Friday, March 29, 2013

be an optimist #quote



Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. ~ Jim Rohn

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half ~ Paul "Bear" Bryant


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“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there” Charles F. Kettering

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work- Thomas Edison


"Carry out a random act of senseless kindness, with no expectations, safe in the knowledge that one day someone, somewhere, will do the same for you."
- Diana, Princess of Wales


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing - Abraham Lincoln





Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius



Failure to prepare is preparing to fail- John Wooden



Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young - Henry Ford



“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
Helen Keller

The mind is everything. What you think you become


"We can let circumstances rule us or we can take charge and rule our lives from within." Earl Nightingale

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time -Abraham Lincoln
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The mind is everything. What you think you become.
-Buddha

Everybody likes a compliment.
- Abraham Lincoln


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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
-Mark Twain


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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- Buddha


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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. -Thomas Paine

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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. -Oprah Winfrey

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance. -William Shakespeare

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. -Mother Teresa

Nothing noble is done without risk. -Andréide

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. -Mark Twain

The price of greatness is responsibility. -Winston Churchill

The secret of getting things done is to act! -Dante Alighieri


"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." -
-- John wooden

Top 5 quotes from John wooden

* "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
* "Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
* "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."
* "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
* "Failure is not fatal; failing to change will be."

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Bhagavad Gita Quotes

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ~

~ I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life? ~



~ This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. ~



~ Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives ~



~ Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. ~



~ The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish ~



~ Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. ~



~ Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. ~



~ Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. ~



~ If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you. ~



~ The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought. ~


Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. ~



~ The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation. ~



~ Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free ~
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~ Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. ~

stop talking and start doing


Messi

"The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing" ~Walt Disney




inspirational quotes

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"Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." - Maya Angelou

Plutarch - "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."


Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. -Charles Darwin

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. -Jean Toomer

Bible quote
There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it. -Bertrand Russell

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. -Chuang-tzu

"Isn't it funny the things that make us feel like heaven are ultimately what sends us to hell?" ~ Lori Mondabaugh-Baker

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." - Harold Taylor

BEFORE YOUR DREAMS CAN COME TRUE... you have to H A V E those dreams!" ~Joyce Brothers

"The Hardest Thing in life to Learn is which BRIDGE to CROSS... & which to B U R N" ~David Russell




The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. -Theodore Roosevelt

inspirational quotes

Memorable Quotes


Memorable Quotes

Go f--k yourself.”
—Vice President Dick Cheney, June 22, 2004

“The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
—Gov. Sarah Palin, Sept. 3, 2008

“Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
—Presidential Daily Brief, Aug. 6, 2001

“It’s not surprising then that they get bitter and they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them…”
—Sen. Barack Obama, April 6, 2008

The Amartya Sen you didn't know

Amartya Sen
“I Prefer To Fight Today’s Battles”

There are many argumentative Indians, but very few who can hold your attention in quite the way Amartya Sen can—if you catch him, as Outlook did last week, at his expansive best. He dazzles you by moving fluidly between welfare economics and history, philosophy and international politics, the laws of Manu and Article 377, the pronouncements of Gautama Buddha and the policies of Manmohan Singh. In provocative arguments linked closely to the theme of his magisterial new book, The Idea of Justice, he asks you to consider whether Krishna was right to make Arjuna fight a war that left “women weeping for their lost men and funeral pyres burning in unison” and if non-violent Gandhi should have been on “Krishna’s side”; and then, crossing centuries with his characteristic agility, whether the Indian Left should worry about American imperialism “rather than the consequence of living in the kind of world we live in”.

n a trait rare in Indian public intellectuals, Sen laughs often and makes you laugh with him, regaling you with anecdotes that are never malicious, but infused, rather, with gentle delight in the ironies of human existence. Given the grand sweep of his arguments, his attention to detail can be almost disconcerting. When we entered his suite at Delhi’s Taj Mahal Hotel to interview him, he greeted us with a laughing complaint: “So I am told I have been attacked in Outlook.” The ‘attack’, it turned out, was a stray reference in our gossip column on books, Bibliofile, to Sen’s “turgid” prose style. An admirer had e-mailed it to Sen, who had clearly stored it for future reference! (The same gossip item also mentioned a comment on Sen by his former wife, Nabaneeta Dev, published recently in a British newspaper; she was quoted as saying that when she was wooed by him in the mid-’50s “she felt like a dwarf who was being approached by the Moon”. When we quizzed him about it, Sen responded with aplomb: “She is a very generous person, she may have said it out of generosity rather than belief.”)

