‘Google is infinite. The Internet can theoretically grow forever, and Google will forever index its infinite growth’ reads a comment on the web. Needless to say, Google has become a intrinsic part of our online journey. From students to professionals rely on the power of google indexes everyday to gain access to the wealth of information available on servers all across the globe.
Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the year 1973, Google has become a brand in itself with its innovative products and technologies providing for most of our online needs. With its headquarters in Mountain View, California it has a massive infrastructure hosting one of the largest and powerful grid computing systems in the world. With more than a dozen data centers in places like Dublin, Ireland; Virginia; and in California and Atlanta, Dalles, Ore etc., By having such a geographically distributed data center, google is able to deliver much faster than its competitors.
Well, now that you learnt some facts about your favorite search engine, lets see if you do really know how to squeeze the juice out of google while using it to search for information. These tips/tricks and operators are used in combination with your regular search term.
Tip 1: Advance Operators
Google advanced operators help refine searches they are included as part of a standard Google query.
intitle : intitle:Samachar would return webpages that contains the word Samachar in the title
inurl : inurl:India would list pages that contains the word India in the URL or webaddress
site : site:rediff.com ganguly would show all references to the word Ganguly within the rediff.com website
filetype : filetype:pdf receipe would retrieve pages with the words receipe in them and with filetype as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat’s portable document format). You could replace pdf with jpg or bmp to retrieve pictures or with doc to get word documents. Yes, avi, mpeg, mpg or mp3 would retrieve video and audio files. Try type:mp3 jennifer lopez (you could also use type instead of filetype)
More at http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
Tip 2: Boolean Operators
You could also combine queries using boolean operators (these are operators that are used to represent natural language terms like AND, OR, NOT etc.,)
Google ignores common terms while it does searches, example a search for Star Wars Episode I will ignore I. Hence to force google to include a term in its search query use the + operator. Example: Googling for Star Wars Episode +I will now run return results with Star Wars Episode I.
To make google search not only for the terms you have entered but also for its synonyms, place a tilde sign ~ sign (~ is normally the key just before the 1 on your keyboard, hold the shift key) immediately infront of your search term.. Example: ~fun will return results that contains fun, humor, jokes etc.,
The OR operator allows you to search for occurrences of either of two search words. Example: tour baguio OR palawan will give tours that are available in either baguio or palawan.
The AND operator forces google to search for pages that contain both the search terms. Example: subic AND snorkeling will fetch information on snorkeling in the subic.
The – operator filters out searches by removing the terms that follow the – sign. Example: aishwarya –rai will filter out all instances of aishwarya rai from your search result.
More at http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
Tip 3: Range Operator
Google also allows you to run a search based on a number range. Example: camera $1000..$3000 will list webpage which talks about cameras in the range of 1000 $ to 3000 $.
Enough of such innocuous operators; lets try something more sinister with google.
Hack 1: Try ext:pdf confidential “for internal use only” will retrieve results that contains PDF files that were supposed to be confidential and marked “for internal use only”.
Hack 2: Try ext:xls buget site:mil will retrieve results from military websites (.mil domain referes to military websites) that talks about budget and is of type excel spreadsheet.
Hack 3: Try index of +mp3 +shakira will present you with the root index of some websites that hosts mp3 files of shakira.
Hack 4: Try VISA 4060000000000000..4060999999999999 used to list VISA credit card numbers within that mentioned range. You would be surprised to see how many merchants are careless with the credit card numbers of their customers. (This query looks to have been blocked for the while)
More powerful and much more evil queries are used by hackers to do reconnaissance to check for websites with security flaws. If a website administrator is not aware of the google style of indexing then he might be exposing content to the world that he might otherwise not want to. Administrators could stop google from crawling certain parts of their website by using a file called as robots.txt which list the directories that google should refrain from crawling.
Happy Googling!
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.A lesson in life is 2......................1.learn 2 Care2.Learn 2 Love3.Learn 2 Smile4.Learn 2 Cry5.Learn 2 Give6.Learn 2 4Give7.Learn 2 Share8.Learn Trust9.Learn 2 Beleive10.Life is a good thing 2 have,use it wisely.TO ALL MY BROTHER & SISTER ONE LOVE KEEPS US 2GETHER.
