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While everyone agrees that Google is the largest search engine in the world, one would think the second place would be a close call between Bing and Yahoo, right? Well not exactly.
The second largest search engine, believe or not, is YouTube, the brainchild of three former PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, that was acquired in 2006 by Google.
Airboat4 by Bjorn Larrson, David Zekria under CC BY-SA 3.0 license
We are used to flying some much these days that sometimes we forget the incredible engineering innovation that first enabled an aircraft to fly.
I just found out that this year commercial aviation is celebrating 100 Year since the first ever paid flight. And it was coincidentally in Florida, that it got started.
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I believe no one can deny Google is the most successful technology company in the recent years. One of the keys to their success is their approach to innovation.
Just to give an example, a few weeks back, I posted about Calico, their venture into biotech (You can read my post here www.bubblews.com/news/3103964)
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Most of you might remember the famous selfie taken by Ellen Degeneres and friends during the Oscars earlier this year, and that went around the world in a matter of minutes.
Last night while reading a post from &Javaman74 that went viral for him (see it here www.bubblews.com/news/1429953), I learned about another a publicity campaign having to do with the World Cup.
Hurricane Katrina 2005 Image in the Public Domain
Our minds work in a yet-to-be-fully -understood way, and is known we tend to judge a lot on every aspect of our lives, but that we use stereotypes when is a matter of life or death is something new for me.
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We all have friends or relatives that keep losing their keys or misplacing their wallets, and if you really pay attention to all those people, you might find they don’t have the time to do all what they want to do.
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With the constant evolution in technology, the way we enjoy movies at home has changed a lot in the last 40 years or so, when the tape formats were dominant. Starting with the Betamax we then moved to VHS format back in the 70s and 80s.
In the 90s we adopted to the DVD format, and in the last 5 or 6 years we were presented with a new alternative BluRay, which has become, at least in the US the standard for new movie releases.
Nairo Quintana by Joseld-89 under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
On the morning of June 1st, I was following live the last stage of the Giro d’Italia, watching as the riders arrived in Trieste, where the race has ended after 3 weeks of competition, covering more than 3,400 Kms in 21 days.
Nine days before I first posted about a Colombian getting the pink jersey (Maglia Rosa) that identifies the race leader ( www.bubblews.com/news/3472893), it was still a dream that they hold onto it, and get the final win.
Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball Image in the Public Domain
Based on the latests results I am very happy with my basketball forecasting abilities, who knows I might have a career as sports commentator.
Anyway, the NBA Finals are set, and as per my previous post a week or so ago ( which you can read it at www.bubblews.com/news/3457048), the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs have won their respective Conference Finals and will go on to play for this year’s NBA title, in a re-edition of 2013 finals.
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With the announcement in late May from &Arvind , I am looking forward to the month of July and all the changes and improvements on this site.
Since nothing has been specifically said, I have made a list of the thing I expect, and hopefully become a reality when the upgrade is rolled out and the enhanced experience starts
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