Obama Hails 'Defining Partnership' With India
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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Rachel Uchitel Pics: The Face of Tiger Woods' Mistress?
The Web is on fire this morning with rumors that golf legend Tiger Woods has been having an affair. Woods' alleged mistress is Rachel Uchitel and, as can be expected, the search phrase "Rachel Uchitel pictures" has rocketed to the top of
Rachel Uchitel Pics: The Face of Tiger Woods' Mistress?
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Friday, November 27, 2009
What are Google’s Real Motivations Behind Chrome OS?
OS is Google’s latest entry into the consumer space. It is designed to be an operating system that runs on customized hardware and provides the user with only a state-of-the art browser running HTML-5 and some plugins. The tech (and mainstream) media has seen no shortage of opinions about its meaning and future impact on the industry. Unfortunately, I think most people have missed some of the key implications of Chrome OS.[As a disclosure, I am a former Google employee, having worked there from 2002 to 2008, but I don't have any inside information on this project. In fact I didn't even know of its existence before I left.]
Google has two main aims with this project:
- To use the Google brand and buzz about its “game-changing OS” to push for new and better web apps using nascent technology. This lets Google reduce its customers’ dependence on local apps it does not control.
- Once a lot of these apps are deployed and become heavily used, the mass market will force owners of closed systems like the iPhone to implement support for HTML-5, the latest version of HTML, and rich web interfaces. Coupled with net neutrality (which Google currently strongly supporting) this will allow Google to circumvent uncooperative devices and network providers, and access consumers currently hidden behind locked system.Read Morehttp://venturebeat.com/2009/11/27/what-are-googles-real-motivations-behind-chrome-os/
Rachel Uchitel Pictures on Facebook Hot Google Search
Uchitel is a big trending topic right now according to Google's trends. Everyone is looking for Rachel Uchitel pictures and they aren't hard to find. Since the delayed announcement of pro golfer Tiger Woods today, Rachel Uchitel has become a hot topic due to rumors of her alleged affair with Woods.Read Morehttp://www.huliq.com/8059/89183/rachel-uchitel-pictures-facebook-hot-google-search
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Michaele Salahi Crashes President Obama's State Dinner
Michaele Salahi is one person who knows how to get into a pre-Thanksgiving Day party. On her Facebook page, she writes:
I was honored to be invited to attend the First State Dinner hosted by President Obama & the First Lady to honor India. In June 2010, the America's Polo Cup will be between India & the UNITED STATES. Please join me in this celebration of cultural politics, diplomacy, fashion, sports, entertainment & family funhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=52412
Alton Brown Turkey Brine Recipe
those searching for the Alton Brown Turkey Brine Recipe, then you’re in luck. We have the Alton Brown Turkey Brine Recipe plus a tutorial video below.If you don’t know who Alton Brown is, well, he is the host of the foodie show Good Eats. He’s also a regular on Iron Chef America and the Food Network.
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Viewing Private FaceBook Profiles
A search done on Google comes up with a number of sites that claim to give out tricks and tips on how to 'hack' somebody's account. However, on closer inspection it has been found that there are almost no proper hacking hacks available for the Facebook profiles. Though this does not mean that the process has not been tried. Earlier, entering of a particular URL with the right codes would take you to the persons required profile. However, as soon as the trick was out in the open, Facebook developed a cure. This has been going on for quite some time now. Facebook is known to advert any kind of hack into its system within a fortnight of the hack coming into notice.
FaceBook suggests the only trick to view somebody's profile is privately secured by becoming their friends. Not only the profiles, but the very famous and widely played games on FaceBook such as the Farmville and the Zynga Zynga Texas Hold'em Poker also can not be hacked into easily. The only trick is to play according to the rules, however bending some of the rules (which is completely legal) is possible. Full points for the Facebook developers.
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Current Google Insights Trends: Black Friday Sales, Adam Lambert
"Black Friday sales" continue to hold the top position on the Google Insights trending list of topics on the morning of November 26.
Google Insights' list of terms with the most significant growth is dominated by terms Relating to Black Friday sales and those referring to the New Moon movie.
Black Friday sales will take place on November 27 in the U.S., with retailers expected to reduce their prices Significantly for the one-day only specials.