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Posted by Egbes Ogbeide on December 2, 2008 at 9:42am
FacebookWith friends like these ...Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking siteTom Hodgkinson The Guardian, Monday January 14 2008 larger | smaller Article historyThe following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations.Facebook appeals to a kind of vanity and self-importance in us, too. If I put up a flattering picture of myself with a list of my favourite things, I can construct an artificial representation of who I am in order to get sex or approval. ("I like Facebook," said another friend. "I got a shag out of it.") It also encourages a disturbing competitivness around friendship: it seems that with friends today, quality counts for nothing and quantity is king. The more friends you have, the better you are. You are "popular", in the sense much loved in American high schools. Witness the cover line on Dennis Publishing's new Facebook magazine: "How To Double Your Friends List."It seems, though, that I am very much alone in my hostility. At the time of writing Facebook claims 59 million active users, including 7 million in the UK, Facebook's third-biggest customer after the US and Canada. That's 59 million suckers, all of whom have volunteered their ID card information and consumer preferences to an American business they know nothing about. Right now, 2 million new people join each week. At the present rate of growth, Facebook will have more than 200 million active users by this time next year. And I would predict that, if anything, its rate of growth will accelerate over the coming months. As its spokesman Chris Hughes says: "It's embedded itself to an extent where it's hard to get rid of."All of the above would have been enough to make me reject Facebook for ever. But there are more reasons to hate it. Many more.Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like PayPal before it, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative libertarianism. On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands. As with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of the past.Although the project was initially conceived by media cover star Mark Zuckerberg, the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel. There are only three board members on Facebook, and they are Thiel, Zuckerberg and a third investor called Jim Breyer from a venture capital firm called Accel Partners (more on him later). Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook when Harvard students Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz went to meet him in San Francisco in June 2004, soon after they had launched the site. Thiel now reportedly owns 7% of Facebook, which, at Facebook's current valuation of $15bn, would be worth more than $1bn. There is much debate on who exactly were the original co-founders of Facebook, but whoever they were, Zuckerberg is the only one left on the board, although Hughes and Moskowitz still work for the company.Thiel is widely regarded in Silicon Valley and in the US venture capital scene as a libertarian genius. He is the co-founder and CEO of the virtual banking system PayPal, which he sold to Ebay for $1.5bn, taking $55m for himself. He also runs a £3bn hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management and a venture capital fund called Founders Fund. Bloomberg Markets magazine recently called him "one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the country". He has made money by betting on rising oil prices and by correctly predicting that the dollar would weaken. He and his absurdly wealthy Silicon Valley mates have recently been labelled "The PayPal Mafia" by Fortune magazine, whose reporter also observed that Thiel has a uniformed butler and a $500,000 McLaren supercar. Thiel is also a chess master and intensely competitive. He has been known to sweep the chessmen off the table in a fury when losing. And he does not apologise for this hyper-competitveness, saying: "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."But Thiel is more than just a clever and avaricious capitalist. He is a futurist philosopher and neocon activist. A philosophy graduate from Stanford, in 1998 he co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth, which is a detailed attack on liberalism and the multiculturalist ideology that dominated Stanford. He claimed that the "multiculture" led to a lessening of individual freedoms. While a student at Stanford, Thiel founded a rightwing journal, still up and running, called The Stanford Review - motto: Fiat Lux ("Let there be light"). Thiel is a member of TheVanguard.Org, an internet-based neoconservative pressure group that was set up to attack MoveOn.org, a liberal pressure group that works on the web. Thiel calls himself "way libertarian".TheVanguard is run by one Rod D Martin, a philosopher-capitalist whom Thiel greatly admires. On the site, Thiel says: "Rod is one of our nation's leading minds in the creation of new and needed ideas for public policy. He possesses a more complete understanding of America than most executives have of their own businesses."This little taster from their website will give you an idea of their vision for the world: "TheVanguard.Org is an online community of Americans who believe in conservative values, the free market and limited government as the best means to bring hope and ever-increasing opportunity to everyone, especially the poorest among us." Their aim is to promote policies that will "reshape America and the globe". TheVanguard describes its politics as "Reaganite/Thatcherite". The chairman's message says: "Today we'll teach MoveOn [the liberal website], Hillary and the leftwing media some lessons they never imagined."So, Thiel's politics are not in doubt. What about his philosophy? I listened to a podcast of an address Thiel gave about his ideas for the future. His philosophy, briefly, is this: since the 17th century, certain enlightened thinkers have been taking the world away from the old-fashioned nature-bound life, and here he quotes Thomas Hobbes' famous characterisation of life as "nasty, brutish and short", and towards a new virtual world where we have conquered nature. Value now exists in imaginary things. Thiel says that PayPal was motivated by this belief: that you can find value not in real manufactured objects, but in the relations between human beings. PayPal was a way of moving money around the world with no restriction. Bloomberg Markets puts it like this: "For Thiel, PayPal was all about freedom: it would enable people to skirt currency controls and move money around the globe."Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries - and then sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.Photo: Tim Boyle/GettyThiel's philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire. Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection. The theory would also seem to be proved correct in the case of Thiel's virtual worlds: the desired object is irrelevant; all you need to know is that human beings will tend to move in flocks. Hence financial bubbles. Hence the enormous popularity of Facebook. Girard is a regular at Thiel's intellectual soirees. What you don't hear about in Thiel's philosophy, by the way, are old-fashioned real-world concepts such as art, beauty, love, pleasure and truth.The internet is immensely appealing to neocons such as Thiel because it promises a certain sort of freedom in human relations and in business, freedom from pesky national laws, national boundaries and suchlike. The internet opens up a world of free trade and laissez-faire expansion. Thiel also seems to approve of offshore tax havens, and claims that 40% of the world's wealth resides in places such as Vanuatu, the Cayman Islands, Monaco and Barbados. I think it's fair to say that Thiel, like Rupert Murdoch, is against tax. He also likes the globalisation of digital culture because it makes the banking overlords hard to attack: "You can't have a workers' revolution to take over a bank if the bank is in Vanuatu," he says.If life in the past was nasty, brutish and short, then in the future Thiel wants to make it much longer, and to this end he has also invested in a firm that is exploring life-extension technologies. He has pledged £3.5m to a Cambridge-based gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey, who is searching for the key to immortality. Thiel is also on the board of advisers of something called the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. From its fantastical website, the following: "The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies ... heading in this direction ... Artificial Intelligence ... direct brain-computer interfaces ... genetic engineering ... different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence."So by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls "nature", and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.The third board member of Facebook is Jim Breyer. He is a partner in the venture capital firm Accel Partners, who put $12.7m into Facebook in April 2005. On the board of such US giants as Wal-Mart and Marvel Entertainment, he is also a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Now these are the people who are really making things happen in America, because they invest in the new young talent, the Zuckerbergs and the like. Facebook's most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, who put in the sum of $27.5m. One of Greylock's senior partners is called Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What's In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA. After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which "identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions".The US defence department and the CIA love technology because it makes spying easier. "We need to find new ways to deter new adversaries," defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in 2003. "We need to make the leap into the information age, which is the critical foundation of our transformation efforts." In-Q-Tel's first chairman was Gilman Louie, who served on the board of the NVCA with Breyer. Another key figure in the In-Q-Tel team is Anita K Jones, former director of defence research and engineering for the US department of defence, and - with Breyer - board member of BBN Technologies. When she left the US department of defence, Senator Chuck Robb paid her the following tribute: "She brought the technology and operational military communities together to design detailed plans to sustain US dominance on the battlefield into the next century."Now even if you don't buy the idea that Facebook is some kind of extension of the American imperialist programme crossed with a massive information-gathering tool, there is no way of denying that as a business, it is pure mega-genius. Some net nerds have suggsted that its $15bn valuation is excessive, but I would argue that if anything that is too modest. Its scale really is dizzying, and the potential for growth is virtually limitless. "We want everyone to be able to use Facebook," says the impersonal voice of Big Brother on the website. I'll bet they do. It is Facebook's enormous potential that led Microsoft to buy 1.6% for $240m. A recent rumour says that Asian investor Lee Ka-Shing, said to be the ninth richest man in the world, has bought 0.4% of Facebook for $60m.The creators of the site need do very little bar fiddle with the programme. In the main, they simply sit back and watch as millions of Facebook addicts voluntarily upload their ID details, photographs and lists of their favourite consumer objects. Once in receipt of this vast database of human beings, Facebook then simply has to sell the information back to advertisers, or, as Zuckerberg puts it in a recent blog post, "to try to help people share information with their friends about things they do on the web". And indeed, this is precisely what's happening. On November 6 last year, Facebook announced that 12 global brands had climbed on board. They included Coca-Cola, Blockbuster, Verizon, Sony Pictures and Condé Nast. All trained in marketing bullshit of the highest order, their representatives made excited comments along the following lines:"With Facebook Ads, our brands can become a part of the way users communicate and