The Webbie

After being the first in India to receive a mGinger cheque, I ended up clicking ‘Pay me now’ on mGinger for the second time.

I just touched the 300 mark day before yesterday and have requested my payment today.

In case, you did not know what mGinger was all about, check out http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=65717

Pretty late, but I have eventually got myself a StumbleUpon account.

The basic motive was to generate traffic for my blogs on TargetGenX, but when I started stumbling myself, I ran into an addiction. I ended up spending hours stumbling upon new stuff that interests me.

Rock on SU. I loved the technology!!!

The following e-mail is visiting a lot of inboxes these days:

Right to Emergency Care:
Date Of Judgment: 23/02/2007.
Case No.: Appeal (civil) 919 of 2007.

The Supreme Court has ruled that all injured persons especially in the
case of road traffic accidents, assaults, etc., when brought to a
hospital / medical centre, have to be offered first aid, stabilized and
shifted to a higher centre / government centre if required. It is only
after this that the hospital can demand payment or complete police
formalities. In case you are a bystander and wish to help someone in an
accident, please go ahead and do so. Your responsibility ends as soon
as you leave the person at the hospital.

The hospital bears the responsibility of informing the police, first
aid, etc.

Please do inform your family and friends about these basic rights so
that we all know what to expect and what to do in the hour of need.
Please not only go ahead and forward, use it too!!!!

The message tells us that this is the Supreme Court judgement to Appeal(Civil) 919 of 2007. On searching the Judgement Information System it was clear that the case was in no manner related to the said message.

It was about a no-profit charitable hospital based in Ghanapur, Andhra Pradesh having claimed exemptions on imported medical equipments, based on Para 2 of Notification No. 64/88-Cus, which were granted. But since according to the classification of hospitals by the notification, it fell under Para 3, it also applied for exemption under the same, after the first exemption was granted.

On rejection of the second application, they filed the case in the AP High Court, which again didn’t go in their favour and hence this case was filed in Supreme Court.

For more details, on the case, check out the Judgement Information System.

Always verify any such crucial information related to the lives of people before you believe in it.

I was fortunate enough to be the first one in India to receive a cheque from the revolutionary advertisement medium mGinger, thanks to orkut, my gmail contact list and my website, which helped me build up that big a network. Really courteous on mGinger’s part, their CEO Chaitanya Nallan called me up personally to congratulate me. It felt good.

From the day I joined mGinger, I was sure that it shall create some flutters around, because I loved the concept they went about applying. And the amount that they have grown in these 5 months, was pretty less than what I’d expected. That is due to the very obvious struggle that everyone faces to pull advertisements on the space they provide and this struggle is profound when you are new. And mGinger is even now a baby, which needs to grow up, so that it is easier to convince the advertisers to see value in the ad space provided by them. According to their latest blog post, they get two types of answers from advertisers:

1. They can spam at a cheaper rate, then why go the mGinger way??
   All thanks to the existent buying and selling of databases containing thousands of numbers and email addresses, which shall change from now onwards with the National Do Not Call List. Check out http://www.ndncregistry.com/ for more information.
   How does it help mGinger and its users?
   More the number of people who register for NDNC, lesser the number of people to spam, hence the medium that remains is mGinger, and hence the advertisers opt for it.
2. The second reason is that some advertisers do find the medium lucrative but unfortunately there aren’t enough people for them to target. This can only be taken care of by the users. The more they advertise their link, the more will mGinger grow.

mGinger will have to rock with the new advertisement medium that it has created. It is now 4 am, and I can’t think of more to write. So, I end it here.

Have you joined mGinger yet? If not, do so by clicking here.

It’s been a long time since I read a book. I had started reading The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari during my last journey to Kolkata, but couldn’t sustain to reading it because I found it too unrealistic and boring - a tremendously successful lawyer at the peak of his career suddenly abandoning all the wealth and assets that he had, and travelling into the Himalayas to reform himself.

I already wrote about my so-very-obvious fascination with Google. And this fascination has got me to read at a time when I never do, i.e. until i’m not travelling a long distance. You must have already guessed the book that I’m reading. It is none other than The Google Story by David Vise.

The curiosity to know more about Google has got me to begin with reading one of the best books about Google that must have been published till date. And I bet, it’s going to be an amazing experience reading through the story of Sergey Binn and Larry Page innovating a tool that empowers billions of people to find what they want, with a click of their mouse.