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Miley Cyrus Quits Twitter, Sings Rap Song!

QuickOnlineTips — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:14 +0000

As more celebrities join Twitter everyday, Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus decided to quit Twitter, but she did it in style and made a rap song to tell her fans why!

If you hear the Miley Cyrus rap song, some reasons she suggests are she wants her private life private, and wants to put a stop on gossip sites buzzing news of every tweet she makes. She wants to stop pleasing people and admits she is too busy. Naturally Tweeple are tweeting our loud which gets the topic trending at #mileycomeback.

Celeb sites are analyzing if Miley Cyrus boyfriend provoked her to quit

And many Miley Goodbye videos are emerging all over the web

Did you know that the top 10% Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets and its not surprising that 60% twitter users quit within first month! Did you quit Twitter?

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Jessica Biel Most Risky Celebrity to Search Online!

QuickOnlineTips — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:50:41 +0000

Searching online for Jessica Biel is most likely to get your computer infected with spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware hosted on these sites! The McAfee’s Third Annual Report reveals that Brad Pitt loses his title as the most dangerous web celebrity and now Jessica Biel tops the riskiest celebrities to search on the web.

They say that fans searching for “Jessica Biel” or “Jessica Biel downloads,” “Jessica Biel wallpaper,” “Jessica Biel screen savers,” “Jessica Biel photos” and “Jessica Biel videos” have a one in five chance (a huge 20% chance!) of landing at a web site that’s tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware!

While Beyoncé maintained her #2 slot, and continues as the overall most frequent, highly-ranked celebrity in the top five; Miley Cyrus, Ashley Tisdale and Lindsay Lohan all edged out Heidi Montag and Jessica Alba who appeared on last year’s list.

McAfee list of 15 top most risky celebrities to search online are -
1. Jessica Biel
2. Beyoncé
3. Jennifer Aniston
4. Tom Brady
5. Jessica Simpson
6. Gisele Bundchen
7. Miley Cyrus
8. Megan Fox & Angelina Jolie
9. Ashley Tisdale
10. Brad Pitt

Trivia: Do you know the web’s most dangerous search terms, and the most dangerous domain names.

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First MySpace Secret Show in India: Free Concert Tickets

QuickOnlineTips — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:11:19 +0000

The Myspace Secret Show has made its debut in India and now Indians can get free concert tickets to the show to be held in Mumbai, India on 29 May 2009! Are you on MySpace?

MySpace Secret Show India is being held at Bandra Amphitheatre (at Bandstand, Mumbai) on 29 May, 2009 at 6.30pm. The show will feature artists Motherjane and Scribe with Black.

How to get free concert tickets? Sign up to Myspace and then you must add secretshowsindia as a friend. Print out� your Myspace profile, which is also your ticket to the show. So basically you just need to “Add to Friends” to get free entry. Now that is so easy.

Why is it a secret show? Because inspite of the buzz and preparations,� the identity of the artists is kept secret till the last moment.

When did Secret Shows start? The series began on January 29, 2006 when Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley played at the Hotel Caf� in Hollywood. View the last MySpace Secret Show in US.

This will change the music scenario in India, while reinforcing the MySpace brand in India. Now more online social networks will look forward to actively engage their members offline using means like these concerts. Get ready for the best in music – Rock, Metal, Folk …

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New US Government Youtube Portal

QuickOnlineTips — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:02:13 +0000

Barack Obama and his team at the US Government are interacting with their people via official US government channels across Youtube, in which they share high quality never before seen videos with the public.

Browse around the new� U.S. Government portal on YouTube, while checking out Youtube channels like the White House channel, and many other official federal YouTube channels like NASA, State Department, FBI, CDC, Social Security Administration, Environmental Protection Agency etc.

Check the new US Governement on the web

Presidential inauguration

First Cabinet meeting

The first dog Bo

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Gavin Bate Blogs, Tweets, Podcasts from Mount Everest

QuickOnlineTips — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:35:21 +0000

Gavin Bate is climbing Mount Everest and is blogging, tweeting and podcasting along his mountain climbing adventure. Welcome to the new way to climb a mountain, the socially interactive way.

Gavin bates is an experienced mountaineer and founder of Adventure Alternative Expeditions and is climbing to raise funds for his Moving Mountains charity (which helps street children and their families in Kenya and Nepal). You can tweet him on twitter at @gavinbate, track his blog posts about the Everest expedition on his blog and catch his podcast channel on Gabcast.

He is selling out camp sponsorship at various altitudes

and even letting people buy his tweets on ebay!

