Google's Initial Beta Homepages

http://tinyurl.com/create.php

This is how google home page looked initially.

Source : Google's tenth anniversary/birthday


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Top 100 most powerful brand report

top 10 goes to:

01 - Google
02 - GE
03 - Microsoft
04 - Coca-Cola
05 - China Mobile
06 - IBM
07 - Apple
08 - McDonald's
09 - Nokia
10 - Malboro

The combined value of all brands in the BrandZ Top 100 increased by 21%, from $1.6 trillion in 2007 to $1.94 trillion in 2008, more than twice the increase experienced the previous year. Google tops the list again with a brand value of $86.1bn, followed by GE at $71.4bn, and Microsoft at $70.8bn. The biggest risers in the ranking include Apple at $30bn with the biggest dollar increase in the Top 100 list, and BlackBerry, that entered the BrandZ Ranking at number 51 thanks to a brand value increase of 390%.

"trying to make up some story with the brands: Using Microsoft XP on my IBM ThinkPad, searching on Google website, sitting in McDonals, using McDonald's Wifi, searching information on GE through Google, drinking coke(coca cola) from McDonald's, using IBM ThikPad, side by side listening to Apple's iPod, downloading iTunes from Apple's Website, and suddenly got a call on my Nokia mobile, what a coincidence, a person next to my table is smoking a Marlboro cigarette and using a China Mobile mobile phone"

" It means that these global brands have influence in our life and there penetration certainly make them a global brand"

Guys for the full report go to : MillwardBrown

How Do I Keep My Self Updated : My Subscriptions - 01

Well ppl wonder what all subscription I have, not much. But still to be updated all the time you need subscription. Basically there are two methods I use :

1 - iGoogle
2 - Mail Subscription

In this world of easy Information access you cannot go and say to someone that because I didn't have info I couldn't do the assignment. Rather being an excuse to save you, you make a fool of yourself. This is because somebody else have made a use of various READY TO USE resources to complete the work more intelligently.

You have to keep your self updated, by HOOK or KROOK. You read news paper, magazines, see new, here news, or read from internet its totally your choice. Speaking from my heart probably Internet is the best resource where you can get all the information you need, according to your customization, in a single roof/interface.

I will be covering this in detail in the next posts.

the social networking war.

hmmm what should i start with now. The thing is, there is something going on in my mind this days. There is THIS type of sites which help us to stay in touch with each others. I mean friends and relatives. And i swear it really helps. I really met some of my old friends, thnx to a web site which provides this kind of facility. Now this type of sites are called Social Networking WebSites. I am here not to favor any of them, but its a discussion of whats going in the web market.

Well i will not name the any of the Sites, but let me name the biggies who are behind this projects. Currently i am only focusing on the BIG THREE as i term them "Microsoft, Yahoo and Google".

OK so it all started with the BLOG war. Google acquired Blogger.com. Yahoo started yahoo 360. Microsoft started spaces.microsoft.com. Well yahoo 360 is not a core blog concept, but currently lets assume it as a blog site. This is because yahoo doesn't have a site dedicated to WEB LOGGING(Blog) .

Oh Gosh!!!, let me be back on the topic, otherwise i will reach on to some other discussion. So after blogging came this image posting sites. Here yahoo was first to buy out Flickr, which is currently the best in this market. Of course there was images.yahoo.com, but nobody bothered to look at it. Fortunately Microsoft and Google doesnt need this kind of site, since their blogging counterpart already supports image posting.

All this and many other sites were acquired, to reach to a final goal of what I think is THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. Google was affiliated with Orkut. Yahoo acquired Del.icuo.us and there were also some contenders who probably pioneered this concept. Likewise we have Upcoming.org, Ringo, Birthday alarm, HI5 etc. Somehow these sites doesn't clicked. They were bulky, very very slow in operation. But the concept was awesome.

Beware, we are now at the start of the war between the BIG THREE on this concept. Orkut is currently leading the three. Orkut is the best of these. Though it was not a child of those Googlers, but the way it was made, is perfect to get affiliated with google. It has those characteristics of Google: Simplicity, Fantastic Interface and Navigational Facility that made it work. Also the site is very quick. Kudos to ORKUT, the guy who created this genius. But one thing you people can relate him is, he is also from Stanford, Gotch ya!!!. These Stanford people are going to rule the world in near future, hahaha!!!. Now is YAHOO's turn. It has integrated all of its acquisitions and sites to yahoo 360. Also the blog in yahoo 360 can be directly integrated to your geocities account. So all thing comes to a single point Yahoo 360. Now this have many features of a social networking site other then just blogging.Very nicely organized, of course its yahoo, the ppl who pioneered the INTERNET.

Hence comes the turn of the GIANT. Yes you people guessed it right. THE NAME IS "microsoft". How can it be left behind. Microsoft has way behind started a site named WALLOP.com. It was just a simple blogging site, but with some unique features of connecting with friends. This site was one of the best because it was totally on MACROMEDIA FLASH. The interface was mind blowing. But now after a long time when i went to this site, there was nothing. Only there is massage for the people, that they are getting ready for the war. JUST visit the website its FANTASTIC. Now only GOD can predict how will Microsoft will turn this whole concept into. WAIT and WATCH.

Above article is just my flow of thoughts on the topic. Its not supporting any side. The article its just my perception and assumptions. So some of the facts may be wrong or incomplete.

If you people have read this whole article completely, thank you very much for taking time to read it.Well the thank should be more for bearing my mistakes if any.
I will be very obliged to improve on your positive comments/suggestion. just fell Free to comment on any aspect, since this my first article of any type and of such a length. THANKS A LOT in advance.