PC World has come out with yet another top list – 50 Top Web VIPs.

1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin – Executives, Google

When your stock price can top $500 a share, you’re collectively worth $33 billion in cash, and you run the most trafficked search engine on the Internet, you can afford to do, well, pretty much whatever you want. Sergey Brin and Larry Page’s little project from Stanford has grown into the Web’s most talked-about powerhouse, and one of the few names on this list to have morphed into a verb. Schmidt left Novell to join the board of directors at Google in 2001 and soon became the company’s CEO. Having conquered the online advertising world, Google seems to be gearing up for an acquisition spree, its headline-grabbing purchase of YouTube marking a big step toward complete domination of the Web.

2. Steve Jobs – CEO, Apple

No doubt you’re sick of the media bonanza surrounding the every move of Apple’s CEO, but when one man’s appeal for DRM-free music reverberates around the world, it’s hard to ignore the power he wields. Jobs popularized legal music downloads and legal TV and movie downloads. And though the iPhone won’t be released for five months, its demonstration at
MacWorld Expo suggested that this product might finally popularize Internet browsing on a mobile device.

3. Bram Cohen – Cofounder, BitTorrent

P2P systems like KaZaA and eDonkey are so last year. The future is all about BitTorrent, the brainchild of math wizard and programming wunderkind Bram Cohen. BitTorrent, developed in 2001, has gained in popularity as a way to download large files (like movies) by sharing the burden across hardware and bandwidth. The technology’s adeptness at handling large files got Cohen in trouble with the Motion Picture Association of America, which ordered BitTorrent to remove copyrighted content from its network. But that setback hasn’t slowed it down. Reportedly, more than a third of all Web traffic now comes from BitTorrent clients. BitTorrent and the entertainment heavyweights have since joined forces. The newly released BitTorrent Entertainment Network launched recently with thousands of industry-approved movies, television shows, games, and songs for sale and rental.

MORE »

Joost™? What’s that??

Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We’re in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts. You can also see some things that we think will enhance the TV experience: searching for programmes and channels, for example, as well as social features like chat. There are many more new features to come!

Goodbye, television. Hello, Joost

– Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis

MORE »

Related Readings:

Lucifer

From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web: Evolving Distributed Communities (Computer Communications and Networks)

Food Play

Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

Video Over IP, Second Edition: IPTV, Internet Video, H.264, P2P, Web TV, and Streaming: A Complete Guide to Understanding the Technology (Focal Press Media Technology Professional Series)

This probably quite true as I’ve seen a few of these! Here we go…

ONE

There is NO SUCH THING as a friendster tracker. It does NOT exist. So quit posting stupid bulletins like

“who views your profile the most” or
“OMG this works!!!”

Sorry but NO, it doesnt work!

TWO

Those who owned a lot friendster accounts.

What is the point of adding the same friend? Stop doing stupid things like sending lots of same repeated message on bulettin with the subject “ADD ME!!”

THREE

Don’t ever post pictures and say:

“OMG, I’m so ugly”
“OMG, I’m so fat”

because if you were, you wouldn’t post them.

And if you do you’re a freaking mongoloid.

MORE »

AN Hosting is now offering an unbelievable yet at the same time a very real 250GB of disk space and 2,500GB of bandwidth of their $6.95 Mega Plan.

Its important to note that this is no limited time offer. 5 times the space and over twice the bandwidth is available for all ANHosting customers going forward. I’m so sure everyone is going to love this new deal that we offer a 30 day money back guarantee on accounts as well.

AN Hosting flagship web hosting plan, The Mega Plan, is designed to fit any budget and any website. So, what you will get? Basically everything!!!

• 250,000 MB disk space BIGGER!
• 2,500,000 MB bandwidth BIGGER!
• Host 20 Domains on 1 Account
• Free Domain for Life!
• 30 Days Money Back Guarantee
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• 2000 FTP Accounts
• 19 Addon Domains
• Unlimited Sub Domains
• Unlimited MySQL Databases – WOW!
• Unlimited E-mail Accounts
• Unlimited Auto Responders
• IMAP, POP3, SMTP Support
• Webmail Support
• Spam Assassin Included
• Fantastico, Blogging Tools, etc.
• E-Commerce Tools
• Free Advertising Credits (Yahoo!, Google, Search)
• PHP, Perl, Python, GCC, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
• PHP 4.x or PHP 5.x Supported
• Frontpage Extentions
• Free Website Builder
• 24/7 phone/e-mail support

Awards:

more awards >>

SIGNUP!!!!

Signup Today! It’s Fast, Easy and Affordable!

ONLY $6.95/month + $0.00/setup

You probably use Google everyday, but do you know… the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you’ll find Google-related games, cartoons, oddities, tips, stories and everything else that’s fun. Reading it, you won’t be the same searcher as before!

