputerTechnologies" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">GLOBAL COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES</span></b></a> :-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1) <a href="http://in.norton.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">Norton internet security</span></b></a> :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Norton internet security belongs to company named as Symantec. This company claims that it stops viruses, spyware, and other online identity theft . Its other features include includes a personal firewall, email spam filtering , and phishing protection .The Norton internet security provides the industry’s most powerful protection . Four different layers of smart protection proactively detect and eliminate threats before they reach your computer. Identifies and stops new threats faster than other less sophisticated security software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Some of the main features of Norton internet security are as follows :-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Norton has Easy and user-friendly interface .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• It has Identity Theft Protection .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">• Personalized AntiVirus scans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Avast is an antivirus computer program developed by AVAST Software a.s. (formerly known as ALWIL Software a.s.), a company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic . Avast is being named among best anti viruses on the list. Avast comes with suitable security protection for your computer and you can always upgrade to Avast! 7 Pro Antivirus for extra protection and more features</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The avast antivirus comes in two version for its users 1) Avast! Free Antivirus is the freeware version of the Avast! antivirus software available to Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users, while Avast! Pro Antivirus is offered to businesses and users who want additional features that can be useful for their business purposes. Priority updates are delivered automatically using PUSH update technology in Avast! Pro Antivirus. Avast! Pro Antivirus also has a command line scanner and a script blocker; however, as of version 6 of the Avast, the script blocker is available also to users of the free version .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Avast! 7 Free Antivirus has a typical clean tabbed interface, making it very easy for its user to monitor the tools you can use to eliminate malware. Security protection from Avast! 7 Free Antivirus includes some features like Real-Time Shields, Firewall and advanced Browser Protection to help you to take control and remove malware infecting your PC. You can also choose to install Avast! Free in “compatible mode” to avoid conflicts with another antivirus program that is already being installed on your computer systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">One of the unique feature of Avast 7 is The “AutoSandbox” tool which will automatically run any program labled as “suspicious” through the Avast! Sandbox to prevent serious damage to your computer and your precious data .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3) <a href="http://free.avg.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">AVG Anti-Virus Free ( Edition 2012)</span></b></a> :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AVG know as Anti-Virus Guard (AVG) is a family of anti-virus and Internet security software for the Microsoft Windows, Linux ,Mac OS X, and FreeBSD computing platforms, developed by AVG Technologies, a publicly traded Czech company formerly known as Grisoft .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AVG features most of the common functions available in modern anti-virus and Internet security programs, including periodic scans, scans of sent and received emails (including adding footers to the emails indicating this), the ability to “repair” some virus-infected files, and a quarantine area: “virus vault/chest” in which infected files are held.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012 is probably the most popular free antivirus software for Windows and is used by over 100 million of people around the world. AVG dominated the free antivirus software game by offering top-notch free protection and a powerful security scan to eliminate all types of malware infecting your computer. AVG has become trusted by millions of people by frequently updating their software and providing reliable security protection that really works for free to its users .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4) <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=5201#overview" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">Microsoft Security Essentials</span></b></a> :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is an antivirus software (AV) is developed by Microsoft. Their software product provides protection against different types of malware such as computer viruses, spyware, rootkits and Trojan horses. It runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not on Windows 8, which has a built-in AV component. Microsoft Security Essentials is a completely free security suite that offers free “real-time” protection for Windows computer systems . Anytime Microsoft Security Essentials detects a malware or any other threat, it will notify you via a popup on the taskbar with all information on the threat. You can then choose to remove or ignore o the threat, giving you full control over any malicious threats as soon as they enter your system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">5) <a href="http://www.bitdefender.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">Bit defender Antivirus Plus 2012</span></b></a> :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bit defender is an antivirus software suite developed by Romania-based software company Softwin. Bit defender was launched in November 2001. The Bit defender internet security 2012 makes a convincing pitch as an easy Windows security option. It has enormous selection of features , but the best one you will never see another security notification again unless you get infected . The Bit defender’s product range includes antivirus products for home users and businesses. Home editions support Microsoft Windows, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and Mac OS X ; business editions support Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. The current version of the Home/Home Office security suite includes antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, e-mail spam filtering, backup, tune-up and parental control components. A free basic online scan is offered via the Bit defender website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Bit defender products feature antivirus and antispyware, personal firewall, privacy control, user control and backup for corporate and home users. PC Tune up and Performance Optimizer are available in the Total Security Suite . The Bit defender total security offers all the usual components , plus online back up with 2 GB of the storage , parental controls , file encryption , identity protection and even a duplicate file finder. There’s a more basic internet security package too , but this fully loaded edition costs no more than many competing suites. Bit defender provides one click scanning to the user as well as personalized anti virus scans . the Bit defender also provides Email support.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-49154157053795597942012-11-08T07:19:00.001-08:002012-11-08T07:19:45.812-08:00OBAMA WINS ROMNEY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What ought to pain Republicans most about Barack Obama’s victory is that 2012 was entirely winnable for them. In European elections over the past few years, voters have thrown out leaders who were in charge during the worst of the financial crisis, whether those leaders deserved the blame or not. Economic indicators in the United States, where an unemployment rate of 8 percent is highly correlated with defeat for the incumbent party, pointed in the same direction. Obama himself had proven a disappointment to many of his former supporters, going from a beloved symbol of generational and social change in 2008 to a detached and remote figure, with limited ability to touch an emotional chord in the electorate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That Mitt Romney lost nonetheless is in part a tribute to his own weaknesses as a candidate. The Obama campaign put Romney on the defensive early about his work at Bain Capital, and left him there. The Republican nominee made any number of horrendous gaffes. He ran a disastrous GOP convention. He never found a way to talk about himself or his agenda in a way that middle class voters could relate to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But even a clumsy candidate might have beaten Obama if not for a simple factor that could not be overcome: the GOP’s growing extremism. The Republican strategy of making the election a referendum on the president’s handling of the economy was perfectly sound. The problem was that the Republican Party couldn’t pass the credibility test itself. For many voters disenchanted with Obama, it still was not safe to vote for his opponent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This failure began with the spectacle of the extended primary season, which was dominated by candidates with views far outside the political mainstream. Rick Santorum rejected the separation of church and state. Newt Gingrich challenged the notion of judicial supremacy. Michele Bachmann claimed the government had been infiltrated by radical Muslims. Donald Trump refused to recognize the validity of Obama’s birth certificate. Rick Perry wanted to take down more parts of the federal government than he could successfully name. In the debates, the country saw the GOP talking to itself and sounding like a bizarre fringe party, not a responsible governing one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney is not a right-wing extremist. To win the nomination, though, he had to feign being one, recasting himself as “severely conservative” and eschewing the reasonableness that made him a successful, moderate governor of the country’s most liberal state. He had to pass muster with his party’s right-wing base on taxes, immigration, climate change, abortion, and gay rights. Many of his statements on these issues were patently insincere, but that was hardly reassuring. Romney’s very insincerity and flexibility made it improbable that he would stand up to the GOP’s hyper-partisan congressional wing once elected any more than he had during the primaries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Romney’s pandering to the base made it possible for the Obama campaign to portray him as a right-wing radical from the start of the campaign. Fear that he didn’t have the base locked down kept Romney from moving smoothly to the center once he had secured the nomination. It further encouraged his choice of Paul Ryan, a popular figure with the Tea Party. And when Romney tried, much too late, to move closer to the center, Republican Senate candidates, like Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana, kept popping up with disgusting reminders of the GOP’s retrograde views on gender issues. For women, Latinos, and young voters tempted to abandon Obama, the old Romney might have been a plausible alternative. The new Romney, fettered by a feverish GOP, was too risky a choice. According to exit poll results, Romney won men as expected, but lost among women by 11 points—too large a gender gap to be overcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Demographic change and better economic circumstances stand to make the Republican road back to the White House an even steeper climb in future years. Simply put, the party has to present a more conciliatory and reasonable face to sell itself to swing voters. To do that, it must elevate its own moderate voices, cut loose its theocrats, and liberate itself from the domination of Tea Party know-nothings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So let the season of Republican recriminations begin. The GOP now faces the challenge of self-examination and internal reform that Democrats began to undertake after losing twice to Ronald Reagan. It desperately needs the kind of centrist reform movement that was led on the other side by the Democratic Leadership Council, which paved the way for the election of a centrist Democrat named Bill Clinton. Without that sort of renewal movement, the 2012 election may come to be seen less as a fluke than a harbinger.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-20504420869891509782012-11-02T10:55:00.001-07:002012-11-02T10:55:39.506-07:00India is not for Sale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">At a time when inflation is high, when the relentlessly increasing prices </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">of food items like rice, wheat, sugar, edible oils, pulses, vegetables, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">are reflected in a high food inflation rate of 17 per cent, the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Government of India has dealt a cruel blow to the people by raising </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">the prices of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene which will further </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">push up prices of essential commodities and have an all round </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">cascading impact on inflation rates. No Government with even an iota </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">of sensitivity for the suffering of the people because of price rise can </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">take such an anti- people step. The deregulation of prices means </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">leaving the people to the mercy of a market controlled by big MNCs </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">and domestic corporate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reasons being given by the Government for this price hike are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">totally wrong and misleading. The Prime Minister has justified it saying </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is in the interests of the country. The country of the 77 per cent who </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">do not have more than 20 rupees to spend each day or the country of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the super rich? He said that these reforms should have been done </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">even earlier. This is an admission that it is only because of the weak </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">opposition of the ruling parties</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on price of petroleum products. They</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> are happy to indulge in dramas of abstaining from attending </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the cabinet meeting! This is a strange way of protesting—staying away </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">instead of opposing and fighting! The truth is that these parties are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">also agreeable to this anti-people policy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The editor of the Congress magazine has said that only Sonia Gandhi </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">can stop this wrong policy. But even a child knows that the Prime </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Minister would not be able to take such a decision without her </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">approval. The entire Congress party and its top leadership is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">responsible for this – they talk of the "aam aadmi" and follow policies for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the "khas aadmi". