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If Industry & Trade are vehicles of history, Advertising has been the wheel that has moved the history of industry & trade.

Today all three, Industry, Trade & Advertising are in a mode of transformation. As new technologies create new products at a faster pace, new advertising media are needed to match the pace of new products & services. Conventional media have limitations which are being overcome by the new media like Blogging, Video Blogging, Mobile Marketing, Podcasting, IPTV etc.

I have been a member at a many social networking web sites, but socialspark.com redefines & refreshes social networking. It has many features that drove me to signup and explore the earning opportunities, advertising opportunities (free & paid).

As a member you can scan many paid and free blogging opportunities and exchange posts with other members to increase back links & traffic to the blog. After exploring socialspark.com features and using it for a week, I am sure it is an important landmark in the word of blogging, advertising & consumer generated blogging. So if you are already blogging or plan to setup a blog, signup & submit your blog details when you qualify.

SocialSpark offers the perfect platform as it connects advertisers & blogging communities & customers.

Socialspark.com offers bloggers the opportunities to build communities, increase subscribers & increase traffic & offers get paid opportunities to monetise their blogs.

Blog Advertising is more interactive & verifiable media and socialspark.com has designed policies to make the media 100% auditable, verfiable with real opinions from bloggers & consumers. Further all links are 100% nofollow so the bloggers & adverisiers are not adversely affected in search engine rankings due to paid links.

SocialSpark.com is a land mark in commercial blogging evolution
& offers better connectivity between advertisers, bloggers & consumers. The lower costs of sending the product information with the help of interactive blogs is proving to be very effective.

As blog advertising establishes as the preferred media of advertising, it definitely offers a win-win situation for everyone. Lower cost of advertising, reliable information and interacting with the existing users of the product presents the true picture required for buying decisions.

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A mashup is a web application that combines data
from more than one applications/source into a single integrated service,
giving more value to the user (not provided by either of the applications individually).

Mashups are a new phenomenon offering new opportunities to developers & a better value to the users.

Examples of Mashups are Facebook applications. More than 3000 mashups exist and more are being added by the day.
Creating & monetising the opportunities offered by the mashups is a big opportunity both for IT industry, Developers Community & users adapting new web2.0 & converging technologies for business.

Learn & adopt mashups as ignoring the mashups will result in losing on the benefits of the low cost integration offered by mashups.

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Of the hundreds of winning styles, sending a gift and sending an invitation to a party is the starting point & central to winning hearts. It is eternal & universal. Only the script of the language changes. From Hong Kong to USA & Japan to UK, everything else remains the same. Winning of hearts is central to winning in game of life & business.
So next time I am in Newyork or anywhere for special business promotions of a product and am sending invitations to a business party, my first choice for invitation cards and for personal stationary for promotions is personal stationery from cadeauonline.com.

The mathematics of winning hearts works by multiplication so just don’t be worried about a few extra pennies when you send these special gifts or party invitation cards.

Cadeauonline.com remains my favorite for online ordering of personal stationery, party invitations & gifts for personal communications & product promotions.

All the designs are lively & catchy, setting up the your special personal tone to the invitation.

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Flexibility and adaptability in a product or service has a premium attached to it. A premium is also attached to flexible loans in financial services market.

Here is a quick recap on flexible loans I made while trying to understand how flexible loans work.

Flexible rate equity loans are loans that offer homebuyers the ability to overpay their mortgage. If the homebuyer is repaying the loan and applying the overpayments, he can reduce the rates of interest and pay off the property sooner. The advantage to this type of loan is that you can pay less once month if you have made ongoing overpayments. The interest on flex rate loans changes, since the lender will factor in the interest rates on a daily scale. This makes room for the homebuyer to get max overpayment, since the interest changes monthly.

The homebuyer can also “underpay” toward mortgage, providing he has made the allowed amount of payments. The loans also provide “holiday packages” for underpayments, which means if you pay enough overpayments, you can stop payments for a month to take a vacation. There are other benefits of the flexible rate equity loans, which we will learn later, but for the most part, these loans are the leading loans available on the market.

More on flexible loans inn the next post…………………….

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Thousand of years back, Asoka the great, realized the follies of war. He won the war but he lost his inner connection with himeself, God & the people. So he gathered wise men and sent them on missions of spreading his message of universal oneness.

How did they do it? The teachers spreadout worldwide in cities & villages & connected with people to spread the new teachings of life. They inscribed their messages on iron pillars & stones. That was ancient blogging. Festivals were organized around the pillars where people gathered for shopping & meeting and discussed the text written on the pillars.

