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5. Rashmi Sinha
If it wasn’t for India-born Rashmi Sinha, there wouldn’t be SlideShare. Sinha caught the Web bug when she was researching onhow search engine optimization as well as algorithmsworkto help push recommended contentat the University of California, Berkeley. After her research, she went on to start a user-experience consultancy Uzanto which provided services to companies such as eBay, AAA, and Blue Shield.
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In 2006, Sinha and her husband Jon Boutelleco-founded SlideShare. She became its CEO while her husband is the CTO. As you know, the site makes it possible to share PowerPoint slides online without the need of a presenter. SlideShare’suser-based community and user-friendlinessdraws people to discover new content as well as generates its own traffic. In 2012, LinkedIn acquiredthe presentation-sharing site for over $100 million.
6. Leah Culver
You may not have heard of social networking site Pownce,as it met its early demise in 2008.
Many attributed it to the acquisition by software company Six Apart, who was after the talented staffof Pownce, which was then Twitter’s biggest competitor. What almost nobody focused on is that it’s possibly the reasonwhy Facebook and Twitter is now able to share and attach links, files, photos and videos on their platforms. And the women behind it is Leah Culver.
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Interestingly Culver switched her art major for computer programming when studying at the University of Minnesota. A year after she graduated in 2006, she launched Pownce with Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka. Culver is thelead developer for Powncehaving created the site from scratch using the Python programming language.
7. Marissa Mayer
Currently, Marissa Mayer is the president and CEO of Yahoo!. Before that however, everyone knew her as Google’s employee number 20 in 1999 and the search engine’s first female engineer. Anyone who is tech news savvy will know that Mayerworked on a slew of Google services that we all use. Among them are Google Search, Google News, Google Images, and Google Chrome.
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Her attention to detail and user-first mindsetcontributed to the look and feel of these products. She was so good at her jobthat she became Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. In her final two years at Google, she was made Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location Services. In this division, she oversaw the engineering and designof Google Maps, Google Earth, Street View and local search for both web and mobile.
[color=puple]8. Mena Trott[/color]
Mena Trott made it possible for us aspiring writers to start out by blogging. In fact, shemade it easy to blog. Trott co-founded Six Apartwith now former husband Benjamin in 2001 that specializes in developing blogging software. The company came up with Movable Type in 2001, a blogging software that is similar to and precedes WordPress.
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Before Six Apart and Movable Type, blogging meant hard-coding your own online diary.
In 2003, Trott and her team came up with blog hosting service, TypePad, based on Movable Type’s software and featureseasy-to-use blogging tools. Some of the tools include multiple author support, photo albums and mobile blogging. Six Apart eventually came up with blogging platform Vox and acquired Livejournal before it finally joined forces with VideoEgg to become SAY Mediain 2010.
9. Susan Wojcicki
Another Google employee, Susan Wojcicki was responsible forselling ads on the search engine giant. Recently made the CEO of YouTubein February 2014, Wojcicki used to lead Google’s Advertising and Commerce division. She first started out as Google employee number 16 as its Marketing Manager and if it weren’t for her renting out her garageto Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998, there would be no Google.
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During her tenure as Vice President of Advertising and Commerce, Wojcicki came up with AdWords and AdSense.
The 2 advertising services are why you see ads on websites and blogs today which contributed 96% to Google’s revenue. Wojcicki is also the person responsible for acquiring YouTubeand DoubleClick as well as developing the doodles on Google’s home page

