Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Word of mouth advertising some

Over last few days over a mix of work and domestic I came across some interesting websites that I will recommend,

For those looking for some good, tutorail and encyclopaedic education on finance, capital markets and investing www.investopedia.com

I had been long searching for a website, in fact at one time even thinking of setting up one to integrate all the restauranteurs in town on a single portal where you can order a mix of chinese from Mainland China and Afghani from Samarkhand on the same day. Well! as with tons of ideas getting stacked up the dusty shelves, this one went there, but I found www.hungrybangalore.com , a good, seemingly comprehensive listing of restaurants, with a map to indicate which where and importantly an online menu to choose from. They also organize parties and am trying their service soon, so watch this space for feedback.

Another want of mine had been a utility which can take in all your financial details, bank balance, euqity, funds, assets and advise you real time on what your net worth is and suggest on what you should be doing to optimze your portfolio. I think I found something close at www.moneycontrol.com , a tool called Portfolio manager.

Well! while I find these, perhaps am still like a gleeful little kid, doing an Alice in wwwonderland, but deserving services deserve a bit of word of mouth advertising :)

Wednesday, November 08, 2006


There is this quite milk revolution that has been happening in India for the last 30 years (or more i think). http://www.nddb.org. A small initiative that started in a small village called Anand (means Happiness), to collect the surplus milk collected by farmers from the 1-2 animals in their keep. This went on to feed a whole nation's requirement of milk and milk products.
At present NDDB covers over 300 districts, approximately 110,000 villages, and hold on...some 15 million farmers!
The attached picture shows milk collection at a village society a routine every evening at 6:00 PM.

This one for case studies across social, agri, management, NGO and well milk of course!

50 first dates

I saw this movie yesterday. In a way if we can learn by pushing out the burden of the past, thanking for what we have, and living each day as a new day, it would make it that much more pleasant for all. Only thing, that as a bread-winner, one might have to figure out what to do...
Adam Sandler has done a good job, and the comic act of Rob Schneider is kindof similar to our Mumbai film industry goofs. A good movie all in all, is a Hindi director looking for a retake..