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India has </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">given an advertisement in the News Papers soliciting support of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">people for the price hike of Petrol, Diesel, LPG and Kerosene. It is a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">document of deceit and deception published with public money to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">befool the people. It gives the various so-called reasons for the price </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Government says that 80 per cent of the country’s requirement for petrol products is met by imports. Since prices change in the international market this makes a direct impact on India leading to the reason to hike prices. In other words, the price hike is due to international price rises. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How much has the increase in international prices been? Since May 2010 the international price has increased by just 70 paisa per litre of crude oil. In May 2010, international crude price was 70 dollar per barrel i.e. Rs. 21.43 per liter (1 dollar = Rs.49). Today it is 77 dollar per barrel which means Rs. 22.13 per liter (1dollar = Rs.46.22). One barrel roughly is 160 litres. So the international crude price has risen by 70 paisa per litre. But the Government has raised the prices many times more! In the last six months, the price hike by Government is of Rs. 6.44 per litre on petrol, Rs.4.55 per liter on diesel within last four months, and Rs.3 per liter on Kerosene and Rs 35 on Domestic LPG now. Secondly, in the last three months there has been no increase at all in the international prices, so why this hike now? Obviously the international price has nothing to do with the price hike of petroleum products since the last budget in February 2010. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Freedom of expression is the mortar that binds together the bricks of our freedom and it’s also the open window embedded in those bricks. We need freedom of expression to guarantee all of our other acts. In this country we are all entitled to receive and send information thorough electronic networks, to share information, whether through the newspaper, the TV screen or online websites and to do so without censorship and restriction. This is fundamental to the kind of world which we all live in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As a common man ( Indian citizen), I am conscious how fortunate we are to live in a country that guarantees us that right. People in some developing countries have to contend with the argument that development and freedom of expression are incompatible – that the media, for instance, must serve the ends of development as defined by the government, or operate only within the boundaries of what the social and religious authorities define as permissible. The developing world is full of writers, artists and journalists who have to function in societies which do not grant them this freedom. For them freedom of expression is the oxygen of their own survival, and that of their society, but they are stifled. In countries where truth is what the government or the religious establishment says is true, freedom of expression is essential to depict alternative truths which the society needs to accommodate in order to survive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And yet it is all too often absent, because in many countries, there are those who question the value of freedom of speech in their societies, those who argue that it threatens stability and endangers progress, those who still consider freedom of speech a Western import, an imposition from abroad and not the indigenous expression of every people’s demand for freedom. What has always struck me about this argument is that it is never made by the people, but by governments, never by the powerless but by the powerful, never by the voiceless, but by those whose voices are all that can be heard. Let us put this argument once and for all to the only test that matters :- the choice of every people, to know more or know less, to be heard or be silenced, to stand up or kneel down. Only freedom of expression will allow the world’s oppressed and underprivileged a way out of the darkness that shrouds their voices, and their hopes. The Internet has been giving them this choice as never before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But then beyond that, and beyond the way in which social media reflects our freedom of expression, we have to go into how the information society of the 21st century provides citizens with full information to allow democratic participation at all levels in determining their own future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Technology has become the biggest asset for those who seek to promote and protect freedom of expression around the world. The exciting thing about social media is that the new digital technology offers great possibilities for enhancing traditional media and combining them with new media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Internet has been made possible by advances in technology that have also transformed the traditional media. Traditional media, and especially radio and television, remain the sole form of access to the information society for much of the world’s population, including the very poor and the illiterate. The poorest, and the illiterate, have not yet been able to use social media and the internet. But even the rest of us rely on traditional media, we can’t wish them away. There is increasing convergence between television and the internet and soon we can try and see how we can marry modern technologies to actually make serious progress in the world.</span></div>
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Today, however, our focus is on social media. Look at the extraordinary transformation that is happening. Just a day after he was sworn in as our President, Pranab Mukherjee announced that he would be opening a Facebook account to receive and respond to the queries from the public. In fact, his fellow Bengali, Mamata Banerjee, has beaten him to it, with a popular and widely read website that the media mines daily for new stories about her views. Just three years ago, when there was a toll on social media, it was fashionable for Indian politicians to sneer at the use of social media. Today our own President made it clear that these are essential tools for clear, accountable and credible political leadership. The governments of the world or the big institutions of power have become more vulnerable today because of the fact that the new media technology has exposed them to the uncontrolled impact of instant news. And so the fact is that when we speak about the social media, we can’t get away from understanding the impact of new technology on the way the world is working.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Technology is such that everybody has a mobile phone in there pocket and you can do far more than when you could have first acquired a mobile phone. Now, you can take pictures, you can take videos, you can transmit them and go on the internet. Something like 5 billion people worldwide, including 84% of Americans, more than 70% of Chinese and at least 60% of Indians, today use mobile phones. You can all get your messages out more rapidly. The strength of this is that you can enable ordinary people to issue and disseminate even raw footage or compellingly authentic images before the mainstream media or the government can actually do so. So you can open up a social media space even not being a professional media person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gone are the times when you had a pet name and there were rhythm divine Valium allies in your arms all the time as they are getting married nowadays ! <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_vC3q5yy_toggle_link"><span id="ld_SzRvot_76939">I
have found that marriage is just a way of saying that a person has
found the one they love and want no other. Marriage has changed over the
years, as we have become dishonest with ourselves. We have used
marriage over the years as a tool for control, power or wealth, while
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wrong with marriage, as long as you are honest and truly believe that
you have found the one you want to spend the rest of your life with. Its
all about honesty, if you do not want marriage then do not get into it,
if you want multiple partners then tell them that. Be honest and do
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_vC3q5yy_toggle_link"><span id="ld_SzRvot_76939"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_xMfkRoE_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_760">Most
of the time there is a lot of societal expectation or pressure to
marry. There is still a stigma to having an illegitimate child. There
are few women on this planet outside of Earth where women will be
content living with their partner and raising children with no
expectation of marriage - as they put it "getting married let me know
you were serious about making this work".<br /><br />And they are right -
getting married changed their thought process a lot - he wanted to be with
her but his brain kept thinking in terms of "my plans" instead of "our
plans" before getting married <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_OGX4DLb_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_762">because it's the socially expected thing to do after you've been together for a while. <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_JzZMw21_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_764">Marriage adds a low pass filters in the relationship, i.e., stabilizes it. <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_JzZMw21_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_764">Marriage
makes it procedurally harder to leave each other and often degrades your BATNA
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the dating game (Most marriages entail socially accepted exclusivity).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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We then "marry" to "inform" , the society, about the bond . And the
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"threat of social rejection/ridicule" <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_ncEMlij_toggle_link"><span id="ld_S49iAG_833">thus an attempt to ensure that "There will be someone who will cry when I die".</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_vC3q5yy_toggle_link"><span id="ld_SzRvot_76939"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_xMfkRoE_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_760"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_OGX4DLb_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_762"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_JzZMw21_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_764"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_JzZMw21_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_764"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_ncEMlij_toggle_link"><span id="ld_S49iAG_833"></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_vC3q5yy_toggle_link"><span id="ld_SzRvot_76939"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_xMfkRoE_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_760"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_OGX4DLb_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_762"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_JzZMw21_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_764"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_JzZMw21_toggle_link"><span id="ld_9lK2IR_764">Now coming to the point why am i so worried about all this. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727">I
have no obvious, rational reason to get married. I come from a very
liberal family, and no one would care if my girlfriend and I
just continue to live together. Both of us is religious and so are our
parents. We keep separate bank accounts. I am a financial imbecile, so
though I've heard there are "tax implications," I've never paid
attention to them.<br /><br />I have friends that have been together without
getting married. Some have been coupled longer than I have. As far as
I'm concerned, they are just as "married" as I am not.<br /><br />And yet
getting married is no way tremendously important to me. I am very glad that I have not done
it, and a large part of my identity is to be a ripe and soulfully spoilt "husband." </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_lLMWsFx_toggle_link"><span id="ld_PITwTC_69397">So our mothers will stop nagging us to get married and start nagging us to have children.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_lLMWsFx_toggle_link"><span id="ld_PITwTC_69397"></span></span>Partly, this
is due to conditioning. Liberal as they were, my parents were married.
