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Sam Messam of New Zealand cheers to spectators after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games first round Group C men's football match against Belgium at the Shanghai Stadium on August 13, 2008. Belgium defeated New Zealand 1-0.


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Italian players celebrating a goal scored against Korea Republic in Group D second game at the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, on 10 August 2008.

15 Websits That Changed The World

drudgereport.com

This was the site that first broke the news of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Founded by Matt Drudge, what began as a gossipy email newsletter in 1994 is now an influential website. He scours TV and the internet for rumours and stories, which he posts on his site.
Despite being labelled a `threat to democracy` and an `idiot with a modem`, Drudge figured in Time magazine`s 100 most influential people of 2006. Drudgereport receives around 8 to 10 million page views every day.

eBay.com

Founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, this auction and shopping site sells everything from sideburns and used underwear to houses and automobiles. It is said that eBay originated as Omidyar’s response to his fiancée `s worry that she would not be able to add to her toy collection when they moved to Silicon Valley. So he developed a car boot sale anyone could use wherever they were. Today, the site has more than 168 million users.

slashdot.org

`I`m just a geek that likes to poke around with hardware,` Rob Malda told a newspaper. His site hosts news and discussion for techies and is one of the most visited websites in the world (5.5 million per month).
Malda started the site in 1997 as a blog, hosted on his user account at university. As the site picked up users, he divided his time between college, paid work and the site. Users write most of the site. Slashdot pioneered this user-driven content, and influenced sites including Google News, Guardian Unlimited and Wikipedia.

napster.com

Shawn Fanning was studying at Boston`s Northeastern University when he thought up this file sharing site to share music files with his fellow students. Launched in 1999, it reached a peak in 2000 with over 70 million registered users. But it soon attracted the wrath of the music industry and the company was forced to pay millions of dollars in backdated royalties.
The new Napster, which is a legitimate pay-to-download MP3 site, has not been able to recapture the original’s cool factor.

easyjet.com

In 1995, Stelios Haji-Ioannou borrowed £30 million from his father, a shipping magnate, leased two second-hand Boeings and began selling flights to Scotland for £29 each way. With this began the era of budget airlines and Internet bookings.
Internet did not immediately win over Stelios. `We started off as something very obscure like 1145678.com. Then some time in 1997 we bought the domain easyjet.com for about £1,000 and put up a proper website,” he told a newspaper. Today travelling around the world is as easy as taxiing around your city. In fact, 30 million passengers used EasyJet in 2005.

blogger.com

When Evan Williams was contemplating starting Blogger in 1999, he was very hesitant. “I didn`t see the commercial applications,” Williams told a newspaper. “We had started a company and we needed to make money. We didn`t see how this little hobbyist activity was going to make anyone money.”
But Williams` tool — which made self-publishing online as user-friendly as word-processing — revolutionised creative expression. The phenomenon may have happened without it, but Williams’ baby sure speeded things up. Today, the site has 18.5 million unique visitors.

amazon.com

The world’s biggest bookstore was originally called Cadabra, but founder Jeff Bezos did a rethink after his lawyer misheard it as `cadaver`. He chose the name Amazon because it signified something large and unstoppable. And so it has developed to become. The site’s current annual revenue is $8 billion.
The enterprise that began in 1994 in a Seattle suburb with office desks made out of old doors, today attracts over 35 million customers in over 250 countries.

wikipedia.com

Until 2001, an encyclopaedia was a set of ponderous books that gave you information about most things you wanted to know about. But they had their limitations as Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales had discovered as a student (‘their scope was conservative, they were hard to navigate and often out of date’).
He changed all this when he created the free online encyclopaedia. How? For one, anyone could read it, and for another if you wanted to edit or enter new information, you could. So how popular is this radical idea? It gets 9,12,000 visits a day.

friendsreunited.com

An obsession turned money-spinner—that is Friends Reunited. When Julie Pankhurst was pregnant she became obsessed with finding out what her old friends had been up to since they left school.
Meanwhile, her husband Steve, a computer programmer, had been trying to come up with an original internet-based idea. Julie suggested a website to cater for her obsession.
The start was slow, but things soon picked up. The site attracted well over 15 million users. Last December, the duo sold it to ITV for £120 million.