Outlook’s ‘attack’ on him notwithstanding, the Nobel laureate was remarkably generous with both his time and his reflections in an interview that stretched to over an hour; sharing, among other things, his opinions on such leading figures of the Indian political scene as Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi. Not everyone will agree with his positions, for instance, on dynastic politics, on which he takes a carefully neutral stance; or on the Left, of which he is clearly a trenchant critic these days; but as always, his words leave you with much to think about.
source: outlookindia

Greatest Inspirational Quotes


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"Men come of age at 60, women at 15. " - James Stephens

Winning is not everything, but making the effort
Vince Lombardi

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain


"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."
- Virginia Woolf

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous." - Henry Ford

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do." - Michael Korda

Greatest Inspirational Quotes of All Time


"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

- Napoleon Hill

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot

"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."

- Thomas Edison

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours."

- Dr. Robert Anthony

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Activity and sadness are incompatible."

- Christian Bovee

"You are what you think about all day long."

- Dr. Robert Schuller

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

-William Faulkner

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

- Walt Disney

"Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself."

- Virginia Woolf


"You become what you think about."

- Earl Nightingale

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

- Dale Carnegie

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

- Winston Churchill

"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."

- Victor Hugo

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment…. It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

- David Viscott

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals."

- Voltaire

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook—it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security."

- John F. Kennedy

"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life." "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

- Napoleon Hill

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open."

- Alexander Graham Bell





"There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take posession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire."

- Andrew Carnegie "Imagination rules the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte


"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. "

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values."

- Michael Lewis

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."

- Samuel Johnson

"We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it."

- Peter F. Drucker


"You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts."

- Napoleon Hill

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

- Gustave Flaubert

"The first step to becoming is to will it."

- Mother Teresa

Young Achievers

Young Achievers:
Aaron Sohacki
Like a lot of kids, Aaron Sohacki’s dad took him to watch airplanes take off and land at the airport. Like some kids, his love for watching planes turned into a love of flying, and he got his pilot’s license before his driver’s license. Uniquely, his love for flying turned into a passion for running a business that flies other people.
When Sohacki was 20, he started ImagineAir. It’s a regional company that lets regular folks fly privately. Along the way, he has flown some not-so-regular people like one of his first clients, the former mayor of Augusta, Georgia, who needed to fly to have dinner with Rudy Giuliani.
The charter service takes people 300-500 miles from the headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Considered a new version of a taxi service, the “air taxi” often costs less than commercial travel. Now age 24, the CEO still flies customers and often gets asked, “Are you even old enough to fly this plane?”

Genevieve Thiers
Genevieve Thiers was the oldest of seven kids, which meant she started baby-sitting almost as soon as she was born. But all the diapers, Friday nights in and lousy tips eventually paid off with millions.
In college, Thiers saw a pregnant woman posting fliers around campus for a baby-sitter. It was cheaper than going through an agency, which could cost in the thousands of dollars. After meeting her future husband online, Thiers thought that there had to be a better way. So she started sittercity.com, her real-life version of the “Baby-sitters Club” of young adult fiction.
The site launched in 2001 and has grown beyond connecting parents and sitters to bring together people in search of elder care and pet care with the caregivers of their choice. And now, at 29, Thiers gets to go out on Friday nights!

