Google Wave: Ten Links To Learn About Google’s New Platform


google_wave_logoGoogle’s new service, Google Wave is generating so much buzz and everyone really wants to learn more about Google Wave. Thousands of articles and blog post are written in one day about Google’s new service. To help you save time, we’ve compiled a list of top ten links that describe Google Wave best. Read More


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Video: If Rives Controlled The Internet


This is an old but unmissable funny poem, “If i controlled the Internet” from storyteller, writer and slam poet Rives; which he read at Ted conference in 2006. In this poem, Rives told he wanted to see a more personal and more  Internet and 3 years later the Internet has become much more personal, much more about me.

What would you do, if you controlled the Internet?

* You can find the whole text of the poem below the video.


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One Cheeseburger Equals 15,000 Google Searches in CO2 Emissions


google-greenIn January, one of the top stories of the Internet was that a single Google search generates 7 g of CO2. The story came out from an article published in The Sunday Times of London which focused on the enviromental impact of Google searches.   Google responded to the article very quickly, stating a Google search is actually equals to 0.2 g of CO2 and the efforts & supports of Google to further Green energy.
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How Much Is YouTube’s One Minute Worth?


youtube_tvThere’s no doubt that YouTube is the biggest player in online video industry. YouTube outperformed its competitors and has become a winner in video sharing. YouTube is one of  the most succesful web stories of all time, since 2006 and still growing very fast.

When Google acquired Youtube for $ 1.65 B, Google was criticized for paying huge amount of money for a website without a business model. Everybody except Google was thinking that YouTube was overvalued. Video sharing sites have the biggest costs in Internet World. They need really fast servers and huge storage space and the bandwith costs are the highest. Because of the high costs, ROI (return of investment) of online video businesses are very slow. It’s hard to monetize broadband video and the only ways to monetize this type of business are showing ads and subscription.

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Jimmy Wales Tells How They Created Wikipedia


Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.

Thanks Ted.com for organizing these unmissable talks.