BJP's men are getting hi-tech

After Advani and Shivraj Chauhan , its time to have another politician from BJP to go bit hi-tech. He has promise to be a 'apolitical' blogger, he is Murli Manohar Joshi
While Mr Advani’s home page carried his slogan, “For a strong, prosperous and self-confident India,” Dr Joshi’s mantra reads, “India is original, India innovates, India is a leader.”

BiZdoM 3 * 3 QuiZ 25

I had been delaying my next BiZDOM 3*3 quiz since I thought, With so many quizzes being posted these days, I don’t know if it’s a right time to post a quiz or not
Nevertheless here goes, another set of BiZDoM 3*3 quiz ( 25th )

Set 1: IndDIAN Politicians
Q1 After passing out from IIT Kharagpur in 1970, he joined IBM in USA. Later in 1990 he came back to join his father's political party and was later appointed as cabinet minister during NDA government?


Q2. According to a famous story, when JP had doubt about the success of Bihar Movement saying that he would not live for long , then this businessman along with famous Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dhinkar took him to Tirupati where Dhinkarji prayed to the lord to give the remaining years of his life to JP, after few days Dhinkarji died , thus forcing JP to launch his famous movement, identify the famous businessman /personality who was involved in this incident?
[Qts is based on a very famous personality's article, infact another good qts could be to name him...]


Q3. He was chief manager in the communication department in ONGC, incidentally he was also associated as brand ambassador for the same organisation. His political association is quite old, as he has been campaigning for his father for last 10 years. However this time he will try to win a seat for himself in the coming general election.


Set 2: FasT FooD Culture
Q4. In 1877, Henry D. Seymour and William Heston developed and trademarked a new product, rolled oats. All consumers had to do was add hot water to the rolled oats in order to eat them. Because most Americans did not eat oats at that time, the company decided to launch a major advertising campaign. To promote sales, the company packed its rolled oats in cardboard boxes bearing the reassuring image of an elderly Quaker and promoted their new product via a national advertising campaign in 1882, making it the first cereal to be advertised nationally. What was thus happened?


Q5. These are probably of German origin. Early Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) called them olykoeks. They were popular in colonial America but were mainly constructed in solid shapes.


Q6. These are American invention and were associated with leisure-time activities, such as fairs and amusement parks. By 1867, Charles Feltman, a pushcart vendor on Coney Island (an amusement park near New York), was selling sausages on white rolls. They were a success and Feltman converted his cart into a large, formal restaurant eventually employing many waiters.


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Q7. Identify


Q8. Replica of which currency


Q9. This character is based on which incident

Zopa.com: 'zone of possible agreement'

Last month I posted about 'Prosper.com', which is a P2P micro finance system in US. Now here is a profile of Zopa, an UK based P2P microfinance venture

Zopa.com is another fruit of Web 2.0 and social networks, in this case applied to the field of loans, a kind of P2P, something like 'money exchange' instead of 'file sharing'. Zopa is an acronym for 'zone of possible agreement'

Zopa is the world's first social finance company. In 2005 we pioneered a way for people to lend and borrow directly with each other online as part of our continuing mission to give people around the world the power to help themselves financially at the same time that they help others.

Launched by Richard Duvall,the creator of the an Internet bank Egg.com, with an idea of having 'Ebay Of Money'. The model is based on peer-2-peer: thus whosoever in need of money, have to reports on the website zopa.com and announced how much is the requirement, for what period under, what interest he is prepared to pay. Bidders can participate (in English) with between 10 and 25,000 pounds or more if a licensing deal. Then they deposited the money into a special account in his name and under a pre-agreed annualized and then they also determine the amount of borrowing by the debtor, in packages as small as 10 pounds.
Thus Zopa tries to bring together thousands of people who can offer and borrow money so individual and achieve a better position than the banks.

In case if you are interested to know about any Indian entity based on this concept, wait for my next post on this series, anyway its name is Rang de.

The Vatican on Youtube channel registers 740,000 visits in its first week

Some days back i posted a blog, Religion in a Hi-Tech Era, which talked about Vatican using an iTunes application. After that they launched their eXclusive channel on youtube.

And, now in its first week of life, the channel has recorded a total of 740,000 visits, as per the Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi.

ET in Campus 2009 - Pune Chapter

Hi one n all,
here is the latest update for u about ET Quiz.

Around 65 teams battled through the quiz and ultimately 6 teams made it to the final. Teams are from VAMNICOM(me n my new team mate), SCMHRD, SIMS, Singhad Inst. of Engg., SIIB, Symbiosis Law college.

Few Qs from Prelims:-

1. How do we better know Brad’s drink?
2. Chemist Roy J Plunkett created this on 6th April, 1938 while researching on refrigerants at DuPont. What did he create?
3. Which mobile services company launched “SAMBHAV” prepaid card targeting people with hearing & speech disability, to use cell phones?
4. Which hospitality company launched KAYA KALP Asia’s largest spa in Agra?
5. Viewty is a new range of mobile from whom?
6. An ad campaign of XYLO.
7. Prince Awaleed Bin Talal is the first private individual to order what from Airbus?
8. Which organization celebrated 60 years in 2008 has the adline “Chinta Se Mukti”?
9. Which product is being promoted as Absolutely Mangolicious.
10. By what name did Adidas & Samsung launch their fitness focused phone?

Winner:- Singhad Inst. of Engg.