interact on Facebook," said Carol Kruse, vice president, global interactive marketing, the Coca-Cola Company."We view this as an innovative way to cultivate relationships with millions of Facebook users by enabling them to interact with Blockbuster in convenient, relevant and entertaining ways," said Jim Keyes, Blockbuster chairman and CEO. "This is beyond creating advertising impressions. This is about Blockbuster participating in the community of the consumer so that, in return, consumers feel motivated to share the benefits of our brand with their friends.""Share" is Facebookspeak for "advertise". Sign up to Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advert for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends. We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships.Now, by comparision with Facebook, newspapers, for example, begin to look hopelessly outdated as a business model. A newspaper sells advertising space to businesses looking to sell stuff to their readers. But the system is far less sophisticated than Facebook for two reasons. One is that newspapers have to put up with the irksome expense of paying journalists to provide the content. Facebook gets its content for free. The other is that Facebook can target advertising with far greater precision than a newspaper. Admit on Facebook that your favourite film is This Is Spinal Tap, and when a Spinal Tap-esque movie comes out, you can be sure that they'll be sending ads your way.Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP)It's true that Facebook recently got into hot water with its Beacon advertising programme. Users were notified that one of their friends had made a purchase at certain online shops; 46,000 users felt that this level of advertising was intrusive, and signed a petition called "Facebook! Stop invading my privacy!" to say so. Zuckerberg apologised on his company blog. He has written that they have now changed the system from "opt-out" to "opt-in". But I suspect that this little rebellion about being so ruthlessly commodified will soon be forgotten: after all, there was a national outcry by the civil liberties movement when the idea of a police force was mooted in the UK in the mid 19th century.Futhermore, have you Facebook users ever actually read the privacy policy? It tells you that you don't have much privacy. Facebook pretends to be about freedom, but isn't it really more like an ideologically motivated virtual totalitarian regime with a population that will very soon exceed the UK's? Thiel and the rest have created their own country, a country of consumers.Now, you may, like Thiel and the other new masters of the cyberverse, find this social experiment tremendously exciting. Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of the 17th century sailed away to North America, a world where everyone is free to express themselves as they please, according to who is watching. National boundaries are a thing of the past and everyone cavorts together in freewheeling virtual space. Nature has been conquered through man's boundless ingenuity. Yes, and you may decide to send genius investor Thiel all your money, and certainly you'll be waiting impatiently for the public flotation of the unstoppable Facebook.Or you might reflect that you don't really want to be part of this heavily-funded programme to create an arid global virtual republic, where your own self and your relationships with your friends are converted into commodites on sale to giant global brands. You may decide that you don't want to be part of this takeover bid for the world.For my own part, I am going to retreat from the whole thing, remain as unplugged as possible, and spend the time I save by not going on Facebook doing something useful, such as reading books. Why would I want to waste my time on Facebook when I still haven't read Keats' Endymion? And when there are seeds to be sown in my own back yard? I don't want to retreat from nature, I want to reconnect with it. Damn air-conditioning! And if I want to connect with the people around me, I will revert to an old piece of technology. It's free, it's easy and it delivers a uniquely individual experience in sharing information: it's called talking.Facebook's privacy policyJust for fun, try substituting the words 'Big Brother' whenever you read the word 'Facebook'1 We will advertise at you"When you use Facebook, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalised features."2 You can't delete anything"When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information."3 Anyone can glance at your intimate confessions"... we cannot and do not guarantee that user content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorised persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your user content."4 Our marketing profile of you will be unbeatable"Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (eg, photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience."5 Opting out doesn't mean opting out"Facebook reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications."6 The CIA may look at the stuff when they feel like it"By using Facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States ... We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Facebook service or using the Facebook name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies."
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Posted by Kola Adebayo on December 1, 2008 at 6:09am
When Gallas made his statement of "no fighting spirit", itbecame a subject of controversy for all that cares aboutArsenal.In fact, it became the most talked about in the premiership.As a result, he lost his captainship and got banned fromplaying the then up-coming match against Man City whichwas lost.Now, was Gallant not right?While i don't support the outburst in public, he said the fact.Just take another look at Arsenal's performance against thebig teams and compare it to that of the small teams.Best performance to the big teams and unpredictable one forthe small ones.Honestly, if they play against every other teams like they didagainst Man U and Chelsea, we will see a new premiership.Is the Old captain RIGHT OR NOT?Your opinions???
