Cruises in India.

Indians are not avid sailors. I am talking about Indian travelers only. I know that Indian Navy is one of the strongest outfits in the world.

When it comes to traveling, very few Indians would prefer a relaxed cruise. Also, India doesn't have attractive tourist places in the waters.

Kayak.com, a leading travel search engine, offers some cruising packages. But no destination in India is included in their search destinations.

However, the search function is excellent with wide range of options. Kayak was started by founders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia who believed in a better online travel experience.

Kayak says that they make money when travelers click on advertisements and when they click on the results from travel suppliers like airlines, hotels and rental car companies.

Real estate investors get together.

The web 2.0 technology might not have envisioned its contribution to the growth of social networks. The Internet is filling up fast with more niche social networks, shrinking the world further.

The Flipping Pad is a new social network for those involved in real estate. The main purpose of its creation is to help serious and full time Realtors to share and discuss real estate investing.

The specialty of the real estate industry is that it requires near nil investment in terms of money. Even then, if one is dedicated and has built a reputation as dependable among public, one can become a millionaire in short term.

A pad is a listing of a property by a member of Flipping Pad. At present, there are 72 pads.

This can be a good market place for buying and selling of properties. Their blog can be useful for new members but not in a big way as it is not updated frequently. Their forum is also not very active.

This website needs more marketing efforts from the webmaster.

Doing one more Masters Degree.

I don’t see any harm in doing one more Masters Degree in Education. After all this is my profession and I sincerely want to be a role model. My contributions towards educating high school students in mathematics should be of immense benefit to them and to my country.

I have identified what should be subject of higher studies. Master of Science (M.S.) in Education - K-12 Studies in Education is my choice that will help me develop new competencies to enhance my teaching techniques, administration of an educational institution and my leadership qualities.

The curriculum is aligned with nationally recognized teaching standards, including the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), and is designed to prepare me to produce significant improvements in student achievement.

I can get this masters degree from capella university that provides high quality online education. I have already heard about capella university from other academicians from all over the world.

It is committed to providing high-caliber academic excellence and pursuing balanced business growth. Capella University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capella Education Company headquartered in Minneapolis.

Fine corporate Christmas cards.

I throw away all the seasonal greeting cards that I receive. I blame this habit on age because, I used to accumulate them for years.

If I remember correctly, I threw away a big bundle of old greeting cards when I got married and moved to my husband's house in Madras.

Now, it is my turn to choose appropriate Christmas greeting cards to be given to hundreds of corporate houses who are all my husband's customers and friends.


Promotional Products is a very good resource for corporate gifts. Their range of gifts include Apparel
Awards and Recognition
Bags and Totes
Desk Items
Drinkware
Electronics
Corporate Christmas Cards
Tradeshows & Events
Writing Instruments

A boutique for dogs?

Why not? After all, the festival is for anyone on the earth and that includes dogs naturally.

Why should we consider that the festivals are only for human beings? We know that many men and women treat pets as their equal and provide them everything that they enjoy. Special foods, special beds, exclusive toys are being sold in the market.

There are people who share the spirit of the festivals with their beloved dogs. Keeping them in mind, MichiPet, a couture online pet boutique offering dog clothes, dog accessories and toys, today announced the arrival of festive holiday dog apparel and holiday gifts for your pampered pet.

I wanted to give a few pictures of their wares but alas, they don't allow anyone to copy the images on their site.

Eating alone? want company?

On a hot afternoon, I was awaken from my siesta by the cellphone. The caller was a stranger to me and he identified himself as an accounts manager in a multi national bank.

He then asked me the most unexpected question: "Will you lunch with me"?

I was hot with anger and blasted him on the telephone. He apologized and later sent me a SMS. It read that he was inspired by the idea that he got from a website called Lunch Spark.

Lunch Spark lets you define your preferences, such as favorite food, restaurants, and what city you're close to. Then you can run a search for a buddy, or wait for someone to contact you.

