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Famous BLOGs -
The Washingtonienne (by Jessica Cutler) - An account of the sexual exploits in Capitol Hill
Belle de jour (by Anonymous) - A call girl's account of her day-to-day life and intimate moments
The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi (by Salam Pax) - An account of Iraq's US invasion
We The Media (by Dan Gillmor) - Story of a new emerging communication order
=>70,000 websites per day are being added to the blogosphere
=>Technorati (like Google Blog Search) is a blog search portal that tracks activity on more than 20 million blogs in real time
=>Create your blogs free at these popular internet companies - Movable Type , Live Journal , Blogger.com , Tripod.Lycos.com , MySpace.com , MSNSpaces.com , Yahoo!360 , TypePad
=>Famous political blogs that draw high traffic and links -
DailyKos, AmericaBlog, Wonkette, Instapundit, Romenesko, Gawker, HuffingtonPost.com, theWashingtonNote.com, Firedoglake.blogspot.com, JustOneMinute.typepad.com
=>SPLOGS - are blog spam
=>Splogs deface blogs by posing as real comments left on them by readers
=>Splogs contain links to fake websites
=>Splogs can only be deleted manually to reduce their spam effect
=>Splogs lead to porn and commercial websites
=>ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will add three new TLDs (top-level domains) to the Net's root servers like dot-sex or dot-xxx ($75 subscription fee) for categorizing porn sites
=>VeriSign Naming Services is the largest domain name registry in the world, managing over 50 million digital identities in over 350 languages. VeriSign is the authoritative directory provider (domain wholesaler to its registrars/retailers - Register.com, NetworkSolutions.com etc. that actually sell domain names to end users) for all .com, .net, .cc, and .tv domain names. Verisign now has the right (as per a contract with ICANN), to continue to raise wholesale prices 7% per year indefinitely. With 65 million .com domain names registered worldwide, Verisign added $27 million dollars per year to their bottom line after raising the wholesale price of .com domains from $6/year to $6.42/year in 2007
=>Cyber-religion - Temples (hinduism), Shrines, Churches, Mosques, Stupas, Gurudwaras online -
These websites offer prayers and pujas through internet -
www.siddhivinayak.org
www.kalighat.net
www.saibabaofshirdi.net
www.thevirtualchurch.com
www.islamonline.net
www.buddhanet.net
www.sikh.net
=>Prostitution racket was being run nationwide via internet to provide escort services and sex for clients who contacted Mr Cash (Saurav Mittal - pimp) on mobile telephone numbers provided on the website - IndiaSweetHouse.com . This net sex ring operated 7 days a week in major Indian cities like Chandigarh, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Lucknow, Bhopal, Ludhiana and Kolkata . Escorts were sent to remote locations if customers paid for travel . Hourly rates were displayed online for women escort services, along with photo galleries, service area, contacts, booking and FAQs (questions and answers about oral sex) .
=>Confess your sins and hidden secrets online at MySecret.tv .
=>Ori Allon, a PhD grad student from the University of New South Wales (Australia), has developed the Orion(TM) search engine (better than Google search in certain ways). Orion(TM) finds pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the key word. It then returns a section of the page, and lists other topics related to the keyword so the user can pick the most relevant. Results to the query are displayed immediately in the form of expanded text extracts, giving you the relevant information (answers to your search query) without having to go the website although you still have that option if you wish. Google has bought this Orion search engine algorithm and Allon is a Google employee now.
=>Open Content Alliance (OCA) - Microsoft (like Yahoo and some American Universities) plans to join the online book search group OCA . This group will digitise the contents of millions of books, put them on the internet and make the text accessible to anyone (while protecting the rights of copyright holders) . Microsoft will contribute $5 million to scan 150,000 books by launching a new service called MSN Book Search in 2006 .