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the hustle was already slingin.from little lies to litle taps to little liftings to robbing with guns to cultism to YAHOO to SPIRITUAL YAHOO HUSTLES to full time SPIRITUAL HUSTLE.ITS CRAZY OUT HIA so now we also gonna be rapping bout ''how many heads i had to cut off to get ma money rite'' ''ow much the ritualist take to get heads coughing money''.i feel so sad, i just cant shed tears cos things are gettin really complicated out hia.truth is nobody can stop the hustle.its only instincts
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check this,it all started from some silly lies to some silly stunt stealing to robbin with pen knives to robbing wif guns to hostage taking for a ransome to sellin weed to selling cocaine to shippin and flying it to running for councilor to runing for house to running for govanor to running for president.thats the tussle
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culture must evolve and transform.take it or leave it the western culture will and must eat up the smaller or cultures in minority.theres nothing you cando about it no matter the amount of campainin and ''be african motivations''.my advice is that we should all chill out and make the best out of the takeover or evolution.truth is our culturte aint even adding no influence not even in the entertainment world except for the tarzan kinda image they keep portray and when try to spit our guts out,we do it thier way.even God has made nit this way so why be so defencing.its so obvious and easy to see.they make you wear suits all week then they tell you to put on ur natives only on fridays.music is a total takeover,THE WEST HAS WON NO DOUBT.i accept the defeat,it was unstoppable
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what ever you do never be impartial, to the ones you love, your heart and most of all those you do not know. Be good and make an impact in life.
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Friendship isn't always easily described. The Eskimos, they say, have a hundred different words for snow. Unfortunately, the English language isn't quite as innovative, though it has vast opportunities to differentiate meaning. Certainly, Love is one of those opportunities. And so, too, is Friendship.Instead of different words, however, we're stuck with simple adjectives. Close friend. Best friend. Childhood friend. Intimate friend. Trusted friend. Beloved friend. But whether you use adjectives or different words, few could deny the nearly infinite meaning in such a simple word.Friends are special people. We can't pick our family, and we're sorely limited in the number of them at any rate. Society and mores (and often our own conscience) dictate we select a single mate. But our friends can be as diverse and infinite as the adjectives we choose. Our friends, in a very real sense, reflect the choices we make in life.
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Posted by 9jabook.com on November 25, 2008 at 5:51am
Nigerian Acts Win Big At MTV Africa Music Awards
November 24, 2008 - Global
By Diane Coetzer, Abuja
The first-ever MTV Africa Music Awards held in Abuja, Nigeria delivered a heavily Afro-centric show and winners' list that has been welcomed by the continent's industry.
"The fact that the performances that really stole the show were African collaborations and the dominance of African winners in all categories speaks volumes about how African music is value by the fans here," said Lance Stehr, owner of the Johannesburg-based Ghetto Ruff label whose Afro-crunk act Jozi took honours in the best live performer category.
Jozi had also performed in front of a crowd at Abuja's Velodrome with Nigeria's R&B duo P-Square, who were named best group winners on the night.
Debbie Phillips, television producer of several MTV EMAs, said the collaborations between different African artists had been some of the most successful at an MTV awards event to date.
Nigerian folk-pop singer Asa's teaming up with South African hip-hop star HHP, during the former's song “Jailer” (Naïve) was a highlight as was South African indie-rock act Cassette's collaboration with Kenyan hip-hop star Jua Cali and Nigerian acts Naeto C and Ikechukwu.
The home crowd had given all the Nigerian performers - including Asa and rapper 9ice - a rousing reception. Nigerian artists snagged six of the 10 public-voted awards.
D'Banj, a singer and songwriter whose music is inspired by Nigeria's AfroBeat tradition, took home three MAMAs: artist of the year and best male as well as listeners’ choice for his song “Why Me.” The award was designed to acknowledge the significant role played by radio in Africa.
Fellow Nigerian rapper Naeto C won best new act, while 9ice won the best hip-hop award.
The Nov. 22 show also featured a moving tribute to Nigerian Fela Kuti whose children, Seun and Yemi accepted the MAMA legend award given to the late Afrobeat innovator. Seun Kuti had provided a suitably African show opener when he performed his father's song “Army Arrangement,” supported by Fela's own legendary backing band, Egypt 80.
