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In a recent TED ideas conference Google’s CEO Larry Page talks to Charlie Rose on the theme of where’s Google heading next.  Starting with Google’s mission, Larry went on to talk about several things that matter for Google and him at the company. Watch the full video below from the TED conference. Here are the main highlights I have pointed out from the video.  Organising world’s information and making it useful and universally accessible (Google’s Mission). Changing the world with technology. Making Internet accessible to the entire planet with projects like Loon. Concern on security and online privacy of Internet users. Saving lives and making lives better with self-driving cars. Increasing use of bikes and finding innovative ways to use them. Embracing Technology and doing innovative things. What’s your main highlight from the video? Share the video if it inspires you.

Social media giant Facebook has just released ‘HACK’. Thinking “Wow, Great!”? But don’t get carried away, it has nothing to do with hacking and cracking.  Facebook releases HACK a new open-source programming language, developed for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), Facebook’s PHP runtime environment, released in 2012. This new language, released on March 20, 2014, assimilates with the evergreen PHP language and is believed to allow their engineers and other programmers to increase their speed in writing codes as well as evade usual errors in programming. When started ten years ago, Facebook was initially coded in PHP by Mark Zuckerberg and his team. However, as the company grew, with the existing programming platform with PHP, it became difficult to manage and maintain the system free of bugs. As a result, the programming language HACK has been developed and Facebook releases HACK now so as to combine elements of static programming languages such as C and C++, which...

The world has seen enough of social networking websites and apps like Facebook , Twitter , Google Plus , Instagram, Whatsapp, Foursquare and a lot of others. Basically, all these apps, what they do is connect people living around the globe, forming their virtual network online.  In some ways, these services have been of great help to mankind while in some cases, we wish they’d rather not be present at all . There are many cases in our life when we’re trying get work done, but end up wasting all the valuable time on things like Facebook and Twitter. This is probably the downside of these platforms, about which even the most avid users agree. All the apps we’ve known till now basically promote social interaction. But have there been any service which can be dubbed as ‘anti-social’? Well, it’s just about the case with a new service called ‘Cloak’. It’s a new direction social media is heading to and we bet, we’ll have plenty of such anti-social apps in the future. Being anti-social me...

Twitter completed eight years of its inception today. Doesn’t it seem like Twitter has been there for ever and ever? But, not quite! It was created on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Noah Glass and Biz Stone. Today, it has become eight years old. It’s the world’s second most popular second networking website behind Facebook. How amazing this fact is, when Twitter is much simpler and with far less functionalities than Facebook. It could not have been ever thought of that the world could share so much in 140 or less characters. But it is what has been through all those tweets. According to statisticbrain.com, there are more than 645 million active registered users on Twitter today. The average number of tweets a day amounts to astonishing 58 million. And, there are 190 million unique visits Twitter every month. Twitter has gone through so much in such a small period of time. But in its eight years of inception, what are the moments that top the rest? Which are the most defi...

A lot of startups and initiatives come out these days. The advancement in science and technology has transformed the world into a global village. A large population of the world has access to internet at this time, when the World Wide Web has recently turned 25 years old .  The impact of social media is so profound that the rate at which an idea generated around some corner of the world spreads has been like never before. For this reason, it’s easy for us to take notice of a new and promising startup. It’s also easier to start our own too. But the other side of the truth is that the competition we face up from others is fierce. It might be easier to start our own company but it’s not that easy to take it to the heights of success. Some startups expand really quickly and go on to become highly successful on the long run. Meanwhile, many others don’t exactly take off and leave the race rather soon or drag themselves along, without gathering much attention. There are several metrics t...

Facebook page-likes have become highly valuable assets in today’s world where social media has its impact in almost every way conceivable. The number of likes of a Facebook page has a great worth for the brand or the figure associated with it. The higher the number of likes, the more popular and successful the brand is considered. How much of a truth is behind this indicator is however an utterly different matter. Nevertheless, if a Facebook page has more likes, it at least means more people have heard of the party associated with the page and messages can be spread to wider range of people. So the first target of almost every Facebook page is to get as many likes as possible. They employ different strategies for the purpose, which yields to successes on varying scales. Here, we least the ten of the best strategies to have a huge Facebook fanbase, which are reliable, easier and cheaper too. 10. Pick up a unique name and idea Picking up a good and unique name as well as an intriguing id...

It’s quite common that people are held for ransom, especially when their relatives are well off. A person is taken hostage and kidnappers ask their relatives to pay huge sums if they want their beloved ones back and unharmed. Sometimes ransoms are paid and the victim returns back home while on some occasions, authorities intervene in time to save the life of victim as well as his/her kin’s dough. And sadly, on some occasions, people also have to lose their lives. Computers have become so much important for people in today’s world and the data stored in them of much greater worth that nowadays, even computers are held for ransoms. But how? This takes place trough malicious softwares called ransomwares? Below, we make an in-depth analysis of ransomwares, which though being present since a long time ago, have become quite notorious as of lately. What is a ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malicious software which controls the access to the computer which it has infects, and asks for a r...

