I never tasted a French Wine.

I could confidently say that Indians have not been exposed to the tastes of wine. All we could get is some cheap, very cheap wine which when tasted will make you decide that wines are garbage. One would stick to hard liquor and not bother with wines anymore.

But of all the people, my son who had his first taste of wine recently, directed me to Coupon Chief, a popular web site of discount coupons from where I can find out the best wines or for that matter, best of any products.

Ok son, thank you.

Yes, he was right! Coupon Chief offers discounts for a great range of products. Looking at the range, I forgot that I am looking for a good wine and in fact could not decide on what I really want. Everything was tempting me to buy; for instance I was fascinated by the varieties of apparels on display.

Since my son was watching my activities, I reluctantly compromised for wine over apparel. Next time, I should remember to shop online when my son is not around.

Just returned from an exhibition.

It was a jewelry exhibition by Zak. This exhibition is organized every now and then and attracts designers from all parts of the nation.

All leading jewelry shops participate and display their wares. As usual, the exhibition was heavily crowded but I headed for the gold coins section. In that section, 10 stalls were doing brisk business and their sales staff was answering quite a lot of queries.

The price of gold coins varied based on the spot price that was being displayed on a big screen. I remember seeing one such in the website of Monex.

Suddenly all the heads turned to me because I answered a few questions on rare gold coins. I narrated quite a few historical facts and also showed some photographs that I carried in my notebook.

Then I turned my attention on bracelets just opposite the coins section. I was surprised to find a few persons that tagged along wherever I went. I was forced to stop and answered some questions but this time I admitted my knowledge on gold coins was due to the fact that I am a regular customer of Monex Deposit Company, an exceptional leader in precious metals for three decades.

Searching for people?

Ok, we all know how to search for a particular product that are available in a specific area. Searching products or services may be easy than searching for people.

Why?
Similar names-Go and type 'Williams' in your address bar. Do it now.
What did you get? 209 million results.

So what is the solution?
Here is a search engine that may be helpful. Free people search by zaba.
I just tried it and compared my search for the same in Google. Zaba made my job easier. The search result provided the list of names with addresses too.

Like Google, Zaba is just a search engine and not a database.

There is an interesting link there. Click on 'Your location' at the bottom and enjoy the result.

Innovative Krillion.

I could hear the sigh of relief from the citizens of San Francisco. Thanks to the new product based search engine Krillion, they can now find out who is selling the Amana Refrigerators in their area.

Krillion Localization Engine scours the Web to find, integrate and present actionable local search results for the ready-to-buy consumer durables such as home appliances.

To verify their claim, I did a Google on Amana Refrigerator and it produced 790,000 search results. I repeated it with Krillion and it gave only 29 results and the stores that sell Amana are all located within 25 miles of San Francisco.

Since it’s February 2007 launch, Krillion has generated over 275 million pages of relevant local search results displaying local product information for major appliances in over 40,000 U.S. cities and towns that has never before been available through search engines.

You can search for other products too such as dryers, washing machines and ovens. More products will be added soon.

Rounders template and adsense.

I have been watching the AdSense ads on this blog and man, what a disappointment!

I am seeing only two ads by Google most of the time and one of them is Google AdSense itself and the other is about 'Ibibo'. I already posted an article on 'Ibibo' and there is no need to mention about the futility of participating in it.

Oh, yes that Google ad about 'Desmartini' is the third ad. I think I attribute for the lack of ads that are relevant to the post is the Rounders Template in the new blogger version. It used to be better in the classic version.

But I saw a major shift in relevant ads when I modify this template to a three column one. Just make a study about this and give your feedback here. I hope to learn a few tricks.

Before I make any money on AdSense, I would like very much to see relevant ads by Google.

Can you earn from Agloco?

No has been my answer well before all the hype that surrounded it one year ago.

Based on my past experience on similar programs, unless you have a huge downline and you spend a minimum of 10 hours daily, it is near impossible to earn from programs like Agloco.

The first hurdle will be their minimum payout. The second drawback is the country you live in. If you are not living in the U.S., then chances of seeing more ads are very less.

Definitely you increase the chances of getting infected if you use the view bar. You just can't prevent the viruses to affect your PC.

Here is an interesting post about earning from Agloco and earning from their forum. In fact all the posts in his (Alex) blog are very interesting and useful.

Pay him a visit.

Thank you Sara Orem.

After quickly finishing my brunch, I rushed off to attend a seminar on ‘Changes in Teaching Methodology’ where I was invited as a guest speaker. It seems my 20 years of teaching experience is recognized in certain sectors though I don’t view myself as an expert.

In the just concluded exam results, some of my students scored state ranks and the news papers published their photographs along with their marks scored and where they studied. This made people look up and invited me as their guest speaker.

When my turn came, after expressing my gratitude for the opportunity to speak among scholars, I explained that my teaching methodology was based on the four Ds- Discovery, Dream, Design and Destiny. Then I quoted Sara Orem, PhD, an adjunct faculty member at Capella University, an accredited, fully online university and her book titled ‘Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change’, that has been my inspiration.

Like me who has my own coaching academy, Sara too Orem is the principal of her own coaching firm in addition to serving as a faculty member and coach in Capella University’s School of Business and Technology.

At the end of my speech, I gave the audience the web site address of Capella University which is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), Ncahlc.org.

Answering a few concerned queries, I assured then that the cost of continuing education online is comparatively less than attending regular classes in other universities.

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