At a press conference the day before, Seun Kuti had spoken about the difficulty of getting a label deal in his home country. "I would love to release here in Nigeria but there is no label industry to speak of which is why being part of the MAMAs is really special to me," Kuti told Billboard. His “Many Things” is released on the French-label Tot ou Tard.
The best female gong went to Kenyan singer Wahu who dedicated the award to her husband, the artist Nameless. Nigeria's Ikechukwu won the best video MAMA for his song “Wind Am Well.”
The sole international artist to feature on the gong tally was best R&B winner Alicia Keys, who accepted her award via a video speech. U.S.-based South African rock band Seether also videoed in their thanks for their best alternative gong.
The Game, Flo-Rida and Kelly Rowland were the international performers with Rowland including a collaboration with multi-MAMA winner D'Banj for the closing number of the show. The host was BBC 1Xtra's Trevor Nelson.
The inaugural MAMAs were not broadcast live. The show broadcasts on MTV base on South African-based, pan-Africa satellite bouquet DSTV as well partner networks and terrestrial channels STV (Nigeria), AIT (Nigeria), NTV (Kenya), WBS (Uganda), TV3 (Ghana), TBC (Tanzania) and RTGA (Democratic Republic of the Congo) from Nov. 29.
Alex Okosi, the Nigerian-born VP and general manager of MTV Networks Africa, would not reveal where the second MAMAs will take place in 2009 although there is much speculation around the East African country of Kenya.
He also stayed silent on the investment made by sponsor Zain, a major cellular network operator. "They have signed a three-year deal with us and we are very grateful for that," Okosi said. Insiders put the sponsorship at well over $10 million for the MAMAs package, which also included several “Road To MAMA” concerts featuring The Game and local acts in the DRC, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria.
MAMA winners:
BEST FEMALE
Wahu (Kenya)
BEST MALE
D'Banj (Nigeria)
BEST LIVE PERFORMER
Jozi (South Africa)
BEST GROUP
P Square (Nigeria)
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Seether (South Africa)
BEST HIP-HOP
9ice (Nigeria)
BEST R&B
Alicia Keys (USA)
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
D'Banj (Nigeria)
BEST NEW ACT
Naeto C (Nigeria)
BEST VIDEO
Ikechukwu (Nigeria) - Wind Am Well
LISTENERS’ CHOICE AWARD
D'Banj (Nigeria) – “Why Me”
MAMAs LEGEND
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
MY VIDEO
Jide Rotilu
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than through the internet.We
are collaborating with students,workers,the unemployed,internet
bloggers,musicians and people from
all works of life to bring an internet virtual presence that will
affect our daily physical lives
for the better.We are proud to be 9ja, like 9ice said, this is
strictly "out of 9ja straight from
9ja " It is the most incredible thing we can give the world and that
9ja credibility will be ours
one day .YES WE FIT !
headline 9jaNews from http://www.9janews.com:
where we find news from 9ja bloggers in the diaspora
and discuss issues to wake our dear president yaradua up ! contrary to
what the SSS thinks we know
it is not easy to rule a country like 9ja :
Uzoma Okere is back in hospital !
http://www.9janews.com/tech/framed/uzoma-Okere-back-in-hospital-
Nig.eria seeks 500million dollars for another satellite !
http://www.9janews.com/tech/framed/nigeria-Seeks-500m-Loan-to-Build-New-S
post your underground gist and discuss and much much more .
ps: Internet bloggers recently arrested by the SSS like Emeka Asiwe ,
jonathan elendu have been
freed
but latest news tells us Asiwe has not been allowed to leave 9ja !
haba,shuo ! If Fela was alive na
only God know wetin e go call this democracy of craze !
Have a great weekend.
out of 9ja !
Straight from 9ja
complement your facebook ,hi5,myspace experience.
join 9jabook.com.
9jabook team .
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Posted by 9jabook.com on November 21, 2008 at 8:21am
1. Write something great about your niche and email other bloggers to let them know – there’s a good chance they’ll link to you
2. Have a signature link in forums that points to your site
3. Post links to your pages to social bookmarking sites.
4. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip: look in the digg upcoming section for blog posts about to get a lot of traffic).