Last week i wrote an article about 42 people who changed the internet, but no single woman was mentioned.But that doesn’t mean that the Internetis lacking in talented women. like the popular saying What a man can do , a woman can do better………… Critics say that these women were not given enough recognition for their efforts unlike the men and in many instances, Yes they are right. Not to say that all of them go unnoticed but you might not have heard of some or most of them.Today i am going to share with you 10 women who significantly contributed to how we use the Internet today.
1. Radia Perlman
This list wouldn’t be complete if we don’t revisit history and include Radia Perlman who is widely hailed as the Mother of the Internet. Perlman is most famous forcreating the spanning-tree protocol(STP). STP bridges two computer networks so that they can exchange information. You can see its usage in Local Area Networks (LAN) where many computers are accessing one network and the Ethernet.
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STP made the Internet possible, as it allows the Ethernet to handle large amounts of information being exchanged and stored which set the precedent of cloud computing. As asoftware designer and network engineer, Perlman is also credited with inventing the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links(TRILL) to make up for STP’sshortcomings.
2. Elizabeth Feinler
Wired described Elizabeth Feinler as the person “before Google and GoDaddy”. Feinler is considered thepioneer of the Internetwhen she was the Director of the Network Information Center (NIC) at the Standford Research Institute (SRI) from 1972 to 1989. She also managed the ARPANET, the network that connected various research centers across the country, which was seen as the predecessor to the Internet.
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Feinler was more commonly known as Jake, a nickname given by her sister that stuck. In managing the NIC, Feinleroversaw the creation and registration of Internet addresses or URLs.
It first started out manually with Feinler and her team maintaining and publishing directories of people. The resources were distributed via snail mail and was also available through a telephone hotline the team set up.
Over time as the Internet evolved, the NIC came up with the Dormain Name System(DNS). DNS maintains the naming scheme of URLs such as .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net, .org as well as translating domain names into IP adresses. Needless to say, these contributions of hers are still in use today.
3. Caterina Fake
Caterina Fakeco-founded with her husband Stewart Butterfield popular photo-sharing site Flickrin 2004. Yahoo! then acquired Flickr in 2005. Before Flickr came about, photo-sharing meant sending your pictures through email. And you know how sending photos via email was years ago when emails couldn’t handle attaching photos in bulk.
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Additionally, the existence of Flickr also brought about theadvent of many of Web 2.0′s featureslike social networking, tagging, algorithms that bring up popular content, and community open APIs. Interestingly the site was meant to be a multi-player gaming site until lack of funds spurred Fake and her husband to change tack.
4. Mitchell Baker
If it weren’t for Mitchell Baker, most of us would still be browsing the Web with Internet Explorer. As Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation, Bakerled part of Netscapes team on the Mozilla project. The project, as you can tell from the name, birthed the open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox, which made the Internet experience safe and stable.
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Trained as a lawyer, Baker used her expertise to create Netscape’s open source license, making it free as well as the basis of Mozilla’s public license. It helped pave an era of open source software and inspired open source projectssuch as GitHub, HTML5 and Android.

Talk with your NOSE: 16-year-old invents gadget that translates breaths into Morse codeto help disabled people communicate
Indian Arsh Shah Dilbaghi has unveiled a device that convertsnosebreaths into speech
The innovative project is an entry in Google’s 2014 Science Fair
It works using a tube to measure two lengths of breaths – dots and dashes in Morse code
These are then sent to a synthesiser and spoken aloud by one of nine voices
A second mode lets the user ‘speak’ in commands or phrases
Dilbaghi says the device could be used by sufferers of Parkinson’s, ALS and other conditions to more easily communicate.
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According To Dailymail Indian Arsh Shah Dilbaghi has unveiled a device that convertsnosebreaths into speech (shown). The innovative project is an entry in Google’s 2014 Science Fair. It works using a tube to measure two lengths of breaths dots and dashes in Morse code.
Talk, from Indian Arsh Shah Dilbaghi, is one of 15 finalists in Google’s Global Science Fair project, reports Business Insider.
He says that 1.4 per cent of the world’s population suffer from disorders that make regular communication all but impossible.
In addition he says current devices are expensive and bulky, and do not offer a suitable alternative to regular speech.

WHAT IS THE GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR??
The Google Science Fair is a global online science and technology competition for individuals and teams aged 13 to 18.
Participants must formulate a hypothesis, perform an experiment and then present their results.
Dilbagi is one of 15 teenagers in the 2014 Google Science Fair finals.
The winning project will receive a 10-day tip to the Galapagos Islands, £30,000 ($50,000) in scholarship funding and a visit to Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport in the Mojave Desert.