Blake Taylor
Yes, he set fire to the dinner table with contact lens solution. Yes, he stayed in on the weekends because he had no friends. Yes, he had to clean the urinals as punishment for acting out in class. But Blake Taylor is done being punished and finally ready to proudly say to the world, “Yes, I have ADHD.”
According to the CDC, 4.7 million Americans 18 or under have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Now 18, Taylor is the youngest person to write a memoir about living with it. He says his book, “ADHD & Me,” is the guidebook he never had growing up – a way to deal with the daily struggles from someone who has actually been there and not just studied the disorder.
Taylor is now a freshman molecular biology major at the University of California, Berkeley, where his book is used in the curriculum. Professors tout it because it’s the first time academia and the general public can see the once-taboo disorder being tackled with candor, since diagnosis only really started to spike in the 1990s. Through anecdotes about taking tests and dealing with tics, Taylor aims to tackle the often-stigmatized side effects of the disorder, which if left untreated, he says, only worsen when someone gets older. “You wouldn’t want to set fire to a table ever, but especially not when you’re 30, right?”

Jason Rae
Not too many kids tell their parents who to vote for when they are 5 years old or ask their fourth-grade teacher to watch the presidential inauguration. But what would you expect from a 21-year-old superdelegate?
Jason Rae went from being a U.S. Senate page to the youngest elected representative of the Democratic National Committee while he was in high school. He actually couldn’t vote when he was first elected because he was six months shy of 18. But he wanted to represent what he calls “America’s next generation.” So, he and his friends hand-painted posters with the slogan “A ray of hope for the future.” It worked.
What about his future? Rae says, “I remember back in kindergarten saying I wanted to run for president, but I’ll settle for an elected office.” These days he is relishing the fact he’s being wooed by both sides for his coveted vote in the close Democratic race for the 2008 presidential nomination — dining with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, meeting with Sen. Barack Obama and chatting with the highest-profile politicians from across the country.
How will he vote? He hasn’t said, but we’ll try to get it out of him.

Stephanie Mockler
In real life, her first car was a Volkswagen bug when she was 16. In her racing life, Stephanie Mockler was driving quarter midget cars, tiny racecars that children can drive, at the age of 6. Now at 20, she is a record-setting driver.
Mockler became the first female to win a USAC Ford Focus Midget Series when she finished at the Indianapolis Speedrome. She is also the eighth woman in the United States Auto Club’s history to win a feature race. And she is the youngest female to ever win a USAC main event.
She gets the whole “Danica Patrick” thing a lot. Patrick is a 25-year-old Indy Racing League driver. Mockler is quick to point out that not all racing is the same and that she hopes to take the NASCAR track. But one thing between them is the same, “When you put on the helmet, you’re just another racer.”

Vidya Ram tops class at Columbia University's journalism school


Vidya Ram, 27, from Chennai was designated the top student in the Class of 2007 of the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University, New York.

Ms. Ram topped a list of 28 honours students in the school's M.S. programme. She was also awarded a Pulitzer travelling fellowship. These fellowships are given to five outstanding graduates to enable them to study and travel abroad. Ms. Ram plans to use her Pulitzer fellowship travelling to, and writing about, China.

Ms. Ram's classmates gave her a big round of applause when the school announced on Journalism Day, the day before the convocation, that she was the student of the year. It is very rare for a foreign student to win top honours at the school.

More than 250 M.S. programme students took their degrees along with Ms. Ram at the May 16 convocation of one of the world's premier journalism schools. Ben Bradlee, vice-president at large of The Washington Post, gave the commencement address to students, faculty, and parents. He received the school's highest honour, the Columbia Journalism Award.

Ms. Ram is the daughter of N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu, who is an alumnus of the Columbia University journalism school. She studied at Sishya, Chennai, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics before going to Columbia University. Ms. Ram spent a year teaching English in Harbin, China; interned at The Hindu group's Frontline magazine in 2001-2002; and subsequently worked at the Hansard Society in London.

source: The Hindu First published on May 21, 2007

Has Twitter changed your life? | Poll | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Has Twitter changed your life? | Poll | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

NYPD Tells Officers to Keep Social Media Clean - ABC News

NYPD Tells Officers to Keep Social Media Clean - ABC News

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Thiruvalluvar speaks


Thiruvalluvar speaks

Speak only such words as are worth saying; refrain from profitless and worthless words.