This just goes to show how much modern web tools have changed the way we communicate. A few years back, who could imagine the world tracking every personal experience of a mountain climber along the way to Everest. Reminds me of the doctor blogging from Antartica.

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Web Accessibility Tips by Left Thumb Blogger

QuickOnlineTips — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:14:29 +0000

I recently learnt about amazing Glenda Watson Hyatt, popularly known as the left thumb blogger, who shares her inspiring experiences living with cerebral palsy and preaches web accessibility, all the while typing� with only her left thumb!

Glenda blogs on her blog I�ll Do It Myself (has authored a book with the same name) and I have been hooked to her articles on Accessibility 100 – which talks of easy-to-implement, free and inexpensive ways for improving accessibility for people with disabilities, dispelling the myth that accessibility needs to be expensive and difficult to achieve. Here are some good reads 5 Ways to Increase the Accessibility of Blogs and A Checklist for Planning an Accessible Event.

While Lorelle talked about How WordPress Changes Lives, it is inspiring to see how Glenda used Wordpress to change her life by giving her a voice that connects with people around the world through her blog.

Download free ebook of her latest presentation titled How POUR is Your Blog? Tips for Increasing Your Blog�s Accessibility (.pdf) and discover how POUR your blog truly is. An accessible blog is� Perceivable,� Operable, Understandable and Robust.� POUR principles of web design enable bloggers like you and me to make better websites, which are more accessible to people.� You can read more about Glenda at an earlier interview by Liz Strauss or join her earlier virtual book tour.

So why should you modify your web design to make your blog more accessible? Blog Herald reports points out that

“The Ever-Shifting Internet Population� reports that 38% of Americans with disabilities surf the web and almost 20% of them say that their disability makes web browsing challenging. There are a wide range of estimates, but at least one in four visitors to your blog are disabled. That�s a huge customer base you might be missing and not serving.”

“Many think that the disabled are poor. Some statistics for the disabled report only about 30% of the disabled in the United States are at or below the poverty level, depending upon your definition of �disabled.� That leaves 70% above the poverty line.”

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New Flickr License: United States Government Work

QuickOnlineTips — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:09:51 +0000

Now Flickr is supporting a new license called United States Government Work, which labels most Obama photos from the White House Flickr photostream. So what prompted the release of this new license?

Most photos on Flickr photos sharing site are labeled “All rights reserved” or bear Creative Commons licenses with “Some Rights Reserved“, should image owners decide to share them with the world. Recently the White House launched the Official White House Photostream on Flickr, with some amazing insider photos by their official photographer Pete Souza and released photos under a CC license.

But Creative Commons under whose license the photos were released,� wondered if the photos were in the public domain and can be used without attribution� as the photos were works created by the federal government and not entitled to copyright protection.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation points to Flickr photostreams of other public institutions like Smithsonian and Library of Congress which are are labeled with “No known copyright restrictions” explaining that the photo is either public domain or is owned by an institution that is not exercising control over the image.

Now Wired noticed that the White House Licenses changed and Flickr introduced a new license called the United States Government Work which links to the Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code.� So you can go through the long document and read the fine print should you decide to use these amazing never seen before photos.

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Ben Southall Wins Best Job in The World

QuickOnlineTips — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:06:44 +0000

Queensland Tourism has announced the winner of the Best Job in The World competition. Ben Southall, 34, from UK has won the Island Caretaker job of the Great Barrier Reef out of over 34000 applicants.

The Island Caretaker will live at Blue Pearl, a beautiful three-bedroom home on Hamilton Island and enjoy the private plunge pool/spa, sun lounges, and the traditional Aussie barbeque. Living above the Great Barrier Reef for six months, he will get a huge salary package of AUD$150,000 for the six-month contract. The job profile involves leisure blogging, snapping photos, feeding the fish….

So finally someone got the Best Job in the World!

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The Big List of Top Women Bloggers

QuickOnlineTips — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:20:47 +0000

As the world celebrates International Women’s day today, we have collected the most popular, and best women bloggers lists across the world. We are sure you will find some great women bloggers to add to your RSS reader.

