Nick-I’ve completed four project ideas.

John- But, why? We’re supposed to prepare one project idea only.

Nick-Laughing!!! I want to take revenge from all four directors because they make us scapegoat for their faults and create rift among us.

John-But, how?

Nick-Simply, I’ll put all four project ideas on same table in the seminar room and you should see how all the directors contradict each other and fight till their last breath.

John-Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trutap allows you to take your online social life where you go. You can send group messages, SMS and email from your mobile phone for free. You can also chat with your friends on IM (e.g. MSN) and post to blogs, photo-sharing accounts and social networks – all from your mobile phone.

How It Works:

Simply go to the download page and create an account. Then follow the instructions to download the application onto your mobile phone and away you go!Or you can go to m.trutap.com on your phone‘s mobile browser. And if you‘re in the UK, just text ‘trutap‘ to 80468 and they‘ll send you a download link that‘ll help you download trutap onto your phone.To get the most out of trutap you will need a supported mobile phone and a data plan that allows you to connect to the Internet from your phone.. You can find out if you have a data plan by calling your network operator.When you are creating your trutap account they will send you an SMS message containing a verification code. All you need to do is enter this code into the web site when asked and your number will be verified. Simple as that!

Unique Features:

What is a WAP push?

It‘s a kind of SMS message that contains a web link that can be used by your mobile phone to open a web page. Some phones will call them slightly different things like service messages or push messages.

More at:http://trutap.com/

FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. Their vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros. They share some of their home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide.

How It Works:

Their Community WiFi router, La Fonera, allows everyone to share WiFi in a secure environment. It takes only five minutes to hook up, and then you’ve got WiFi at home and around the world for free!.Foneros connect to thousands of WiFi FON Spots worldwide for free. If you still do not share your WiFi, you can purchase inexpensive access. Find FON Spots on its FON Maps.FON is a Movimiento of people building a free, global WiFi Community, sharing our experiences and ideas.

Who Is Backing Them:

Martin Varsavsky Is CEO And Founder: Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist, Martin is the founder of highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com. Martin also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and is President and Founder of The Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation, and was Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina up to 2005.

Jose Antonio Arribas

Jose Antonio Arribas: CTO, Chief Technical Officer. Jose Antonio has been an integral part of the development of the Internet in Spain over the last 10 years. For the past 5 years, he acted as Ya.com’s Technical Director. Previously, he had worked in Retevisión as head of the Systems Department during the launch of the Alehop portal. Jose Antonio began his professional career in 1996 at Servicom S.A., one of Spain’s first ISPs.
Diego Cabezudo

Diego Cabezudo: COO, Chief Operations Officer. Diego was formerly Strategy Manager at O2in Ireland, where among others was the Business Sponsor leading the launch of the 3G network and was responsible for the first commercial WiFi hotspots in Ireland. He has also worked in a cable operator (TeleCable) in technical, marketing and sales roles and in DMR/Fujitsu Consulting. Diego is a Telecommunications Engineer, holds an MBA from the London Business School, UK and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, US and is a member of the IEEE. Diego also had some fun presenting a TV program in Spain, about Internet and new technologies.

More at:http://www.fon.com/

Autobrag.com is the internet’s first car price search engine. They help car buyers save time and money by answering the question: how much should I pay for a new car? Their search engine reveals car prices from dealerships around the country that are offering a no haggle experience.

This is a dramatic shift from how the industry works today where almost all the leading auto websites are in the business of generating “leads”. When attempting to shop for prices on their websites you are asked the make and model of the car you are looking for along with your contact information. The website then sells the “leads” to dealerships willing to pay for your information. That is when the emails and phone calls from the car dealerships starting coming in.They asked themselves how can the new car buying process can be dramatically improved? The answer was simple: deliver price transparency to car shoppers saving time and money.

