No there is no Visa On arrival for Indian Passport holder in Doha, Qatar

Lol,  Why I am writing this ? because of my own laziness I have suffered 19hrs layover .

I had booked ticket from Ahmedabad to Manchester from Qatar Airways & there was 19hrs layover on Sunday at Doha.I was traveling to UK to  sign some  Seo Packages from my customers and some Web Design Contracts.

One of my friend told me they will give visa on arrival , actually that was the reason I took 19hrs layover ..it was Sunday so I though I will get transist visa & will move around Doha.

I previously experienced a great services from Emirates Airways for transist visa. It has been great Dubai experience for me last year so I thought this will be same J. After Arriving at Doha I came to know that Indian Passport holder can not get visa on arrival lol , there was nothing to do than passing time on Airport L

What I did on Airport?

• Facebooking
• watching Videos
• Twitting
• India Vs Pakistan Match was going on so watched that for a while
• Read books and learned some spanish
• Talked couple of girls from Morocco , they had missed their flight ,  I forgot the name of her but one of them was in Marketing executive of Air Morocco. So I engaged with some business communication with her .  Personally I believe she was also bored and wanted to talk with someone .. we talked about culture , Islam , India, Morrocco, France, England J ..

Best thing about Doha Airport is you have free Wifi , may be that’s the only good thing J

So: if you are an Indian passport holder , than there is no visa on Arival at Doha , Qatar.

My Top 5 Prediction on Technology and Sociology for Year 2012

1)      Fragmentation of life more and more

This is something I already have predicted way behind fragmentation of life, fragmentation of behavior.  In simple word  human being will not live straight forward life even if he/she wants to. Life will force people to login in facebook, twitter, rss feed, read blogs, read comments, emails, check in, papers, graphs, infogprahics, presentation, charts this is going to be routine for everyone  at one end this decision making things will get saturated or stable. 

2)      Decision Making Application

There will be huge surge on decision making applications, like compare engines, compare results,  ratings, reviews , feedbacks. Most of companies will strive towards this subject....

3)      Ecommerce growth in Africa & Asia

2012 will tell whole world that Africa and Asia are left behind and they are more lucrative markets in eCommerce then USA & Europe. Especially Asia has a very less penetration of E-commerce and my prediction is that it will unleash this year.

4)      Social TV & Social Digital Camera

Traditional TV will be replace by Social & internet Enabled TVs , And social sharing on TV + real interactive TV like communicating with another viewers or interacting with live panel by seating at home will become feasible.

Digital Camera my prediction on this is that Wi-Fi enabled digital camera will come in market. With built-in internet connectivity or picture sharing facility. Hollywood at your TV at very nominal price which will curb piracy issues a bit too.

5)      Local is better.. People will realize soon

Global Business will become more local; business vendors will try to get business from local then more from Global.  & Digital Marketing will be part of marketing agenda in all over the world. Even for small or medium size enterprise will look into it.

SOPA blackout

Stop online privacy Act ... Has created buzz over d world now ...

Wikipedia has announced blackout whole day means .. Wiki sites will not be accessible throughout day..

Along with wikipedia ... Reddit, joomla, drupal, wordpress, flickr & many more communities had joined protest against this act..

SOPA is poorly crafted act & if it comes in act many companies will have to close down.....


I am writing this post while having oil massage on hair .. I love my mother ;)

Benefit of iPhone app of blogger

Just because I have mobile app this is my another straight second day post .. Not very often I do :)

But now I will ..
Had a good day .. Attended seminar of Gillian president of seomoz.
She came very late.. Explained her presentation .. Answer some stereotype questions :)

But it was good :) at least we got out to see what people are thinking & doing...

Socialising hard to do for me specially with business networkers .. They are egoistic + pretty good liars ..

Some good people will be there too.. Will engage more to know about them .. Till then adios ;)

Happy blogging.. Seomoz has some good stuff as well people who are in seo business should at least have a look :)

Blogger from iPhone first look

This is my first post frm iPhone .. Sitting in my bean bag chair ;) watching harry potter with parents & trying this application.

On first look This can be a good app for travelog.. :)

Like today was kite flying festival .. I can share some pic from phone like this..

There is location mapping as well .. At this moment it is not working well
Anyway this is not a good app for bloggers who are blogging to earn money ..

As an Ancient History Toast was invented as a safety measure

This is another good fact that I came to know via Twitter..

As we know in Ancient time , building empires was among the most important thing. thus politics and murders were part of life... Poison was best murder weapon at that time..

So, Toast was invented to reassure that drinks are not with poison. In this gesture guest and host was toasting glass of wine and during this liquid or wine will spit in each others cup .. & this ensures that there is not any poison in given drink.  because if there was any poison person would become reluctant to toast as during toast poison will come in its cup also..

I really liked this one :)

China Cuts Rare Earth Exports

Hola Amigos :) Its been long that I touched my pen :) but I do whatever stimulates my brain.. Here is this..

First of all what is Rare Earth ? \
Series comprises the fifteen metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71, from lanthanum through lutetium. they are called lanthanide + 2 other scandium and yttrium.

These elements are very important in current manufacturing world due to their various properties..  in early 1950-70 India & South Africa were largest exporter or producer of these Rare Earth .. then USA and Australia also dominated for couple of decades.. 

China put everyone way behind in Rare Earth exports and it has 97% Share of total Rare Earth exports. These products are very important for sustainable growth.  Before couple of years ago China has declared that it will decrease export of Rare Earth because of limited resources available ...

 Foreign countries had warned China  not to do this.. but China has decreased exports of Rare Earth .. Price of Rare Earth in China is decreased despite of all efforts by  Chinese Government.. & On the other hand because of tamed Export... Prices of Rare Earth has increased a lot in other countries like USA, Australia & in Europe.. this will lead to illegal exports from China to other countries.. So government is also working on stooping of this..

Prices in China for rare earth is fallen around 45% in a year.. on the other hand prices are 3 times more from current Chinese Level.. Rare Earth Prices are not exchange traded like Gold & Silver ..It is sold in private market so it is not easy to monitor it..

Demand of Rare Earth has increased a lot after Chinese action to curb export, Countries like Canada,  India, USa, Russia have started to develop rare earth mines and some of them will start functioning from 2015.


Prices in China have fallen sharply since August, declining by 45 percent for neodymium oxide, by 33 percent for terbium oxide and by 31 percent for lanthanum oxide, according to Lynas Corp., an Australian rare earths producer.
Its figures showed an equally striking gap between prices in China and abroad, with lanthanum oxide costing triple the Chinese level on global markets, neodymium more than twice as much and terbium oxide near twice as much.