=>In September 2005, in US, Yahoo attracted 99.3 million users, MSN had 89.4 million users and Google got 79.4 million users (according to the latest top web sites rankings from comScore for January 2007, rounded to the nearest million, were - Yahoo Sites - 129 million, Time Warner Network - 117 million, Microsoft Sites - 115 million, Google Sites - 113 million, eBay - 81 million, Fox Interactive Media - 75 million, Amazon Sites - 51 million, Ask Network - 49 million, Wikipedia Sites - 43 million, New York Times Digital - 40 million)
=>Google stock crossed the $400 mark on November 17th 2005 ($475.11 in mid-January 2006, $488.20 in late October 2006, $509.65 on November 21, 2006). It was $85 per share in August 2004
=>Google Inc has given itself a Chinese name, 'Gu Ge' (means "song of the harvest of grain") in China to tap the world's largest cyber net market
=>Google is teaming with athletic shoe titan Nike to prepare the field for soccer fans worldwide with a multi-language site that will coincide with 2006 summer's World Cup competition in Germany. Called "joga.com", joga in Portuguese meaning "play," this website will allow players and fans of soccer (or football, as the sport is known in Europe) to create profiles, pick favorite players, post photos and video, compete in online tournaments, Nike and Google said.
=>Google will invest $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit
=>Google and Earthlink will pay to build the entire Wi-Fi network in San Francisco, that will cost at least $15 million and its users will pay $20 a month for the EarthLink service, or put up with online advertisements if they opt for Google's free but slower service
=>Google paid $900 million to take over as the search engine of MySpace (www.myspace.com) . The deal has Google providing both the search function and the placement of text ads alongside the search results generated by MySpace users . (News Corp. bought MySpace in 2005 for $580 million - 295 million pounds, the social networking site (similar to hi5.com) had 17 million unique monthly visitors. This June, 2006 that number more than tripled to 54 million. MySpace now boasts 100 million members worldwide and is adding new members at the rate of 250,000 a day. MySpace is generating $25 million per month in ad revenue, with a growth rate of 30% per quarter)
=>Google CEO Eric Schmidt clicks on Google ads "all the time" to make sure everything is working as intended (for automated load testing or manual, ad hoc verification or personal interest in advertiser offerings). Google automatically pre-filters out clicks on ads emanating from Google IP addresses so that the clicks are not deemed to have occurred for accounting purposes. Google advertisers are actually receiving certain clicks "free" from Google. Apparently, when the Google CEO does his online shopping via Google Checkout, his clicks on the "Certified by Google" ads are cost-free "gifts" to the advertisers .
=>Google Inc. has bought popular web video site YouTube Inc. (watch and share original videos) for $1.6 billion/£1.3 billion (approx. - $US32 per user) .
=>Google spends at least $72,288,000 per year on free food for its US employees ($7,530 per Googler) at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California .
=>"Content Identification System" is the technology to make it possible to track down copyrighted music or video on YouTube .
=>In January 2006, Google acquired dMarc Broadcasting Services (automated system for placing ads on radio stations) for $102 million .
=>Google's offer to acquire Friendster for $30 million in 2003 was turned down by its founder Jonathan Abrams .
=>Google's market value was at $143 billion after eight years in business while Hewlett-Packard Co. had a market value of $108 billion after 67 years in business .
=>Search engine market share of Yahoo in Japan and Baidu in China (63%) is much higher than that of Google .
=>Google will sell advertisements through Adwords that will appear in the print editions of 50 major newspapers (including The New York Times and the Washington Post) .
=>Google banned BMW's German website (www.bmw.co.de) from its search engine listings in February 2006 after they attempted to artificially manipulate their position in Google's ranking by using meta refresh tag and violated the search engine's guidelines (Bmw.co.de now has a search rank of zero) .
=>Google will sell domains (.com, .net, .biz, .info) for $10 per year with partners GoDaddy and eNom .
=>Advertisements for pornography and wine are allowed in Google's sponsored links (through Adwords) but ads for hard liquor and guns are not .
=>Yahoo will not buy a stake in America Online Inc. .
=>Yahoo is creating Panama (ad system upgrade), an application to improve its ability to generate relevant and targeted ads (like Overture) .
=>Advertising supported internet businesses like those pursued by Google and Yahoo led to grass-roots adoption, popularisation model that made it easier for start-ups to reach large audiences at low cost .
=>Google's advertising system will allow companies to purchase ads targeted to only AOL sites such as MapQuest, Moviefone and the AOL.com portal under a program called Search Marketplace (marketers get the ability to customize search ads to the AOL audience and advertisers can buy ads directly from AOL rather than through Google) .