Whatever be the nature of control you may have on other things, be vigilant and have control over your tongue, failing which, you will meet with misery and great trouble

The fire-caused wounds heal soon enough, but not the one caused by a scalding tongue

"Virtue greets him who has mastered anger, and is wise and self controlled"

Taller than the mountain is the stature of the man who rates the things of this world at their value and lives a life with self-control

Evil brings forth evil; evil therefore, is to be feared even more than fire.

The best punishment to those who do evil to you, is to make them feel ashamed by returning good for evil.

It's that day again thought shud share this just in case @sagarikaghose forgets to greet & wish Easter Eggs 4 all

It's that day again thought shud share this just in case @sagarikaghose forgets to greet & wish Easter Eggs 4 all: It's that day again thought shud share this just in case @sagarikaghose forgets to greet & wish Easter Eggs 4 all

Saturday, March 23, 2013

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Twitter
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." - Evan Esar

Short and tweet

Want to let the world know what’s happening in your life and the world around? Probably, you should start Twittering

Barack Obama finally returned to Twitter recently, after the White House nearly took away his Blackberry. Jennifer Aniston dumped her boyfriend John Mayer for spending too much time on Twitter.

And, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have made Twitter and their fans a part of their life. Recently, after posting a candid picture of his wife in a bikini, he made up to Demi Moore by making his followers wake her up with thousands of tweets of ‘Good Morning’ messages or a “Love Tsunami” as he called it.

More recently, as Kal Penn is set to make the jump from House to The White House, the actor used Twitter to thank his fans.
Best of both worlds

Touted as the next big thing after blogging and networking, Twitter combines the best of both worlds by catering to the needs of people to network without them needing to fill up too much information.

So, what is Twitter? Twitter is your online status message. It tells people what you are doing in two lines. So, the more frequently you post an update online, the more you are in touch with people who are interested in knowing what you are up to.

Think of it as blogging meets SMS meets Facebook. A recent Nielsen report notes that Twitter has recorded over a 1,000 per cent increase in its user base over the last year with over seven million unique visitors in February this year.

A survey by ComScore puts the latest figures at 10 million users. Another report estimates that the average age of Twitterers (or Tweeters) is 31 and that Twitter attracts more working adults than teens or college students.

“It was the techies who first got into blogging and podcasting. So, it’s just a matter of time before Twitter, too, becomes mainstream. Also, when you are working, you have a few more things to talk about,” says popular blogger Kiruba who cut down on his daily posts after discovering Twitter over two years ago.

“Yes, Twittering has cannibalised blogging. And, most of the Twittering happens during working hours, when kids are in college without Internet connectivity. That’s probably why working adults Twitter more.”

Chennai is one of the cities in the country that took to Twitter right from its early days. Shravan Dharmaraj (who tweets as Shravanraj), a 27-year-old Chartered Accountant, has been twittering for over one-and-a-half years.

“I do a lot of share trading. Twitter, unlike any other social networking platform, gives me the freedom to document my impromptu thoughts as and when they occur. It is like talking to your alter ego. It helps you to connect to the world,” he says.
Other uses too

More than just social interaction, Twitter is being increasingly employed for breaking news, updates on politics, sports, entertainment and events around the world. Twitter has tied-up with Facebook for directly posting Tweets as status updates, a masterstroke if you consider that Facebook gets over 66 million unique visitors a month. Twitter also recently tied up with Wordpress. So, you will be able to incorporate your Twitter messages as a part of your blog.

“Once you have taken appropriate security measures, you can use Twitter to collaborate with your co-workers in a corporate environment,” says Rajesh Bhaskar, Senior Technical Architect, HCL Technologies. “For example, I created a Twitter application that informs my team about changes in the status of my project. You can create innovative applications using programs specifically written for Twitter. For instance, recently, we have created an application combining Twitter and Google Maps for a logistics company that allows their customers to see the status of their shipment and also lets them contact the company in case of delay.”