On March 12, 2014, World Wide Web turned 25 years old. Today, it has become a medium to connect the people and their ideas all over the world, in a flash of lightning. Its beginning dates back to March 1989, when Tim Berners Lee, a British scientist, wrote a proposal at CERN in Switzerland, for “a large hypertext database with typed links” which would eventually become the World Wide Web and leave a never fading mark in the history of mankind. Now here, we take a moment to list 25 numbers and what they tell about the World Wide Web. 294 billion – According to a digital research by Radicati group, more than 294 billion emails are sent on a day. 2.09 billion – According to worldwidewebsize.com, there are at least 2.09 billion pages on the Indexed Web. 920 million – According to internetlivestats.com, the total number of websites today is around 920 million. 400 million – Hotmail was born on July 4 th , 1996. It was the output of a Silicon Valley startup founded by Sabeer Bhatia and J...

Creating quality contents on a regular basis is very important for any blog to be successful. It’s a well-known cliche in the blogging paradigm that “content is king”. The more are the contents, the more visitors will be directed to a blog . As blog posts need to be written often, with the blogger having to meet a deadline in many cases, some of the blog posts might not be able to maintain the required standard. It is very important to maintain uniformity across the blog posts and more so at higher standards for a blog to be successful. So how can I create effective blog posts? What are the main points to be considered if we want to create effective blog posts week in and week out, thereby leading us to the track of becoming a highly successful blogger. We list below the top ten points on how to create effective blog posts. 1. Write from your heart. Whenever we do something from the core of your heart, we can put our maximum efforts to the job. As a result, the outcome is highly likel...

Twitter has developed quickly as a highly effective medium for spreading information among large mass of people very quickly. But it doesn’t mean that all those sensational tweets, which gather focus of people all around the globe, carry any element of truth at all. There have been many instances in which a false information has spread like a fire amongst people , leading to detrimental consequences. One particular case occurred during the London Riots of 2011. What happened during the turn of events was that tweeters spread deceptive information about animals being released from London Zoo and London Eye and Selfridges being set on fire. This led to widespread panic with police attention being diverted from the actual case that needed attention. But such situations may not arise in near future. There have been reports that researchers across Europe are collaborating to devise a Lie Detector for Twitter to analyze the truthfulness of accounts that appear on social media on real time b...

The number of likes on a  Facebook page is a crucial factor deciding your influence in social media sphere. They represent how popular a name or a brand is, how many people like the entity associated with that page and also how wide the range of people, that page can reach at once, is. The target of every Facebook page is to get as much likes as they can by engaging their fans. They promote, update, invest and do so many different things to increase the number of likes on their page. The extent to which a page succeeds in getting likes is different for different pages. Nevertheless, some of them stand above the others, reflected by the outstanding number of likes they have on Facebook. So what are the most liked Facebook pages? We list here the top 20 most liked Facebook pages as of first quarter of 2014. 20. Beyonce Number of likes: 57,364,632 |  Beyonce on Facebook 19. Linkin Park Number of likes: 60,280,984 |  Linkin Park on Facebook  18. Candy Crush Saga N...

Over the past few years, social networking sites have changed the lives of humans in so many ways. The way people communicate with each other, share ideas, give their opinions and learn about how things are progressing around the globe, have been drastically changed by such social networks. As of today, the total social network usage forms a huge chunk of the overall internet usage. They may have their pros and cons but a large portion of internet users spend their maximum time on the likes of Facebook , Twitter and Google Plus . So what are the most used social networks today? We present to you over here the most used social networks as of now. These most used social networks have been selected and ordered on the basis of their recent Global Alexa Rankings. 10. Ask.fm Alexa Ranking: 156 Founded in: June 16, 2010 Overview: Ask.fm is a social networking website where users can ask questions among each others. There is also the option of anonymity available. It is based on Riga, Latvia...

Facebook is the most popular social network today. It has changed the way people communicate with each other today. Just like any other social networking platform, it has its pros as well as cons . In this particular article, we’re focusing on the negative impact of Facebook. Today, a lot of users of this incredible network have developed a kind of addiction for it. U.S. psychologists have even termed the addiction to Facebook as Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). As we discussed on our previous article , there are more than 350 million people in the world who suffer from FAD. So what are the ways to be safe from the hazards of FAD? Don’t worry, we’ve done the trouble for you so you won’t have to deal with the problems of FAD? Here below are the eight sure-shot strategies to survive Facebook Addiction Disorder. 8. Fix time to use Facebook and stick to it. This is a tricky as well as effective way to survive Facebook Addiction Disorder. Using Facebook has become important today for var...

Recently, Facebook turned ten years old. Into its ten years from its inception in 2004, Facebook has become the most popular social networking site and the second most used website, just behind Google. It has changed the world over those ten years, some for good and some for bad. In this article, we attempt to present to you the most amazing facts about Facebook, which are quite unusual and rather hard to believe. Below are the ten amazing facts about Facebook, which you probably didn’t know, before reading the article. 1. The reason Facebook is blue is that Mark Zuckerberg is colorblind. The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour-blind. The colour he can see best is blue. This is the reason why colour palette of the Facebook website and mobile app are dominated by blue hue. This has been validated by Zuckerberg himself on several occasions at interviews with newspapers and TVs. 2. The average Facebook user has 130 friends. When The Economist asked in-house sociologi...

If you have your brand on twitter, it’s indeed essential for you to evaluate the value of a follower. So, what are the potential benefits a twitter follower can bring to your brand? A latest official inforgraphic from twitter evaluates, in figures, the benefits your brand/business can enjoy from every twitter follower. The figures are based on aspects of sales , reach and word of mouth . See the full inforgraphic below. What do you think about the figures?