Strange but true. This can only happen in western countries.

Source: Coolwebsiteideas.com

Automatic reminder to take your pills.

I am only 50 and I definitely forget to take my medicines at regular intervals. More over, my poor memory causes my husband also to miss his pills.

He is a clever clown and he will squarely put the blame on me if his blood sugar shoots up. He will take this as an excuse and refuse to help me out with kitchen chores.

Here is a website that solves this problem. Medication Prompt reminds you free of charge to take your pills.

You must give your mobile number and the time to remind you and it does the rest. But I don't know how long they will offer this free of charge. If you don't want to receive calls, you will get reminded through SMS also.

Come out smiling from Journey Lite.

The medical insurance person was on the dot for his appointment with me. His first impression about me was not all that encouraging me to. I could sense a faint disbelief in his eyes. Only later I found out the reason. He believed that I am hiding my age.

When I showed my age proof, it somewhat pacified him.

He asked me the usual questions like whether I have any chronic diseases, my husband’s case history and my father’s too who is no more.

He asked me in an apologetic manner if I have a gastric band implanted. When I said no and asked him why he asked, he said his insurance company is not yet decided whether to insure persons who had undergone lapband surgery, the less complicated weight loss surgery where the size of the stomach is reduced using a gastric band so that only limited quantity of food can be eaten and you feel fuller soon.

The procedure involves placing an adjustable band around the upper part of your stomach to create a pouch. The pouch fills up quickly and the food passes slowly through a gap, formed by the band, into the rest of the stomach. The food then passes normally through the rest of the digestive system.

I told him I am aware of the details and I also know that Journey Lite specializes in Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding.

e has taken all the papers with him and I am yet to hear from him.

Free text books.

The perennial problems for students in India is text books. The related problems are late arrival of text books at the book shops, high cost and poor quality of papers. They still not got used to paperless books that one can get online.

Though the Internet is considerably cheaper here, the computer is still beyond means to many.

Here is an excellent resource for online text books written in 40 languages on all subjects. Wiki Books was launched in 2003 with a vision to bring out open content text books for free.

Every major subject has books on all possible sub-subjects. For example, Biology has books on Anatomy, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Paleoanthropology, Genetics and Microbiology and so on.

I saw some books in my mother tongue Tamil.

Find meanings fast.

How I wished for a handy dictionary for a long time! I found it difficult many times without the a nice dictionary.

The one I have is pretty small and I could not read anything in it even with a magnifying lens. I have searched for an online dictionary a couple of times but never could complete my search and settle for one due to reasons beyond control.

I had some spare time today and I finally came up with All Words.
This is an English to English dictionary with search options in several languages.

They post several links for word lovers and their word of the week is pretty informative. This week, they have analyzed the word 'Acclimate' which means adjusting or adapting to new climate.

Citykids in San Francisco.

Citykids in San Francisco is an exclusive shop for baby products that includes toys, books, furniture, strollers, diapers and baby beds.

This shop recently got listed in lilaguide.com, the web’s first portal for parent reviews of local baby stores. Wouldn’t it truly be helpful if we get full information and feedback about a product that we intend to buy?

There are already 218 reviews on this tore.

Like this, there are about 120K reviews on about 32k listings in lilaguide.com Here is a great place to meet other moms and dads in your own locality and share knowledge and experience.

Find an agency of children trainers that is already reviewed by another parent. Are you a new mom? Do you want to attend parenting classes? Yes, you can find reviews on that too.

Want to gather facts about a particular child sitting agency? No, problem. Just do a search on that and on various other services such as pre-schools, day care centers etc.

Lilaguide.com is launched by The Knot Inc, a leading life event media and services company,

Become a street advisor.

I know many streets in London, New York and Paris even though I have never visited those countries.

Rue de Berry, Champs Elysees, Park Avenue are some that come to my mind immediately. You come across all these familiar places in novels written by James Hadley Chase, Robert Ludlum and Sidney Sheldon.


