"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller
Monday, February 16, 2009
LIST OF UNIVERSITIES OF INDIA
Saturday, February 14, 2009
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE
"Enthusiasm spells the difference between
mediocrity and accomplishment."
----NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
ONLINE BUSINESS
The Web Celeb 25
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This is the age of microcelebrity--with just a keyboard or a digital camera, almost anyone can find an audience online.
Of course, there's a big difference between a hundred people reading your blog and being recognized by fans when you walk down the street. In this, the third annual edition of the Forbes.com Web Celeb 25, we track the biggest and brightest stars on the Web, the people who have turned their passions into new-media empires. From stay-at home moms to geek entrepreneurs, these are the people capturing eyes, influencing opinion and creating the new digital world.
In Pictures: Web Celeb Near Misses
In Pictures: Web Celeb Drop-Offs
For the second year running, the No. 1 Web Celeb is Perez Hilton, a Hollywood gossip blogger and self-styled "Queen of Mean." Born Mario Lavandeira, Hilton takes his pen name from frequent subject, Paris Hilton. He's made a name for himself writing caustic, catty posts, and scribbling rude captions on paparazzi photos.
Hilton supports his Web presence with frequent TV gigs, including guest-hosting stints on The View and a series of specials, What Perez Sez, on VH1. He recently published a book, Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up With the Hiltons. And he also hosts a syndicated radio show, Radio Perez.
And, of course, there's his site, where he uploads new posts approximately every 12.5 minutes. According to Web analytics service Quantcast, PerezHilton.com attracts more than 4.8 million visitors each month, putting it among the 500 most-visited sites on the Internet. That's far more traffic than competing sites like TMZ.com and Defamer.com. (For more on Perez Hilton, see "King Perez.")
Our No. 2 Web Celeb, Michael Arrington, takes an entirely different path to success. A corporate attorney and entrepreneur, Arrington is also the editor of the influential blog TechCrunch, which profiles and reviews Internet entrepreneurs, products and services. It's become a must-read for members of the Silicon Valley tech and investing communities, and a mere mention of a company on its pages can make or break a start-up.
Arrington's fame and influence has become so great that he's begun to experience a backlash from entrepreneurs who feel disrespected or ignored. He's received death threats, and at a conference in Germany this month, an unidentified assailant spit in his face. Arrington subsequently announced he would take a month off from blogging to "get a better perspective on what I'm spending my life doing."
The No. 3 Web Celeb, Kevin Rose, is the founder of social bookmarking site Digg. The site, which allows users to share links and vote on their favorites, has become a focal point of the tech community, claiming more than 35 million members and about 6.8 million unique visitors in the U.S. during December 2008, according to Internet measurement firm comScore.
Rose is also well-known as the co-host of a weekly video program, Diggnation, which is distributed by another company he co-founded, Revision3. And hardcore fans may remember him as one of the stars of The Screen Savers, a popular show that ran on now-defunct cable channel TechTV.
To generate the Web Celebs ranking, we first defined a "Web celebrity" as a person famous primarily for creating or appearing in Internet-based content and for being highly recognizable to a Web-based audience. That definition excludes people who were significantly famous before they hit the Web--like author and pundit Arianna Huffington--and leaves us with a pool of people whose fame depends on the Internet.
Next, we created a candidate list of over 250 Internet personalities. Each candidate was ranked in five areas: Web references as calculated by Google; traffic ranking of their homepages as calculated by Alexa; Technorati rank of their primary Web sites or blogs, TV and radio mentions and press clips compiled from Factiva; and number of followers on microblogging site Twitter. We gave extra weight to results from Alexa, Google and Factiva. All five categories were totaled to produce a final score, and sorted to arrive at our rankings.
See The Complete List: The Web Celeb 25
SELF EMPLOYMENT
Create Your Own Job
"I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking 'til he found it."
So said Norman Tebbit, former U.K. anti-labor union employment minister under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s, in the wake of Britain's urban riots in 1981, which were widely attributed to the worsening unemployment caused by de-industrialization.
Though the remark was made to a party supporter and not to someone who had lost their job, as popularly supposed, the hard-line employment secretary thereafter became Norman "On yer bike!" Tebbit, and "Get on your bike and look for work" became the Thatcher-era admonition to the unemployed.
A quarter of a century on, and with an employment-destroying recession again with us, the best thing to do if you have lost your job is not to get on your bike (except to tout your green credentials), but to stay in your garage.
Stay in your garage, and start a new business.
Recessions are arguably the best time to start a business. Certainly the roster of recession-founded companies contains some illustrious names, among them the
And this may prove to be the best recession of all to start a business. Not only is human capital cheap and plentiful--one positive side effect of rising unemployment--but also the two defining trends of the decade--digitalization and globalization--mean it has never been as possible to start a business with so little financial capital. Given the credit crunch, that is a fortunate happenstance, of course.
Start-up teams in recessions tend to be committed and willing to live with the inevitable risk of a fledgling company and bare-bones working conditions. In that, they have much in common with the entrepreneurs who employ them.
Recessions also help keep start-up costs low because there is second-hand and fire-sale equipment and furniture available. Business services become cheaper as suppliers cut prices just to keep the lights on or are prepared to work on barter.
Constrained resources, which face all start-ups, force ingenuity and frugality, traits which put any company on solid ground during its early stages. They also force founders to pay close attention to cash flow, budgets and balance sheets, disciplines that will also stand them in good stead no matter how large their company gets.
Of course, budding entrepreneurs still need a great idea and a solid business plan. And a market, naturally.
Recessions provide stiff tests of the first two. But if entrepreneurs pass and can find the third, there is a rock-solid base for expansion once better times return, as they inevitably will.
You still need will, skill, determination and desire, but you will have shown that you have the contrarian spirit all entrepreneurs need--and the moxie to turn job loss into opportunity.
-Courtesy FORBES
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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