All festivals are exciting and invigorating. The joy these festivals bring is inexplicable. Taking a refreshing break from these hectic lives of 21st century. Now you can find an ocean of gift options on TolMol. Flowers, perfumes, gift hampers, collectibles, and more. Save time and energy for a lot of laughters for the festival season.
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Friday, August 3, 2007
Startup to make U.S. debut with job search site
The Avake Technology, Inc. debuted its comparison-shopping site TolMol.com three months ago in India. Now, it plans to launch the beta version of its job-search site dubbed Gladoo.com in the United States by the end of the year.
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Thursday, August 2, 2007
TolMol Gifts - Smile and Spread Smiles
All festivals are exciting and invigorating. The joy these festivals bring is inexplicable. Taking a refreshing break from these hectic lives of 21st century. Now you can find an ocean of gift options on TolMol. Flowers, perfumes, gift hampers, collectibles, and more. Save time and energy for a lot of laughters for the festival season.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
TolMol.com - Net gains for the bargain-hunter
tolmol.com — a comparison shopping site where you can match features and prices from on-line and off-line retailers, segmented by city. revenue models — both online and offline — have become clearer and easier on tap. Tolmol, for example, has over 50 partners, portals as well as product-specific sites, and gets a cut for driving traffic to them
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Monday, July 16, 2007
India IT job market is hot - But for how long?
Booming economy, bounty of jobs, sky rocketing salaries, ballooning aspirations - India IT job market cannot get hotter than this. You talk to Engineers still a year or two from getting the degree in hand and they'll tell you the number of job offers that they have and the package that they are being offered. NRI's who are slogging their way away from India market wonder if flying home is a better option for them.
The idea of looking towards swadesh is very natural - you be close to roots and still make or at least save as much as you would in a land oceans away from home. But the growing salaries and not major breakthroughs in improving the underlying infrastructure force me to question the life of the trend. The salaries are growing almost at an unrealistic rates. IT majors are already exploring setting up bases in countries where labor is cheaper. It won't be far when the jobs stop adding up in India - if not moving out of there. How long can businesses afford growing expectations? How long can they stop the attrition by offering fatter salaries? Ultimately the reality, the bottom line, has to strike. And it won't be businesses that will end up paying but unfortunately the job seekers themselves.
I have been reading about a lot of silicon valley startups that pulled out of Bangalore realizing that getting the work done in India was actually costing them much more. Is this a sign that the correction is around the corner? Gladoo.com, the India job search engine, also talks about the perils of rising salaries in India in its Gladoo Blog. I guess, in the globalized economy we are bound to see the shifts in the trend. Today, it's India and China. Tomorrow, it may be Phillipines, Vietnam, or Mexico - who knows. Especially, the non-knowledge based jobs will be moving from one center to another looking for stabilization.
The idea of looking towards swadesh is very natural - you be close to roots and still make or at least save as much as you would in a land oceans away from home. But the growing salaries and not major breakthroughs in improving the underlying infrastructure force me to question the life of the trend. The salaries are growing almost at an unrealistic rates. IT majors are already exploring setting up bases in countries where labor is cheaper. It won't be far when the jobs stop adding up in India - if not moving out of there. How long can businesses afford growing expectations? How long can they stop the attrition by offering fatter salaries? Ultimately the reality, the bottom line, has to strike. And it won't be businesses that will end up paying but unfortunately the job seekers themselves.
I have been reading about a lot of silicon valley startups that pulled out of Bangalore realizing that getting the work done in India was actually costing them much more. Is this a sign that the correction is around the corner? Gladoo.com, the India job search engine, also talks about the perils of rising salaries in India in its Gladoo Blog. I guess, in the globalized economy we are bound to see the shifts in the trend. Today, it's India and China. Tomorrow, it may be Phillipines, Vietnam, or Mexico - who knows. Especially, the non-knowledge based jobs will be moving from one center to another looking for stabilization.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Gladoo.com - IT, BPO, ITeS Job Search Engine for India
Gladoo.com supported only IT Job search in its initial launch. Now, it supports BPO and ITeS job search as well. The company claims that its building the largest job database for India covering all hot employment sectors.Source: http://www.gladoo.com, http://www.tolmol.com
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Google's Social Networking Projects
Google already has a social network (orkut), but it's only popular in Brazil and India, doesn't have a Googlish interface and had a lot of security problems in the past. That's why Google sponsored a project at the Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute whose initial goal was to "rethink and reinvent online social network
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GMail renamed to Google Mail
Google has changed the name of their webmail service. GMail is now known as Google Mail.