When I am going to read about my own street in a novel? If you are like me and would like your own street appear in the Internet, here is a chance for you.

Visit Street Advisor, a place where people can finally voice their opinions about where they live, have lived or simply visited! As they rightly pointed out, our street is our real community, where our home is and where we grew up and where our children will play, reminding us of our earlier days.

Become fashion trend setter.

Why only highly sought after models are always introduce fashion. You and I too can.

After all, from where do the fashion designers derive inspiration to design a particular dress or jewelry? Obviously on the streets one find many new fashion.

I know a few film personalities openly admitted the college students are their source of inspiration.

Style Mob is a website that lets everyone to upload their idea of designer clothes and fashion goods. Style Mob is a new community for street fashion inspiration.

Those who truly believe that they are fashionable people and those who designs their own dress,
students and photographers are the real mob in style mob.

Go ahead and get mobbed.

Get fresh business leads.

When the concept of direct marketing was introduced to Internet marketers, only email leads were sold to increase awareness. Yes, the email campaigns were only for the purpose of creating awareness about a product or service.

Then slowly, Internet marketers saw the immense potential of direct marketing and asked the business lists providers if they can give more details of an email like ip address which revealed the location of the recipient along with the first and last name of the recipient.

After a few years, these business lists were also used for offline marketing. Product brochures and flyers were mailed out because mailing lists provided by the industry leader Martin Worldwide gave full address of every one on their mailing list.

Their high potent product called ResponseCom™ is a proprietary blend of U.S. Response and U.S Consumer databases, resulting in a multi-dimensional database that offers extreme versatility and over 100 demographic and psychographic selects.

For more information on Martin Worldwide and its direct marketing products and services, please call (888)- 267-3545 or contact: Chip Matthews, Client Relations Manager chip@martinworldwide.net

A social network for grownups.

Hmm... a social network for grownups? I wonder what next! May be a social network under 5?

Social network websites are cropping up almost one per day it seems. What do the concerned webmasters expected to make from these websites? Income from AdSense? If so, websites and blogs that show 1 million page views a month don't make more than a handful of dollars. And for that, they must have spent a fortune in promotion expecting to get it back many fold over a period of years.

iYomu is a social network for grownups. It has all the usual sharing facilities that enable one to find matches with similar interest.

Another feature in almost all the social networks that I noticed is more Indians participate than any other country .

iYOMU is throwing open a challange for all and the prize money is 1 million dollar. This is an online challenge combining general knowledge, skill, and luck.

Reliance launches jewelry store.

There was a widespread protest in several parts of India, when the telecom and petroleum giant Reliance opened a chain of vegetables shop in major cities in India.

The protest came from growers and small vendors. Somehow, the issue fizzled out.

Now, Reliance has opened its jewelry shop in Bangalore and so far, no protests were reported from anybody.

Obviously and expectantly, the shop is big occupying 6000 sq.ft in three floors in a prime area Jayanagar, Bangalore.

Spread over three floors, the 6000 sq feet store offers over 10,000 designs of exquisitely crafted jewellery from across the country to make it a one stop shopping destination for fine jewellery offering consumer a wide range in gold and diamond jewelery.

The entire range of gold jewels bear BIS hallmark. But customers who are loyal to Reliance may not even look for the purity certification.

The Indian jewelry industry is said to be Rs.70,000 crore worth. If only they open their shop in Madras, they are sure to displace several century old jewelers.

Earn air miles using credit card.

“We will be arriving at Madras next week by Lufthansa”-announced the email from my sister. This did not make sense to me though I was happy to hear the news. She visits us once in two years only. Her last visit was only 5 months ago.

A detailed email that followed put my curiosity at rest. Since the new academic year, her son shopped heavily followed by her own online purchases for the Deepavali festival. All these gave her a lot of free air miles. Now she is happily redeeming all the accumulated points and making a surprise visit to Madras.

And she thanked me profusely because I only introduced to her the Air Miles Credit Cards offered by American Express. The Gold Delta Skymiles credit card issued by American Express comes with the following offers.