My grandparents were married. When I was a kid, all my friends had
parents who were married. Thankfully, I never thought getting married as
"what one had to do." I will never marry someone whom I wasn't
devoted to. But I did think that if I ever find a real partner, I would
marry her.<br /><br />Mostly, it has to do with making a commitment.
Marriage, to me, is an arbitrary ceremony. (And a fun one, though as of now I
have never got to taste my own damn groom cake!) There are other ways of
committing, but, from my point of view, there is no problem with using
the traditional one. It had the advantage of being tied to my symbolism
and my emotions, due to years of conditioning: looking at my parents'
wedding album, watching Hollywood movies, etc. <br /><br /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727">What it comes
down to a promise and so did my girlfriend that's what
marriage is to me: a promise. Some people make promises all the time.
Some people break promises all the time. But I rarely break promises. I
also rarely <i>make</i> promises. So for me to make one ... it's a pretty big deal. <br /><br />A
lot of people are profoundly affected by the spoken word, and I'm no
exception. A marriage vow is an example of performative language,
which, at its most absurd, is a kind of magical thinking: like when
superstitious people think it's going to rain because someone said, "I
hope it doesn't rain." <br /><br />I'm truly not an atheist but is a materialist but not a skeptic, so I don't believe in magic words. Still, words <i>do</i> have an emotional effect on me. And, after all, what <i>is</i>
a promise??? My promise -- to stay with my girlfriend until deal -- doesn't
exist, except as neuronal patterns in my brain and hers. So, I suppose,
the magic words are sort of ways to start a mental program running. And
continually thinking of myself as her husband are ways to keep the
program running. Now thats the view of a computer engineer with weeds cells implanted in my brain. </span></span><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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is never a "thing" that needs to be scored on a check box. And I don't
think it wrong in any way if someone wants to "explore the untouched
word" in one word its called "curiosity". I do agree that still in many
parts of this country marriage is a gate pass for sex. But before that I
seriously want to ask "Is having sex a wrong deed? You are in a matured
age ofcourse you should have. And why not tie up together in a better
acceptable bond so that no one can raise a hand." After marriage people
do not have sex ONLY. How can we forget the guys/girls who gets married
because they want to, not because of having sex, because they want to
experience responsibilities, at that age they want someone to share
their time and space. <br /> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_Di3bI92_toggle_link"><span id="ld_779Ga4_1397">You want to marry someone with whom
you want to grow old, someone whose happiness will mean the world to you.
Whose sagging body will never affect you from loving him. Whose pain
will hurt you as much as your own. Whose happiness will fill you with
joy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_Di3bI92_toggle_link"><span id="ld_779Ga4_1397">At last, why do you marry because you have to. What is
important is life-long companionship and undying affection. Marriage is a
not about hanging around and having fun. Nor is it something that must
be done under pressure. Marriage comes with a lot of responsibility.
Acceptance, love, forgiveness, patience, affection, and mutual
understanding can actually make a marriage successful <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_jqecq2I_toggle_link"><span id="ld_88WiWD_248">as a result of the grandest, covetous and bona fide <b>love</b>,
which actually builds over a period of time between the two. But, it's
sure-fire that people don't marry for merely meeting their satyr or <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_jqecq2I_toggle_link"><span id="ld_88WiWD_248">nymphomania</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_Di3bI92_toggle_link"><span id="ld_779Ga4_1397"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_jqecq2I_toggle_link"><span id="ld_88WiWD_248"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_Di3bI92_toggle_link"><span id="ld_779Ga4_1397"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_jqecq2I_toggle_link"><span id="ld_88WiWD_248"></span></span></span></span></span></span>. There are numerous 'pleasure houses' everywhere in every
country be it India, which are easily accessible by every lecher.