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TolMol.com - India's First Local Comparison Shopping Site
TolMol enables shoppers to compare and find the best deal on product and service offerings from thousands of online and local sellers. Shoppers can now make informed buying decisions. TolMol covers all major shopping categories like Electronics, Mobiles, Autos, Computers, Travel, Books, and Home Appliances, and more. It was launched by Avake (http://www.avake.com), the company that also launched Job Search and Career Networking site Gladoo (http://www.gladoo.com).The unique feature of TolMol is that it offers travelers side by side comparison of airfares and trainfare. For sellers, it gives a unique opportunity for showcasing and promoting their products and deals to the growing number of online shoppers in India.
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Gladoo - IT Job Search Engine for India - Search & Network Your Way Up!
With Indian economy booming, especially the IT sector. A search engine like Gladoo can help job seekers find their dream job easier than ever before. Gladoo beta was launched by Avake (www.avake.com), a California based startup. Gladoo promises to simplify job search by aggregating IT jobs from all major job boards, classified sites, and company websites in India. - http://www.gladoo.com
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Saturday, July 7, 2007
Wah! Taj, You Rock!
Let me begin my blog by saying "Wah! Taj, You Rock!" as Taj Mahal today made to the list of new 7 wonders of the world.
It was about two months back, I was visiting India, when I first heard about then impending online voting for choosing the new 7 wonders of the world. The TV channels in India had started urging people to vote for Taj even before the voting site was opened. Yesterday, being the last voting day, some TV channels dedicated the whole day to "Vote for Taj" campaign. Observing the scale of the campaign by the Indian government and public it was pretty obvious, to me, that Taj will be in the list. So the confirmatory news didn't surprise me however, what I found amusing was that mayor of Agra, the city that holds the majestic Taj Mahal was awarded immediately after the word of confirmation reached India.
I have visited Taj twice in last one year so I know that the mayor or other responsible government bodies haven't been doing enough to preserve the eternal beauty of Taj. Just because Taj has won the voting campaign, doesn't mean all is well with Taj. We all know the challenges that the Taj is battling againsts. When there is a question mark on how long this historic monument can stand the perils of mishandling, awarding someone responsible for preserving the grandeur of Taj is only ironical. Let's hope that the award will remind Mr. Mayor his responsibility and that he will do the needful to keep Taj one of the most cherished tourist spots on earth.
I pray and hope that the Taj Mahal will continue to intrigue the senses of viewers, the words of the lyricists, and the hearts of the lovers. Winds may be favorable or unfavorable, Taj, the symbol of true love, must go on!
Cheers
Ind-Wind
Sources:
Times of India - Taj Mahal's Journey to the New 7 Wonders of World
CNN - New 7 wonders of the world named
It was about two months back, I was visiting India, when I first heard about then impending online voting for choosing the new 7 wonders of the world. The TV channels in India had started urging people to vote for Taj even before the voting site was opened. Yesterday, being the last voting day, some TV channels dedicated the whole day to "Vote for Taj" campaign. Observing the scale of the campaign by the Indian government and public it was pretty obvious, to me, that Taj will be in the list. So the confirmatory news didn't surprise me however, what I found amusing was that mayor of Agra, the city that holds the majestic Taj Mahal was awarded immediately after the word of confirmation reached India.
I have visited Taj twice in last one year so I know that the mayor or other responsible government bodies haven't been doing enough to preserve the eternal beauty of Taj. Just because Taj has won the voting campaign, doesn't mean all is well with Taj. We all know the challenges that the Taj is battling againsts. When there is a question mark on how long this historic monument can stand the perils of mishandling, awarding someone responsible for preserving the grandeur of Taj is only ironical. Let's hope that the award will remind Mr. Mayor his responsibility and that he will do the needful to keep Taj one of the most cherished tourist spots on earth.
I pray and hope that the Taj Mahal will continue to intrigue the senses of viewers, the words of the lyricists, and the hearts of the lovers. Winds may be favorable or unfavorable, Taj, the symbol of true love, must go on!
Cheers
Ind-Wind
Sources:
Times of India - Taj Mahal's Journey to the New 7 Wonders of World
CNN - New 7 wonders of the world named
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