Nakul Goyal

Wifi Enabled Weighing Scale ? Really ?

Nakul Goyal — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:59 +0000

Well, technically it’s possible. It’s just emitting the information using the Wifi Connection over to the web. Its nothing different then using the Nintendo Wii Game to play games like Mario Cart with players from all over the world.

Anyways, this thing actually goes a little over that and is Twitter Friendly. Yes, you got it. This cute little geeky Weighing Scale will actually take your weight and calculate your fat and BMI. It will then let the world know by Tweeting about it. Who in the world cares about what my weight is and then even if somebody following me at Twitter does care, do I want to let them know if I gained some weight or lost some. What if my kids decide to get on the scale…will this still tweet my account as my kids weight as my body weight ? I can’t be 35 Pounds. Or does this new piece of technology also have some sort of Finger Print or I should say Foot Print Verification to figure out if it’s me before tweeting it as my weight. I bet there is “something”. I can’t even vision what’s next in the World of Technology.

Check it out at http://www.withings.com/en/

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Blog/Domain Names/Web Hosting

Nakul Goyal — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:12:59 +0000

I was just browsing around and saw this video. After I saw the video, it tells us all what percentage of people know what a Browser is, and that too in New York. Now, think if the same interview happened with questions like:

How to Setup a Blog?
What is a Blog?
What is Wordpress?
What is a Domain Name?
What is Web Hosting?
What are Nameservers?
What is a Wordpress Theme?
What is a mySQL Database?
What is Cpanel Based Web Hosting ?
Where do you go to Register a Domain Name ?
How to Setup Web Hosting ?

I can’t really imagine the responses. However, since this is something which feels like something I could even do in my sleep, I decided to contribute this information to the World Wide Web in my own way. I hope this helps somebody. This will be in a series of Tutorials with screenshots. While I am working on those Tutorials, do watch this Video, its an Eye Opener. To everybody else, this really tells how an average user searches on the web.

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Pubcon 2009 – Las Vegas

Nakul Goyal — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:20:46 +0000

This is the 3rd Pubcon in Las Vegas I will be attending. I am excited to be back in Vegas for the Webmaster World Conference. The size of the conference just multiplies over the previous years every single time. It’s huge. I think its the biggest SEO conference ever, but then I can’t really say for sure until I compare it myself. Here’s my Itinerary for this year’s conference.

Monday November 9, 2009
5:30pm-7:30pm Kick Off Networking Blast!

Tuesday November 10, 2009
08:45am 9:00am Conference Introduction by Brett Tabke
09:00am 09:45am Kickoff Keynote Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos
10:00am 11:15am In-House SEO
11:30am 12:45pm Smart Organic Keyword Research and Selection
12:30pm 1:30pm Networking Lunch For All Gold Pass Attendees
1:30pm 2:45pm Top-Shelf SEO: Hot Topics and Trends
2:55pm 4:10pm How Do You Optimize For Universal and Personal Search?
4:15pm 5:30pm SEO for Multimedia and Rich Media

Wednesday November 11, 2009
08:45am 9:00am Daily Introduction by Brett Tabke
09:00am 09:45am Keynote Panel: Vegas Strip Hotel Marketing Departments
10:15am 11:30am SEO For E-Commerce Sites
11:30am 12:45pm Interactive Site Reviews: Focus on Links
12:30pm 1:30pm Lunch Served To Full Pass Attendees
1:30pm 2:45pm SEO Design & Organic Site Structure
2:55pm 4:10pm Mega Site SEO
4:15pm 5:30pm SEO/SEM Tools

Thursday November 12, 2009
08:00am-08:45 Continental Breakfast for Full Pass Conference Attendees
08:45am 9:00am Daily Introduction by Brett Tabke
09:00am 09:45am Morning Keynote by Bob Brisco of Internet Brands
10:15am 11:30am Linkfluence: How to Buy Links With Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk
11:30am 12:45pm Real World Low-Risk High-Reward Link Building
12:30pm 1:30pm Lunch for Full Pass Conference Attendees
1:30pm 2:45pm Competitive Intelligence: Know Thy Competitor Well
2:55pm 4:10pm Search Bloggers: What’s Hot and Trending?
4:15pm 5:30pm Super Session : Search Engines and Webmasters – aka: The Search Engine Smackdown

Friday November 13, 2009
1:30pm-whenever PubCon – The Classic – Networking Event

See you all at Pubcon.