Many businesses will open their doors to the public at 5 a.m. local time while the Majority of U.S. online retailers will start their Black Friday sales just after midnight.
Adam Lambert's "steamy" performance at the American Music Awards on November 22 left some viewers shocked and outraged. During Lambert's controversial performance, the American singer locked lips with the male keyboard player.
The search terms with the most significant growth worldwide in the last seven days as measured by Google Insights, recorded on November 26 at 9:30 GMT are:
Local Residents Share Holiday Spirit With Children’s Hospital
For the last three years, a few families from Gadsden and Birmingham have been replacing that unpleasant holiday tradition with something a bit more palatable: a hot meal, with an extra serving of hope.
Gadsden residents Johnny and Dixie Phillips, along with their children and a few other families of cancer survivors, began Thanksgiving/Christmas Blessing as a ministry for families bound to Children’s Hospital on the holidays.
“Ideally, we’d rather them be home for the holidays,” Dixie Phillips said. “But since they can’t be, we go in and feed the children on the cancer and stem-cell floors, whatever family is in the room that day and the nurses.”Read More;http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20091125/NEWS/911259990/1017/NEWS?Title=Local-residents-share-holiday-s
Butterballs Or Cheese Balls, an Online Barometer
If you are in Oregon this Thanksgiving, you stand a better than average chance of encountering Tofurkey. More people in New York are looking for caterers to prepare the holiday meal than anywhere else in the country. Live in the Southeast? Brace yourself for a big scoop of broccoli casserole.And no matter where in the United States you are, don’t be surprised if the host molds refrigerated breadstick dough and bakes it into a cornucopia centerpiece. It is the break-out hit recipe of the season at Allrecipes.com, the nation’s largest cooking Web site.
Now that millions of cooks seek out recipes online, the culinary habits of a nation on its greatest food holiday can be codified and analyzed — a boon for marketers and trend watchers.
There are no huge surprises. Millions of people will, in fact, eat turkey. But regional differences and the precise time that Thanksgiving panic kicks in can be pinpointed as never before.
At all the big food Web sites, traffic on the day before Thanksgiving dwarfs that of all other days.
By 9 p.m. Wednesday, 785,000 people had looked up turkey recipes at Allrecipes.com. For most of the day, the site was handling one million page views an hour.
“We built server capacity for the day before Thanksgiving, then use only 50 percent of it the rest of the year,” said Lisa Sharples, president of the site, which is based in Seattle.
For the last five years, Google searches for Thanksgiving recipes have climbed steadily, doubling from 2007 to 2008, according to results from Insights for Search, a tool that indexes the volume of Google search trends.
By comparison, things are relatively sleepy over at the Butterball hot line. This Thanksgiving, the turkey experts expect to handle about 11,000 phone calls. That is the same as last year. The action has moved online, which is why this year, for the first time, hot line operators are answering questions on Twitter.
“Definitely, this is where newer cooks are going for information,” said Bridget O’Malley, a spokeswoman for Butterball.
It is hard to draw very many conclusions based on search trends. The fact that cooks in the Southeast rarely look up crust recipes could mean that they are not interested in pies or that they bake so many that no one needs to be told how to do it. And what of all the searches for “cheese ball” in the Midwest? Do people in Indiana just forget how to make it each year, or are cheese balls winning new converts?
We may never know why cooks in North Carolina show more interest in sweet potatoes, their most-queried side dish, than people in any other state. Or why a broccoli casserole belt extends through Appalachia and ends in Florida.
International trends can even be figured out. Spanish-language Google hunts for Thanksgiving recipes are most fervent in Panama, a country popular with American expatriates, especially retirees.
That pumpkin is far and away the most searched-for pie recipe on Google is not a surprise. But that apple has upset pecan for runner-up is. In Wisconsin, apple is the winner. In Mississippi, that honor falls to pecan.
At Allrecipes.com, pie searches got the most action on Wednesday morning. But by 10 a.m., people began earnest hunts for sweet potato casserole and stuffing recipes. By noon, 100,000 people had searched for mashed potato recipes.
