Finally Google is going to introduce one good way to monetize YouTube, the world’s number one video website. Now you will find a type of e-commerce ad that we can click to buy digital goods from Apple’s iTunes or Amazon.com. Actually there will be a click-to-buy links to its popular YouTube video-sharing service, letting customers purchase songs and games. That link will take users to online stores such as Apple’s iTunes or Amazon.com. At present this service is available in US only. In order to gain more money from YouTube Google has also future plans to inserts text and image ads inside youtube videos.

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This is really a bad news for all the fans of Sourav Ganguly that he is to retire after test series with Australia. For last 12 years the trio of Sourav, Sachin and Dravid dominated the world cricket. Now one of the main pillars of Indian cricket will leave it and become history. At a press conference in Bangalore he said “This will be my last series, Before coming here I spoke to my team-mates and hopefully I will go out with a winning knock”. He is India’s most successful test captain, with India winning 21 of 49 tests played under his captaincy. He also led India into the 2003 World Cup finals. He is considered as one of the most aggressive captains of his time. Ganguly is also credited with having nurtured the careers of many young players who played under him. He is affectionately famous as ”Dada” amongst his fans and team-mates.
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Today one of my friends told me that he has lost 45,000 thousand rupees in share market. He also said that now he will not invest in share market. I told him that this situation is just temporary, soon market will recover and sensex will touch new heights. But frankly speaking, I am also not confident when this will happen? I know you are restless to know how my friend lost 45k rupees in just one day. Actually today Indian equities witnessed one of the worst trading sessions in the history of Indian share market as Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex closed at 11,847.06, down 5.42 per cent or 679.26 points.

Whereas, National Stock Exchange’s Nifty ended at 3,623.25, down 195.05 points or 5.11 per cent. Meanwhile, most of the asian markets like Hang Seng, Nikkei, Straits Times, Shanghai Composite and Seoul Composite indices ended with losses in the range of 4-6% each. Biggest loser companies are Sterlite, Tata Steel, Grasim, Reliance, Ranbaxy, Wipro, TCS, Satyam, L&T, HDFC bank, Tata Motors, ITC, BHEL, Tata Power, DLF etc. Even some experts are saying the Bombay Stock Exchange will crash below 10,000 mark.
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So guys Indian Idol is back in action with its fourth season. It is basically a singing talent contest to determine the best undiscovered young singer in India. It is based on the international Idol series format, launched by UK show Pop Idol and then adapted by American Idol: The Search for a Superstar which is an American reality-competition show airing on Fox. Indian Idol airs on saturdays and sundays at prime-time: the saturday show features an hour of performances while the sunday show features an elimination. The show is produced and broadcast on Sony TV, India and is co-produced with FremantleMedia which is owned by the German media corporation Bertelsmann.

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Salman, the most sensational star of Indian film industry is famous for his half a dozen girlfriends. He enjoyed very close relationships with Aishwarya Rai, Somy Ali and Sangeeta Bijlani. His turbulent relationship with actress Aishwarya Rai attracted good attention from media. After their break-up in March 2002, Aishwarya Rai accused Salman of harassing her and using abusive language during phone calls.  Still he is Bollywood’s most eligible bachelor. Now he is dating model turned actress Katrina Kaif since 2003. Recently I found a video on YouTube regarding Salman Khan’s Colourful history of Girlfriends. I hope you will enjoy this video.

