Blogger.com Beats MySpace

Is Blogging overtaking Social Networking?

The newly released Neilsen Online figures show that Blogger.com, the blogging service owned by Google, reached 5.1 million user in January.

Over the same period the previously-huge MySpace reached just over 5 million and Bebo a smidgen over 4 million.

Blogging - For MySpace users when they grown up?
For a long time we’ve though that Social networking sites like MySpace were for people who hadn’t grown up into blogging yet. MySpace, et al allowed them to easily enter the world of writing online.

Rather than a large sheet of blank of empty that Blogging effectively gives you, which could be scary, MySpace gave people categories to write about — clues if you like — where people were able find a place to hook on to. Much less scary.

Now all of those people have now broken their online-cherry, we’d imagine that those people start to get frustrated with the limitations of MySpace, etc — plus their not so cool any more are they, so why not look elsewhere?

Blogger.com History
Evan Williams battled with Blogger for ages, for a long period by himself, but slowly, slowly more people signed up to use it.

Then, one day back in 2003, Google bought it, reportedly for $10 million plus some equity in pre-IPO Google.

Best-value deal Google ever did judging by Blogger’s traffic levels.

from:digital-lifestyles.info

Glamour model glad to have her curvy figure back

Gemma Atkinson feared she'd lost her figure when she lost weight last year.

The glamour model, 23, says her boobs nearly disappeared after she went on a diet.

'My boobs looked like saggy, empty sacks. It made me really depressed,' she says. 'I shrunk from a DD cup to a B.'

But Gemma got her curves back after cutting back on her slimming routines.

'I'm an E cup now, which is big, but not too big for my frame,' she tells the Daily Star. 'I'm tall with a strong body, so I don't look top heavy.'

Gemma is now focusing on her debut album of R&B songs. 'I've written down all the good and bad things that have happened to me in the last year to turn into lyrics,' she says.

'Anyone who's broken my heart will know I'm singing about them! I'm going to have to fight to be taken seriously, but I love a challenge.'

This week Gemma helped launch Ultimo's new range of underwear for Valentine's Day. The spring/summer 08 collection is available at Debenhams nationwide and www.ultimo.co.uk.

Get From :nowmagazine.co.uk

Nexium for Children Approved

The FDA approved esomeprazole (Nexium) to help short term gastroesophagel reflux disease (GERD) in children between the ages of 1 and 11. The drug was approved in 2 forms: the delayed release capsule and a magnesium liquid, in 10 and 20 mg doses.

This proton pump inhibitor was already approved for adolescents between the ages of 12 to 17. This approval shows promise to help children in managing the disease more effectively. The FDA approved Nexium on the basis of exploratory research demonstrating the drug’s effectiveness and safety for use with children. Previous studies showed improvement among the children who were administered Nexium.

The FDS suggests monitoring of these children over time to ensure that they do not have any adverse side effects. There are some side effects, although not ever patient will experience them, such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, gas, constipation and dry mouth.

By MedHeadlines • Mar 1st, 2008 Source: AstraZeneca

Indonesia Today : Police Shoot heroine's seller

Bekasi. An african man, Poquidson Jeffry (31), dead after shoot by police at his rent home, Boylevard Hijau I Bekasi, west java. He shoot because try to take the police's gun.
Police find 103 g heroine in back of washing machine.
Before this act, police got Zambian Man, Abdoulie Bojang (26) at parking land of Gading Mediterania Apartement, North Jakarta. He have 52 g heroine.
And Last day police also got three man, Jn (39), Tc (44) they are Thailand man and Mag(34), english man after they arrived at Sukarno Hatta airport. They Came from Thailand. In their Bag, police get 614.46 g cocain.

Sport :Third Grand Slam creates new feeling for Sharapova.

DOHA: Maria Sharapova takes a new feeling about her future into her first WTA Tour tournament since winning the Australian Open in spectacular fashion last month.

Sharapova’s third Grand Slam title brought predictions that the 20-year-old can take over as world number one again this year. It will certainly be a different Sharapova who contests the Qatar Open starting on Monday. After enduring an injury-blightted 2007 in which she suffered many disappointments, Sharapova appears at least to have contained her long-lasting fitness problems and to have regained confidence in her ability to win more big titles. “After having so many setbacks last year, visiting so many doctors, and MRI offices, winning this just felt so right,” Sharapova said with intense feeling about her Melbourne success. The coming week, in which the Doha tournament is elevated to tier one status on the WTA Tour for the first time, should provide a test of the long-term significance of Sharapova’s remarkable Australian Open form.

While winning her first title for five months, and her first Grand Slam for 16 months, she dropped a mere 32 games in seven matches and 14 sets, and served more imposingly than at any time in her career. The sense of Sharapova having reached a watershed increased when she followed it with a long-awaited and successful Fed Cup debut in Israel a fortnight ago. It confirmed the long-time Florida resident as “Russian in my heart,” as she has always claimed, and helped dispel some of the hurtful skeptical gossip about her real identity. “There were two things I wanted most after winning the Australian Open. One was a hug from my mum and the other was a burger,” Sharapova said with pleasantly wry humour. “Instead I got a ticket to Israel.” But she played well enough and was applauded into the locker room by her team-mates after winning her first match, the performance suggesting two other significant long-term improvements.

One is to the long-lasting trouble with her shoulder and the other is to her immune system, a weakness in which afflicted her after every previous Grand Slam she played. This time she suffered no virus and less physical let-down. Nevertheless Sharapova remains only at number five in the world, and climbing higher may again require further success over the next few days against players like Ana Ivanovic, her Australian Open final opponent, and the other flying Serb, Jelena Jankovic, her semi-final opponent in Melbourne. Including these two, there should be 17 of the world’s top 20 in Doha, making it one of the best women’s tournaments ever held in the Middle East. This time though world number one Justine Henin will not be there to defend the title. The Belgian is competing in her home country this week at the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp. Then she competes again the week after next at the Dubai Open, another special tournament for her as she has never lost there.

To attempt another tournament in between, and compete three weeks in a row, would be unwise for Henin, who has had virus and fitness issues herself. Despite this Doha still has an attractive field, also containing former US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anna Chakvetadze, who maitained a perfect record of seven wins in WTA Tour finals by winning the Gaz de France in Paris last week. It also contains the last two Wimbledon winners, Venus Williams and Amelie Mauresmo. The French player, who also had a miserable injury-wrecked 2007, may be able to see Sharapova’s recovery as an example of what is possible for herself. Currently ranked at 19 in the world – her lowest position in a decade – Mauresmo has not gone beyond a quarter-final in any tournament since the Wimbledon warm-up tournament at Eastbourne eight months ago.

“I had a lot of injuries and it definitely affected my energy,” Mauresmo said of her dismal second half of the year. Now she claims that she merely needs to recover confidence. But she also withdrew from last month’s Sydney tournament citing a continuing groin injury. It means there will be many well-wishers in Doha watching and hoping that her complaining body has no more nasty surprises in store for her. afp (Source : Google News- Daily Times Pakistan)

Indonesian Issue : The Dead of Tien Soeharto

Maybe it is not secret again. Last time, Indonesian people afraid to talk it. What issue? That is about "death of Tien Suharto". Maybe all Indonesian people agree that Suharto's wife death because of killed by Her sons, Bambang Trihatmodjo and Hutomo Mandala Putra fight each other with their guns. Their guns blows and shoot their mother, she dead after that. Believe or not? up to you.