The endless passion for expression inscribed in our hearts is now being nurtured & cultured by social networking & blogging for connecting people miles away. The SocialSpark generated by blogging revolution is just the beginning of new opportunities in the new connected world.

The run down (or the drop down) on google page rank of blogs for paid posts worked as a barrier in the free expression. These are the days of evolution of blogging, differing opinions must co-exist and rightly so.

As a result, new form of blogging (noindex) is established that connects advertisers & blogging communities & customers. Socialspark.com is a land mark in commercial blogging evolution & offers better connectivity between advertisers, bloggers & consumers. The quality of connectivity within the market community at socialspark.com, lower costs of sending the product information to the consumer is definitely a win-win situation for everyone.

So if you have a new product launch or want to create a buzz around your product or service, socialspark.com offers the platform for promotions at the best of cost per customer acquisition. A marketing campaign in the social marketing media is a new evolving media, but social marketing will always be a better value promotion.

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I have this incorrigible habit of experimentation. The month of April 08 took me to some experiments in blogging. While experimenting takes me away from posting, it adds to the functionality of the blog. I added the post rating feature. This has yet to pick up.

Back on the rails of blogging and following my blogging blue print 2008. If you did not read that go for a quick read - here is the link to blue print 2008.

I plan to write a detailed audit on blue print 2008 by the week end. So please be tuned in. While you are on the post, look for the grey rating stars that will turn yellow when you rate the post.

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If you are making international phone calls and are looking for phone cards, you can get the lowest international calling rates from phonecardsavenue.com. Pre-paid phone cards are available for almost every country.

The savings offered by some of the cards may be up To 95% With Cheap Phone Cards offered at phonecardsavenue.com. Prepaid Phone Cards are available from many sellers and you will always be able to find an offer suiting your calling destinations. If you are calling to many destinations, selecting & buying more than one card may be a better option to save more money. Just contact online help for getting your questions answered. They will help you to finding and buy a cheap phone card that will maximnize your savings, great voice quality for all destinations worldwide.

How to To buy a card:

1. sign up with your email.
2. From the home page, Clicking on phone cards. If you are not in USA, select the country & click ‘Go’.
3. A pre-compiled list of sellers for the selected country shows up, select any one offer and add it your shopping cart. Checkout using your authentication ID & password (received in email after sign up in step 1).
4. Once you have made the payment & as soon as your online transaction is approved, you will receive an email with the Access numbers, PIN and Dialing Instructions

For help in selecting a card or to make international calls to any country, contact online support.

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As the oil prices touch $120, does it answe questions or raise new questions. On the face value, it raises questions of inflation worldwide. But the rising of oil prices confirms the intrinsic strength of the world economic system.

Why and how?

The current consumtion of depetable sources of energy compared to other sources of energy is so high that at the current rate of depletion (consumption), all the resources worlwide will be exhuasted between 30 to 70 years.

This rate of consumption of fossil fuels needs to be urgently lowered. If the world economies are not able to lower the consumtion at current prices $120, it is likely that the prices of oil will further increase.

In addition the higher energy prices will encourage Research & Development, exploration of new and alternative resources of energy.

Considering the great harm currently caused to the environmnrt by burning of fossil fuels, if the increase in prices results in lowering of fossil fuel consumption, it will be a big victory for the world economic system. If the consumption is not lowered, the prices are likely to increase further to reduce demand by at least 5%-7% in the next 2-3 years.

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In the early days of blogging, I talked of a Preventive Health Management Systems under the heading Today’s Idea.

The preventive medicine systems & therapies (PMST) based on natural resources,
diet and supplements is picking up. The use of the smartcalorie counter & calorie calculator with builtin database of Diet & Nutrition breaks the barrier of instant availability of dietary information when needed & qualifies to be a integrated solution delivery system & also as preventive medicine systems & therapies gadgets.

I read about this personal health management tool (have not used it yet) that can be useful in ‘Preventive Medicine Systems & therapies (PMST)’. The smartcalorie counter can be called the early entry as PMST gadget as it depends on natural diet control & nutrition. This can be imaginatively used for disease cure & for preventing disease. Use of this gadget can also be applied to PMST as practised in pre-birth to old age diet control systems.

Can this gadget (with some new features) be used for understanding & relating nutrition with the impact of following systems on health? Yes, it may need modifications for developing the integrated system for undestanding the individual nutrition & impact of following systems on health.

Yoga
Accupessure
Accupuncture
Nature Cure
Message & oil message Systems
Ayurvedic Medicines
Traditional Medicine
Aromatic Therapies

In the information world, the integration & instant availability of infos are the mantras for maximising the benefits and the calorie counter will prove to be very useful & innovative gadget for health management.

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