Paul Buchheit is the mastermind behind Google’s Gmail and AdSense, and founder of FriendFeed (now part of Facebook). As one of the earliest Google employees. Buchheit first uttered those three words “Don’t be evil” during a meeting convened to discuss how Google should communicate its corporate values… Then “Don’t be evil” took on a life of its own, spreading rapidly through the Googleplex, and ultimately it was included in the company’s 2004 initial public offering prospectus.

As a successful developer and an entreprenur, here are 5 startups tips from Paul Buchheit:

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The Internet Internet traffic is increasing very rapidly, close to doubling each year since 1997.    Jesse Thomas collected remarkable stats on the Internet in one video. As the social network sites and YouTube like media-sharing sites take much more time in our lives, People-Powered Internet grows up. Some of the amazing figures about people-powered  Internet shared in the video:

• - Facebook gets more than 260 billios pageviews per month.
• - YouTube serves 1 billion videos in one day.
• - The average Internet user in the USA watches 182 online videos in a month.
• - There are 1.4 billions email users worldwide.

Thanks Jesse Thomas for combining and animating these stats. You can watch the video below:

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Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers many  tools and platforms including its more popular products.

There are more than a hundred Google services & products and some useful ones are little-known. We prepared a guide for Google’s services and products to show you how big giant Google is. If you want to add a Google service or product that  doesn’t exist in this list, please feel free to comment.

We arranged Google’s services and products (only 130 of them!) into  10+1 categories:

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In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Reddit Founder & Entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to Web stardom at TedIndia 2009 Event. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age. A great story to show how social media can effect a change in the real World. If you want to watch the video, go ahead.

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I can’t write valuable posts for a long time because of our ongoing projects and my full time job (In fact, there are more than  10 draft posts which i should check and update before I post if i could find enough time and a free brain).  But i try to share valuable resources, especially experiences of successful Internet entrepreneurs with you and this is one of them.

At The Future of Web Apps London, Kevin Rose shares the secrets to Digg and Wefollow’s explosive user growth. He covers ten unique strategies that turn passive users into passionate advocates and what he did to increase his users to 1,000,000 and beyond.  You can both watch his presentation video or view his presentation slides.

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