His idea was to make a gadget that was affordable, faster, portable and generic.
It works by recognising two distinguishing exhales from a person in Morse code a short burst and a slightly longer one.
This mimics the action of dots and dashes in Morse code.
The breaths are recorded by a tube that attaches under a person’snoseand into an external device.
Inside the device the bursts of air are converted into words and sentences, and then read aloud by one of nine synthesised voices.
Talk also has a second mode, which lets the user speak in specific commands or phases.
‘I got predicted results by testing the device with a person suffering from SEM [a disease of the brain] and Parkinson’s disease,’ Dilbaghi writes in his proposal.
In future I would like to add auto-predictions to my Computing-Engine and integrate Talk with modern technology like Google Glass to make the world a better place to live [for] people with developmental disabilities.’
The winning project in Google’s Science Fair will receive a 10-day tip to the Galapagos Islands, £30,000 ($50,000) in scholarship funding and a visit to Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport in the Mojave Desert.
This mimics the action of dots and dashes in Morse code.
The breaths are recorded by a tube that attaches under a person’s nose and into an external device.
Inside the device the bursts of air are converted into words and sentences, and then read aloud by one of nine synthesised voices.
Talk also has a second mode, which lets the user speak in specific commands or phases.
‘I got predicted results by testing the device with a person suffering from SEM [a disease of the brain] and Parkinson’s disease,’ Dilbaghi writes in his proposal.
In future I would like to add auto-predictions to my Computing-Engine and integrate Talk with modern technology like Google Glass to make the world a better place to live [for] people with developmental disabilities.’
The winning project in Google’s Science Fair will receive a 10-day tip to the Galapagos Islands, £30,000 ($50,000) in scholarship funding and a visit to Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport in the Mojave Desert.
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The Morse code breaths are sent to a synthesiser and spoken aloud by one of nine voices. A second mode lets the user speak in commands or phrases. Dilbaghi says the device could be used by sufferers of Parkinson’s, ALS (such as Professor Hawking, shown above in 2008) and other conditions to more easily communicate..

fleps: That's nice. I must say that the articles on your website are delightful and makes a good read. They are nice tutorials. I'll like us to connect.

fleps: Wow! Awesome piece! And I like your website too. Clear and easy to navigate.

Please did you get approved for AdSense with this website?

timilehing: for me, its the other way round

timilehing: 15 years ago, do u imagine holding a mobile phone in ur hand not to say accessing web page on it. Were u not living a glorious life then?? Before the arrival of corn, fowls ve always had something to eat

