Mark Zuckerberg: The World’s Youngest Billionaire

This is the picture of a guy worth $1.5 billion. Yes! You read it right Mark Zuckerberg is the world’s youngest billionaire his net worth is approximately 1.5 BILLION dollar, to imagine how much that money is let elaborate it with zeroes 1,500,000,000.00.  You get it now? 

The 23 year-old Mark Zuckerberg is now proclaimed by the Forbes.com as the world’s youngest billionaire.  He is the billionaire #785.  Unlike other young billionaire under the age of 30 who just simply inherited their fortune from their family heirloom, Mark Zuckerberg is a self-made billionaire.  Mark Zuckerberg made his fortune by creating the social-networking site called Facebook.  Zuckerberg, 20 at that time, launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 2004.  It quickly became a success at Harvard and more than two-thirds of the school’s students signed up in the first two weeks.  In the spring of 2005 he drop-out from Harvard to start his own company in Palo Alto (Silicon Valley). Then after three years what started as a networking site for college students has become a social network tool for 19 million registered users, including employees of government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. More than half (9.5 million) of its registered user visit every day.  It is now considered as the sixth most-trafficked site in the United States–1% of all Internet time is spent on Facebook and it is starting to compete with Google and other tech giants in Silicon Valley. It is said Facebook is on the track to bring in $100 million in revenue this year–serious money indeed. 

The documents projected that Facebook would generate $969 million in revenue, with 48 million users, by 2010. The New York Times and others reported that Yahoo had made a $1 billion offer to buy Facebook but Zuckerberg and his partners had turned it down. This followed an earlier rumor of a $750 million offer from Viacom.

I got one question for Mark.  Will you marry me? Joke! Hehehehe…. 

Byterslair.i.ph Got PR3

Yesterday as I look upon the lower right corner of my Mozilla Firefox browser when I open my http://byterslair.i.ph blog it shows the indicator which says 3/10.  I can’t seem to believe it. I thought my Mozilla Firefox is going crazy again because of my continuous rapid switching of tabs.  Usually, I don’t look at that part of the screen because I’m tired of seeing the N/A in there.  For the past 6 months of this blogging thing all I’ve got is N/A.  Well, I don’t really care about it before because I don’t actually know the significance of PR until recently.  I don’t even know what the abbreviation PR stands for. I thought it was for Peace Relations…hehehe.  Then one of my blogger friend ask me about that PR thing, and so before I say anything stupid or ask any dumb question I asked Google first and Google told me to look in Wikipedia.   This is what Wikipedia says PR or PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important".

In simpler term PR or PageRank is your blog popularity status.  The higher you’ve got the better.  And at this moment the http://byterslair.i.ph got its PR 3 and I’m proud of it.  My other blog the Tambayan Ni Byter is also PR2.  Darn! I wish life is like blogging. 

Charice Pempengco vs. Madonna Decena

Madonna Decena and Charice Pempengco, two amazing Filipino singers that showcase a world-class Pinoy talent.  Madonna Decena and Charice Pempengco have made their mark in the singing field as they try to conquer the world with their amazingly powerful voices.  Charice Pempengco, a 15-year old girl who made her way from local tv talent Little Big Superstar show to Oprah.  Yes, she performs in Oprah (to be aired in May 12, 2008).  But before the Oprah performance Charice had already wows the world in her standing-ovation performance in Star King (Korea), The Ellen Degeneres Show(USA), Paul O’ Granny Show(UK) among others.  The girl is undoubtedly brilliant!

On the other hand, another upcoming singing sensation in United Kingdom is 100% Pinoy.  She is Madonna “Mado” Decena, a 32-year old single mother.  She made her feat in the UK number 1 talent show the “Britain’s Got Talent” with Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, and Piers Morgan as judges.  During her performance Mado made judge (Amanda) and the audiences cry, but of course it ended with the standing ovation on her astounding performance.  She even got praise from the hard-ass Simon.  In the end-of-the-show interview Simon says “For that one act, it was worth coming out there”. Madonna Decena is truly a diva.

Watch Madonna tear-jerking but amazing performance in Britain’s Got Talent (London, England)

Watch Charice brilliant performance in The Ellen Degeneres Show (USA)

More links on Charice videos:

Star King (Korea) – 1st Performance

Star King (Korea) – 2nd Performance

The Paul O’Grday Show (UK)

The Oprah Show (Teaser)

HOW BLOGGING CAN CHANGE THE WORLD?

Don’t ask what the world needs.  Rather ask - what makes you come alive?  Then go and do it!  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

    Change the world!?  Seems like an enormous ambition, a gigantic task to do.  At one look, it seems to require a superpower and super ability to do the job.  Years ago, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Newton explored the gravity theory, Einstein formulated the Relativity Theory, Charles Babbage started the era of modern computer, Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web, Martin Luther King advocated the for the equality of races, and Jesus Christ brought Christianity to the world.  These are the just a few examples of the great people who evoke change into the world.  With these, I would like to pose a question, “How blogging can change the world?”, or I should say how a blogger can change the world?  Just like anything else that had been invented and discovered blogging has two faces, the good and the bad.  Like nuclear science and all other technology, blogging has no conscience of its own.  Whether it will become a force for good or evil depends on the blogger who posted it.  A drug can heal or kill and such is blogging can be useful or harmful.
    Blogging is a powerful tool because it opens a superhighway of self-expression.  It provides a vast space where everybody can speak their minds and be heard (or read).  Blogging promotes love, awareness and concern of what is happening around us, and at the same time it endorses violence, greed, immorality and other evils.  The responsibility relies on the hand (or keyboard) of the blogger.  As what the saying goes: If you want to change the world, start within yourself.  You don’t have to be a big-time blogger with millions of hits per day to contribute a change in our world.  Your pink-themes blog that speaks about love, or your animé-inspired personal blog could maybe inspire somebody.  Or maybe your humorous blog with lots or senseless thoughts and corny jokes could help someone to crack a smile in stressful day or could maybe help a person from depression.  Anything that gets someone to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile.  It can heal the planet.  It truly can, and it actually has.
    You and I might not be Superman or Wonderwoman, and not even close to Powerpuff girls but somehow with your pink-themed blog and my corny blog we can contribute in changing the world for better.  Your blog can make a difference. 

BLOG ON!