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Shot of the week #6
Are you aware of a movie called "Pirates of Silicon Valley" ?
It's a great movie and besides the entertainement you'll gain some knowledge about the rise of pc.
imdb 6.9/10
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Shot of the week #5
The chart below shows how that upload hours increased since June 2007 when ‘just’ about 6 hours of video were added per minute. As this rate the 25 hour mark will be reached next month, giving us even more reason to figure out a way to extend the day or sop time in order to keep up with the new content put up on YouTube. I vote for the time-stopping thing.
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Shot of the week #4
Have you ever wonder which are the top 20 sites on the web? The most trafficked ones?
1. google.com
Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images
2. facebook.com (More than 400 million active users!)
A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
3. yahoo.com
Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
4. youtube.com
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!
5. live.com
Search engine from Microsoft
6. wikipedia.org
An online collaborative encyclopedia.
7. blogger.com
Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.
8. baidu.com
Music search engine and free MP3 & video streaming for all kind of topic.
9. msn.com
Dialup access and content provider.
10 qq.com
11. yahoo.co.jp
12. twitter.com
Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.
13. google.co.in
Indian version of this popular search engine. Search the whole web or only webpages from India. Interfaces offered in English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil.
14. sina.com.cn
15. google.cn
16. google.de
Suche im gesamten Web, in deutschsprachigen sowie in deutschen Seiten. Zusätzlich ist eine Bildersuche, eine Newsarchiv-Suche (ehemals dejanews) sowie ein Katalog vorhanden.
17. wordpress.com
Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection and other features.
18. myspace.com
Social Networking Site.
19. microsoft.com
Main site for product information, support, and news.
20. google.co.uk
The local version of this pre-eminent search engine, offering UK-specific pages as well as world results.
Read more at Alexa.com
Shot of the week #3
Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI animation production company which started in 1979 as the Graphics Group, a part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before it was bought by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986.
On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that The Walt Disney Company had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock. Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner included the soured Pixar relationship and accelerated his ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger.
Pixar has made 10 feature films beginning with
Toy Story in 1995
A Bug's Life in 1998
Toy Story 2 in 1999
Monsters, Inc. in 2001
Finding Nemo in 2003 (which is, to date, the most commercially successful Pixar film, grossing over $800 million worldwide)
The Incredibles in 2004
Cars in 2006, Ratatouille in 2007
WALL-E in 2008
Up in 2009 (the first Pixar film presented in Disney Digital 3-D)
Pixar's eleventh film, Toy Story 3, is scheduled for release on June 18, 2010
Cars 2 to be released in Summer 2011.
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Wikipedia: Steve Job
Wikipedia: Pixar
Shot of the week #2
Top Word of 2009 : Twitter
Followed by Obama, H1N1, Stimulus, and Vampire
“King of Pop” is Top Phrase; “Obama” is top name
Austin, TX November 29, 2009 – The Global Language Monitor has announced that Twitter is the Top Word of 2009 in its annual global survey of the English language. Twittered was followed by Obama, H1N1, Stimulus, and Vampire. The near-ubiquitous suffix, 2.0, was No. 6, with Deficit, Hadron the object of study of CERN’s new atom smasher, Healthcare, and Transparency rounded out the Top 10. (read more)
Top Words of the Decade (2000-2009)
Source: The Global Language Monitor
Followed by Obama, H1N1, Stimulus, and Vampire“King of Pop” is Top Phrase; “Obama” is top name
Austin, TX November 29, 2009 – The Global Language Monitor has announced that Twitter is the Top Word of 2009 in its annual global survey of the English language. Twittered was followed by Obama, H1N1, Stimulus, and Vampire. The near-ubiquitous suffix, 2.0, was No. 6, with Deficit, Hadron the object of study of CERN’s new atom smasher, Healthcare, and Transparency rounded out the Top 10. (read more)
Top Words of the Decade (2000-2009)
“Global Warming”, “9/11″ and “Obama” are Top Words,
“Climate Change” is top phrase,
Source: The Global Language Monitor
Shot of the week #1
[...]Skype has experienced rapid growth in popular usage since the launch of its services... The company was acquired by eBay in September 2005 for $2.6 billion. eBay has written Skype down to $1.7 billion on its books and announced a public stock offering for 2010 to spin Skype off as a separate company.[...]links
Wikipedia: Skype
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