google.com

Google, now a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary, is the fastest-growing company in history and its founders are worth almost $13bn each. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, the website gets over a billion search requests a day.
What worked in their favour was the search method devised by the duo. Instead of ranking results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page, their system measured the frequency with which a website was referenced by other sites.
It has now branched out into email (Gmail), news (Google News), price comparison (Froogle), cartography (Google Maps), literature (the much contested Google Book Search), free telephony (Google Talk) and Google Earth, an incredibly detailed virtual globe.
yahoo.com Giving Google close competition is Yahoo (an acronym for `Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle`). With over 400 million users and 3.4 billion page hits a day it is a contender for the most visited website on the Internet. Started as a hobby by David Filo and Jerry Yang in 1994 it was soon on its way to becoming the most popular search engine on the Web.
It branched out into email, instant messaging, news, gaming, online shopping and an array of other services. It also bought other companies such as Geocities, eGroups and the web radio company Broadcast.com.

youtube.com

It all started when Chad Hurley and Steve Chen began working (in a garage) on an easy way to upload and share funny videos they`d shot at a dinner party. It soon developed into a user-friendly site, which they launched in February 2005. Word-of-mouth publicity got the site incredible mileage. Over 100 million video clips are viewed everyday.
Recently, mainstream channels like NBC announced plans to work alongside YouTube, airing exclusive clips and trailers.

myspace.com

MySpace has over 100 million members and in the UK it has more page views than the BBC. But when business-school alumnus Chris DeWolfe set up the social networking site with his partner, film studies graduate Tom Anderson, in 2003, he never dreamt of such phenomenal success.
Their formula was a blend of what was already available on existing online communities such as Friendster, Tribe.net, with added features including classified advertisements, events planning, and, of course, the option to upload and listen to music.

craigslist.org

What is it? It is a free noticeboard. One of the most deceptively simple websites on the Internet is also one of the most powerful because of its astonishing popularity. Want to rent an apartment? Sell a car? Find a job? Meet someone to spend the night with? Craiglist will provide the answers.
What began as an email sent out by founder Craig Newmark in 1995, listing various events going on in San Francisco, grew into a multi-million-dollar business attracting 4 billion page views per month.


salon.com

Salon grew out of a strike. When the San Francisco Examiner was shut for a couple of weeks in 1994, a few of its journalists taught themselves HTML and tried their hand at turning out an online newspaper with new technology.
Soon after, David Talbot, the Examiner`s arts editor, gave up his job and, in 1995, launched the kind of online paper he had always wanted to work for. It is a `smart tabloid`, not afraid to be mischievous while maintaining a rigour with news. And it has found its readership—between 2.5 and 3.5 million users visit the site every month.

Billionaires Beautiful Wifes

MELANIE CRAFT

Married to Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle

A Pittsburgh native, Melanie Craft studied archaeology at Oberlin College and the American University in Cairo. She graduated in 1992, after taking a year off to work in East Africa.

She has worked as a sales clerk, bartender, safari driver, pastry chef, cocktail waitress, house-cleaner, technical writer, and briefly as a Swahili teacher - although she doesn't speak Swahili and eventually became a romance novelist.

Billionaire software CEO Larry Ellison and Craft sealed an eight-year courtship by marrying during the winter holidays in 2003. The wedding was the first for Craft, 34, and the fourth for Ellison, 59, CEO of Oracle. The couple married at Ellison's 45-acre Japanese-style compound in Woodside beside a waterfall. Craft also serves on the board of the Ellison Medical Foundation, which funds Alzheimer's research.


MELINDA GATES

Married to Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft

Years before Melinda French (43) met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair - with an Apple computer. She was captivated to the computer when her father Ray French brought home an Apple III computer when she was 16. Melinda met Gates while working as a manager at Microsoft.

This was not exactly a marriage of equals. Melinda is better educated than Bill, having graduated from Duke University with a BA (a double major in computer science and economics) and an MBA. Harvard's most celebrated dropout, Bill was awarded an honorary degree only recently.

Melinda also outperforms him athletically. She has completed the Seattle marathon and climbed, with ropes and crampons, to the peak of 14,410-foot Mount Rainier.Mother of three, she now lives in Medina, Washington DC with Gates.


TINA MUNIM

Married to Anil Ambani, Chairman of ADAG

Tina (53) comes from a middle-class Gujarati speaking family who lived in Bhuleshwar. Prior to marrying Anil Ambani, Tina Munim was a famed Bollywood actress.

Discovered by Dev Anand after she represented India at the International Teen Princess contest in Aruba and won the Miss Photogenic awards, Tina aspired to become a Parisian-trained couturier and was poised to travel there for her studies in design when she was approached with a cinematic offer.

She made her name in the 1978 Indian blockbuster Des Pardes (translated into English as At Home and Abroad). She went on to star in 30 more films.

In 1991, she returned to India and married industrialist Anil Ambani. Today, mother of two sons, Jai Anmol and Jai Anshul, Tina is involved in a number of charity, arts, and talent endeavors and hasn't made any new film since the mid 1980s.