The real outlier is gravy. If this Thanksgiving Day is anything like last year’s, most searches will slow by 10 a.m. But not gravy. That vexing cook’s kryptonite should peak about 3 p.m.
Search data are also a way to track the Thanksgiving trends, which cycle through the years like hemlines. Curiosity about deep-fried turkey is growing faster than questions about brining, with Allrecipes.com reporting a 188 percent jump in people viewing information on the technique this year over 2008.
Last week at Epicurious, whose recipes come from the pages of Gourmet and Bon Appétit, there were a few search surprises. Brussels sprouts were in the top 10. So was pumpkin pie, which peaked earlier than usual.
People who work at the site attributed the rush to news reports of a possible canned pumpkin shortage.
For companies interested in driving deep into the psychology of cooks, this new insight into Thanksgiving cooking habits is a potential game-changer. Now, someone selling turkey-frying kettles or frozen pie shells can more easily figure out what people need and, perhaps more important, why they need it.
“Almost every human emotion could possibly start a search,” said Kevin Kells, head of consumer packaged goods for Google. That could include the thrill-seeking cook looking to make a turducken (a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey) or the jittery novice who cannot bake.
“When you marketed in the past, you had to guess at the consumer’s motivation,” Mr. Kells said. “Now you have the answers to that right in front of you.”
For marketing executives at Safeway, the third-largest grocery store chain in the country, taking advantage of search traffic was simply a matter of following the cooks.
“Our overall digital strategy is that we want our content where people are looking for information,” said Michael Minasi, president of marketing. And, he said, that is largely YouTube, especially for younger cooks who do not have much experience preparing festive holiday meals. So last year, the company made a YouTube video of a streamlined two-hour turkey recipe.
“How to” is the second-largest category on YouTube. Type in “how to cook a turkey” and you can pick from more than 3,700 videos. “How to roast a turkey” offers another 3,800.
For Rob Barrett, a 44-year-old father in Minneapolis, such requests could prove lucrative. He expects as many as 10,000 people to view his homemade 10-minute clip about cooking turkey this year. He claims that he now makes about a quarter of his income from sponsorship for his videos on YouTube and his Web site, Cooking for Dads.
Of course, all of this electronic help does not change the reality that Thanksgiving dinner, while not particularly complex, is a challenge to get on the table. Google all you want, but it is still up to the cook to put the turkey in the oven in time.
And for all the regional distinctions shown by search data, at least one trait unifies the nation’s cooks. We are procrastinators.
The extremely high search volume on Wednesday means many people were making menu and shopping decisions at the last minute.
“As a snapshot of America,” said Tanya Wenman Steel, the editor in chief of Epicurious, “it shows that people aren’t planning.”
Twilight Cast Thank 'Amazing Fans'
stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon have used Twitter to thank their "amazing fans".Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have all taken to the networking site to thank fans for the New Moon mania sweeping the country, People reports.
The film, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, is top of the box office and has pulled in 140 million dollars in the US alone.
Kristen, 19, who plays Bella Swan, wrote: "You all have proven you're the most amazing fans in the world once again. I feel so lucky to be a part of The Twilight Saga and thank you for making us No 1!"
Pin-up Robert, 23, who plays sexy vampire Edward Cullen, wrote: "Thank you for making NEW MOON No 1. It's very exciting to be a part of something embraced by so many people.
"I hope you are looking forward to ECLIPSE as much as I am."
Taylor, 17, who plays werewolf Jacob, posted: "Thanks for your incredible support of New Moon."Read Morehttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gmipLmcF3KQbU89aJOlP1uRVfE8Q
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Virgin Media brings TiVo back to the UK While Google To Track ads On TiVo in The US
, the personal video recorder (PVR) company as ubiquitous in the US as its UK equivalent Sky+, is coming to the UK, the company andVirgin Media announced this week.According to the TiVo and Virgin announcement, TiVo will product the interface of Virgin's next-gen set-top boxes. The boxes will provide a converged digital high-definition (HD) TV and broadband experience. The first co-branded product is expected in 2010.
TiVo president and CEO Tom Rogers said he envisaged the deal as a "long-term, strategic partnership with Virgin Media."