timilehing: The world was much more a better place without internet

Blogging is the act of posting content on a blog (a Web logor online journal) or posting comments on someone else’s blog.
Blogging is very popular today because it allows people to interact with each other. Blogging has also become a popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool because search engines like Google and Yahoo know that a blog is frequently updated with content or visitor comments, so their spiders visit blogs frequently looking for new content to include in their index.
Let’s get one thing out of the way
Blogging is difficult and if you want to get the kind of traffic and exposure you really want then you need to stay within a niche in which you are very good at. It really does not have to be something you have been doing for ever, it only needs to be something you love doing. Simply put, write about your passion.
Having said that, Akeem Baiyewu an editor of punch explained that you don’t really need to be an expert in a particular niche before you begin to sound and look-like an expert in that field. This article is for would-be bloggers who need to write great content about a niche they really do not know much about.
Do you know it is easy to be an authority in a particular niche? All you need is the dedication and ample time to do your research and our old good friend, the Internet. If you have a lot of time, you could go learn about the niche you want to write about. That could take anything from over 52 weeks or more but if you are on a deadline, here are some simple tips that can help you write about any niche. You can also use it to improve your writing in your present niche.
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Do your homework
One of the easiest ways to write about any topic is to learn all you can about it. Let’s take an example. I want to write about surgical procedures. The first point to consider is to fire up my browser and type
the word “surgery” into my browser. What I want to achieve at this point is to know all I can about surgery and to get a feel of how other people have written about the topic. You can also do this if you can lay your hands on publications or magazines that discuss the topic. What you will be looking for at this point apart from learning the rudiment is to note down links to researches, quotes, expert names and sources that were mentioned and anything else that can be of interest. Most especially you want to know what interest people about the topic.
Talk to experts
After following step 1, you are now in a better position from where you started. You now have a better understanding of the industry and issues that people love to talk about. In the process of your research, you might have come across an expert who had discussed any issue pertaining to the topic you are interested in. This is possible if you have followed the links you came across earlier in your research. Now is the time to take it a notch further.
Interviewing two or three experts will give you a better insight into the topic and you might even stumble upon facts or figures that have not been previously discussed. You can even ask them for a quote or reference. If the expert is not in your country, you can research their contact details or simply shoot them a tweet online. People really don’t want unnecessary interruption so you have to be as authentic as possible.
Follow your leads
By this point you should have plenty of leads, quotes, figures and fact. Once you have been able to cross check all facts and stats, you can begin to write your first draft. The idea of this draft is to see if you have been able to piece together a puzzle which you do not understand.
After writing this first draft, you want to see if your article needs improvement. There are no set rules or procedures for writing your draft but it is important to state that it is usually a good idea to leave your first draft for at least 24 hours before coming back to it.
Once you come back to it, you want to read it again and see how it turns out by putting all the pieces together.
Once you do this, you need to see if there are no glaring omissions. When writing a great piece, you need to be as specific as possible!
When you feel confident you can write with authority, it’s time to do just that.
Putting it all together
This is where you put everything you have been writing together. At this point, you will be dotting the ‘I’s and crossing the ‘t’s.
Conclusion
Writing about any topic can be fun if you are ready to put in the leg work required. Try this technique and let me know how well it worked for you in the comment section.

Mention: Just in case

lawrenceunaa: Robert Tappan Morris First Worm Virus. The concept of a worm virus is unique compare
to the conventional hacking. Instead of getting
into a network themselves, they send a small
program they have coded to do the job. From this
concept, Robert Tappan Morris created the Morris
Worm. It’s one of the very first worm viruses to be sent out over the internet that inadvertently
caused many thousands of dollars worth of
damage and “loss of productivity” when it
was released in the late 80s.



This one ^^^ shouldn't be considered as an achievement but wickedness and greed

After purchasing a pc , you install an anti-virus and purchase an anti-virus and update an anti-virus the list won't still stop

priscaoge: They are great indeed! I wonder what d world will look like without Internet/Technology!!!Nice compilation @op

dayos12: Well, this is a post that deserves much more than a forum presence. It ought to be housed somewhere better.

stardragon: They hav tyd alot

bonaventure73: so PHILIP EMEAGWALI didn't contribute anything?

Philip Emeagwali(born in 1954) is a Nigerian-born engineer, mathematicianand computer scientist/ geologistwho was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputerto help analyze petroleum fields.
Emeagwali was voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New Africanmagazine. His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clintonas an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity. He is also a frequent feature of Black History Month articles in the popular press.

olahero: I will join the league soon. So help me God.

Just Take a second, and try to imagine the world without the Internet
its Kind of tough, huh!..How do you managed to get through the day without the internet ,which many people believed started 25yrs back.The Internet, for better or worse, has changed almost every single aspect of our lives.
Perhaps the most important and lasting impact of the Internet is the speed at which people can now come together to protest thanks to social networks, especially Twitter and facebook.

In 2012, there were more than 2 billion internet users. One thing is certain, the internet, also known as the World Wide Web, has forever changed the way that people obtain and gather information, in addition to how people all over the world communicate with each other.

They are alot of people who have contributed one way or the other to the growth and sucess of the internet….
when it comes with Having idea about one thing is common but turning that idea into a booming company through innovation and execution is what that matters most. Here, these are the people who have the biggest impact on the direction of the web: past, present, and future. They changed the internet and revolutionized the way we lead our lives today. Just imagine the world without internet. You can’t because it has become our daily life.

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

Father of the Internet.

