tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69519076306718810642011-11-27T15:51:06.117-08:00Building Relationships with CultureRaj's Blog on social mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161517505458829144noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6951907630671881064.post-2864345882616797232008-01-19T07:05:00.000-08:002008-01-19T07:39:57.430-08:00<object align='middle' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' height='330' id='sdplayer' width='320'><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'/><param name='bgcolor' value='#a9aaaa'/><param name='flashvars' value="config={v:'cbfe098a1792577001179281bcfa0038', autoPlay:false}"/><param name='movie' value='http://socialdragon.com/sd/player/sdplayer.swf'/><embed allowFullScreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#a9aaaa' flashvars="config={v:'cbfe098a1792577001179281bcfa0038', 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base="http://socialdragon.com/sd/player" flashvars="config={autoPlay:false,pl:'1'}" width="320" height="330" bgcolor="#a9aaaa" quality="best" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6951907630671881064-3003432716903456984?l=zakandrajshow.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj's Blog on social mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161517505458829144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6951907630671881064.post-3957543087227262352006-12-18T11:49:00.001-08:002006-12-18T12:10:21.122-08:00<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-9056068192424546470&amp;hl=en" flashvars=""> </td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td>When ideas and businesses compete from similar cultures (in this case Sony and Nintendo both from Japan) try to compete in the western world. What extent will they go to.... Look at this video, a challenge between the PS3 and the Wii, similar to the video between Apple and Microsoft.<br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6951907630671881064-395754308722726235?l=zakandrajshow.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj's Blog on social mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161517505458829144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6951907630671881064.post-48046220838026547912006-12-15T20:56:00.000-08:002006-12-18T12:16:03.636-08:00<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Looking at the recent introduction of the Nintendo Wii with its newest addition of allowing 'Miis', created by Wii users to travel around to other users within community. A community of little people that users customize and apply culture artifacts and manifestations to. Look at this video below and see how Nintendo has tried to penetrate the US market culturally, with the common theme of communication being a gaming console where language and ethnicity do not factor in the difference but as a means to compete together.<br /><br />What a way to utilize online media and a virtual community to bring people together. Is this the trend for the 'One World' via online communities? Where is it going? I see political and business opportunity scenarios that can take life here? These are some of the questions...<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p5cPVP_llfo"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p5cPVP_llfo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></object><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-Raj</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6951907630671881064-4804622083802654791?l=zakandrajshow.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj's Blog on social mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161517505458829144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6951907630671881064.post-19368690590632714292006-12-11T18:23:00.000-08:002006-12-11T19:27:43.102-08:00Thanks to Emily from Beijing for these beautiful architectural and landscape pictures from Hangzhou, China.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RX4gFusNN1I/AAAAAAAAAAk/Ch_-KqxJkOU/s1600-h/100_1579.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RX4gFusNN1I/AAAAAAAAAAk/Ch_-KqxJkOU/s320/100_1579.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007475118487451474" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RX4f1esNN0I/AAAAAAAAAAc/rbPEzZNGJCY/s1600-h/100_1541.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RX4f1esNN0I/AAAAAAAAAAc/rbPEzZNGJCY/s320/100_1541.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007474839314577218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RX4gSOsNN2I/AAAAAAAAAAs/AFy_L6t8MPc/s1600-h/100_1694.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RX4gSOsNN2I/AAAAAAAAAAs/AFy_L6t8MPc/s320/100_1694.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5007475333235816290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-Raj<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6951907630671881064-1936869059063271429?l=zakandrajshow.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj's Blog on social mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161517505458829144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6951907630671881064.post-5261667714775983622006-12-09T12:05:00.000-08:002006-12-15T20:52:17.554-08:00<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >Cultural Trends and their awareness in everyday life</span><o:p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></o:p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="MsoNormal">For the past many years having grown up in the <st1:country-region st="on">US</st1:country-region> and then traveled extensively to <st1:country-region st="on">India</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> for the past decade, we have learned how important it is to understand and utilize the strengths of different cultures is.<span style=""> </span>There are many similarities through a culture's richness but uniqueness very much exists equally as much as the historic backgrounds of cultures.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="MsoNormal">Zak and I are on different US coasts but each of us want to share with each of you and encourage participation on how cultural trends have impacted what you do, how you do things, and maybe all of you can use these strengths of culture differences to share across this virtual audience with music, cooking, business, travel, advice, insight, pictures, videos, personal experiences, and more.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="MsoNormal">We look forward to hearing from you all and interacting with each of you here on the Zak and Raj show.<o:p></o:p></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Thought I should start this adventure with a cultural immersion of transportation from two viewpoints, the old and new...<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RYN7XPLuIJI/AAAAAAAAABA/aesanTT4WhM/s1600-h/HorsePower.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egmaqB-8VvU/RYN7XPLuIJI/AAAAAAAAABA/aesanTT4WhM/s320/HorsePower.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008982849709023378" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">-Raj and Zak</span> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6951907630671881064-526166771477598362?l=zakandrajshow.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Raj's Blog on social mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161517505458829144noreply@blogger.com0