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This is one of the nice forward I have ever received:

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at Rs10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer rate increased to Rs25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs50." The villagers squeezed
up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!

Welcome to the "Stock" Market!!

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India celebrates 1983 World Cup Win!

It was the 25th anniversary of the India's World Cup triumph, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team marked the day with an emphatic 256-run win over Hong Kong in Karachi. This win was surely insignificant compared to the one in 1983, but nonetheless India would be pleased to begin their Asia Cup campaign on a high note.

India while batting first scored 374/4 in 50 overs and won by bowling out Hong Kong on 118 in 36.5 overs.

Suresh Raina (101 runs in 68 balls) got Man of the Match award!

CommonFloor.com: Meet your neighbors

While social networking websites (like orkut, facebook, myspace) allows you to find and connect with your friends, make new friends who share common interests, but will people use social networks to socialize with their neighbors?

CommonFloor.com provides a local social network for residents in apartments. The website creates password-protected Web portals for apartment buildings and housing developments, allowing residents to create profiles of themselves, share information and reviews about favorite local service providers and hangouts and discuss about the problems in their apartment buildings.

Living in the same apartment means residents share the same socioeconomic background, and giving neighbors information on things like where to eat and where to shop makes it very convenient for residents.

The residents at CommonFloor.com can

• Create their profile to introduce themselves to their neighbors.
• Get locality information through neighborhood guide.
• Create and learn about neighborhood events.
• See what others have to say about local service providers and add their own opinions.
• Get opinion on important issues from your neighbors through polls.
• Share documents of interest to your neighborhood.
• Buy / Sell items through marketPlace.
  

To get your apartment a common floor, visit CommonFloor.com

Grassroot movement to elect President

What began as a colorful Internet fluke has blossomed into a full-fledged political movement - one that Republicans and Democrats alike are reluctantly having to acknowledge.

Ok! This is fake

Conversational Marketing

Conversational marketing is a commonly used term in the Web 2.0 / social media world. Michael Brito discusses on blog, how important it is for marketers to use the practice of having conversations.

Conversational marketing is really about participating in conversations that are going on about your product in various channels such as blogs, forums, review sites and wikis. It’s also about taking the conversations offline in the form of roundtable discussions and/or townhall events; where you invite a group of users/consumers to a location and have real-life, authentic conversations with them.

However, conversational marketing has nothing to do with social-media marketing. Definitely, using social-networking and other Web 2.0 platforms to increase traffic to your website is becoming a common practice these days, but this has nothing to do with conversations at all.

Read the complete article here.