Whooah-Biz

Examining Relationships and Ideas Within the Larger World

Not mine but I thought it was interesting enough to publish.

A Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see & asked the students

“How much do you think this glass weighs?”

‘50g!’ ….

‘100g!’ ….. ‘125g’ ..the students answered.

“I really don’t know unless I weigh it,” said the professor,“but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?”

‘Nothing’ …..the students said.

‘Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?’ the professor asked.’ Your arm would begin to ache’ said one of the student.

“You’re right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?”

“Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress & paralysis & have to go to hospital for sure!” … ventured another student & all the students laughed … “Very good, But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?” asked the professor.

‘No’…. Was the answer.

“Then what caused the arm ache & the muscle stress?” The students were puzzled.

“What should I do now to come out of pain?” asked professor again.

‘Put the glass down!’ said one of the students.

“Exactly!” said the professor.

Life’s problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head & they seem OK. Think of them for a long time & they begin to ache. Hold it even longer & they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything. It’s important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, but EVEN MORE IMPORTANT is to ‘PUT THEM DOWN’ at the end of every day before You go to sleep. That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh & strong & can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way!

It has been while, so here are few interesting selections from blogsphere. In no particular order.

1. Dominate Your Market: How Self Contained Communities Create Permanent Barriers To Entry

2. Check out online collaboration with mind maps

http://www.mindmeister.com

3. PitchTV: Vote for your favourite video pitch at Richards Bransons blog

4. The Art of Writing Great Twitter Headlines. - So true

http://www.copyblogger.com/twitter-headlines

5. Nearly Free Speech from Owen. A different business model

http://www.u-g-h.com/2009/04/17/nearlyfreespeech

Enjoy Enjoy.

Linkedin have just come out with an interesting set of third party applications that help make your profile come more alive. Integration is definitely the key buzz word at the moment. The one that most caught my eye is the company buzz that shows information on your profile page about what other people are saying about you or your company on twitter. Here is some info about the new tools from Linkedkin.

Work collaboratively with your network.

  • Box on LinkedIn: Share files and collaborate with your network.
  • Huddle on LinkedIn: Private workspaces to collaborate with your network on projects.

Share information and keep up to date with your network.

  • Amazon on LinkedIn: Discover what your network is reading.
  • TripIt on LinkedIn: See where your network is traveling.
  • SixApart on LinkedIn: Stay up to date with your network’s latest blog posts.

Present yourself and your work in new ways.

  • Google Docs on LinkedIn: Embed a presentation on your profile.
  • SlideShare on LinkedIn: Share, view and comment on presentations from your network.
  • WordPress on LinkedIn: Promote your blog and latest posts.

Gain key insights that will make you more effective.

  • Company Buzz by LinkedIn: See what people are saying about your company.

click here to take a closer look

Which ones will you be using?

Top favourite reads, what are your thoughts about them? twitter or comment them to me.

1. Develop Your Small Business’s Technology Plan http://www.score.org/eb_9.html kind of like this

2. You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says http://tinyurl.com/8hf2q

3. Shoemoney regular gets over 339 comments, what does that say? http://tinyurl.com/6etst3

4. Sherrilynne recommends them. Analyst what can they do for you http://tinyurl.com/69e3ve

5. A bit of fun about building the ark in modern times http://tinyurl.com/5tt7lr

6. How to Overcome Resentment http://tinyurl.com/3mt7k8 A difficult subject to write about but necessary

7. Yet more social networking ’stuff’ http://www.g6phf.co.uk/site/?p=131 Introduction to Bright Kite tell people where you are in the world.

The following chart represents current statistics for many of the worlds most popular domains.  Updated July 2008. Not sure why I like statistics but I do, A bit of a schocker Germany at number two.  

Domain Amount Registered Country
.com 77.170.572 Global Generic
.de 12.095.431 Germany
.net 11.709.993 Global Generic
.cn 11.439.479 China
.uk 6.941.940 United Kingdom
.org 6.905.369 Global Generic
.info 5.010.368 Global Generic
.eu 2.826.390 European Union
.nl 2.985.481 Netherlands
.biz 1.980.543 Global Generic
.it 1.546.397 Italy
.us 1.424.457 United States
.br 1.374.644 Brazil
.ch 1.169.074 Switzerland
.ru 1.337.429 Russia
.au 1.168.506 Australia
.jp 1.033.412 Japan
.fr 1.166.604 France
.ca 1.044.299 Canada
.kr 927.033 Korea
.dk 921.121 Denmark
.es 998.903 Spain
.mobi 928.394 Global Generic
.pl 1.074.755 Poland
.be 802.281 Belgium
.at 758.745 Austria
.se 741.224 Sweden
.cz 439.334 Czech
.no 390.601 Norway
.nz 336.305 New Zealand
.mx 257.465 Mexico
.pt 222.141 Portugal
.fi 182.639 Finland
.hk 164.278 Hong Kong
.tr 161.133 Turkey
.sk 158.128 Slovakia
.ie 105.054 Ireland
.lt 81.276 Lithuania

I have just been speaking to Owen at http://www.mba-geek.com/ about traffic to ones blog, He made an interesting comment about the more he blogs the more visitors he gets. He mentioned you can see that it is directly proportionate to the number of posts. So what about us bloggers who only manage to post every couple of days?

Just this morning I subscribed to comments from a couple of blogs. One in closed club called triiibes the other was a blog post from Dosh Dosh. Yesterday I commented on Sherrlynnes blog. Over the last couple of years some of us may feel the need to use the internet with caution. While there is some truth in this in relation to certain sites and money transfers. Most of the inter net is very safe.

For example if you subscribe to diffent blog/topics that you find interesting you can always with in 2 clicks unsubscribe. Rss is even safer where no personal information is being exchanged.

Considering that the Internet provides a wealth of largely free information it is a great pity not to benefit from this by using safe and standard tools. Follow your heart and see where it leads. :-)