Countries with Biggest Internet Communities
This is hard evidence where marketers should look to, and what content should writers focus on. Here’s the top 20 countries which boast of maximum number of internet users. 1. China Population: 1330.1 million ( 1.3 billion) Internet users: 420 million China is anybody’s guess. With the highest population, and an intellectual population, they were bound to ride atop on any given day. No… Continue »
Skin Lightening App on Facebook
Indians have a special liking to the fairer skins and Vaseline has exploited their liking with the launch of a new app for Facebook. The sponsored app lightens your skin color and makes you look fairer, as fair as you want to be, or should I say, the app helps us with the Michael Jackson effect. Vaseline has recently launched a… Continue »
Grow Assets to Start Treading towards...
When you spend money, you either spend it on an asset or a liability. These are the only two broad categories available. Any expenditure that will appreciate your money involved is an asset while the other way around – depreciate – is a liability. Let me consider a couple examples to illustrate the thought. If you are putting in money to… Continue »
Flying Cars on the Anvil
Soon we will see traffic jams in the sky. Thanks to the technology fueled by Terrafugia, flying cars will start to zoom past your ears. If you thought that the new set of cars will be based on Robin Williams’ Flubber, you are not way off. Except, this one has wings to go along with it. The flying car is christened… Continue »
Shutter Island : Must Read
I recently finished reading the book Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. It is a wonderfully crafted story and it kept me enthralled until the last few pages. And, it dooms down to the abyss. The end is complicated, but it needs to read a couple times to digest the climax and to come to terms with the shocker. To adumbrate the… Continue »
10 Points to Note when you are Speaking...
In today’s world, the run of the mill for presenting a topic in a classroom environment is to run a powerpoint presentation and use that as a reference to orient your speech. I have been in the IT industry for close to ten years and have heard hundreds if not thousands of speakers, good and bad alike. The good ones… Continue »
Tweeting the Wedding Bells
If you have heard the popular phrase, marriages are made in heaven, then you are definitely old school. Things have changed but you haven’t. The theme in vogue goes something like this – marriages are tweeted on twitter. I ain’t kidding y’all. A couple in the US are planning on getting married through tweets, and the wedding is planned for the… Continue »
Water : Limits and How much is Too Much
Scientists often come out with studies claiming to have all the answers in the topic of their research. One of the common enigmas in life is the amount of water one needs to consume to stay healthy. There is no definitive answer, but some say drink as much as you can and most put a lower and a higher limit. I… Continue »
Google Caffeine Brewed and Served for...
Google’s new technology in web search is made public. Caffeine, as they call it is the brains behind the Google Search since yesterday. It provides 50% fresher results which is great news for information crazy public who dwell on getting new information from the net. Illustration : Suppose I wanted to search for an event that took place a few hours… Continue »
Laughter is the Best Medicine
I cannot stress enough on the benefits of the emotion of being happy and following it up with the external expression of laughter. Elders say laughter is the best medicine, and is widely believed so even today. Scientists have proved that the happy emotion makes a person healthy, let’s get to the nitty gritties in this article. Scientific tests have proved… Continue »
Words of the Week : Abase and Abate
English is a complicated language, and the world knows it, especially the non-native speakers. The same word can have different meanings when used in two disparate voices, and a single a letter can turn the meaning upside down like the one which we will look at today. I want to introduce two new words : abase and abate. They are rhyming… Continue »
Countries with Biggest Internet...
This is hard evidence where marketers should look to, and what content should writers focus on. Here’s the top 20 countries which boast of maximum number of internet users. 1. China Population: 1330.1 million ( 1.3 billion) Internet users: 420 million China is anybody’s guess. With the highest population, and an intellectual population, they were bound to ride atop on any given day. No… Continue »
The Partner is Done!
I picked up John Grisham’s The Partner earlier this week and finished reading it late last night. It was a grueling story which kept me guessing, although I knew how things would end, including the twirl on the final two pages of this book. To surmise, Patrick Lanigan is a partner at a law firm handling a case aimed to defraud… Continue »
Skin Lightening App on Facebook
Indians have a special liking to the fairer skins and Vaseline has exploited their liking with the launch of a new app for Facebook. The sponsored app lightens your skin color and makes you look fairer, as fair as you want to be, or should I say, the app helps us with the Michael Jackson effect. Vaseline has recently launched a… Continue »
10 Easy Ways to Earn PDUs
PDUs we need and PDUs we want. Professional Development Units (PDUs) dominate our minds, our conversations, and our spare time in the last quarter before Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) deadline. A little forethought would be nice, but the bottom line is that we want the fast and consistent path to our PDUs… and we want them now! Just do what you… Continue »
Grow Assets to Start Treading towards...
When you spend money, you either spend it on an asset or a liability. These are the only two broad categories available. Any expenditure that will appreciate your money involved is an asset while the other way around – depreciate – is a liability. Let me consider a couple examples to illustrate the thought. If you are putting in money to… Continue »
Flying Cars on the Anvil
Soon we will see traffic jams in the sky. Thanks to the technology fueled by Terrafugia, flying cars will start to zoom past your ears. If you thought that the new set of cars will be based on Robin Williams’ Flubber, you are not way off. Except, this one has wings to go along with it. The flying car is christened… Continue »
Shutter Island : Must Read
I recently finished reading the book Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. It is a wonderfully crafted story and it kept me enthralled until the last few pages. And, it dooms down to the abyss. The end is complicated, but it needs to read a couple times to digest the climax and to come to terms with the shocker. To adumbrate the… Continue »
Want to Own a Lamborghini, Here’s...
Lamborghinis are a dream for most of us. The sight of one is a rarity in itself, let alone owing one. Thanks to the world of legos, you can build your own Lamborghini for $60. It’s just not any of the Lamborghinis, but the Gallardo LP560-4 Polizia. There are only two other real models of this car and both are owned… Continue »
10 Points to Note when you are Speaking...
In today’s world, the run of the mill for presenting a topic in a classroom environment is to run a powerpoint presentation and use that as a reference to orient your speech. I have been in the IT industry for close to ten years and have heard hundreds if not thousands of speakers, good and bad alike. The good ones… Continue »