=>Microsoft plans to launch a rival Web ad system code named Moonshot/Content Ads (like Adsense and Overture) in June 2006 .
=>MSN adCenter targets potential customers by the keywords they're searching for, by their age and gender (demographic targeting which is not provided by Google AdWords and Yahoo! Overture), by their income and other means of behavioural targeting .
=>Microsoft has launched Windows auto-piracy check where computers using Microsoft's automatic Windows update service will be checked for pirate versions of the operating system and fake copies will be denied all upgrades except critical security patches .
=>Microsoft Corporation's Windows Vista operating system will cripple the usefulness of computers which are running unlicensed copies of the new software (by denying access to Vista features like Windows Aero, by restricting users to just the Web browser for an hour at a time, by not allowing users to directly open documents from the computer desktop or run other programs such as Outlook e-mail software) if a legitimate copy is not bought within 30 days .
=>Microsoft's ActiveX technology is one of the most popular browser hijacking targets (attempts by sites to force-feed your computer hostile software by exploiting flaws in the browser). ActiveX® controls can pose a security risk (damage computer or data) because the controls can be used to distribute malicious code or viruses on computers where appropriate security-related settings are not in place .
=>Microsoft's 'Hyperactive Y Chromosome Technology' will be used for in-control advertising where web browser will assert complete control over your machine no matter how much you try to overcome it .
=>Sync is the title of a new line of Windows software that will be integrated into new Ford vehicles (2008 Ford Focus and Five-Hundred) which will enable consumers to be able to utilize the handsfree cell phone capabilities, media downloads, automatic navigation updates and e-mail (using hands-free Bluetooth wireless system for cell phones and an in-vehicle operating system) while driving.
=>Sony Pictures acquired online video startup Grouper for $65 million in cash in August 2006 .
=>Boeing Company has discontinued the high-speed broadband in-flight internet communications wi-fi service called Connexion by Boeing .
=>Guruji.com is a local internet search engine based in India founded by Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra (IIT grads), funded by a leading Indian venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India ($7 million investment) and focussed on the Indian market and the Indian consumer.
=>"Wikiasari" (quick rummaging search) or "Wikia" is a Wiki-based search engine (an open-source, directory-style engine called '3apes') which relies on human intelligence to do what algorithms cannot (it will have more freedom, community, accountability and transparency than commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo).
=>5Sai.com is a Beijing (China)-based company that provides short text advertisements, including a website address, which users add to the end of their instant messaging names. Points are awarded based on the amount of time the user is online with that name. User can exchange the points for cash or products from the advertisers whose services they have been promoting .
=>Xunlei.com (download music and video clips online), Sina.com, Netease, Tencent, Ctrip, Alibaba.com (e-commerce), Tom.com are dominant Chinese Internet companies .
=>Salesforce provides customer-relationship management (CRM) software called Salesforce.com (like mySAP CRM, Oracle Siebel CRM On Demand or Microsoft Dynamics CRM) to provide an entire technology platform that allows companies to run their business software via the Internet (on-demand services to avoid installing and managing software on their own computer servers). It acquired the technology for a service, called Salesforce for Google AdWords which will allow companies to place small sponsored ads alongside search results based on keywords, from directly within Salesforce's web-based application .
=>Web 2.0 calendar site Kiko was sold for $258,100 to an eBay user known as "powerjoe1998" in an eBay auction that had a minimum bid of $50,000 .
=>Saudi-German will launch a dedicated Arabic language search engine called "Sawafi" for the World Wide Web in the last quarter of 2006 .
=>Internet users in America pay $20 for one gigabyte of data transfer per month, but people in Africa pay about $1,800 for the same amount of bandwidth .
=>World's most wired nation South Korea will provide 1 gigabit per second (Gbps of data transmission speed) broadband Internet using fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) solutions developed by ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute). This will enable downloads of a high-definition movie file in seconds. This technology (can be used with wireless internet) was developed through an alliance with a domestic network equipment maker Samsung Electronics. It includes a 4G mobile system (transfers data between cell phones at rates of 1Gbps for those at a standstill and 100 Mbps for those on the move) and handover technology (allows users to remain connected while moving between base stations, for the super-fast mobile platform) .