USHA MITTAL

Married to Laksmi Mittal, CEO of Arcelor Mittal

Usha, the daughter of a well-to-do moneylender, met Mittal who was just 21, when she was on a holiday to Calcutta (now Kolkata). She had just graduated from Banaras Hindu University in Economics. Ahead of the marriage well arranged by both the families, Usha and Lakshmi fell in on their first phone conversation after their formal engagement.

Married to world's fourth-richest man, Usha has clearly earned his trust. Last year she has been entrusted with temporary responsibility of managing the world's largest steel company if the managing board of directors is permanently absent or prevented from handling duties.

She apparently worked in the steel business for 15 years, at one time reportedly running a plant in Indonesia. She is also the namesake of the Usha Mittal Institute of Technology, an institution that promotes the women's education in India.


WENDI DENG

Married to Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of New Corp

Wendi Deng (40) was born in Xuzhou, China to a middle class family. She studied in the United States and received a master's degree in business administration at the Yale School of Management, before returning to Hong Kong to work at News Corporation's Star TV.

Deng met News Corp Chairman Murdoch while working as vice president of Star TV in Hong Kong. She became Murdoch's third wife on June 25, 1999. Age has been no barrier to fathering more children for Rupert Murdoch in his seventies as they have had two children together - Grace and Chloe. Wendi Deng continues to be active in the News Corp Company, working on the Myspace.com move into China.


LUCY SOUTHWORTH

Married to Larry Page, Co-founder of Google

Beauty and brains to boot, Lucy Southworth, earned biomedical informatics doctoral from at Stanford University and had previously studied at Oxford, where she gained a MSc. Creating envy to many single women world over, Lucy and Larry Page were reportedly together for more than a year before marriage.

Lucy’s wedding with Google co-founder Larry Page that happened in December 2007 was one of those failed secrets that everyone knew about. One of the two biggest weddings of the year, Larry Page and Lucy tied the knot on Richard Branson’s Necker Island.


SUSAN DELL

Married to Michael Dell, Founder of Dell Computers

Susan Lieberman, a fashion designer and boutique owner, married the founder of Dell Computers - Michael Dell in 1989. While husband Michael is busy looking after the day-to-day activities at Dell, Susan is busy running, swimming and cycling.

The elite-level athlete competed in the 2003 Ironman endurance competition. Susan is also chairman of Phi, a fashion label that has had runway shows in New York and has been featured in Vogue. She chairs the Dell philanthropic foundation.

The Dells currently reside in Austin, Texas with their three daughters: Kira, Alexa, Juliette and a son, Zachary.


DIANE VON FURSTBURG

Married to Barry Diller, Chairman, USA Network

Born in Brussels and immigrated to US, this Belgian designer, working in New York, is a graduate in Economics from University of Geneva.

Diane (61) began her career with no fashion training. She did, however, have knowledge of international high society and culture. Her philosophy was simple - to create elegant ease for all women.

Her iconic wrap dress took the fashion world by storm in the 1970s with Diane telling ladies to "feel like a woman, wear a dress." Since then, the Belgian-born designer's empire has expanded into 56 countries and includes jewellery, luggage and cosmetics.

After divorcing Prince Egon Von Furstenburg in 1983, Diane married Barry Diller Chairman of USA Network. This celebrated fashion designer is now mother to their children - Alexandre, Tatiana.



ANNE DIAS GRIFFIN

Married to Kenneth Griffin, Hedge fund chief, Citadel

Harvard graduated Anne Dias-Griffin was born in France in 1971. She founded Aragon Global Management, a hedge fund focusing on equities across the globe. Her $160 million hedge fund benefits from her experience at Goldman Sachs, Viking Global and Soros Fund Management.

Anne Dias Griffin married Citadel hedge fund chief Kenneth Griffin. Dias Griffin is also a patron of arts and is a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York's Whitney Museum.


KATE CAPSHAW

Married to Stephen Spielberg, Hollywood director

Kate Capshaw (54), born in Texas, had always harboured a hankering to become an actress. Capshaw put these plans in mothballs to earn a master's degree in special education at the University of Missouri. She was into teaching for two years before heading to New York to embark on an acting career.

Capshaw played small roles in commercials and soap operas, then in 1982 made her film bow in A Little Sex. Two years later, she was cast as the heroine in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Blonde beauty met director husband Steven Spielberg on the set of 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and in October 1991, Capshaw married film director Steven Spielberg at his East Hampton, Long Island, New York estate. Between them, they have seven children.

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