Marriage by and large renders the ultimate stability to our life along
with joiê-de-vivrê, and a hope for wholesome senescence.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_Di3bI92_toggle_link"><span id="ld_779Ga4_1397"></span></span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_haFD3it_toggle_link"><span id="ld_d20Ohn_14727">So here is the contract if you are ready to do it :- <span href="http://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-get-married#" id="__w2_rRbliMP_toggle_link"><span id="ld_YCkS0S_1048"><b>"I,
____, take you, ____, to be my lawfully wedded(husband/wife), to have
and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer,
for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part."</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-33189400407207943012012-10-16T07:59:00.000-07:002012-10-16T07:59:56.819-07:00Change is inevitable ! But you must not lose yourself .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A hundred years ago, people didn't talk about changing the world — not in the way we speak of it today. In 1912, there weren't movements for the eradication of poverty or disease, or even an understanding of their scale. Then came <b>Woodrow Wilson's</b> dream of the <span style="color: blue;">League of Nations</span>, <b>Eleanor Roosevelt</b>, and the formation of the <span style="color: blue;">United Nations</span>. From there, <b>Gandhi</b>, <span style="color: blue;">the civil rights movement</span>, and speeches by <b>President and Robert Kennedy</b> that declared, <b><span style="color: red;">"We need men who dream of things that never were,"</span></b> and that spoke of "a new world society." There was <b>Martin Luther King's</b> <span style="color: blue;">"I have a dream"</span> speech, delivered at the age of 34, and <b>Neil Armstrong</b> walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. Their youth brought a feeling of youthfulness to humanity itself, and gave people the sense that nothing is impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This moment in the long arc of history launched a change-the-world movement that never existed before, including change-the-world vocations on a major scale — from the Peace Corps to an explosion in the growth of opportunities in the nonprofit sector, which employs more than 10 million people today. And in the last decade or so, the genre has become even more refined: social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, L3C low-profit corporations, B corporations, the charitable endurance event industry, and more. New infrastructures have arisen to support it, from the <span style="color: red;">Stanford Social Innovation Review, TED </span>and<span style="color: red;"> Good</span>, to the <span style="color: red;">Social Enterprise Program at Harvard</span>. Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago. And courses on philanthropy are now even taught at the undergraduate level at many Universities, and many other colleges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the growth of these structures and opportunities has come an emphasis on doing, often to the exclusion of being. The competition to be the one who changes the world can be as cut-throat, if not more, than the competition among fast-food chains, or cosmetics companies, or movie studios. Lost in this new era is the notion that one can still make a difference in business, even absent any corporate social responsibility program. How would the charities trying to change the world operate without the manufacturers that make the equipment for their medical clinics, or without <span style="color: red;">General Electric</span> providing them with <span style="color: blue;">light bulbs</span>? How would a <b>"social enterprise"</b> like <span style="color: red;">PlanetTran</span>, <span style="color: blue;">the hybrid car service</span>, operate without <span style="color: red;">Toyota</span>, who makes the <span style="color: blue;">Prius</span>, which constitutes their fleet? And in the absence of industrial farmers and national grocery chains, we would find ourselves in need of a great deal more charity, and a lot further away from the goal of changing the world, to boot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Paradoxically, this new era of limitlessness often serves to limit the imaginations of the young people it attracts. It can obscure their real and natural passions. If you want to change the world, you have to go into the change-the-world sector, the times say.<b> And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO.</b> Imagine if someone had held up Gandhi to a young Frank Lloyd Wright, as Gandhi is held up to our young people today, and the incredible architect decided to go run a nonprofit soup kitchen as a result. What a tragedy. And what a setback that would have been for architecture and design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Individual economic futures are at risk, as well. While we may envision a new world, the donating public and nonprofit sector are still stuck philosophically in Puritan times, demanding that nonprofit employees work for sacrificial wages, as a sign that their hearts are in the right place. And in another paradox, they ask the people who would dream a new dream for the world to abandon the economic dreams they have for themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These are complicated times for making a true difference. Perhaps much more than they were for <span style="color: red;">Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, </span>and<span style="color: red;"> Henry Ford</span>. So, what difference does being (as opposed to doing) make? Presence? Listening? What difference does passion make? Peace of mind? A slow pace? Excellence? What difference does industry make, when it creates new products and jobs that make life better for others? All of these things exist independent of the change-the-world sector. And, the change-the-world industry itself cannot possibly change the world if forced to play by a set of Puritan economic rules than fundamentally work against it — low wages, no charity stock market, disdain for advertising and marketing, and the expectation of immediate results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I get e-mails all the time from people who are grappling with these issues — many from clients and executives wondering whether they should go into the for-profit sector or the nonprofit sector, or asking how they can reconcile their dreams of a better world with the economic dreams they have for themselves. Others are from corporate executives feeling a dearth of purpose, and asking for career advice. Still others are from nonprofit leaders frustrated by a system that works against the dreams that brought them into the sector in the first place. People are suffering from a crisis of meaning, and not in small part because the definitions of meaning have been re-engineered by a culture confused about it itself. The feedback I get has inspired me to delve more deeply into these issues as part of the work that my company does with a specific curriculum called <span style="color: red;"><b>Change Course</b></span>, which explores the intersection of money and meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Somehow the dream of changing the world ended up changing the quality of our dreams. It's not natural. When this era of profound human potential combines with authentic human passions, unlimited by artificial categories and boxes, then the world can really change, into something including — but far more profound than — the world without human suffering we have begun to imagine.</b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-66434115932082929542012-09-25T07:35:00.001-07:002012-09-25T07:35:30.485-07:00"The Alcohol"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>The Alcohol</b></span> was discovered and named by an Arabian scientist, and that its name is really <i><b>Cohol</b></i>, the <i><b>Al</b></i> part just means "<i><b>The</b></i>" in Arabic. So while Alcohol = The Cohol, the English-speaking world still says "<b>The Alcohol</b>" like a boss! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's another gem: "<b><i>Chai</i></b>" just means "<b><i>Tea</i></b>" in Arabic, yet in English it's not crazy to say "<b><i>Chai tea</i></b>", because saying "<b><i>Tea tea</i></b>" makes a whole lot of sense :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">I was told by a French friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sandrasxm" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Sandra Fagnoni</span></b></a> that English '<b>Admiral</b>' comes from French "<b><i>Amiral</i></b>" which in turn comes from Medieval Latin "<b><i>Admiralis</i></b>" (or admirallus) which then in turn comes from Arabic "<b><i>Amir Al</i></b>", which means "<b><i>Commander of The</i></b>", the Arabic rank apparently was "<b><i>Amir Al-Bahr</i></b>" which literally means "<b><i>Commander of The Sea</i></b>". Once again, looks like being called "<i><b>Commander of The</b></i>" makes sense to you people!! The mere thought of someone saying Admiral of the fleet out loud makes me want to cry!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Apparently the same is true for <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/alcohol" target="_blank">Al+Gebra and Al+Kali</a>. Al+cohol is from the 1500's and was far enough back that it came to English through medieval Latin. Cohol didn't even mean "<i><b>fermented</b></i>" or "<i><b>drink</b></i>", it originally was a type of powdered makeup. Since that powder was melted and cooled, it came to mean "<i><b>distilled</b></i>" on the street, and much later "<i><b>alcohol of wine</b></i>" meant taking fermented wine and distilling it to make the super-alcohol people some people are familiar with today versus the kind they talk about in scripture (which is just fermented from sitting out for a year, but not re-compounded on itself.) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_beverage" target="_blank">For More, Wiki - Distilled_beverage</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it's perhaps not safe, although it would be ironic to say that <span style="color: red;"><b>Islam</b></span> brought us booze. More likely <b><span style="color: red;">Islam</span></b> brought the world "<b><i>cohol/kohl/kuhl"</i></b> and the world bastardized it into ever clear all on its own! ;)</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most beautiful and awesome things in the world that matters the most for long-term cannot be bought by money.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>1. Money can't buy Love - True companionship is not about the bauble. It involves emotional availability, real interest in someone else, some personal introspection, a sense of humor, kindness, empathy for others and an ability to listen, reveal and share. They cost nothing financially, but do require real emotional energy. It might not come easily to you if you have a naturally glib nature, but those are the things that will really draw someone to you.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>2. Money can't buy Happiness - Respect really matters. According to a new study, feeling one is respected and admired ranks over having money when it comes to what makes people feel a greater sense of happiness and well-being. One of the reasons why money doesn't buy happiness is that people quickly adapt to the new level of income or wealth. Lottery winners, for example, are initially happy but then return to their original level of happiness quickly. Being respected, having influence, and being socially integrated just never gets old. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>3. Money can't buy Health - We can’t buy good health, no matter how much money we have. We can buy profound medical treatments but actual good health is not for sale. Good health is vitality, vigor, high energy, emotional equilibrium, mental clarity and physical endurance. If you have your health you have more wealth than all the riches in the world. A healthy mind, heart, reserves of stamina and an abundance of vreative energy to draw on, will have the world literally lying at your feet – with good health you have it all. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>4. Money can't buy Peace - Think of the amount of money that governments have spent over the years in the name of “peace.” Has it worked? Nope. Peace isn’t something you buy. Peace only comes from acting fairly, humanely, and treating others (people and countries) as we would want to be treated. And even then, it might not be possible. But for sure money won’t buy it. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>5. Money can't buy stable Marriage - You can buy cars and houses, boats and vacations, jewelry and jets. But you can't buy a really good marriage. And the more that material things matter to you, the poorer your marriage is likely to be, according to new research from BYU and William Paterson University. Couples who care less passionately about money and possessions tend to be happier.