"TiVo will offer Virgin Media's nearly four million UK customers TiVo's advanced television software and user interface on both its traditional and DVR set-top boxes, including TiVo's broadband to the television capabilities," added TiVo also announced a partnership with Google to track viewing habits in the US.
The Google-TiVo ad data deal means TiVo will share anonymous viewing trends collected from its base of subscribers with Google. Google will use that data to help its advertisers understand who they're reaching - and who they aren't - when buying television ads through the company's AdWords TV Ads system.
"None of this is being used to actually target an individual," explains Google spokesperson Eric Obenzinger. "It's more about delivering more accurate reporting back to advertisers so they can inform their future budgeting decisions."
So what does the data actually include? First and foremost, absolutely nothing about who you are.
"When we say that this is all anonymous data, we mean that it is literally anonymous in the strictest definition of the term," says Todd Juenger, vice president & general manager of TiVo Audience Research & Measurement. "We don't collect anything about where it came from."
What TiVo does collect is a log of what commercials you watched and what commercials you skipped. It's like an advanced ratings system, taking TiVo's DVR functionality into account.
"We know that some set-top box out there pressed play on a certain network at a certain time - then we know they hit fast-forward, hit pause, and hit play," Juenger says. "You do that across a million and a half set-top boxes, and you get a collective picture of what percentage of people were watching a certain commercial at a given time."Read Morehttp://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=27857&pagtype=allchandate
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MSI Layoffs Rumoured
If you thought the tech sector was finally out of the woods and recovering from the global spending slowdown, think again: hardware manufacturer MSI could be about to lay off up to 20 percent of its staff early next year.
According to industry sources quoted by DigiTimes - via Maximum PC - MSI is looking to counter the spending slowdown by trimming staff in its netbook, notebook, and graphics card departments.
For those fond of MSI's motherboards, there is good news - that particular business unit is apparently safe from the cuts, which will see no fewer than 10 percent and up to a maximum of 20 percent of the overall workforce fired.
Interestingly, the industry sources claim that MSI isn't actually making the posts redundant: instead, the company is concentrating on removing under-performing workers from inefficient business units, meaning that at least some of the posts will be open for new applicants to boost the workforce back up again.Read Morehttp://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/11/26/msi-layoffs-rumoured/1
How To Look For Lucrative Online Business Ideas Fast
entrepreneurs and business owner like you and I, business ideas are what breathe you and your business life. In webpreneurship, the importance of business ideas is magnified.
Wepbreneurship or online entrepreneurship differs itself from the general entrepreneurship. The online business world changes rapidly, and losing your grip on the changes will suffer you and your business badly.
I have made several mistakes in making web property acquisition decisions that result me in both financial and opportunity losses. Some of my wrong decisions result in total business failure, while some others can be recovered – painfully.
My mistakes are due to my inability to spot opportunities and/or ideas that are in trend, with high demand and with relatively low (or manageable) competition due to resource constraints.
Like I have always said, failure is your best teacher; I learned from my mistakes that in web property investing and online business ownership, you must keep your eyes on the trend. Some trend last for years, some last for a few months. The key is to enter and exit at the right time to maximise your online business value.Read Morehttp://www.noobpreneur.com/2009/11/26/how-to-look-for-lucrative-online-business-ideas-fast/
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Aamir Was Punished in School
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He might be a superstar today, but Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has no qualms in admitting that he has undergonevarious punishments during his
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"When in school, kneeling down in front of the principal's office was a regular feature. I have also been caned a couple of times. It is strange that when you get caned, you don't realise the pain instantly, but after two seconds it shoots so badly... It's awful," Aamir told reporters here.
"I used to be more interested in sports and hence used to always forget doing my homework. Also, poor marks used to create problems for me. I used to get scolded very often," he added.
The 44-year-old actor also revealed that he only studied till Class 12 and never had a very good college life.
"My education has only been till 12th standard because after that I got into films. Even while in college for my 11th and 12th, I used to hardly attend classes because I was always busy with dramatics.
"Because of this, I didn't have a very rocking college life. But during the shoot of '3 idiots' I lived the moments of a student's life and enjoyed the way students do," said Aamir, who used to study in Narsee Monjee College in Mumbai. Read More; http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Aamir-was-punished-in-school/articleshow/5
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