Chapters:

1. Egogoogling: Susan Is…
2. The Google Snake Game
3. Memecodes: Survival of the Fittest Web Pages
4. The Google Irritation Game, and the Google Image Quiz
5. Googling Proverbs
6. Browsing Images of a Site
7. A Brief History of Googlesport
8. What is Google, and what do people consider fun about it?
9. How Much Time Google Saves Us
10. Google Cookin’ a Lemon Chicken
11. Douglas Adams and the Google Calculator
12. Oops, I Googled Again
13. The Disappearing Google Logo, a Magic Trick
14. Fun With Google Maps, the Wiki Way
15. Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack
16. Google Q&A
17. Celebrate Google Non-Weddings, and More
18. Design Your SketchUp Dream House
19. Kevin Bacon and the Google Network
20. The Google Alphabet
21. Google Search Tips
22. Googlepark
23. Googleshare
24. The Shortest Google Search (and the One Returning the Most Results)
25. Google Rotated and Mini Google
26. The Google Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Google?
27. Recreate Google From Memory
28. The Strange World of Google News
29. Aliens Attack Google!
30. Top Ten Signs You Are Addicted to Google
31. Dig a Hole Through Earth
32. Googlebombing
33. Google Ads Gone Wrong
34. Life in the Age of Google
35. Google Hacking
36. Googlepolls: Ask the Crowd
37. Googlefights
38. What If Google Was Evil? Plus: Five Inventions of the Google Future
39. The Google Adventure Game
40. Egobot, Voice of the Web
41. Fun Google Gadgets
42. Forty-Two, or: A Science-Fiction Interlude
43. The Google Book of World Records
44. Spelling Errors Galore
45. Google Groups, Time Machine
46. Growing a Google Word
47. Most Popular Words, and PopSents
48. Create Google Poetry, Prose, and Collages
49. Funny Google Videos
50. The Realplayer Fish, or: Telling a Story in Synonyms
51. Google Parodies
52. The Google Images Prediction Trick
53. Fun With Google Translations
54. The Giant Google Painting
55. Googledromes

Download: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google Download

Here are the super 15 that will burn up your time! according to PC World. Hey you time wasters!

15. What Would Tyler Durden Do? (http://www.wwtdd.com/)

When all else fails, there is always celebrity gossip. Paris, Lindsay, Britney, and the whole gaggle of train-wrecks-that-just-won’t-quit make for easy pickings on sites like Defamer, The Superficial, and IDontLikeYouInThatWay. All of the sites tend to carry nearly the same stories every day, but WWTDD (adopting Fight Club’s imaginary antihero persona as blogger) has the cruelest write-ups and the biggest pictures. Meow.

14. Pogo.com (http://www.pogo.com)

The king of mini browser games, Pogo’s collection of card, parlor, puzzle, and casino-style diversions is a destination for hundreds of thousands of regular players–many of whom spend hours on end winning game tokens, graphical badges, and cash payouts of up to $5000. Real money is rare, though: Most users are happy to play dominoes, backgammon, cribbage, or dozens of other games, alone or against live opponents, just for kicks. Many games are free. Club Pogo members pay $40 a year for access to everything (over 100 titles), ad-free.

13. HOT or NOT (http://www.hotornot.com/)

Remember this rate-how-hot-my-picture-is phenomenon that actually inspired a TV show? Well, hotornot.com is still around and, judging by the continued influx of pictures and the frequency with which users check their ratings, it’s still extremely busy. (In fact, the site now contains more than 25 million user-submitted photos.) But what makes hotornot such an apt time-waster is that you can get virtually endless content delivered quickly with a single click. It may not be very worthwhile, but you have to give it points for sheer quantity and ease of navigation. Copycat sites are legion, from GothOrNot to PetsInClothes.

12. AOL In2TV (http://television.aol.com/in2tv)

Why read about TV shows online when you can actually watch them? From Welcome Back, Kotter to Chico and the Man, In2TV has more awful television from the ’70s to the present collected in one place than should be allowed by law. Just about the only thing that competes is ABC, which offers the most recent complete episodes of seven shows from its current prime-time lineup, including Lost, Desperate Housewives, and Grey’s Anatomy. Beware: The AOL-provided service is terribly buggy and works only in the United States. (Sorry, Uzbekistan!)

11. Moola.com (www.Moola.com)

Yes, it’s another gaming site, but this one has a twist: Users can win up to $10.7 million in real money by playing games here. Moola gives you a penny when you sign up. You then put that penny on the line against other Moola users in games of semi-skill/semi-chance (like a modified version of Rock Paper Scissors, each of which takes a few minutes to complete). The winner takes the cash and moves up the ladder. The loser gets another free penny and starts over. Win 30 times in a row and cash out for millions, though that may actually be impossible: My personal high mark is $1.28, though some players report taking home thousands to date. Bad news: It’s currently invitation only, and you have to know someone who’s already a member in order to get on the site. Oh, and you have to watch a short video commercial before each game, but that’s a small price to pay for a free penny.

MORE »