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>6. Money can't buy Respect - Money, whether in the form of cash or products and services, does not promote the growth of respect in one person towards another. Instead it promotes the growth of greed, denial, and subterfuge. Respect can only be earned. Both through hard work and honest deeds. People who try to do the right thing and strive to bring the best out in others is slowly building up respect, for the people who receive benefits from a person's actions directly, or others who observe such noble behavior.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>7. Money can't buy Conscience - Lot of people would want to purchase the ability to clean their conscience, but as we all know, this can only be done through the character-building exercises of apologizing, making things right, and setting the record straight. But money cannot.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>8. Money can't buy Empathy - When we imagine ourselves in someone else's shoes, for just a moment, we gain a better sense of what life looks like to them and what challenges, issues, and joys they have in their day-to-day. Again, money cannot buy you Empathy.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>9. Money can't buy Dreams - Dreams are, of course, free, and no one can buy better dreams. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>10. Money can't buy Good Ideas - Ditto. If you're looking for good ideas, you'll have to come up with them yourself. The flip side of this is that if you yourself have a good idea, patent it, and bring it to the marketplace, you may be able to receive money for your good idea.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>11. Money can't buy Talent - Self-explanatory. Someone can take lessons or tutoring to improve natural talent, but you either have this or you don't.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>12. Money can't buy Time - Money cannot buy time. Each second it passes and no amount of money will buy a second back.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Feeling of Self-Accomplishment </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>An Unexpected Compliment </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The sweet voice of our children calling out to us ‘Mom!' or 'Dad'!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Seeing our children smiling!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Watching our children receive Award! at school.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The way a daughter makes her 99-year-old great-grandfather smile when nothing else can.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Son looking across the table one morning and saying, ‘You know Mom, you are really beautiful.’</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>An infant’s firm grasp of your finger</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>When our children look at you like you’re the only person in the world.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The look on our childrens face when they’ve accomplished something meaningful and felt proud of themselves.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Amazing Talents You Are Born With </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Exercising Your 5 Senses – Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>When an Unlikely Someone Remembers Your Birthday </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It brings you food, but not appetite</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Acquaintances, but not friends</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Servants, but not loyalty</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A house, but not a home</i></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04511773336636771297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957827379804321080.post-51997873876742975232012-09-01T08:31:00.006-07:002012-09-01T08:31:53.825-07:00Google Interview Experience Sharing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Google is having a big hiring year </span>!! </b>— its biggest ever, in fact.(sources - Google Notifications)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week in an interview with <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanpower" target="_blank"><b>Bryan Power</b></a></span> , a people operations manager at Google, i took down for an advice a few points on how to get hired by the tech giant.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Paint a Picture, Concisely</b></span> <br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Power suggests job seekers — at Google and elsewhere — begin by presenting a picture of what they’ve done in their careers as concisely and precisely as possible. Every word on your resume or profile should count, and job applicants need to understand the difference between responsibilities and accomplishments.<br /><br />Too often Power receives resumes that describe their previous roles, but don’t talk about what they did in those roles that would distinguish them from the 10,000 other people in a similar role. Be precise, If you were in a sales management position, don’t just say you led the sales team, talk about the amount of revenue you brought in, or the specific degree to which you surpassed your sales quota.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Too often [applicants] leave out the numbers because they’re worried they are too low, but without those specifics you don’t stand out; you look like everyone else.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There’s also a temptation to be exhaustive when you put your resume together, but a resume that is really tightly written and represents your big accomplishments stands out more than an encyclopedia of everything you have ever done. Be judicious about what you put on there.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Talents, Not Skill Sets</b></span><br /><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unlike many other companies, Google is more focused on hiring for talent rather than focusing on specific skill sets. The world changes quickly and people gave to adapt and take on different challenges. A lot has changed in the last five years, and the next five years will [change] too. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Consequently, Google’s recruiters don’t just look at career achievements; they also are keen to know what applicants are accomplishing at school and outside of work. “We’re really looking for people who can make a big impact and do interesting things,” one of the selector says.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the last part of my interview</span></span> I asked if there was a type of person who didn’t fit in at Google, they said that applicants who are more concerned with their titles and the number of people they will manage — in essence, those who are more concerned with what Google can do for them, rather than what they can do for Google — did not fare as well as those who are interested in the challenges the company is facing and how they can help.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Google is a very cross-functional, collaborative company. Those who are concerned with the territory they are going to own and manage has at times been a signal that they are not going to fit. “We’re looking for people who are attracted to the long-term mission at Google, not a stepping stone to the next level in their careers,” they said.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Google’s interviewing process begins with a phone interview, sometimes stretching into several phone calls. Successful candidates are then invited on-site for a set of interviews with four to five members of the group they’re applying for.<br /><br />Google’s interviewing style is different from most other companies, in which applicants come in and expound upon their resume and experience. That’s part of the interview process at Google, but applicants should expect to have a more open dialogue about the company and its future, and to engage in intellectual debates that will illustrate their problem-solving abilities.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some people [leave the interview] feeling like they’ve had a 45-minute conversation about where the Internet world is going, which feels different when you’re used to coming in and showing yourself.<br /><br />There’s no standard dress code for interviews. I’ve seen people come in in board shorts and a T-shirt and blow [us] away with their intellect, and I’ve seen people dressed to the nines who were unprepared. If you come in, be prepared and dress however you feel comfortable.<br /><br />If a job application is unsuccessful, Power suggests candidates continue to build relationships with recruiters.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sometimes you might be in a conversation about a role and it doesn’t work out, but things are dynamic, and six or 12 months from now things might shift so that you’re a match. You’re in a better position if you maintain that relationship instead of moving on from that opportunity. [Plus] recruiters are highly networked people, and recruiters know recruiters at other companies. Building that relationship could never hurt.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Further Resources</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To learn more about Google’s culture and available positions, and to submit an application, see <a href="http://www.google.com/about/jobs/" target="_blank">google.com/jobs</a>. You can also follow <a href="https://twitter.com/googlejobs" target="_blank">@googlejobs</a> on Twitter to learn about new positions and engage in live chats with recruiters and other employees.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thank You all for reading this and if the next summer you see me at Google office a coffee with you all for sure. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just before the 100 can get one - see Per Mertesacker. The 81-times capped international has had to after a lengthy injury at the European Championships give his place as a defender and just loses the connection to Poldi & Co. The 100 is advised for the professional Arsenal next season. Even ex-captain Michael Ballack had to make this bitter experience, when he first injured before the 2010 World Cup and then botched. With 98 international matches he missed the hundreds of razor-thin club. It is a great achievement when you reach the age of 27 years, 100 caps - Lukas Podolski !!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Germany carried their World Cup form into their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign as they finished with 10 wins from 10 matches. Two years ago in South Africa several rising stars came of age with midfielders Sami Khedira, Mesut Ozil, Thomas Mueller, who won the golden boot, and Manuel Neuer cementing their places as the Germans finished third.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Arguably the best team performance of the tournament. The so-called ‘group of death’ has showed no sign so far of sucking Germany anywhere near the precipice. F</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">acing players from Bayern Munich, Dortmund and Real Madrid who</span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> are Champions League clubs all of them. It's a totally different level.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If every possible password is tried, sooner or later yours will be found. Every password you use can be thought of as a needle hiding in a haystack. After all searches of common passwords and dictionaries have failed, an attacker must resort to a “<span style="color: blue;"><i>brute force</i></span>” search – ultimately trying every possible combination of letters, numbers and then symbols until the combination you chose, is discovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If your password is a common word or phrase, the bad guys won't have any trouble guessing it. That's just a fact of life. If you've taken care to use a seemingly random collection of various types of characters, the time to crack it by brute force totally depends on the size of the "search space." <span style="color: blue;"><b>Gibson Research's</b></span> "<a href="https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Haystack Calculator</b></span></a>" will analyze your password and estimate the time needed to crack it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The basic calculation is quite simple, and takes place entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript. Don't worry, you're not sending your passwords to Gibson Research! First, it sums the number of possible characters based on character sets you've used. The maximum would be 95 – 26 uppercase letters, 26 lowercase characters, 10 digits, and 33 symbols.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">According to the calculator, cracking a super-long but memorable insanely secure password like "<i><b><span style="color: blue;">JFK.1989.AskNotWhatYourCountryCanDoForYou!