Here are some interesting statistics on the world’s internet usage patters compared to the respective populations. The data is published in March 2008 by Miniwatts Marketing Group. According to the study, Asia has the largest number of Internet Users with 37.6% , followed by Europe with 27.1% & coming in 3rd with 17.5% is North America . The total population of Internet Users across the world is estimated to be about 1,400 million in March 2008.
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CAPTCHA is an abbreviation of C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part, and CAPTCHA is copyrighted by Carnegie Mellon University. Following my previous article CAPTCHA & Intelligent Security - how to use CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA & Audio CAPTCHA here are are few of the new versions of reCaptcha that are already in use.
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If you have used Yahoo! Chat for example, you must have seen this one:
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The user is asked to type …

Wharton organized Business Plan Competition announced the 2008 Venture winner to be Solixia . Brian Smith, the inventor of the technology, & his team mate Irene Susantio earned US $ 20,000 in cash & services. The team is still completing their second year MBA degree & wants to work full time on the Solixia technology in the future. Winning the prestigious Venture Finals helps them to socialize the technology & its potential market to woo financiers.

Ari Balogh, Yahoo! CTO shared his visions of Yahoo! transformation in the coming years at the Web 2.0 Expo held on 25th April 2008. There are so many social problems associated with social media. Apart from the well publicized issues of security, privacy & protection of the minors, the impact is much worse in countries that are still learning to get “social”, that is, electronically.
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While Yahoo! wants to transform Social Media, it joins the fray along with the likes of the already popular networks of MySpace, Facebook & the like. …

The MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) released the guidelines and the best practices for mobile marketers. With advertisers focusing more and more on the mobile users’ market in the coming years, there is this huge need to lay some basic operating procedures. Here is a copy of the MMA Guidelines . Here is a similar guidelines for Interactive Ads (video) from Interactive Advertising Bureau.
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According to a report published by Adweek , web promotions and mobile advertising are going to play a major role in tomorrow’s advertising. Borrell Associates, …

CAPTCHA is an intelligent question-response testing method to separate automated responses from human’s ability to notice and answer intelligently. You may have seen CAPTCHA while logging into Yahoo! Chat Rooms! & in many places where you have to prove that you are a human and not a computer program.
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CAPTCHA is an abbreviation of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, and CAPTCHA is copyrighted by Carnegie Mellon University. It was first used by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie Mellon University) …

There are a few lectures that stick to your mind for good reasons. Because you can easily relate to them. These are stories from someone’s life that does not seem much different from ours. Every moment of the lecture you hear something that has probably happened to you so many times. The fact that someone, just like you and me, have withstood challenges and have come out successful to be one of the best, is remarkable.
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Amy Tan’s profile is very humble. Born to immigrant Chinese parents, she was prepared …

We all know Mena Trott from Six Apart . Back in 2002, she and her husband Ben founded Six Apart blogging platform which now is an international organization. In this brief on TED, Mena Trott goes back to when she first started blogging. It was not the advertising money that she could earn that tempted her. It was her will to write and express about herself and her life to her friends that made her write on DollarShort .

It’s 4 straight hours of Short Films, Live Music and extra ordinary visions shared all across the world on May 10th 2008 , starting at 1800 GMT. The team has made every effort so that you would not miss the event - its available on locations, on TV, on the internet and even on mobile phones. The event will be broadcast live from six locations worldwide: Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Pangea is about transformation. Pangea is about a wish come true. Pangea is about people …

This presentation from Larry Page & Sergey Brin, the co-founders of the multi billion dollars international corporation Google, is from 2004. Though it apparently outdated in terms of the company’s progress and achievements within the subsequent years, it still talks about the fundamental beliefs of the founders of the organization.

This video may not display correctly. So here is the link to the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/28 from the TED website.
The founders talk about how their Montessori background has led to the stead fast growth of the company and has continued …