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Update Your Flight Altitude Automatically

Nakul Goyal — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:24:51 +0000

I found this interesting Twitter Tool started by Lufthansa, they call it MySkyStatus @ MySkyStatus.com
I actually found this on The Next Corner, Dennis Goedegebuure’s Blog. I got particularly interested since I have a flight scheduled for Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 to fly to Las Vegas for the Webmaster World PubCon Conference. I have added my flight details to My Sky Status. It’s set to tweet my departure, arrival and twice while I am on board flying in the friendly skies. It can also update to Facebook, but I have only set it to Tweet it for now. Maybe for my return flight I will have it Facebook it and see which one does what. Thanks Dennis.

Pubcon 2009 – Las Vegas

Text Link Brokers

Nakul Goyal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:44:56 +0000

Over the past few years, a lot of companies/businesses have evolved on the World Wide Web essentialy acting as Text Link Brokers. They basically act as a meeting point between the Advertisers and Publishers. An advertiser is basically someone who is looking to advertise his website on other websites via different kinds of Text Link Advertising. A publisher is someone who is willing to give away valuable real estate on their online real estate aka Websites in exchange for Money.

Here are the Different Companies / Text Link Brokers. Drop me a comment if I missed one:

The Difference Between SEO and Web Design

Lamp in Heart

Nakul Goyal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:36:03 +0000

Social Concerns Shine Bright as these City Youth groups walk an extra mile this Diwali. Sahil, It’s good to see you active with such a social cause. For everybody else, Sahil is my nephew and is working with this NGO and once a week they all go to rural areas and teach the kids there, specially in the Slums. Now education is something all these rural area kids need (Not every kid gets to act in a movie like Slumdog Millionare where actual kids from the Slums of Mumbai got out to the World). Keep it up Sahil.

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Kids & Handheld Games

Nakul Goyal — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:23:41 +0000

My Boys Vyaan & Vansh (just turned 5 earlier this year). I just downloaded pictures from my Digital Camera and saw this picture where both of them are eating some ice cream on the Dining Table and while they are eating, they are also playing their Video Games. Vansh (One on the left and the Younger Twin) is playing on his Sony PSP while Vyaan (One on the right and the Older Twin Brother) is fiddling with his Nintendo DS Lite. I remember back in the days when I was a kid, my and my brother, we only had the Nintendo Video Game Console on the TV. I can’t even imagine what the kids of the next generation will have to play with.

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Chandigarh Potholes

Nakul Goyal — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:04:18 +0000

Me and My College Time Friend and Partner Sumit Bahl decided to do a small website mentioning the Potholes in our Hometown Chandigarh. It was a fun little project which is still live. Do check it out at www.chandigarhpothole.com. Also read the media coverage in The Tribune – We got tons of traffic that day.

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Some Nice Quotes for Friends

Nakul Goyal — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:26:38 +0000

When we talk about Friends, I believe the following:

The only way to have a friend is to be one

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

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A simple friend opens a conversation with a full news bulletin on his life. Real friend says, What’s new with you?

A simple friend doesn’t know your parents’ first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Friends are God’s way of taking care of us. If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them.

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.

Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud

If you were somebody else, would you want to be friends with you?

We really don’t have enemies. It’s just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

My friends are my estate.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.

Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I’m aware of a strength that emanates in the background.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Friends are born, not made.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.

True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, A happy and auspicious bird of calm…

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.

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Boston Common Pumpkin Festival

Nakul Goyal — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:56:53 +0000

Year 2004. Our First Halloween in the US. My colleague David Pye invited us for the Boston Common Pumpkin Festival. Me and my wife went and had a great time. Some great music. Lots of pumpkins, a little bit cold and a lot of fun. Here’s one of the pictures. Thanks Dave.

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