liked tis from a book (Tipping point)

Connectors
*People with a special gift for bringing the world together, people specialists
*Know lots of people
*Have an extraordinary knack of making friends and acquaintances, making social connections.
*Have mastered the "weak tie"; a friendly, yet casual social connection.
*Manage to occupy many different worlds and subcultures and niches. By having a foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bringing them all together.
*Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
Social glue: they spread the message

stand by me (Ben King)

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we see
No, I won't be afraid
Oh, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me,

so* Darling darling stand by me
Oh, stand by me
Oh stand, stand by me, stand by me
If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
Or the mountain
Should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry
No, I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand
Stand by me, Darling darling stand by me
andWhenever you're in trouble
Won't you stand by me, oh stand by me

vision to develop a unified mobile marketplace where every one has the reason to cheer.

Youpark offers unique value added services to wireless operators, OEMs, Portals, brands, mobile software developers and provide high quality mobile applications and games to end users; hence bringing together the whole mobile marketplace.

Youpark – a mobile market enabler – links each participant of the mobile value chain togather .

It delivers best selling mobile applications and games for end users with wider options and a lot of variety to choose from. Youpark supports mobile content for Java, Symbian, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), Windows Mobile (Smartphone), Palm, Linux and Blackberry platforms. Users have all round flexibility of payment and downloading. They can download the content to their mobiles/handhelds and desktops through web, WAP, on device portals (ODPs) and retail in-shops. Users can also get digital media by texting a short code number to youpark.

Youpark offers customized branded storefronts and a quality content catalogue to wireless operators, OEMs, Portals and brands to add more value to their offerings and strengthen their brand and moreover youpark’s value added services have high flexibility to integrate with existing infrastructures of Operators, OEMs etc. With merchandising and localization features they can strengthen their user base and penetrate in to local markets.

Indiagames & MTNL Launch Games On Demand At Rs.300 A Month

Indiagames and MTNL have launched Games on Demand. As of today, the service is available only to users in Mumbai. Some similarities with the Indiagames offering with Airtel, but some differences too: Cost: For Airtel - Rs. 199/month. For MTNL - Rs.300/month
Source:ContentSutra

Opportunity for mobile application developers in banking sector of pakistan.

I was making some efforts to find info on banking sector in pakistan. Apart from what i was looking for, i came across a very good piece of info, while browsing through archives of The News:

Mobile phone banking to start in 2006 (Story as of March):

Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Dr Ishrat Hussain announced on Thursday that mobile banking would start in 2006 and cost of each banking transaction would be Rs5 only. Inaugurating NIFT-e-Trust here at a local hotel, he said from 2006 all branches of commercial banks would be made online initiating the mobile banking era. According to him, before the start of ATM the cost of clearing each cheque was Rs20 and "currently ATM clearing cost is Rs15".

He said with the start of mobile banking the chances of bank robberies would go down automatically and bank customers would be more secure and safe in making banking transactions. He said before the start of this century, there was hardly any ATM service in the country. However, he said there were still dangers of hacking and terrorism like activities and that threat would continue but the banking system should be ready to face these challenges. He was of the view that the banks were making serious efforts to adopt modern technologies.

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/may2005-daily/20-05-2005/business/b1.htm

Why are mobile application sales dropping?

An EXCELENT insight on mobile APPLICATIONS by Michael Mace

Interesting

After doing some hectic work I was yawning a lot and thought what the hell is this and why do we actually yawn?? It is very interesting to note that the exact causes of yawning are still unknown. surprising!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn
The hidden sexuality of the human yawn