How It Works:

They’re providing a free service that eliminates much of the stress and frustration that is typically associated with buying a new car. At the end of the day AutoBrag’s mission is to save people time and money. With just the click of the mouse AutoBrag.com shows you the actual selling prices for tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealerships around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.
Research new car prices at AutoBrag.com. Find the best deal and then purchase the vehicle directly from one of the dealerships quoted on AutoBrag. Or compare these prices to your local dealer and negotiate the best deal possible. AutoBrag does not sell cars, but shows consumers tens of thousands of cars from hundreds of dealers around the country that offer a “no haggle” car shopping experience.

How To Use It:

To use AutoBrag’s services, consumers must be invited to become a beta tester by AutoBrag or an already registered user. In order to be invited, consumers must register only their email addresses on the site. It is not necessary to provide any additional information and the email address is not used or sold.Their service is free of charge for individuals looking for a new vehicle.

More at:http://www.autobrag.com/

The villages of Kayanna and adjacent Koorachundu are home to more than a dozen travel clubs. Tours are an indispensable biennial event in these villages.

‘The last time we planned to fly to Delhi it did not materialise because the plan did not get a nod from the majority of club members. Next year, too, we will propose a trip to New Delhi by plane. If members approve the plan, we will have no problem in organising the trip,’ A.K. Sajeevan, secretary of the Phoenix Family Club at Karikandanpara, a small hamlet near Kayanna, told IANS.

Sajeevan has been the secretary of the club for the last 10 years. This hamlet itself has around four tour clubs and some of the villagers are members of more than one club.

The travel clubs that run on subscription from villagers and memberships are open to all.

The clubs have an ingenious way to raise funds for the tours. Each club has around 45-50 members; enough to hire a bus for a trip. The members pay a monthly subscription of Rs.100 for two years.The corpus raised is invested in some ventures and the profit is used for organising tours. After the trip, members get back their subscription amount.‘Last time, our club bought hay from Palghat (around 150-km south from here) during harvest season with the subscription money. Later, we sold the fodder for a good profit here,’ said Sajeevan.

The tour clubs also execute contracts tendered by the local administrative bodies with the money. In their last trip to tourist spots across Kerala, the Pheonix Club had spent around Rs.80,000.’Apart from investing the money in small businesses, we also give loans to club members at a nominal interest rate,’ said C.K. Narayanan, president of Udaya Club. Narayanan is a construction worker.If you enquire about the origin of travel clubs or about people’s penchant for tours, villagers have no clear answer. ‘I am an active member of various tour clubs for the last 22 years and went for about 10 tours. I don’t know who started the first club here. These clubs were there when I was a child,’ said E.J. Shaju, a middle-aged farmer, a member of the Idea Club.

The club has 15 families as members and three from a family can take part in tours.

‘I have already visited Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. However, no clubs have ventured to North India yet,’ said Shaju.

The clubs have strict code of conduct. ‘Each member should read the rules and should sign the form before becoming members,’ said Sajeevan.

It is during the general body meeting of the clubs that travel plans are finalised. ‘The destination and tour plan will be decided by vote. All the members have to go by majority decision,’ he added.

A panel comprising six or seven members looks after the club administration. A two-member audit team will keep tab on accounts.

During a trip, a discipline committee of three members will be formed to keep order during travel.

‘The travel clubs are a community enterprise here. It helps strengthen relationships as families will be spending almost a week together during the tours,’ Sajeevan said.

Unique Features:

Different colors show different temperatures.Blue lights means for cold and red for hot. By using its smart glass you can easily know more about the food and how fresh is your stored food, apart from that it could also tell you how to cook and for how long the food can be stored. UV light acts as a purifying device to provide clean drinking water. Other unique feature is, it provides some greenery. The flowerpot under the storage space gives greenery by using water that comes from the fridge.

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Over the past few years, the emergence of new online channels – such as the popular social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – has dramatically affected the way that internet marketing is being conducted.

Twitter consultant Mark Shaw, ranked as high as #49 in the World for Twitter Elite and has approx 12,500 followers, explains: “Twitter is really getting a massive head of steam up. There are literally millions of people around the world joining on a monthly basis. Many people presume Twitter is just a social thing, although Twitter has a use for business too. Twitter can actually help you to drive more website traffic, and with it more revenue for business.”