</span></b></i>" would take 3.73 hundred billion trillion trillion trillion trillion centuries. Of course, the fact that this password is built from ordinary words might give the hacker a head start... but only if he knows that's the case.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">There is one problem: The 16-person </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Palo Alto, Calif.</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;">, start-up isn't sure how it is going to make money. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Pinterest</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> is a scrap-book like social networking site that lets users create pinboards around events and themes to share photos among their friends. Development on Pinterest began in 2008 through co-founders </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Silbermann" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Ben Silbermann</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Paul Sciarra</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;">. The Pinterest closed </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_beta#Open_and_closed_beta" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: red;">BETA</span></b></i></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> was launched in March 2010 and post launch, the service amassed over 10,000 users within the first nine months. According to more recent data, the number of daily unique visitors to Pinterest grew from 2 million users in January to 4 million by March 2012. As of January 2012, the service had over 11 million users who can share their pinboards over other social networking sites including </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Facebook</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Twitter</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">"Pinterest's monetization strategy isn't in the oven and it's not even off the baking table," said </span><a href="http://www.jeremylevine.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Jeremy Levine</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;">, a board member of Pinterest and a venture capitalist at </span><a href="http://www.bvp.com/about/history" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Bessemer Venture Partners</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;">. "We have one hundred ideas but no execution as of yet." {via </span><a href="http://india.wsj.com/home-page" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">WSJ</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> article}</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Mr. Silbermann co-founded </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/cold-brew-labs-inc." target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Cold Brew Labs Inc.</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> in 2008 and launched Pinterest, the company's only product, the following year. It has raised $37.5 million from Silicon Valley angel investors including </span><a href="http://www.yelp.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Yelp Inc</span></a><a href="http://www.yelp.com/" style="color: #3d85c6;" target="_blank">.</a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> Chief Executive </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremystoppelman" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Jeremy Stoppelman</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> and top venture firms such as </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.bvp.com/in" target="_blank">Bessemer</a> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">and </span><a href="http://a16z.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Andreessen Horowitz</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">The closely held company wouldn't disclose financial figures, but isn't yet making much revenue and is unprofitable. Pinterest is currently valued at around </span><span style="color: red;">$200 million</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">, according to a person familiar with the matter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Pinterest claims to be still searching for the right monetization model. For now, though, the company is generating revenues through successful implementation of an affiliate marketing model. Pinterest uses </span><a href="http://skimlinks.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">SkimLink</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> services to identify if a photograph posted on the site can be linked to an affiliate program. Once a user clicks through the link and buys a product from the affiliated retailer’s site, Pinterest gets a share of the sale. While statistics are not available, analysts believe that Pinterest is driving plenty of traffic to retailers, especially the smaller ones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Pinterest became the third most visited social network in the US in March 2012. Facebook is the leading player with seven billion total visits, followed at a distant second by Twitter’s 182 million visits. But, Pinterest is catching up with 104 million visits, already having surpassed Google+’s 61 million visits.</span></div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lawee" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">David Lawee</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> of Google is taking a look at Pinterest. He says - ‘Pinterest is a phenomenon that’s extraordinary.’ Suggesting an acquisition price of around $2 bn, simply because Google can afford it and needs to make a move in the social space, but I still can’t get my head there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Recently, Pinterest extended its photo sharing capabilities by adding video sharing as well. The company enabled the addition of </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Vimeo</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> videos on to its virtual pinboard. In 2011, Pinterest had introduced video sharing by letting users add </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">YouTube</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> videos on their boards. As a video service, Vimeo is preferred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So is lead gen a <a href="http://ramsay-limicolaeinanuncannyworld.blogspot.in/2012/04/few-definitions-relevant-to-zero-sum.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">ZERO SUM GAME</span></b></a> <b>? </b>(refer to my earlier blog "<a href="http://ramsay-limicolaeinanuncannyworld.blogspot.in/2012/04/few-definitions-relevant-to-zero-sum.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Few definitions relevant to ZERO-SUM-GAME</span></a><b>"</b>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As we see it, lead gen has become a “<i><b>zero sum</b></i>” game – as the big players get bigger, they take away opportunities for the small players, until eventually, only the biggest players in each vertical remain. Here are five reasons it’s hard for all but the largest lead sellers to survive today:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>3: Diminished Arbitrage Opportunities</b>: Five years ago, you could buy “<i>San Mateo bad credit refinance mortgage rates</i>” on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx2L6EGa9DY" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Google AdWords</b></span></a> and potentially be the only bidder on this keyword. Today, a combination of Ad Words changes that largely eliminate “<i>long tail</i>” keywords and much savvier competition makes it unlikely that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GI7tsbwnVk&feature=relmfu" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>you can buy a click for $.05 and make $50</b></span></a>. Most online marketing arbitrage opportunities have gone by the wayside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Taking all of these factors together, you need to have a pretty large operation to be a successful lead generator. From lead quality technology, business development teams, smart ad buyers, and talented lawyers. <b>Lead gen</b> just isn’t the domain of ‘<b>mom and pop</b>’ shops out of a garage like it once was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When the gains made by winners in an economic transaction equal the losses suffered by the losers. It is identified as a special case in <u><i><span style="color: blue;"><b>GAME THEORY</b></span></i></u>. Most economic transactions are in some sense positive-sum games. But in popular discussion of economic issues, there are often examples of a mistaken zero-sum mentality, such as “<u><i><b><span style="color: blue;">PROFIT</span></b></i></u> comes at the expense of <b><i><u><span style="color: blue;">WAGES</span></u></i></b>”, “higher <b><i><u><span style="color: blue;">PRODUCTIVITY</span></u></i></b> means fewer jobs”, and “<b><i><u><span style="color: blue;">IMPORTS</span></u></i></b> mean fewer jobs here”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In game theory, which can be used to describe anything from wage negotiations to arms races, a dominant strategy is one that will deliver the best results for the player, regardless of what anybody else does. One finding of game theory is that there may be a large first-mover advantage for companies that beat their rivals into a new market or come up with an innovation. One special case identified by the theory is the <b>zero-sum game</b>, where players see that the total winnings are fixed; for some to do well, others must lose. Far better is the positive-sum game, in which competitive interaction has the potential to make all the players richer. Another problem analysed by game theorists is the </span><u><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">prisoners' dilemma</span></i></u><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though not always. Interestingly, men tended to report increased relationship satisfaction only when none of the blame for household financial woes was directed at them. Diamond theorizes that societal pressure on men to be breadwinners (even when their wives contribute significant portions of family income) is still such that any blame directed at them — shared or not with anyone (their spouse) or anything (the national economy) — leaves them feeling less satisfied about their relationship. Yet more evidence of the often cited fragile male ego. Now that is a good point to cherish with.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ebebeb; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><b>The economic downturn is forcing many unhappy couples to reconsider the financial pitfalls associated with divorce.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>E</b><span style="font-size: 11px;">ven with this support, the challenge of effective implementation of the cooperative principles and values cannot be ignored. The sound governance of cooperatives depends upon a well-informed and active membership base, dedicated to cooperative values and principles. To sustain the drive of cooperatives for social justice, a strong membership base, bound by the democratic one-member-one-vote principle, is essential to addressing weak or unethical management, capture by local politicians, or other conflicts of interests which could divert cooperatives from addressing social justice issues.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It’s obvious, but the main man to watch in this team is India’s captain</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahendra_Singh_Dhoni" style="line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: orange;">Mahendra Singh Dhoni</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, who thrives in the short forms of cricket. Dhoni is the IPL’s most successful captain, and he leads a team that has retained its core players over the years. Chennai Super Kings will be looking to make it three in a row after winning the IPL in 2010 and 2011, and Dhoni will get good support from his wingman Suresh Raina – the top run-scorer in IPL history – and new signing Ravindra Jadeja. Expect Dhoni and his team to be challenging for the four qualifying spots for the final, when home advantage, like last year, could play a part given that the second qualifier and the final will be played in Chennai.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Surprisingly enough, Shah Rukh Khan isn’t Kolkata’s key player, though he appears to think so given the amount of time he spends mugging in front of the cameras with cricketers in tow. Calling the Bollywood actor a horrendous cricketer would be an understatement, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bthrva7_icA" style="border-bottom-color: initial !