There are over 200 Twitter-based applications such as TwitterSearch, TwitterStats, TweetScan and TwitterTroll that make it all the more exciting for geeks and boost the functionality of Twitter but that’s another story. In India, Twitter has just taken its baby steps. Maybe, during the next round of elections, politicians may decide to do an Obama and set the country atwitter.

For DIM-TWITS

How to get started: Go to http://twitter.com Get yourself an account and you are all set to keep update your status online. You can also use your Twitter account to automatically update your blog and Facebook status messages.

Tweet: A short update of not more than 140 characters on “What are you doing”

Followers: People who are subscribing to your updates (tweets).

Following: People you are interested in following by subscribing to their updates.

DM: Direct Message anybody who is following you.

@: At. When you want the person you are tweeting about to know are referring to him/her in your update, you prefix their username with @ so that it shows up in his/her Twitter account.

RT: Re-tweet. Relay a tweet made by a fellow Twitterer to everyone following you.

#: Hash. When you have something to say about any specific issue or subject or topic, you could tag it by prefixing your subject with a #

Tweet-up: When a bunch of Twitterers decides to meet-up for a social interaction.

source: Hindu

Friday, March 22, 2013

Twitter


Twitter was created by Stone, 35 (right), Williams, 37, and Jack Dorsey, 32 (not pictured),and it is as significant and paradigm-shifting as the invention of Morse code, the telephone, radio, television or the personal computer.

make it hot by striking #quote


Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
-- William B Sprague

The rise of twitter nation By @PritishNandy


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The rise of twitter nation
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...this is the reason that Art...and Twitter exists!


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From defeat to success takes 1.000.000 yrs. From success to defeat takes one second.

A worthless life: you left no legacy.

a life that ends with death was a worthless life.

"Reality" is whatever majority deems it to be. Be part of the minority.

Sharing our emotions is part of the human condition. This is the reason that Art...and Twitter exists!

Don't know the source of patience; I've never been there. I know the source of perseverance;I am always drinking this water

- Paulo Coelho (via twitter)

He who is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else - paulocoelho

Don't explain. Your friends don't need explanations. Your enemies won't believe in you - paulocoelho

CONFUCIUS: If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked Twitter - paulocoelho

Patience and time do more than strength or passion - paulocoelho

Twitter Media

50 Cent's Dog Now on Twitter - The Daily Treat: Animal Planet

How addicted to Twitter are you? Quiz - The Oatmeal

Search Marketing, Twitter-Style! : Marketing :: American Express OPEN Forum

Twitter: follow twittering news and tweets and updates on the micro-blogging website - Telegraph

Twitter | CrunchBase Profile

The 5 Things I Notice about Twitter – and why it is awesome | Ask Aaron Lee

Shortlist of Twitter Apps for Your Desktop

100 Twitter Accounts Every Guy Should Follow | Maxim.com |

My Best Twitter Advice

Twitter is not stupid, People may be | Tech Ravings #5yrs

Why Twitter Will Endure


Why Twitter Will Endure
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The Twitter Phenomenon: Why Bother?

Best of Twitter's List Page, opinions, reviews (Page 1) at Ranker.com - A World Of Lists

HP Names the Most Influential Twitter Users (Sorry, Martha) | Fast Company

Top 20 Sites To Improve Your Twitter Experience

SEOmoz | Using Twitter For Increased Indexation

Twitter Blog: Discovering Who To Follow

16 Tech Titans on Twitter

How Are Email, Facebook and Twitter Audiences Different? #5yrs

Top 50 celeb Twitter snaps


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Top 50 celeb Twitter snaps | The Sun |Woman

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Twitter Could Become the Unemployed’s Best Friend
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
One of Twitter’s advantages is that unlike e-mail messages or Facebook updates, tweets can reach an unknown audience — a benefit that recruiters, human resources departments and job-seekers are fast discovering.

