10 Random gift ideas for your friend's wedding

1. Just read carefully, if any where in the Wedding card says "Please avoid Gifts". You are home,just go and enjoy the event
2. "All the best " Greeting card
3. All the stuff she/he forgot/left with you ,when she/he was your flatmate
4. His/Her favorite book/wine/Movie DVD
5. A KS book and a pack of contraceptives
6. Pre Admission confirmation to kids in a high end kindergarten school
7. Any of the gifts that you got for your marriage, except the one you got from him/her
8. A Dishwasher/Washing machine/Microwave that makes his/her life easier
9. A second honeymoon package
10. A gift coupan , they he/she can buy what they actually want

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10 Random things you dont know about Google Ad Business

Adapted via  20 Things You Don't Know About Google

1. Adwords accounts for 99% Google's annual revenue.

2. In 2008, 80% of 80,000 typo-squatting domains in the US alone were funded through Adsense.

3. Google's advertising revenue in 2008 was $21 billion

4. 1.35% of the US' Adwords advertisers make up 80% of Google US ad revenue

5. In 2009 Google began showing ads based on their previous online activities. User patterns are segmented in 20 categories and roughly 600 subcategories

6. Adwords as we know it used to be called Adwords Select. The top banner position was sold old school style through a program call Adwords Premium.

7. The first Adwords Select ad was in 2000 for live mail-order lobsters.

8. Google's query forecasting models are founded in their efforts to understand and predict Adwords pricing and click patterns

9. Google's pricing mechanism where the winner pays the runner up's price was devised to prevent super-inflated bid prices but the second-price auctions resulted in higher prices for Google right away

10. I am still waiting for my first adsense payment check.

 

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10 Random names for your next mobile gadget

1) Smart Phone
2) Tablet
3) Net Book
4) Cloud Book
5) Smart Book
6) Note Book
7) Booklet
8) Mbook
9) Moblet
10) Netpod

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McDonald’s Social Media Marketing Strategy

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10 Random ways to spend time in office meetings

1. Complete pending work/Tasks
2. Take minutes of the meeting
3. Say some thing that take meeting into a loop and you never reach a conclusion
4. Use your social skills(Twitter/Facebook/Blog)
5. Get into a discussion on SMS/IM/Communicator/Pigdin with friends/collegues
6. Find and explore the features you have never used on your mobile
7. A quick nap with eyes open (depending on the size of the gathering & meeting room)
8. Add your value to the meeting
   
9. Be a spectacular spectator
10. Fill in your this weeks grocery list

Disclaimer :

No meetings or members of the meeting are harmed while writing this blog.Above listed are only suggestions and should be practiced at individual discretion. Author is not responsible for any harm/damag caused directly or indirectly by following the above .

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10 Random Techonology "What if's"

1) What if there is a device to connect any two digital devices and copy files from one to another
2) What if Youtube starts showing related tweets as captions on Youtube videos
3) What if Google gets sold out to IBM
4) What if BMW decides to build a more cheaper car than TATA NANO
5) What if Microsoft decides to Open source next version of Windows
6) What if Twitter starts charging per each character of the tweet
7) What if free E-mail providers start imposing character limit in mails(free accounts)
8) What if GE starts making a coolant to reduce Global Warming
9) What if Middle East Companies decides to stop selling crude oil
10)What if i havent written this blog

Do you have any Answers?

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10 random items to try when you are in Visakhapatnam

1) Take bike ride along beach road from R.K Beach to Bheemli
2) An hour of play in Rishi Konda beach
3) A visit to Kailash Giri hill
4) Ice cream on the beach after midnight
5) A very very late night dinner at 2 AM at hotel Dolphin or Green Park
6) A movie in Jagadamba theatre
7) A visit to Poorna market
8) Drink cold badam milk in a small shop next to entrance of Hotel Daspalla
9) Visit Simhachalam temple, kali temple on beach road, Church-temple-mosque on 3 hills near harbor, Mahalakshmi temple, thotla konda,red sand hills, siripuram junction
10) Enjoy u r stay in city instead of writing blog posts like this

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10 random things to do on a 24 hour long train journey in India

Applicable for non AC travel only
1. Get glued to a window and enjoy the endless view of country side
2. Buy a news paper , read it completely and ensure it with u till the end of journey
3. Get a book of size u wouldnt have touched normally, typically more than 1000 pages
4. Leave u r footwear down and keep track of it when ever some one comes to sweep the coach floor.
5. Get on to the top berth , sleep, sleep and sleep.
6. Explore all the coaches from 1st to last
7. Pay a visit to pantry car and try all the varities of food there.
8. Find a interesting crowd around you and indulge in endless conversation on politics,
9. Get into card games with out getting caught
10. Write a blog post/s like this while the entire coach is a sleep with only light in the coach is from u r mobile.

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10 things Google is doing with its new Chrome OS

1. Following its motto "Dont be evil" by creating a OS thats not competing with or a replacement to the existing Operating Systems
2. Giving a helping hand to the HW manufacturers by identifying the need for a 2nd device
3. Targetting a very narrow TG which is always connected to net and needs a 2nd device
4. Going against the current definition of net book, by saying its Cloud Books will have a big screen and keyboard
5. Creating a disruption in the definition of an OS
6. OS will be free , but one need to buy additional hardware thats locked to Chrome OS
7. Will definitely create new ecosystem of Web App store
8. Going against the device convergence
9. Cloud books will use Solid State Drives, not hard drives
10. Getting people like me write random stories like this

PS: Author is not endorsed by any company to write about Google Chrome OS . All the views expressed here are his own and doesnt represent the company he works for.

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10 random gadgets I wouldnt mind accepting as this Christmas/ New year gift

1.Nikon or Canon DSLR or Lumix FZ superzoom
2.Asus or Lenovo Netbook
3.Apple iPhone 3GS
4.Sony or Samsung 42 inch LCD
5.Bose Home theatre system
6.Microsoft XBox or Nintendo Wii
7.Ipod Touch
8.All purpose remote control
9.Amazon Kindle
10.Last but not (at)least 1 TB external Hard Disk

List in no particular order except last one.

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