MOSYN’S WORLD

Google Blogoscoped: “Google released the long-rumored Google Checkout (Codename “Sierra”), a PayPal-like system to shop online without having to re-enter your personal information, and without having to remember different passwords. As opposed to PayPal though, Checkout is not an online bank account to send and receive money… at this time, it’s just trying to let you buy on shops like Starbucks, Levi’s, DVD empire or Buy.com (the list of supported sites lacks some big names like Amazon). Google suggests you look for the shopping cart icon within AdWords on search results… yep, makes sense, they earn for every click on those. (Also see the tour.)

After entering my credit card details into Google Checkout, I tried to use the service on DVD Empire but it didn’t work – I wasn’t offered Google Checkout in the end, but was asked to create a new account or login with an existing DVD Empire one. I tried the service once more with Buy.com, and as this video demonstrates, while there was a Google Checkout button this time, the whole thing resulted in an error anyway. Not a successful start for this Google service, but perhaps this is just the typical Google launch day syndrome (or there’s no support outside the US).

Now, the Google Account is getting more powerful with every new service Google adds. It looks like Google aims to become the software layer”

Investing principles for building wealth – Sify.com: “Investing principles for building wealth
By Kathy Kristof |

Stocks are volatile, which is another way of saying they’re likely to experience wide swings in value. However, over long periods of time, there’s good reason to believe stocks also will appreciate dramatically faster than any other type of asset. That makes it easier to attain your long-term wealth goals.

When you buy a share of stock, you are buying a piece of the issuing company. Admittedly, it’s probably a small piece, but that share you purchased gives you the right to participate in the company’s wealth (or fiscal decline) and vote on matters of some importance—directors, company auditors, and some shifts in corporate policy.

In some cases, you are also entitled to dividends—payments of cash or stock to shareholders. Some companies also provide their shareholders with perquisites, such as tickets to the company’s theme parks or discounts on its merchandise.

Because companies tend to grow and prosper over time—and because a share of stock allows you to participate in the prosperity—stock prices, in the aggregate, tend to appreciate over long periods of time. However, individually, some companies prosper; others fail. If you buy a share in a loser, you could lose all, or a significant portion, of your “

Rains add wings to Kerala’s charm – NDTV.com – News on Rains add wings to Kerala’s charm: “Thursday, June 29, 2006 (Thiruvananthpuram):

We travel to rain-swept Kerala, God’s own country and a land of Ayurveda that has a very special connection with the rain.

Kerala, where a wind called mausim turns moist and torpedoes throughout India into the Great Indian monsoon.

As a nation readies to cup it’s palms, the Kerala seas are in full throttle much like the mini Malayalee world cup match by its shores.

For the young, it’s footsie time in more ways than one. Neat footwork, also the spirit of the season, as practitioners of ancient martial art Kalaripayattu begin another season of training during the monsoon.

Even for the old, it’s time to renew. The rains, a part of Ayurvedic healing in Kerala, where infections once treated will heal for the whole year, are now adding wings to the touristy Keralan charm.

They say, watch it from your spa or from the most inundated quarters of the western ghats or pine away from the ramparts of a fort, from the very spot that Mani Ratnam used in movie Bombay for a love song.

It is filmi tourism but in the land of Parshuram, it never rains, it pours myth, songs, stories and these are just some of the ways, these seaside folk share”