In the last month, 340,000 jobs have been listed on Twitter, said William Fischer, co-founder of WorkDigital, which created TwitJobSearch, a site that searches Twitter for jobs.

The latest tool that job hunters can use to find openings is called JobDeck, a new product from TwitJobSearch and TweetDeck, a desktop Twitter application.

TwitJobSearch scans Twitter for job postings by paying attention to the context in which employment-related keywords appear. For example, if a Tweet links to a story about the construction industry losing jobs, that should not show up on the list. If a Tweet says there is a job listing for an assistant to the vice president, the search engine needs to categorize it under openings for assistants, not vice presidents.

“If someone has 20 followers and they say, ‘We’re thinking of hiring a new sous-chef’ and a link to the restaurant blog, their 20 friends would know,” said William Fischer, co-founder of WorkDigital. “But somebody could come to our Web site, put in ‘restaurant work Bay Area’ and see it.”

JobDeck, the new service, adds other things, like Tweets from human resources professionals and the ability to set up continuous searches. It also pulls in job listing status updates from LinkedIn, which recently teamed with Twitter. Advertisers, including KFC and Adidas, submit job listings and can pay for premium placement in the search engine.

WorkDigital built TwitJobSearch on a lark to demonstrate how its search engine technology works, Mr. Fischer said, and he has been surprised that so many people use it. Twitter is a “cheaper, faster and easier” way to recruit, he said.

Other companies looking to hire have also been surprised by Twitter’s potential for reaching applicants.

On Jan. 7, Richard Barton, chief executive of the real estate Web site Zillow.com, fired off this Tweet: “Greg Slyngstad & I are cooking up a consumer internet startup. R U our founding CTO? Seeking smart, passionate team-builder.” (Mr. Slyngstad and Mr. Barton helped start Expedia together.)

“We were deluged with résumés,” Mr. Barton said. “It’s the most powerful recruiting tool I’ve ever used.”

He has also hired three Zillow employees using Twitter, including its new marketing director. Mr. Barton says Twitter is especially useful for job announcements because, unlike e-mail, recipients do not need to respond unless they are interested in applying or know someone who might be.

source: nytimes

Twitter User Statistics


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At Chirp, the official Twitter developer conference, Twitter shared some revealing stats about its site, users, and growth that had previously been kept under wraps.

Here's a summary of the facts and figures Twitter shared: First published on 3/22/11 11:32 AM

Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.
75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.
Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
Of Twitter's active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.
Twitter itself has grown: in the past year alone, it has grown from 25 to 175 employees.
See pictures of the presentation given at Chirp here. Follow Chirp live on the Huffington Post here, where you can get live video, news, and tweets.

source: huffingtonpost

The Twitter Guys


The Twitter Guys

I joined Twitter in April, after Ryan Seacrest kept telling my family how great the service was. Since then, I’ve attracted more than 2.5 million followers—more than Ryan himself, not to mention Oprah and Barack Obama! Twitter is an incredible way to interact with my fans, and I use Twitter both to share the professional stuff, like a sneak preview of a magazine cover I’m on, as well as the everyday, fun stuff about my life. It’s an amazing feeling to be able to ask them questions and get an immediate response. I used Twitter to pick the color for my new perfume bottle—I uploaded a picture of two options, light pink and dark pink, and let the fans decide. They’re the ones ultimately buying it, so they should be involved in the creation process. When I’m feeling tired, or bored, or just a little off, I turn to my Twitter followers for motivation. They’ll get me up off my butt and into the gym. One time I was at a photo shoot and feeling down, but the inspirational quotes and hysterical YouTube videos my fans sent me via Twitter helped brighten my mood. I had to learn early on that you can’t share everything about your life: when I twittered about how fun it was to bowl at Lucky Strike, a crowd of paparazzi arrived at my lane. But Twitter has made it possible for me to have a really special relationship with my fans that wasn’t possible just a few years ago.

source: the week