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: initial !important; color: #f98d21; line-height: 1.5em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">as this clip</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> shows around 50 seconds in. KKR captain </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautam_Gambhir" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Gautam Gambhir</span></a></strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is far easier on the cricketing eye. In 2011, Gambhir went one better than local hero and former captain Sourav Ganguly had ever managed, guiding Kolkata to the play-offs for the first time. Gambhir moved from Delhi to Kolkata last year after being signed for $2.4 million at auction. Let’s see if he can live up to that record price tag. Also keep an eye out for new signing Brendon McCullum, one of the most prolific batsmen in T20 history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sachin Tendulkar, </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">fresh from his 100</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> international century</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, has decided to step down as the Mumbai Indians captain so he can concentrate on his own game, and probably enjoy it more. Good move from the Little Master, who is obviously worth keeping an eye on. Rest assured, you won’t be the only one watching him. It will be fascinating to see how new skipper </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Harbhajan Singh</span></a></strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">,</span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">pretty much the forgotten man of Indian cricket after being dropped from the national team last year, takes to IPL 5. He has much to prove and is a big character, so he’s the man to watch for the Mumbai Indians, the winners of the Champions League T20 last year. Also watch for Malinga, the most exciting bowler in the tournament and IPL 4’s “purple cap” winner after he topped the bowling charts with 28 wickets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This franchise has experienced more upheaval than any other, but it has made possibly the most interesting signing for this season in Australian captain </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Clarke_(cricketer)" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Michael “Pup” Clarke</span></a></strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, who has decided to finally join the IPL party after sitting out the first four seasons. Nobody can dispute Clarke’s credentials as a Test and ODI player – he is No.1 in the International Cricket Council’s Test batting rankings and No.8 on the ODI list – but T20 cricket is relatively unfamiliar territory for him. Still, a classy player and one who will bring valuable guidance to a team sadly missing last year’s captain Yuvraj Singh, who is battling cancer. Clarke, however, won’t be available until after Australia’s tour of the West Indies finishes on April 27. In the meantime, there’s West Bengal’s hero </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourav_Ganguly" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Sourav Ganguly</span></a></strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, who shifted south last year after being let go by Kolkata Knight Riders. The former India captain has spent most of the past two years in the commentary box, but has he got a few big innings left in him? It’s doubtful, but let’s wait and see.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Hot Shot:</strong> Clarke has plenty, but his girlfriend Kyly Boldy seems to be the most popular. Even Ricky Ponting’s wife says so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">No more Shane “Warney” Warne, but the Rajasthan Royals are still hanging on to </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul_Dravid" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Rahul Dravid</span></a></strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the Indian cricket legend who </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">officially retired </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">from the sport last month with the caveat that he’d stay on for this year’s IPL. T20 cricket isn’t Dravid’s forte – his classiness has never quite matched the brash nature of the shorter form of the game and its pursuit of instant gratification – but who won’t be interested in seeing how he finally bows out? Just imagine the scenes if he scores a century or leads his relatively not a fancied franchise to the title this year? Nobody would begrudge him such a fairy tale, not even his opponents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry Virat Kohli, but there’s a clear stand-out performer in this team — last year’s losing finalists – and that’s <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gayle" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Chris Gayle</span></a></strong>. Incredibly Gayle wasn’t picked up at auction last year and only arrived mid-way through IPL4 as a replacement. He then electrified the tournament with some terrifyingly brutal innings, and ended as the leading run-scorer, earning himself the “orange cap.” The big Jamaican is a genuine joy to watch. If you follow one player from any team in the tournament this year, make it Gayle. This man can send the ball soaring handsomely into the air, which is more than can be said for the planes belonging to his boss, Vijay Mallya, the owner of Kingfisher Airlines. Pow!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- AC Milan have always managed to progress to the next round after drawing the first leg of a knockout tie in Champions League or European Cup. On three occasions, they have drawn 0-0 at the San Siro before advancing in the second leg.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- And since the defeat against Inter, Pep Guardiola's side have lost just once (vs. Arsenal in February 2011), and have scored 60 goals in 22 games.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has scored 30 goals in his last 26 Champions League appearances.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- But Messi has scored just one goal in his seven meetings against Italian opposition in the Champions League, that being a penalty against AC Milan in the group stage of this season's competition.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Milan's former Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored in five of his last seven Champions League games.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Milan have won just four of their last 16 games in the Champions League.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- And in Milan's nine Champions League games to date this season, five penalties have been awarded, three of which they have conceded to the opposition.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that is not what a real estate marketing company would like to recover being an Ostrich after reputation damage. Trying to stop a competitor from using trade dress similar to there trademarked theme brand these companies have got an up-close and unwelcome look at the dark side of the internet specially for the clients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525;">Blogger pals of their well-connected adversary, including one at a major industry website, blasts for being a bully and filing a frivolous lawsuit, often misrepresenting the circumstances. Some posts generated hundreds of angry responses, and anonymous callers began phoning office, leaving scathing messages. At the low point, one person even decided to inject some personal terror into their life by claiming their relatives had been in a serious car accident. Now to recover form such issues is a tough nut to crack. </span><span style="color: blue;">So here it goes this way</span><b style="color: #252525;"> :-</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When misinformation and rumors circulate about your business, it can dominate your company's search engine results and potentially damage your business, says Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com, an online reputation management firm in Redwood City, Calif.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such companies must advice his clients to grab as much of their "<b>Google Real Estate</b>" as possible. That means reserving the .com, .net and .org versions of URLs and claiming identities on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and local review sites including Yelp, Google Places, Citysearch and Yahoo Local. You might also want to reserve URLs that pair the name of your business with pejoratives like "sucks,". Businesses can use such vehicles to distribute positive, search-engine-optimized information about their companies, which can push down negative information in search results. In such cases, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GlobalComputerTechnologies" target="_blank">Global Computer Technologies</a> also creates several new websites optimized with various descriptions of the company, with links back to the main site to further drive down negative results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But some rumors keep bubbling back to the top always. Since 2005, members of the Social Network family have been battling a persistent falsehood of their image so as the companies with web based networking. The stick rule is that "The nature of our background makes it believable, but it never happened," company president Elwood Martin says. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GlobalComputerTechnologies" target="_blank">Global Computer Technologies</a> always extend their hands to the benefits of their customers in all possible ways.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">A list of</span><b> </b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">SE7EN from </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GlobalComputerTechnologies" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Global Computer Technologies</span></a></span><b> :-</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Companies like to think there is one privacy and one data storage culture but the reality is, especially in Europe, regulations and expectations differ across countries. American companies in particular are hitting that challenge now in Germany, where there was talk of forcing Google to seek permission from every householder in the country</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">before they included their properties</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">in Street View (</span><span style="color: blue; text-align: justify;">see a</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2100051,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">TIME update here</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pace of change means companies are having to restructure their marketing efforts twice a year in order to remain responsive. That’s partly because of the external pressures of change but also because companies find they can achieve more once they have grown an online audience (for example better customer care alongside online marketing).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, marketing to them but also using the online channels as a means to do better customer care and also to develop insights that can feed into product development. The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://facebook.com/" rel="homepage" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Facebook"><span style="color: blue;">Facebook</span></a> community or the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://twitter.com/" rel="homepage" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Twitter"><span style="color: blue;">Twitter</span></a> followers, and now <a class="zem_slink" href="http://pinterest.com/" rel="homepage" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Pinterest"><span style="color: blue;">Pinterest</span></a> fans, are a strategic asset and the ways to use that asset will grow over time.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other day he insisted that his school was ranked in the top 20 universities in the country. This being my business he assured himself that it was not and he got very angry and then eventually looked it up and realized that on some lists his school didn’t appear even in the top 200 in the world. Recently he bet himself that his school was in the top 10 hardest schools to get into the state. Of course it was no where near that hard to get into these days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why am I telling this story? I do not believe that one receives a better education in one university than one receives in another (unless one is planning a research career in which case where you go to college may matter a great deal.) It doesn’t matter where he went to school, it does matter what he has done since school. But his alma mater matters to his friends a great deal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">When he moved, as a jobless, from one state to another as he was always being asked why he would make a move like that by his parent. People perceived him as moving down in class. And, he succumbing to the status issue we all live with, will usually respond “HELL YEAH” when asked where he got a job if he does not have the time to list all the places he has been.