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Japan is grappling with grief aftermath of disastrous tsunami and looming nuclear crisis. People in the affected areas need your help, so if you can, please donate to them:

Donate: MuslimHands.org | RedCross.org | GlobalGiving.com

Following up on my last post on World Cup, today’s match was an interesting one, Brazil Vs Netherlands.

This image is probably one of the most memorable images of WC 2010 – Brazilian football player Felipe Melo stamping Dutch player Ruben, and subsequently getting a “red card” and leaving the field, leaving Brazil with 10 players, which was a huge blow and ultimately cost them a semi-final?

Ok, now let’s read your opinions :) I am sure many people are angry, and equally many people must be happy.

Now that the World Cup fever is on, what is your favorite website that streams World Cup matches live? Just now I watched Serbia VS Ghana at http://livetv.ru/en/worldcup/ and it’s not bad at all.

Also, if you are Malaysian and Maxis 3G subscriber, you can try this iPhone app b.player from Astro. The bad thing is it detects your connection and if you are on wi-fi or if you are on different carrier line than Maxis the app won’t work.

Which other websites do you recommend for watching WC matches online? Please share.

It seems like goDaddy is expanding its supported payment gateways. Today I noticed that they are now supporting Chinese payment gateway – Alipay from Alibaba.com. Good for Google, good for people who use Alipay.

Websites: goDaddy.com, Alipay.com, Alibaba.com

3D Panoramic Picture Galleries are really amazing to look at, but I think 3D video panoramas are way cooler… watch. (feel free to drag the video in all directions to see other sides)

Project Website: http://www.yellowbirdsdonthavewingsbuttheyflytomakeyouexperiencea3dreality.com

One of my favorite guest-bloggers on AdesBlog was Alan Johnson of TheRatingBlog.com. He has since sold his blog to a new owner. Recently he contacted me that the new owner Andrei, who has a vast collection domain names was selling off most of his domain names. He has some good domain names there, if you are interested check out the full list on his blog here.

Thanks Alan for your guest-posts!

TWENTY TEN is here! What this year awaits for the bloggers? Let’s try to forecast some of the things that might happen in this year. I go first:

1. Mobile Internet will be the key drive for the year for the Internet related industries, that means more smartphones, more iphones, more mobile and web applications will be launched. That means TechCrunch will be mostly talking about iPhone and Android apps the whole year :)
2. Android Market will grow many-folds and finally become the Apple’s rightly competitor.
3. Facebook usage will slow down. That means it will be as if you are back to pre-Facebook years. You will lose touch with most of your old friends again.
4. Twitter will be acquired (probably by Google).
5. More blogs will be shut down, be it personal or make money online.

OK readers, now please leave your 5 predictions for the year 2010 in the comments section. Let’s make it a long list. It will be interesting to read for everyone!

Please share this list with your friends and ask them to put in theirs.

Google’s Chrome Operating System is imminent. When it launches and when you start using it (believe me, you will be using it, because it’s free), Google will basically know everything about you. Well, Google already knows tons of info about you, but with Chrome OS it will know even more…

It’s not a bad thing per se as long as they (Google and US Gov) won’t misuse it (remember the phone tapping issue in US?). Because all it takes is another “terrorist” attack and US Gov can successfully use any technology needed for their “homeland security” purposes. The result will be of course, lots of innocent people being arrested and spending portion of their precious lives in secret prisons all over the world.

Let’s hope that won’t be the case…

What is Google Chrome OS

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As you can see above, Chrome OS will be the fastest OS out there. I will probably use it too, that’s because anything Google launches, I will use it :) I am sure you do too…

But let’s take this post as a reminder and be careful when it comes to dealing with privacy issues, not only with Google but with any other websites, applications, software etc that collect our personal info.

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The above graphic, by Dee Adams, shows the eight CEOs with the highest compensations in the US for the year 2008. It also shows the number of minimum wage earners that each respective CEO’s compensation could have supported (see the image of a man below ceo’s feet). Bruce Wasserstein of Lazard ltd. was the top earner at $133 million, or the annual salary of 8,866 minimum wage earners.

I wouldn’t say it’s not fair because some of the CEOs do deserve large sum of money for leading and managing large corporations successfully. But how much exactly they should get as a compensation for their work is always questionable.

source good magazine via flowing data

I have guest-blogged on Darren Rowse’s blog Problogger.net, the post title is “5 Ways to Get Your Blog Indexed by Google in 24 Hours“. It’s a very practical post that will be beneficial when you launch a new project. I hope you will find it a useful read.

My thanks to Darren for the opportunity!

ProBlogger Readers, Welcome to AdesBlog!

If you came here from Problogger.net, I would like to welcome you to my blog. My name is Ades and this is my blog AdesBlog.com where I talk about Blogging, Usability, Making Money Online, Entrepreneurship, WordPress.. etc.

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According to research by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, average American spends around 8.5 hours a day staring at the screen – be it iPhone, TV, Monitor, GPS…etc.

Based on this research Wired released a so called timetable for healthy media diet (see below). Basically you start of with 9 hours and supposed to divide your time accordingly between different media.

Does your media diet looks like above? Balanced? Mine not so much, I am like stuck on the second and half of third level for all the 9 hours ;)

Source: Wired