* 15,000 bonus miles after first purchase

* 2,500 bonus miles for adding an Additional Card member with their application

* Always Double Miles on every eligible dollar you spend at supermarkets, drugstores, gas stations and more

* Earn one SkyMile for virtually every dollar you spend

Well, do you want one now? Then, please visit CreditCardSearchEngine.com, one of the Internet’s longest running sites for online credit card comparison.

CreditCardSearchEngine features offers from leading U.S Credit Card issuers such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and leading brands Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card.

New online pharmacy.

No prescription Chemist provides medication without a prior prescription.

It is now the order of the day to buy our own medicines without ever consulting a doctor-right?
What it means is we all get afflicted with as many ailments as possible and before consulting a doctor, we call up our friends and relatives, brief them about our discomfort, inquire whether they have experienced similar ailment in the past and if so, what medicines worked best for them.

Then, we log on to the dependable internet, locate an online pharmacy and find out if they ship those medicines without prescription.

No Prescription Chemist is slightly unique:
*They ship worldwide.
* They offer free online consultation with their panel of doctors.
* 24 hour client support.

Source: Free press release

More earning opportunities.

I have been an Internet marketer since 1998. So, in my 10 years of Internet life, I have seen the responses are greater for any money making information. It can be a work at home opportunity, or a new passive income program.

Even my blog on online income opportunities draw more visitors daily.

I hope many are aware that one is paid for his tip by Day Tipper. The pay rate is $3 per approved tip.

Daytipper has announced two additional tip categories. Beauty & Grooming will include tips related to skin care, hair care, face care, nail care, cosmetics, makeup, hands and other relevant topics.

Buying & Selling will include tips related to shopping, coupons, discounts, rebates, deals, negotiating, buyer guides, price comparisons, e-commerce, marketing and other similar topics.

Do you have some tips on the above categories?

Enchanting night life in Orlando.

So what if the theme park closes at the dusk. There is plenty of night life in Orlando. You will find a few music clubs and some dance club in areas that includes Downtown Disney, Disney's Pleasure Island and Orlando's Orange Avenue.

I have read extraordinary description in blogs and forums about the parties in Orlando thrown by Disney World. Tabu night club is a music and dance outlet to enjoy. Most of the orlando hotels also organize night time entertainments.

In Downtown Disney, the House of Blues is very popular for live music.

If you happen to plan your entire trip to Florida through Orlando.com, you are assured of the most comprehensive travel and vacation arrangements in Orlando, with a travel guide offering tips on entertainment, dining, nightlife and more!

Browse the various options of accommodation, study various entertainment activities and buy theme park discount tickets at Orlando.com

The best interactive fashion guide.

You impress anyone first with your appearance. By wearing clean and fresh outfits, you impress everybody and that also make you walk with a confident gait.

You see movies, read magazines and news papers and you browse online to keep yourself update on the fashion front. But in none of the above mediums, you can ask questions about fashion, dress and jewelry.

You Style Me facilitates exactly that. You can ask questions, answer question, share and gain information and knowledge about anything that we wear.

For example, read these latest questions on style.
"Is it normal for men to wear earring? If the answer is positive, which kind of earring is suitable?"

Participate in Google groups to give advise and get advise on style.

Your personal travel guide.

How about having your own personal travel guide for life. I mean it digitally. (Smile)

Tourist Click is your and my travel guide. This is one of the most resourceful travel related website that I have ever come across.

Their services:
Flight reservation
Hotels booking
Car rentals
Hotel directory

Find in depth information on every country on the earth neatly categorized in different continents.

They are hosting a great travel forum in which over 5000 travelers are actively participating and sharing invaluable travel tips and guidance.

They have a separate section of travel blogs too continents wise.

Their travel news section is a must read one before you plan for your travel.

The website loads very fast and the navigation is easy and clear.
TouristClick.com is designed to be your one-stop destination for Travel service.