Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Gizmos To Scan Your Medical Insurance Cards

The Scan-shell 800 N is a medical insurance card scanner that you can bank upon. You can store the images of the scanned insurance cards on your PC or lan, publish them in the Internet, exchanged through e-mail and exported to other 3rd part apps. The scanner has a USB interface and is both light on your pocket and light in weight. This device can be purchased through Medicscan. The entire process is fully automated. It implies that the machine would recognize a medical insurance card and scan it. You do not have to do anything other than insert it into the scanner. Upon insertion of the card the software that comes with the scanner will be initiated immediately. Other then insurance cards it also will scan paper photos, ID cards, checks and even rigid plastic credit cards. The scanner is sleek and weigh only 205 grams. My ultralight laptop is heavier than the Scan-shell 800 N.

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Online Degrees Galore At Capella

There are various kinds of online courses available at the Capella university; from phsychology to education you name it and they are bound to have it. Capella over the years has become synonymous with online education itself. If you are looking forward to online education then you need not look beyond Capella. Sara Orem a eminent member of the Capella faculty has authored a book on psychology called Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change. In this book she has flashed light upon new imaginative teaching techniques. All these techniques are probably best seen in action at Capella itself. There are exciting courses like the ones pertaining to adult education. These courses are at par with the best offline and provide new boulevards of progress to the students. There are around 18,000 students enrolled in various courses being offered online by the fully approved and accredited university. Capella has students from over 50 countries.

The Most Effective Insurance Leads

If you are in the insurance industry and an insurance agent at that, then winning over clients can be a hard task. This is where insurance leads come to the rescue. Having a lead is half the client won, pun intended. But where would you get these insurance leads is the question. I reviewed an insurance leads website that I found to be headlining search engine results. The website in question is QuotesAuction.com Upon entering the website did look like a copywriters brainchild. But, when I noticed the "how it works" and "lead samples" section it started to feel better. In the former they have thoroughly spelt out the way their service is supposed to work. You can get insurance leads based on the geographical area and specific lines of insurance. For instance, if you want Health Insurance Leads then you will get just that.You have the option of signing-up for free leads. If you feel satisfied and want comprehensive insurance leads the you can give your billing information to receive the leads unabated. You can restrict the number of leads you want to receive on a per day, per week or per month basis. The leads are provided through e-mail and contain all the necessary information to give a quote to a prospective client.

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Payperpost Injected With More Finance

The blog advertising juggernaut PayPerPost.com, the big daddy of them all, has received a further financial boost with investments of $7 million. The website that acts as an intermediator between bloggers and advertisers has undergone sweeping changes in the past few weeks. The website has a new way of allowing adverisers to advertise on blogs.It is PPP direct. This service allows the advertisers to directly choose the blogs they would want to advertise upon. Also the bloggers can set the price but negotiations between the advertisers and bloggers can get both a satisfying deal. For this great service PPP only charges the advertisers a 10% fee. It would be ideal if PPP continued with such changes that benefit the bloggers and help make blogs financially more viable. I would want them to diversify into the blog content outsourcing field. Whereby they would help blog owners find content providers or professional bloggers for there blogs. This would be a first dedicated service and help professional bloggers, who know thier blogging all to well, find decent blogging jobs. It would be a website akin to guru or elance for blog related outsourcing. I am sure quite a few good ideas would be taking birth in the minds of the powers that be. Anyways here is the official press release:

The PayPerPost Revolution Accelerates, Sponsored Blogging Marketplace Secures $7 Million Series B Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors. “PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.” Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system. “PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.” To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.


World Demand For Silver Exceeds Production

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Pakistani Premiers Cupid Diplomacy









CAN OUR TWO GREAT COUNTRIES GO TO BED ?


It seems to be quite lonely at the top and probably that is why there are quite a few lusty sex starved heads of government. I hope you still remember a certain Bill Clinton. Anyways his escapades were prosaic when compared to PM Shaukat Aziz of Pakistan. Aziz has been revealed in Condoleezza Rice's biography, Twice As Good: Condoleezza Rice And Her Path to Power, to possess a seductive guile that failed miserably on spell-proof Condi. It is also claimed in the book that PM Shaukat Aziz did make conspicuous overtures with flirtatious undertones. The book's sale might have gone through the roof had Shaukat Aziz been blessed with a little more luck in winning over Condleezza Rice.

I doubt that the books sale will be boosted considerably by the revelation about Aziz, who has come under flak in Pakistan, as he is hardly known to the world. But with the scandalous revelations in the backdrop the book can look to draw quite a few readers in the Islamic country where a puppet government has been served in the name of democracy. But had I been blessed with the Casanovaesques abilities Aziz is reported to have in the book, I would have opted for Segolene Royal of France, a former Presidential candidate.