Most businesses don’t know ‘what they don’t know’ when it comes to Internet Marketing and leading UK online resource FreshBusinessThinking.com have developed a power-packed one day event to address this. The Hit Me! Internet Marketing conference brings together their top internet marketing contributors, representing some of the best frontline practitioners in the UK, on 8th September in London.

Nick James, Managing Director of FreshBusinessThinking.com comments: “The internet will have an even larger affect as we move forward into the future. It is necessary for every company to have knowledge of Internet Marketing so that they can quickly and effectively engage with their customers and prospects online; however Internet Marketing can seem mystifying not only for beginners but for moderately skilled internet marketers – it is a constantly changing landscape.”

There are lots of methods available to business owners to enable them to increase traffic to their website and effectively promote their business. Search engine optimization (popularly called SEO) along with pay per click (PPC) ad campaigns such as banners and email marketing are indeed one of the most common and very effective methods. Blogging has also become a popular platform where most people and businesses create their personal brand, with some bloggers gaining a ‘rock star’ like reputation in their market.

The key for business owners is to take a varied and integrated approach which can launch one’s business through the roof. Matt Rhodes, UK leading Social Media Consultant for FreshNetworks and the man behind Europe’s Top 3 social media blog says: “A successful online community needs good management; you can’t just turn on the social media software and wait for the online community to ‘happen’.”
Matt continues: “Growing an online community, for example, is a tricky process – too fast and your community might implode; too slow and you risk consumer disengagement. The early stages of online community building are the most complex – not only are you looking to attract and keep users but you also need to ensure the direction of the online community aligns properly with organisational goals. It’s not an easy task.”

The Hit Me! Internet Marketing event, taking place at Old Billingsgate in the heart of London, has two conference streams – Hit Me! An Introduction to Internet Marketing - attracting business owners who want to understand the basics of internet marketing and Hit Me! RE:FRESH – for corporate marketers who want to ‘stay ahead of the curve’ to keep punching above their weight online.

More at:http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/

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Need of more money, power or lack of performance?

Tony- Sir, last job involved a lot of office politics and back stabbing and I hate it.

John-Oh! That’s good.

Tony -at first day of his job…

John- Make me excel report about each employees who are planning against me?

Tony-

A fifth said that although they know what SEO is, they don’t spend any of their marketing budgets on it. Only 14% identified SEO as being strategically important to their business. 23% of marketers were also unsure about the benefits delivered by using SEO, with 14% saying there were no benefits as far as they could tell.

The survey findings are revealed in a new dotSEO report entitled “Naked SEO”, which is designed to demystify what SEO actually entails. The full report can be downloaded from www.dotseo.co.uk/nakedseo

Naked SEO also includes the results of a new benchmark study into how 50 of the UK’s leading SMEs, as ranked by The Sunday Times, are optimising their websites for natural search. The study found that the majority are failing to take simple steps to improve search engine rankings, with only 28% using relevant keywords on their site.

The dotSEO benchmark study shows SMEs were generally getting the more basic SEO requirements right with, for example, 76% using heading tags in titles on their homepage and 64% using meta descriptions to give a good summary of the site. But at the more technical end, the results were poor, with only 22% of page titles beginning with a keyword and only 44% having a clearly visible sitemap.

Skip Fidura, Digital Director at dotSEO said: “SME marketers in the UK are clearly unsure about the benefits of SEO, which in turn means they aren’t making the simple changes to their websites that could dramatically affect their rankings. The SEO industry itself isn’t helping to educate businesses. Too often SEO techniques are shrouded in mystery as a dark art, not within the reach of ordinary marketers. Our report reveals how there are simple steps that any company can take to make tangible SEO improvements and drive real business returns.”

The full whitepaper – Naked SEO – can be downloaded from http://www.dotseo.co.uk/nakedseo. It contains the full results of the two research projects and mixes the findings with a series of best practice tips and examples.

More at:http://www.dotmailer.co.uk/

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