The Father of Internet Vint Cerf, together with Bob Kahn created the TCP/IP suite of communication protocols. a language used by computers to talk to each other in a network. Vint Cerf once said that the internet is just a mirror of the population and spam is a side effect of a free service.

Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of WWW.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He wrote the first web client and server and designed a way to create links, or hypertext, amid different pieces of online information. He now maintains standards for the web and continues to refine its design as a director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).


Ray Tomlinson

Father of Email.

Programmer Ray Tomlinson, the Father of Email made it possible to exchange messages between machines in diverse locations; between universities, across continents, and oceans. He came up with the “@” symbol format for e-mail addresses. Today, more than a billion people around the world type @ sign every day.


Michael Hart

The birth of eBooks.

Michael Hart started the birth of eBooks and breaks down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy. He created the Project Gutenberg and was considered world’s first electronic library that changed the way we read. The collection includes public domain works and copyrighted works with express permission.

Gary Thuerk

The first Email spam.

Spamming is an old marketing technique. Gary Thuerk, sent his first mass e-mailing to customers over the Arpanet for Digital’s new T-series of VAX systems. What he didn’t realize at the time was that he had sent the world’s first spam.


Scott Fahlman

The first emoticon.

Scott Fahlman is credited with originating the first ASCII-based smiley emoticon, which he thought would help to distinguish between posts that should be taken humorously and those of a more serious nature. Now, everybody uses them in messenger programs, chat rooms, and e-mail.

Marc Andreessen

Netscape Navigator. (wikipedia)

Marc Andreessen revolutionized Internet navigation. He came up with first widely used Web browser called Mosaic which was later commercialised as the Netscape Navigator. Marc Andreessen is also co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter.


Jarkko Oikarinen

Internet Relay Chat, IRC. (wikipedia)

Jarkko Oikarinen developed the first real-time online chat tool in Finland known as Internet Relay Chat. IRC’s fame took off in 1991. When Iraq invaded Kuwait and radio and TV signals were shut down, thanks to IRC though up-to-date information was able to be distribute.


Robert Tappan Morris

First Worm Virus.

The concept of a worm virus is unique compare to the conventional hacking. Instead of getting into a network themselves, they send a small program they have coded to do the job. From this concept, Robert Tappan Morris created the Morris Worm. It’s one of the very first worm viruses to be sent out over the internet that inadvertently caused many thousands of dollars worth of damage and “loss of productivity” when it was released in the late 80s.


David Bohnett

Geocities. (wikipedia)

David Bohnett founded GeoCities in 1994, together with John Rezner. It grew to become the largest community on the Internet. He pioneered and championed the concept of providing free home pages to everyone on the web. The company shut down the service on October 27, 2009.


Ward Cunningham

The first Wiki.

American programmer Ward Cunningham developed the first wiki as a way to let people collaborate, create and edit online pages together. Cunningham named the wiki after the Hawaiian word for “quick.”


Sabeer Bhatia

Hotmail. (wikipedia)

Sabeer Bhatia founded Hotmail in which the uppercase letters spelling out HTML-the language used to write the base of a webpage. He got in the news when he sold the free e-mailing service , Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million. He was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Draper Fisher Jurvertson in 1998 and was noted by TIME as one of the “People to Watch” in international business in 2002. His most exciting acquisition of 2009 was Jaxtyr which he believes is set to overtake Skype in terms of free global calling.


Matt Drudge

The Drudge Report. (wikipedia)

Matt Drudge started the news aggregation website The Drudge Report. It gained popularity when he was the first outlet to break the news that later became the Monica Lewinsky scandal.


Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Google. (wikipedia)

Larry Page and Sergey Brin changed the way we search and use the Internet. They worked as a seamless team at the top of the search giant. Their company grew rapidly every year since it began. Page and Brin started with their own funds, but the site quickly outgrew their own existing resources. They later obtain private investments through Stanford. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and their company Google, continue to favor engineering over business.


Bill Gates

Microsoft. (wikipedia)

Bill Gates founded the software company called “Micro-Soft”. a combination of “microcomputer software.” Later on, Bill Gates developed a new GUI (Graphical User Interface) for a disk operating system. He called this new style Windows. He has all but accomplished his famous mission statement, to put “a computer on every desk and in every home”. at least in developed countries.


