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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In 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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There’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 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.

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You can’t go a day without mention of the “credit crunch” in the media.  Everyday, new companies goes bust and the unemployment numbers are bleak. The unemployment rate hit 8.5 in US in March (8.1 in US in February).

Being an entrepreneur has always been a hard thing but in these tough times, it gets harder. Starting a new business or trying to expand a current business needs very much courage, when you look at around and see all those bust companies and unemployed people . We wondered and searched the net to learn how the entrepreneurs are handling the downturn.

Courage
A recent survey shows, 45% of entrepreneurs says “Yes”, 35% says “No” and 21% says “Not Sure” to the  “Is now the time to launch a new business?” question. Also in the US,69% of entrepreneurs stated that they will continue with their business growth plans despite the prevailing economic climate. Even in downturn, brave entrepreneurs are going on their ways and launching new businesses.

Resistance

Fear is a fatal feeling in the downturn; but feeling of hope is very important to take risks. Some desperate entrepreneurs won’t be able to resist the downturn but 78% of entrepreneurs expect their business to survive this downturn.

Responsibility

Companies are squeezed by the recession and the surplus of some companies reduced and become insufficient to pay salaries and bills. Some entrepreneurs cut own pay to stay alive and not to cut jobs. This is unusual even for a recession but a very responsible attitude. What a business owner tells is, “All those small-business books say, ‘Pay yourself first.’ [But] not paying myself enabled me to keep a couple of other people around,” he says. “It’s not [the employees'] fault that I bet on growth.”

You can read these, if you want to read more about this topic:

How entrepreneurs are feeling@ CNNMoney

Entrepreneurs Cut Own Pay to Stay Alive@ Wall Street Journey