This is so TRUE !!

The below Article is extracted from one of the Web-Sites, written by some Female Journo. I found it interesting so here it is below for a good read !!

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The relationship between men and women has always been a love-hate type. Are we from Venus and they, from Mars? Are we as complicated as they make us seem and they, as simple as they claim to be?

Oh yes, we need them and they need us – but then, there are moments when the love and dependency takes a 360 degree turn. I was talking to my gang of girls and little did I realize that our giggling gang had touched upon the latest fashion, the hottest designer, the coolest shades, the new beauty therapy, the latest gizmo, the new patisserie around the corner – and finally, we hung our boots by talking about our respective men – from a rant session to a rag session over how ‘impossible’ they were! From being the man of the house to the baby of the house, a quick run on the things that we hate about men.

• Ask you out, start a relationship with you, then ponder to their guy friends, "I'm not sure if she is my type!”

• Think that there is something wrong about gay men, but lesbians they totally support

• Male chauvinism! We fail to understand why men can stop and ask for direction till its 50 odd kms into the wrong direction?! It’s always been a mystery why they will not stop and ask for directions!

• Tells everyone that you are smothering them and that they are annoyed that you are always around. But the very second you get off work or are out with your friends for a change, your cell phone starts ringing off the hook and he's saying , "When are coming over. I miss you. I love you. Come back!”

• Temporary amnesia! They remember the names of football and cricketers from some odd country, their scores, their entire career track – but ask them about birthday’s or anniversaries and the scores each player has made, but cannot for the life them remember birthdays, anniversaries and buying gifts. What kind selective memory is that?

• Oh, they nod their head with aplomb when the topic veers towards gender equality! They are all for it! But, when it comes to pitching in with household chores – suddenly, gender equality is an alien lingo!

• They categorize women into two types – a cool type and a marriageable type. They love to hang around with the hip and happening babes, but when it comes to tying the knot, it’s a virgin bride all the way through! As the saying rightly goes, “You can go to a restaurant and look at the menu card, but its home- cooked meal that completes you”. And our men, seem to follow that saying to the T.

• An absolute control over the remote control! There has to be some kind of deep seated relation to this, but it’s yet to be unearthed.

• Strutting around like a peacock! Ugggh…that’s a no – no! Agreed that they are handy when it comes to fixing a loose wire or tightening the nuts and bolts, but constantly stroking their feathers on that count weighs us down.

• Not that there is anything wrong with looking – (we also like to look!), but someone ought to teach the boys the fine art of looking! There is a very fine line between ogling and looking. And somehow, our boys think its all one and the same!

The Billionaire, The Philanthropist, The "Guru"

He is a Billionaire, a philanthropist, the Guru, he is Warren Buffet !!

He is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway an 118 Billion Business Conglomerate. Aint that big for a person who bought his First Share @11 Years Old ??

The Journey of Warren Buffet has truly been inspirational and he is the one who has beaten another Gem in this World. Mr Bill Gates as the richest man on Planet Earth

Lets look at some of the facts of this Genius
- He bought his first share when he was @11
- He bought a farm @14 Years
- He drives his own Car, does not have a Cell Phone and his desk is without a Computer !! Phew ..how does he manage all this
- He lives in the same Omaha Home he bought 35 Years ago..
- He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.

He has a very simple view towards Life and does not quite believe in Flashy degrees and titles..all he says is "You need good brains"

Whenever he speaks it leaves a lasting impression i.e.

"I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing"

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Last but not the least his advice to young people

"Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself."

Hats off to this Man !!

How to Survive a Stock Market !!

1. Stop Listening To Analysts

Analyst are the First People to confuse you. Some would say buy where as some would say Sell. Try not to Trust these people, and take only an informed decision.

2. Stop Staring At Your Portfolio Every Thirty Minutes

How does it help staring your Portfolio every now and then, it would only add more to the agony in a crashing market. Always Invest in quality stocks and based upon the Financials keep holding these stocks.

3. Be Patient

Thumb Rule, Be Patient

4. Speak To Actual Investors With Experience

Speak to people who are Investors with Experience,they are the people who have seen it all

5. Stop Following Crazy Tips

Please, please never follow crazy tips, especially penny stocks !!

6. Understand Market Cycles

Something which requires a little knowledge and experience, but tremendously helps

7. Follow The Guru

Today the richest man on earth, Warren Buffett, is an investor who has created wealth because he has stayed away from what everybody else is doing and has simply invested in quality companies for the long term. He invested in Gillette, for the simple reason that he believed that men won’t stop shaving. It makes sense to follow, as I call him, “The Guru” and think long term and remember people who create wealth do things that others don’t.

Happy Investing !!

Video Resume !!

We all know what is a "Resume". But have you ever heard about a Video Resume? As we know Internet has been responsible in changing a lot of things..ways of Life, the way we do things. Similarly Video Resume is one of such things.

To simply describe it, it is "A video resume is a brief account of a job applicant's professional experience, qualifications and interests, submitted to a prospective employer in video form"

Sound simple, isn't it. Though Video Resumes have been existing since quite some time in the form of VHS Tapes, but with the advent of "You Tube" ,broadband and cheap web cams, this is now very widespread.

There are various Pros and Cons to this, lets look at some of the Pros:
- Saves a lot of Recruitment and Travel Costs for both the Companies and the Candidate
- Good Video Resume can elevate the Candidate over others
- Its a Unique way of Presenting yourself as a Prospective Employee to the Company.
- One can show their Verbal and Creative Skills without making themselves available for Interview.

I could not think about any Cons, except that a ridiculous / funny video resume can land up on You Tube and become the laughing stock of people worldwide. It has happened before with a Yale University student.

Some Tips to create a Video Resume
- First Analyze whether a Video Resume is appropriate for the Industry
- The most successful video resume should feature short, to-the-point answers, superior editing skills and often a dash of humor.

More Information can be found here

WEB 2.0

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.

The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.

This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0.

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

Web 1.0		Web 2.0
DoubleClick	-->	Google AdSense
Ofoto	-->	Flickr
Akamai	-->	BitTorrent
mp3.com	-->	Napster
Britannica Online	-->	Wikipedia
personal websites	-->	blogging
evite	-->	upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation	-->	search engine optimization
page views	-->	cost per click
screen scraping	-->	web services
publishing	-->	participation
content management systems	-->	wikis
directories (taxonomy)	-->	tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness	-->	syndication

The list went on and on. But what was it that made us identify one application or approach as "Web 1.0" and another as "Web 2.0"? (The question is particularly urgent because the Web 2.0 meme has become so widespread that companies are now pasting it on as a marketing buzzword, with no real understanding of just what it means. The question is particularly difficult because many of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!) We began trying to tease out the principles that are demonstrated in one way or another by the success stories of web 1.0 and by the most interesting of the new applications.

More Information can be found here