Blast From the Past

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Dragon

Blast From the Past

Once upon a time a child decided to pet a baby dragon: he fed him everyday with love and scared his friends with the dragon’s fiery nostrils whenever he felt naughty. The dragon also got close to that child and, as time passed,the dragon became bigger and scarier and even more independent- flying around the neighborhood and showing his ever-growing, monsterous powers. The child who was also a young man by then enjoyed his affiliation with the dragon and would boast around without realizing what the future may hold for their friendship. The dragon started thinking on his own and making his own moves when it came to expressing himself, and would not listen to that young man who raised him all his life. One day, the dragon scared the young man’s friends and family members when they got together for a party at home. This left the man thinking what might come next and if it was wise of him to have raise a dragon, to begin with. But it was too late since the dragon was enjoying his strength and would not shy away or refrain himself even in the man’s house. The man then decided to either cage the dragon or get rid of him somehow. He tried to let him loose but the dragon did not want to be anywhere else. The man then tried to cage him but dragon didn’t like that even and broke out the cage and become even more ferocious, leaving the man and the neighborhood helpless in wondering how to deal with this menance. The story somehow resonates to whats happening in Pakistan these days. Is it a blast from the past?!

Farmville Will Get Ya!

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Farmville on Facebook

If you are on Facebook, a social networking website, chances are that you may already be addicted to free online games, and if not, then soon you will be taken over by Farmville or the likes! Lately, I have witnessed many of my friends hooking up to this apparently very addictive game on Facebook. I am sure they love collecting the horse shoes or mending the fence around their farm house, but truly their previous physical activities (if any) have been taken over by this dreamworld farm where you raise pigs, cows, and what not, and hope one day your cows will start giving milk and your chickens would start laying eggs and your vegetable farm will show the fruits of your hard online labor – and by selling all that you will eventually become a rich farmer.

I have no qualms with online games like Farmville:  yes they may give you an engaging experience and perhaps self satisfaction of owning and raising a farm. However, turning you into a beggar, asking other folks on your Facebook contact list to spare some horse shoes or adopt a cow that you found abandoned, now thats difficult to digest. Friends and family members that you have long respected for their mighty ego, self esteem and great character are suddenly turned into farmers who are now requesting you to give them imaginary stuff in a very serious way. I know a friend in need is a friend indeed, and I can see helping a friend out in real life, but what if you keep on helping them on Farmville and when in real life they require your help, you are totally irked by the idea of helping them anymore. I think thats playing your cards not wisely all Farmvillers!

Anyways, I just see all these Farmville requests or achievement badges everyday on my Facebook status page, that make me wonder whethere I am losing out by not joining Farmville.

Is Risk Worth It?

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We all take risks in our everyday life, some more than the others, but is it worth taking all these risks?! One would want to mention the old adage, “higher the risk, so the return”. But is it just about the return when we take risks? Sometimes we take risk for others and sometimes for our own conviction.

We have been working on a huge project (size of the project is comparable to our past experience or capabilities) since past couple of years. When we didn’t even know the result of all this hard work or investment or couldn’t even see what and when we will get any return from this, we still kept moving ahead. Throughout the recession last year when there were times when we seriously thought of abandoning the project, we decided to keep marching on with it. Now when this project is launched in one way, tagging along with one of our other project, we are continously investing our time and effort in this product hoping to find a comparable or better return one day. What continue to drive us forward is merely our conviction that its going to make it and understanding of the market, that its needed!

Is the risk worth it?! Lets see! Soon the future will unfold its mysteries and will show us the fruits of our decision.

What Can Google Do For You?

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Bloggersphere is filled with information telling us what we can do for Google to ensure high ranking on this every growing ‘noun’ turned ‘verb’ search engine. You can find out a wealth of information on how to optimize your website to how to get in-bound links from other websites, from simply praying or waiting for a magic to happen, everything is available on the Web but the answer to this basic question, What can Google do for you?!

Before answering this simple question, we need to understand what Google really is?! Well, Google is a search engine with a unique searching capability, allowing users to dig deep into the World Wide Web and find out information relevant to your keyword search in a shortest possible time. After establishing this fact about Google working, we must also realize that millions infact billions of people around the world are constantly doing one thing, Searching for the information. These information hungry users spend hours each day looking for the relevant information and in doing so, rely heavily on Google.

Now what can Google do for you?! Google can help bring these millions of people from around the world to your website’s doorsteps or Google can help bring the the end to your business before your eyes could blink! The constructive and destructive powers are inherent to this gigantic system. Interesting part is that the power lies within your efforts, strategy, implementation and management of your search engine marketing in swaying either way.

What Next in Smartphones?

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Smart PhonesOk I admit, we are all sold to the idea of having a smartphone these days! iPhone, Blackberry, Samsung, HTC and others are rapidly bringing out new devices that run smart applications mainly developed by the three leaders, Apple, RIM, and lately Google. News is out that Sony is also joining the ‘smartphone club’ by introducing its own version of phone, operating system and apps of course!

Yes we are in a new era of cellphone technologybut whats next?! Are we going to stop right here and keep on improving the smartphones as they exist or we will jump onto a new form of technology platform which may embed artificial intelligence features. Data mining into the cellphone users behavior is the favorite passtime for today’s marketers, mapping our behaviors. Can these internet based smartphones soon provide us with greater usability and more flexible productivity? I think we all can expect something revolutionary in the near future.

Open for Business – Virgin Islands

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US Virgin Islands, a United States territory in the Caribbean, is strategically located near Puerto Rico and British Virgin Islands providing US flag protection in a paradise setting. Like me, I am sure many would have dreamed about moving to the Caribbean specially in bitter United States’ winters and Virgin Islans must have struck them as an ideal location to work and live.

Opening a small or medium size business in the Virgin Islands is not difficult. As a US citizen, one can easily move down to the islands and establish residency. However, if you wish to provide services locally you must consider a limited local population of about 100,000 and small economy as major factors since growth possibilities maybe limited. On the other hand, if you wish to manage your state side clients or your international business from the US Virgin Islands, you can expect to save taxes by becoming Virign Islands Economic Development Authority‘s benificiary.

Real estate is very expensive due to the limited land availability specially on the island of St. Thomas, the territorial Capital. Other factors of productions are readily available but are comparatively expensive than the mainland United States. Remember! You will need a separate business operating license from the Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs along with some others from various government agencies.

Once you have crossed all the challenges, the reward is worth struggling for. Living in always shining place with beautiful beaches and nice breeze will make you forget all the hurdles you went through.