=>Flag Next Generation Network would be the world's largest Internet Protocol network over submarine cable systems in 2009 providing an integrated application and content provider. Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications will implement this ambitious Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion) project to lay a 1.15 lakh km-long under-sea cable covering 60 countries for providing the required bandwidth. Flag would comprise four cable systems, connecting Asia, Africa, Mediterranean and Trans-Pacific and will have over 2.3 lakh km long optic fibre network .
=>Free Internet TV in 2006 -
=>IN2TV will be an advertising supported service that will be launched by Time Warner's (TWX.N) AOL
=>This will feature 3400 hours of programming from 4800 episodes of Warner Bros. - produced shows in its first year
=>"welcome Back Kotter", "Growing Pains", "Kung Fu" will be some of the past prime-time hits that will be shown under this service
=>These will be organized under six channels divided by comedy, drama, animation, action, classic and superhero/villain genres
=>These TV shows will be available online free-of-charge
=>Online Movies - Directors can submit their films to IndieFlix which are then posted on the website - www.indieflix.com - users can log on and click to buy the films, which are then burned onto a DVD and shipped to the users by IndieFlix for $9.95
=>Cyber Porn victims in New Delhi - Young engineer (working for a leading private firm ) and his wife were filmed secretly while they were holidaying in a hotel . The camera was hidden inside the bathroom . The couple found themselves leered at as sex objects in the video clip put up online on a foreign sex website (which bought the sex clip) . This long video clip also reveals the woman taking a bath . The images of the clip were declared as genuine by the husband .
=>1% of web sites indexed by search engines Google and MSN are sexually explicit .
=>Indian websites with user-generated-content (UGC) modelled on the lines of YouTube - Meravideo.com, Infeedia.com, ApnaTube.com .
=>Intellipedia is a "top secret" wikipedia system (introduced on April 17, 2006) that allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web .
=>North American retail website traffic totalled 2,145,558 visitors per minute at 2pm EST on 11/27/2006 (1st day after US ThanksGiving) on CyberMonday.com (National Retail Federation's site which has promotions from 400 retailers).
=>Net neutrality allows all sites on the Internet equal access to the bandwidth consumers need in order to access them. Telecommunications trade groups have been lobbying to end net neutrality in favor of a tiered-bandwidth approach .
=>Peer-to-Peer Softwares (File sharing programmes) -
=>KAZAA - =>Download group of files
=>Extensive search tools
=>Anti-virus protection
=>Great search results
=>Installs automatically piggyback softwares, paid listings, for-free downloads that slows down computer performance
=>LIME WIRE - =>No adware and no spyware
=>Fatsest peer-to-peer program
=>Preview files while downloading
=>Automatically upgrades Windows
=>More visually appealing
=>Searches licensed files
=>Extremely fast transfers
=>Tabbed searches with easy to use interfaces
=>More search results than other softwares
=>Hampers multi-tasking and slows down computer speed by taking lot of processing power
=>Morpheus - =>Fast and better search results
=>Protects privacy by working with anti-virus software
=>Multi-source downloads
=>Parental filters for safe downloads
=>Connects to lot of file sharing networks on internet
=>Slow and sluggish
=>Crashes computer system by enormous memory usage
=>No search for specific bit-rate music files and video
=>iMesh - =>Growing community of millions of registered users
=>Quick location and download of any P2P file
=>Less burden on computer resources
=>Multi-networking with friendly and nice looking user interface
=>Long time to connect and download files
=>Bit Torrent (sites that offer free and legal Torrent downloads - Legaltorrents.com, Public Domain Torrents, Legit Torrents, Bittorrent, SXSW.com, Torrentfreak, Revision3.com, Linuxtracker.com, Etree, Zudeo)
=>American and European User Generated Content (UGC) sites - YouTube (generic videos), Flickr (generic photos), PornoTube (porn videos), Eroshare (porn photos)...(other YouTube competitors with full length copies of well known TV shows and/or movies - DailyMotion.com, GoFish.com, Veoh.com, Allsp.com, VideoHybrid.com)