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According to NewYork Times, Chetan Bhagat has become India’s biggest selling English Language novelist in India’s history. Uptill now, he has written three novels, Five Points Someone, One night at call centre and the three mistakes of my life. Today I will talk about the third novel as I have just completed it. It is a story about business, cricket and religion. Actually in his first two novels, Chetan has concentrated on metros i.e lifestyle of big cities. In this novel, for the first time Chetan is looking into second tier cities like Ahmedabad. So this story is about the friendship and business partnership of three friends, Govind, Ish and Omi. First of all Govind dreamt of starting a business. After the help of his friends, he got success in opening a cricket shop near the town temple. But soon they realized that running a new business in a small city is very difficult especially when you are inexperienced, have lesser money and love affairs. They face religious politics and natural calamities.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party also known as BJP was founded in 1980. It is a major political party of India. The party has a strong relation with the Sangh Parivar, in which the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh plays a leading role. Whereas Indian National Congress also known as Congress Party is the oldest political party of India. It played pivotal role in Indian freedom movement. After independence in 1947, it became the nation’s dominant political party, challenged for leadership only in more recent decades. Hold on, I have no interest in telling you the complete boring history of both parties. Actually today I am going to show you the basic but funny difference between those two largest parties of India.
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So the Mumbaiya film makers are experimenting with super heroes. After the success of Hrithik Roshan as Krish, Goldie Behl one of the good friends of Abhishek got the idea to make a new super hero sort of movie with Abhishek. The idea was perfect, but the theme was complete copy paste. So the result is out. Drona is on the verge of becoming one of the biggest flops of the year 2008. Abhishek Bachchan is certainly a good actor but is not a right choice for super heores sort of films. Actually he completely lacks the charm and grace of a super hero.

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Today is Gandhi Jayanti. So I have decided to tell you 10 interesting things about Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the most important political figure of modern India. He was the chief leader of India in its independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is known as Mahatma, the holy spirit. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation, even his birthday, 2 October, is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Today I will tell you 10 interesting things that we should know about Gandhi. So here comes the list.

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YouTube is no doubt, the most popular video website on internet. But have you ever thought who is the most popular user on YouTube. Today I have come with the answer of this question. So the most popular YouTube user is universalmusicgroup with around 449,000 subscribers and 16,103,626 channel views. Universal Music Group consists of record labels Decca Music Group, Deutsche Grammophon, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Geffen Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Music Latino, Universal Motown Records Group, Universal South Records and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world.

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According to latest corruption report released by global watchdog Transparency International, Somalia is the most corrupt nation in the world. The report has been prepared on the basis of surveys conducted in 180 countries by 13 international agencies associated with Transparency International. Somalia has not any central government since 1991 so the whole country is in the grip of violence, corruption and anarchy. Somalia is followed by Myanmar, Iraq and Haiti and Afghanistan. Whereas corruption in India has increased in last two years as position of India has increased from 72 to 85 in the list of world’s corrupt countries.

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Kashmir is considered as heaven on earth. Yeah, it is right. But for India it is more than a hell. It is one of the root causes of most of the militant activities in India. There are many special privileges given to this state by the Government of India and all due to article 370. It was one of the biggest mistakes the then Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Today we will discuss the pros and cons of this article on Indian republic. By the way Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India and is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. It shares a border with the People’s Republic of China to the north-east , the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south, Pakistani province of Punjab to the south-west and North western frontier province to north west.

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So this time it’s Yahoo. World’s most popular web portal Yahoo.com is all set to change the design of its home page. The new home page is under testing phase. This time, the aim behind this change is to include more and more third party content on the home page. For example, after this change Yahoo visitors will be able to check e-mail from multiple accounts, including Gmail and AOL Mail. Moreover, outside developers will be able to put their own applications on the new Yahoo home page. Even the color of the Yahoo logo on the top of the page will be changed from red to purple.

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In one of the recent bollywood film Bachna Ae Haseeno, the protagonist Ranbir Kapoor played the role a game developer. From there I got the idea to find more on status of gaming industry in India. Our children and young generation love to play computer and video games. But there are many people who convert their this hobby into profession. There are plenty of opportunities in the gaming industry. There are jobs like game designer, graphic designer, programmers, testers etc. Technical institutes like IIT, NSD, NASSCOM etc. are offering gaming courses. Due to companies like Zapak, Games2win, Microsoft, Sony and EA, there has been a huge increase in awareness about computer games.

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An unknown hacker has claimed that he has cracked the restricted zone of the web site of Fox news commentator Bill O’Reilly. He accessed the subscriber list of the website which includes their names, e-mail addresses, city and state, and the password they use for their registration to the site. The hacker has also sent WikiLeaks.com a screen shot of O’Reilly’s subscriber list as proof of this successful hacking attempt, which WikiLeaks has posted online. William James O’Reilly, Jr. is an American television/radio host, author, syndicated columnist, and self-proclaimed “traditionalist” political commentator. He is also the host of a famous cable news program The O’Reilly Factor.

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