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World’s Best Women Bloggers

Fifty Most Influential �Female� Bloggers – “As it is often the case with technology, blogging can seem like a boys� club to many, but the average blogger is no longer (if they ever were) a geeky, twenty-something man from the US. Strong, interesting women are taking over the blogging world.”
101 Women Bloggers to Watch for 2009! – scours the internet to find these amazing women bloggers and present them to the readers of WE Magazine for Women. There are business blogs, personal blogs, relationship blogs, hobby blogs, travel blogs, blogs about kids, pets, travel, food, health, women, men, shopping, fashion and more.
100 Must Read Blogs�By Women! – The list is compiled ‘In honor of these hardworking and insightful ladies’ and are all written with an engaging, unique voice that they bring to their subject matter.
Women in Tech: The Bloggers – FastCompany shares 11 of the Web’s most talented writers.
Top 100 Australian Women Bloggers – ranked by the average of Technorati ranking and Alexa ranking, this regularly updated list tracks the helps you find new and interesting blogs from great Aussie blogging women.
20 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009 – “You may not have heard of some of these ladies, but you will. This list isn�t about stats, Technorati links, or Twitter followers because who cares? Show us the content! Whether they blog about everyday life, work and family, or women�s empowerment and accomplishments these ladies are positive, uplifting, and most of all they provide a unique view.”
500+ Women Political Bloggers – another regularly updated collection with links to 500 women blogging about politics�
The W-List – Gathering a List of Outstanding Women Bloggers. “Are there truly 5+ to 1 men bloggers to women bloggers? Why should we care? We should care because women are great at conversation, strategy, and writing.”
BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers? RWW share some links to their favorite women bloggers and some favorites web celebs you may or may not know.
Top 100 Female Bloggers – Claims to be one of the first lists dedicated only to female bloggers showcasing their contribution to the blogging world.
100 Awesome Webmaster Blogs by and for Women – A discovery of over one hundred women in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), public relations and marketing, design, business, social media and in IT.
The Magical List of Outstanding Women Bloggers – The author finds it hard to choose just a few. “But there are a few who are not only wonderful women bloggers but� also hang out online with many other wonderful women bloggers, so these people will pass the honor along.”
Top 10 Women Real Estate Bloggers – “Having personally met each of the women within this elite group, we can honestly say that they all possess the very best qualities that we�d expect in a real estate professional.”
Top 45 Female African Bloggers – “It�s clear that South African female bloggers dominate the list but I am very pleased to see Nigeria, Kenya, Eqypt, Uganda and Ethiopia make it on the list.”
Rocking Indian Female Bloggers – a list of some rocking female bloggers from India, whom the author recommends you subscribe in your feed reader.
Who is Web’s Hottest Female Blogger? Playboy picks. “It didn’t take us long to find an abundance of lovely bloggers and video bloggers (or “vloggers”) from the worlds of finance, entertainment, tech and sex. Meet some of the internet’s most click-worthy women.”
The Best Female Bloggers Of 2008 -”From futurists to postfeminists, octogenarians to mommies, nonbloggers to celebrities, we�ve rounded up the best bloggers who happen to be women.”
27 Inspiring Women Edubloggers – a slideshow showcasing some of the best female edubloggers out there
Best women fitness bloggers! – “written by women who we can all learn from. They all write from an unique perspective that is both realistic (at least for some of us) and not based on fear, fads or fantasy”.
15 Amazing Women in Blogging – “Some of the following ladies blog for themselves, others blog for a network, and a few even run their own blog network. All in all, there are some amazingly talented women making their mark on the blogosphere.”
The World�s Most Beautiful Bloggers – “Excluded from this list are professional models, celebrities and famous people who have a blog. I�m talking about real bloggers, who write their own content and share their own ideas.”
10 best Mom Blogger Resources – Follow hundreds of mommy bloggers as they talk about their children, parenting, motherhood and busy lifestyle.

We will keep this list updated. If there is a list of great women bloggers you know of, let us know in comments and we will add it here.�

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Will Slumdog Millionaire Win at Oscars 2009?

QuickOnlineTips — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:23:27 +0000

Slumdog Millionaire is nominated for 10 Oscar awards as the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, which will go live in a few more hours on February 22, 2009. Will it create the same magic at the Oscars?

Slumdog Millionaire is a film directed by Danny Boyle, based on the Boeke Prize-winning and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-nominated novel Q and A by Indian author Vikas Swarup. Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a young man from the slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and wins the show.

Starring actors Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto and Irfan Khan, the film has already won five Critics’ Choice Awards, four Golden Globes, and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, and has now been nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Read more about the movie.

Associated Press says it might actually win

While there are close races in key categories, this year’s show again suffers from a predictability factor for the top prize. Best picture is expected to go to “Slumdog Millionaire,” the movie that has won the same honor at every other awards ceremony that matters.

Here is an older interview with the Dev Patel and Freida Pinto

Will Slumdog Millionaire relive the magic and win the Oscars?

If you are in India, you can watch Slumdog Millionaire (English) or Slumdog Crorepati (Hindi) on TataSky Satellite TV Showcase for Rs 25 only, all day long till February 22, 2009. Watch it.