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the point. The obsession we have with going to college in this country, with test scores, with SATs, with rank in class, and so on is not an obsession about education at all. It is an obsession about status. If you can say you went to Harvard every one will say ooh!! and wow!! and suddenly people will believe you are very smart. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Having taught at places that are thought of that way I can tell you that there are smart kids and there are dumb kids at all these places. What they have in common is an ability to please their teachers and do well on tests.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a very sad state of affairs that people spend tremendous amounts of money on exorbitant tuitions, push their kids from kindergarten onwards to get good grades, and obsess about test scores for small children, all in the name of status. Moreover, they attach status to schools that don’t even have that status. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard the phrase “its a very good school” after having been told that someone’s kid went to some school no one ever heard of.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">This isn’t just an American obsession of course embedded on all of us through generations. Exactly the same phenomenon exists in the UK down to even which college at Oxford is better than which other college and in France with the Grandes Ecoles and in every other country I know about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wish I could say it is all nonsense but it isn’t. Companies make hiring decisions based on which school one attended and your friends think about you differently based on which school you attended. But it is simply not about education in any way. A lecture is still boring everywhere anywhere round the globe. The same books and internet are available anywhere, and college has never actually been all that much about education in any way. Graduate school maybe. College not so much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some numbers to think about. <u><span style="color: red;">MIT</span></u> and <u><span style="color: red;">Harvard</span></u> are top research universities. They are really about researchers teaching students to do research. One out every 64,000 people in the US and INDIA are researchers. On the other hand, there are 1 million lawyers, 6 million teachers, and 12 million health care workers. Colleges do not teach these three, graduate schools (and technical schools) do that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stop worrying about what college your first grader will go to. Leave him alone. Let him have fun and learn what he wants. Most of us never attended Top Universities (including me) and have managed happy lives thereafter based on the College. Live life to the best on what you want because you never know what happens when where and how ?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In tribute to the sweetest of holidays for the year ending and Christmas, I bring you my first annual "<i>Business of Love</i>" special report. In it, i address the greener side of love </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">and the best method for ditching an unwanted admirer (get a cellular woman). I</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> even tuned in some finely tuned dating advice from a bona fide professional matchmaker yo get tips on what to do when your just-to-be-girl won't sign that prenuptial agreement. No Not! Never ! but yes for me love is done many a times in your lifetime with a bottle of booze ! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Does that mean your sperm is for sale ?? Oh no! i never did this but yes something back in your mind always want a deeper crush of your life. Then What it costs to say "<b>Be Mine</b>". Don't you think there's a knight in your mobile as armor or i</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">t was serendipity that offered you the timely telephonic love out with your partner yelling out your emotions. Several a telecom business thrive on this and sustain themselves to afford you to empty your pockets forcing you to call as cheap as your sperm."<i><u>Hilaya, Hiyala aur Hilaya jab tak dho na diya</u></i>" - tagline must to be used for unlimited talk offers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Now the economic criteria : It </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">will cost love consumers a little more this year. The average love-struck consumer will spend nearly $60 on Valentine's Day this year </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">according to the National Retail Federation's 2011 Valentine's Day Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey.These facts are subject to change on the bigger wallet underneath your ass.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Can you believe people get paid for this, drinking tea and talking about love all day long? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Almost everyday someone somewhere around the globe is launching own lovemaking matchmaking business </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">which trains aspiring matchmakers and sets quality standards for love. Their </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">success is to what his/her offer that other dating sites don't: face-to-face coaching on how to choose the right certain someone--and how to keep him or her coming back for more. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">WTF!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now t</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hink you're "married to your work?" Try starting a business with your spouse </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">considering you are a genius and have achieved the noble prize of getting a holy COW or BULL in your life. This is a bit more interesting though! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For couples that do brave this dangerous territory, working too much is one of the many challenges they will face everyday. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The commitment to each other produces a synergy that can enhance the business," says Jean Charles, a New Jersey-based business consultant. Now there's "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A third rule of thumb: Don't let just anyone know you're married</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and start business with every boy/girl you meet and get married." Later you may quit by just a statement : "He/</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She made the decision that I wasn't very easy to work with". Seriously folks that is what the stories of many entrepreneur couples around the globe.</span></div>
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The solution to water scarcity, in part, will come from new technologies for better managing water as a resource. But to make these technologies more effective, business and policy leaders will need to work more closely to implement them.</h2>
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Public-sector leaders and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have long dominated the debate on water policy, but within the last five years, a growing number of progressive private-sector companies have also started to lend their perspectives on how best to effectively manage water. These companies have begun by paying much more attention to the water environment in which they function. As they develop a new generation of water-related technologies, they also increasingly influence a new generation of public policies that stimulate the development and use of these technologies. Here is how a number of them are engaging along both of these dimensions.</div>
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One group of companies, including beverage, mining, and energy businesses, has found that growing water scarcity constitutes a threat to their social license to operate. In response, some have made large donations to activist groups in the hopes of buying peace. Others have asked for water standards that they can then meet in their plants. The most far-sighted of these companies, however—with Nestlé as a leading example—recognize that while companies have to manage water efficiently behind their factory gate, society (along with companies and their suppliers) needs an equitable, efficiency-stimulating, and predictable legal and regulatory environment that governs all water uses. These companies also believe that private businesses have useful and legitimate inputs to make into the policy-formulation process, and that good business practices can guide effective implementation.</div>
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A second group of companies is developing technologies that can enable society to get more product—more food, energy, income, employment—per drop of water. There are three broad segments. The first comprises companies that develop productivity-enhancing seeds and agricultural technologies. Because agriculture accounts for more than 80 percent of water consumption in the developing world and because the productivity gains of the last round of agricultural technologies (the “green revolution”) have fallen to less than 1 percent a year (from about 3 percent a year in the 1960s), these innovations are vital for better water management. The importance of genetically modified organism (GMO) crops—a core agricultural technology—is illustrated by the contrasting performance of corn in Europe, where GMOs are not allowed, and in Iowa, where 90 percent of corn is grown from using GMOs. In the last ten years, corn yields in Europe have stagnated, while in the United States productivity has grown at over 2 percent a year. Existing GMOs already use substantially lower amounts of fertilizers, pesticides, and water. And some new-generation crops will be better able to thrive despite water stress.</div>
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A second segment of companies is developing new technologies for treating water and wastewater. The process of desalination illustrates the importance in this area. The laws of thermodynamics state that it is theoretically possible to desalinate seawater by using only 25 percent of the energy currently required to do so through existing technologies. If new developments in, for example, nanotechnology and membranes allow even half of this potential to be realized, the cost of desalination will fall to a level where most cities and industries in coastal areas throughout the world can turn to it as the new source of choice. The third segment comprises companies that provide users with just-in-time and just-what’s-needed information—such as on the probability of rainfall, on soil moisture, on water, and on fertilizer requirements. This is essential for energy consumption, domestic use of water, and, most important, for agriculture. Precision agriculture can produce much more crop per drop than traditional methods can, and industries and cities can use much less water too.</div>
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Executives at these leading companies know that progress in water management depends on linked advancement in technologies and policies. They have seen instances in some countries where policy shortcomings mean that many existing technologies that make more efficient use of water are not being fully employed. This has prompted a growing number of companies to engage with policy makers to ensure that key policies—such as tradeable water rights, support for intellectual-property rights, and efficiency-enhancing regulation—are implemented. In conversations with policy makers, corporate leaders highlight examples like the Murray-Darling Basin, in Australia, where an enabling policy environment means that a 70 percent reduction in water availability has had virtually no impact on agricultural production. In situations like this, policy makers know that what is needed is a “next generation” of technologies that will enable society to do more with less. And they know that the key to achieving this is a legal and business policy environment that stimulates the development of the next generation of water efficiency technologies.</div>
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Although the glass may certainly look half empty, it is also half full, not least because progressive business leaders understand that water scarcity is an issue that will affect their industries, suppliers, and the communities in which they work—and they’ve stepped into the policy area to help shape solutions. And as they have, policy leaders have begun to better understand the private-sector’s contributions and to draft more effective enabling regulations. But more business and policy leaders need to follow the lead of their progressive colleagues. That is how we will secure further development of new technologies and the formulation and implementation of a new generation of water-management policies.</div>
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