Ban is due to failure of Facebook to remove controversial fan page promoting “Draw Muhammad Day” despite huge number of reports made for the page to be removed. Citing this proof, it sounds fair to block Facebook temporarily.

This could also be a potential scam though, as Zynga is not very popular for the way it handles user data and there have been reports for privacy abuse. So, users will be hesitant to give their cell numbers to a company like Zynga. Some addicts will of course do, and it may open doors for new stream of revenues for Zynga provided they don’t storm users with unsolicited offers as they do on Facebook. They have already been focusing on virtual currency with Zong.

Then there may be some issues in Farmville becoming a brand outside Facebook. So far, the farming game has been utilizing Facebook’s huge user base and viral marketing tools. This will go missing in standalone version of Farmville. At current, Farmville.com is open for all through Facebook Connect but it won’t be much of effort to transfer them to their own network.

Value to Entrepreneurs

Finding the right venture capitalists and expressing their investment opportunity in a way that is easily understood by all potential investors.

Venture firms are very careful regarding the information they reveal to the public because by divulging too much information will result in a flood of business plans and proposals.
However with the help of internet gatekeeper, venture firms can afford to divulge their prized investment criteria-provided the gatekeeper uses the information wisely. Internet armed with the investment criteria information can help thousands of entrepreneurs to reach the right venture firms, and information on internet can change in an instant, a shift in a firms investment criteria can be reflected immediately, which is not in the case of books.

But finding the right venture is only half the battle..

Value to Professionals

Main concern center for the venture capitalists is on the number of deals and the quality of deals. A trusted gatekeeper needs to ensure select, top quality deal referrals that don’t require extensive review. A trusted gatekeeper must know the investment criteria of each investment firm so well that the number of deals referred remains small enough for the firm to feasibly manage, while precisely matching the firm’s pre-specified investment criteria.

When referring deals, one must always take into consideration the issue of quality as well. All the venture capitalists seeks a specific criteria in a quality deal (also called “the four m’s”)

1. Magic
2. Management
3. Market
4. Money

These are elaborated in detail below:

1. Magic
The company must visualize and be committed to its dream, whats the difference between the company and its competitors.

2. Management
Intellectual property rights doesnot necessarily make the great companies-but people do. Venture firms invest in people, not in ideas only.

3. Market
The appropriate market research, comprehension and selection of the target industry, market and potential competitors are critical to the potential success of any company. In order for a company to receive venture funding, it must operate in a large market that has the potential to reach mammoth proportions.

4. Money
The money factor is a largely dependent on the factors above. Venture firms live and die by numbers, and they must ensure that when all is said and done, the firm is looking for investments that will get them as close as possible to its desired rate of return.

Got this email regarding NTS Commonwealth Scholarship Test held on Sunday September 21, 2008 from a friend of mine who attended the test and shares his bitter experiences:

It is indeed a regret to say that the standard of NTS has fallen down to the worse. In the “Blue Book” which I took in Common Wealth Scholarship 2009, there were questions wrongly written in the book especially the choices given were blunders especially in Analytical portion.

For instance the reprinting of same choice more than once in the same question and in another question all choices negates the fundamental clause of arguments thus making whole question unanswerable. In Math portion one question states that “If there are 50 students in class, 28 are female and 27 are male…….”

This defies the credibility of NTS of such responsible job. If possible award full marks for all wrongly placed questions/choices in exam sheet.

This addresses one of(many) minor issues that NTS has always found to be incapable of combating with.

Soo .. here I gotta make some belated wishes, Here’s the list of grown *further* ups:

Ash[3rd Aug] – Have a good one and hope you’d have recovered from the accident. Cheers girl!
Bish[11th Aug] – I remembered! but was nowhere close to networks, so apologies for delayed wish.
President Musharraf[11th Aug] – You remain my favorite leader figure no matter what goes around. I like the way you’re approaching the things, stand tall Mr. President! Hardest day will pass away.
Shoaib Akhtar[13th Aug] – Have a good one. Stream in and blow!

and finally .. Uncle Pakistan .. well not here, you deserve a separate one, an exclusive wish.

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haha .. Compile once, run anywhere! Run now!!