5. Have the opposite opinion on everyone else on a popular topic. Everyone will link to you saying your wrong
6. Create free profiles on 9jabookSocial Networks like this one and others like Sta.rtUp.biz
7. Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature
8. Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage – no point losing visitors
9. Have an opt-in form – trade links with someone else who has an opt in form on your confirmation page
10. Review a product or company – if your review is positive email the company and ask to be featured in their press section. (this has worked really well for me)
11. Write articles and submit them to article directories
12. Write a Press Release and submit it to PRWeb (make sure it is newsworthy)
13. Use PayPerClick Traffic (e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM)
14. Add an RSS subscribe button/link in a high profile spot on your site
15. Add a mailing list subscribe form in a high profile spot on your site
16. Add a bookmark this site link in a high profile spot on your site
17. Use a Tell A Friend Script on your site so people can email their friend about an article on your website.
18. Submit a blog to a blog directory
19. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories
20. Mention your website in a post on Craigslist (don’t spam)
21. Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for
22. Buy links to your site
23. Buy reviews about your site on other people’s site
24. Buy banner space on other websites if you can get a good ROI
25. Send articles to ezine publishers with a link back to your website
26. Do a big viral push for a piece of link bait, post it in forums, social bookmarking sites like digg, email bloggers, and get a few people to vote for you on social bookmarking sites.
27. Have a link to your site on community sites like MySpace and FaceBook
28. Use a traffic trading system like BlogRush
29. Purchase misspellings of competitors domains and redirect your site (be careful of trademark infringement)
30. Create a freebie product to give away (ebook, software, whitepaper etc.)
31. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories – use the viles-silencer list
32. Do a group feature where you get other website owners in your niche to participate – maybe asking them all an opinion on something.
33. Hold a competition for the Top 50 in your niche – 1 month later post the results and let everyone know who featured – watch them link back to say what there position was.
34. Pass out business cards when you go to industry events in your niche
35. If you have a product start an affiliate program and start approaching affiliates
36. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Include a link in the description and within the actual video.
37. If you have a product send it to website owners to get reviewed.
38. Look at a big website within your niche and ask to write some guest posts for them
39. Create pages with links to your site on places like Squidoo and Hubpages
40. Place classified Ads on eBay with a link to your website
41. Use an autoresponder on your mailing list to keep people coming back to your site
42. Exchange links with a few related sites in your niche
43. Network! Email other site owners, phone them up, go to industry events and get yourself known. If they know your face they will likely talk about you on their site if you do something interesting.
44. Many forums have a place for you to advertise your site once – find them and do it.
45. Purchase advertising in other people’s mailing lists and newsletters
46. Create an Amazon profile and start submitting reviews
47. Create profiles on MySpace and start networking in groups that are interested in your site’s niche.
48. Conduct a survey and publish the results – make sure you let people know about it.
49. Get your hand on a load of PLR content for your niche. Add a commentary to the top, create a unique title, and post them all to your site – lots of new content and lots of new traffic.
50. Create a cartoon mascot for your site – then hold a competition for someone to create the best game for it – pay the winner a decent amount.
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Posted by 9jabook.com on November 21, 2008 at 8:02am
Hi all, "Now the conversation seems right "(reply to a debate about chatting out of sync by Homer Simpsons alter ego from the life of Brian recut)
The Revolution has begun.
The United States of Nigeria Join us
http://www.9jabook.com
Why Nigerians need another President . The need for a Nigerian Internet President.
The options available to a population where existence has become more of an evolutionary procedure totally disparate from the creationist views will allow us to envisage an utopia of human beings in a world of their own .(goto secondlife.com)
Technology in itself has created a barreness within societies where mobile phones might necessarily still be an anomaly within its hinterlands whilst the proposal by a scion from this supposed dark continent has initiated the next consciousness (The downloading of the Human Brain on the Internet see Prof Emeagwali's paper )
In a Society bereft of any morals attuned towards justice and the right of every man, woman and child to raise their head up high The need for this utopia must necessarily arise .
Hence the request for a leader to coagulate us. Like milk within a womans bosom and hence feed the hungry mouths drooling for sustenance .
This is the reason for the Internet President of Nigeria .The need for A Nigeria on the internet hence the United States of Nigeria.
"i never kid myself about life the only thing i kid myself with is living not even death" excerpt from Franks article God is not a Woman i dont think he is a man either .
Sounds a bit darkish but heck b4 light there was darkness or maybe there was always light (get it ! Lol)
want more email us !
9jabook@gmail.com
The United States of Nigeria ProjeKt
The Revolution has begun.
Join us
http://www.9jabook.com
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My relationship was not good because there was no trust and we fought a lot. My boyfriend cheated on me and lied to me.I gave forgiveness to myself because I realized that it wasn't my fault that my boyfriend was playing around on me and lying to me constantly. I broke up with him and moved on. Praying For a Rainbow by Rebecca Walkins Randle was the LovePoetry poem that helped me through the pain because I found a rainbow inside of myself.As a result of my decision to break up with him and forgive myself, I got closer to my family and got a new boyfriend who treats me like an angel! I think I reacted wisely because if I hadn't broken up with him, I wouldn't be with my boyfriend right now. I would still be sad and depressed and my boyfriend now is also my rainbow.If you are in a bad relationship, don't stay in it. Get help and find your rainbow!
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David and I were best friends. He was the only person who could put a smile on my face, no matter how upset I was. All the girls I knew had a crush on him and it was me he would always go looking for. It was a good feeling. I always used to think of him as, like a brother figure 'cause I loved him so much and would do anything 4 him. I couldn't imagine ever being with him though, it just wasn't an option. After a while, that began to change. I started feeling things I wish I never did. I tried to hide it... I tried to act like his "lil sista'" but it didn't work for long and it started to show. It turned out he was interested in me too, so we hooked up a few times. I knew he had 2 kids, but I thought he was broken up with the mother. It turned out that he wasn't and she found out and started causing so much trouble for me. I didn't know what to do- I was in love with him and now I was being told he was out of bounds. So I tried to stay away and it worked for awhile and then they really did break up so I was the first person there. That was a mistake. We started seeing each otha' and I have neva' been happier than the way I was at that time.I should of known that it was too good to be true because about 2 months into seeing him he started getting really funny with me. I didn't understand. One minute he says all things sweet and the next he is telling me he doesn't want anything to do with me. It tore me apart and then I found out why. He had gotten back with her, all without me knowing. I didn't know if she knew about me and was bein' spiteful or whether he was playing the both of us, but I can honestly say that the tears I have cried for him will never amount to anything.I realize he loves her but he always told me he was only with her for the kids, that she would take them away from him and, stupid me believed him. I was blinded by the love I had for him, the love I still do have for him. He was perfect in my eyes and only now are my so-called friends telling me that I wasn't the only person he was running around with at the time... that, in fact he was seeing quite a few girls, some I thought of as friends.There were so many poems on LovePoetry.com that helped me out, but Falling in Love With a Player by Lindsey Nicole Milke was probably one of the more accurate ones. I realize I did the wrong thing, knowing there was still a connection with his "ex," but I believed him when he said it was over. I was so dumb and I regret hurting her and bringing all this pain upon myself too.I stayed home for a while because every time I went out, I saw him and I knew I would get weak and let him control me again. Then, one night I wanted to go out so I went somewhere I NEVER thought he would be and he was there. He had me... hook, line and sinker and I went home with him. Then the cycle started again. I decided to move to the city 'cause then I was opening my choices up AND getting away from him. A week before I left, I went out to say goodbye to everyone and I saw him. I told him I was moving and he got really upset and said to me, "Just remember that I will always love you, no matter what anybody says." I could have died. I felt like bawling my eyes out but I stayed strong and before he could try 'n' be wit' me, I went home. I felt proud.I haven't seen him since, but there isn't a minute in any day that I don't think about him and wonder what he's doing. My friend called me up last night and told me he is broken up wit' his babies' mama and she took his clothes to his mothers house 'n' told him she is with someone else. That would be hurting him and I wish I could be there for him but the fact is, she will always be there in his life so I just can't do it to myself anymore. I love him more than anything and I guess I always will, but I need to move on.If u know there is someone else in the picture somewhere, then make sure it is over before pursuing anything more. Don't ever just be like, "Well, he said they aren't together, so they musn't be." That may be one of the biggest mistakes u will ever make.SuicideDivorceLove TriangleLove And DeathForgivenessUnwelcome LoveLove And FamilyBreaking UpLove At A DistanceAdvertising | Privacy Statement | Investment Opportunities
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Friendships come and Friendships goLike wave upon the sandLike day and nightLike birds in flightLike snowflakes when they landBut you and I are something elseOur friendship's here to stayLike weeds and rocks and dirty socksIt never goes away!
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