Steve Jobs

Apple. (wikipedia)

Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personal computer led him into revolutionizing the computer hardware and software industry. The Apple founder changed the way we work, play and communicate. He made simple and uncluttered web design stylish. The story of Apple and Steve Jobs is about determination, creative genius, pursuit of innovation with passion and purpose.


David Filo and Jerry Yang

Yahoo. (wikipedia)

David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo! as a pastime and evolved into a universal brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle,” but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: “rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.”


Brad Fitzpatrick

LiveJournal. (wikipedia)

Brad Fitzpatrick created LiveJournal, one of the earliest blogging platforms. He is seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz. He is also the author of a variety of free software projects such as memcached, used on LiveJournal, Facebook and YouTube. LiveJournal continues today as an online community where people can share updates on their lives via diaries and blogs. Members connect by creating a “friends list” that links to their pals’ recent entries.


Shawn Fanning

Napster. (wikipedia)

Shawn Fanning developed Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program designed to let music fans find and trade music. Users put whatever files they were willing to share with others into special directories on their hard drives. The service had more than 25 million users at its peak in 2001, and was shut down after a series of high-profile lawsuits, not before helping to spark the digital music revolution now dominated by Apple. Napster has since been rebranded and acquired by Roxio.


Peter Thiel

Paypal. (wikipedia)

Peter Thiel is one of many Web luminaries associated with PayPal. PayPal had enabled people to transfer money to each other instantly. PayPal began giving a small group of developers access to its code, allowing them to work with its super-sophisticated transaction framework. Peter Thiel cofounded PayPal at age 31 and sold it to eBay four years later for $1.5 billion.

Pierre Morad Omidyar

Ebay. (wikipedia)

Pierre Omidyar set up an online marketplace that brought buyers and sellers together as never before, and pioneered the concept of quantifying the trustworthiness of an anonymous user. In building his auction empire, Omidyar counted on the power of the individual. Omidyar’s greatest strength is his insight into human nature. He understood that people would buy just about anything. one man’s junk is, in fact, another’s treasure.


Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia. (wikipedia)

Jimmy Wales founded the world’s largest encyclopaedia which carries articles that can easily be edited by anyone who can access the website. It was launched in 2001 and is currently the most popular general reference work on the Internet.

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake.

Flickr. (wikipedia)

Photosharing website has become a part of everyday online life for millions of people. Stewart Butterfield, who with his wife Caterina Fake created Flickr that was born out of an online multi-player game that seemed to sum up everything the Web 2.0 people were trying to do. Flickr came along with an idea that you no longer had an album. Instead, you had a photo stream. Yahoo later on acquired Flickr in 2005.


Jonathan Abrams

Friendster. (wikipedia)

Jonathan Abrams built Friendster, together with Cris Emmanuel, offering many tools to help members find dates. He took the idea from Match.com. It’s the first social network to hit the big time and go mainstream. Members create profiles listing favorite movies and books (and dating status) and link up to friends, who linked to their friends, and so on.


Niklas Zennstrom

Skype. (wikipedia)

Niklas Zennstrom co-founded the fastest growing communications trend in history called Skype. It offered consumers worldwide a free software for making superior-quality calls using their computer and expanded its offering for Linux, MAC & PC and mobile/ handheld devices.


Bram Cohen

Bit Torrent. (wikipedia)

If Napster started the first generation of file sharing , Bram Cohen changed the face of file sharing by developing BitTorrent which has a massive following of users almost instantly. It uses the Golden Rule principle: the faster you upload, the faster you are allowed to download. BitTorrent breaks up files into many little portions, and as soon as a user has a piece, they instantly start uploading that part to other users. So almost everybody who is sharing a given file is simultaneously uploading and downloading pieces of the same file.

Bram Cohen Bit Torrent 42 People Who Changed the Internet
Reid Hoffman

LinkedIn. (wikipedia)

Reid Hoffman, a former executive vice president at PayPal, created LinkedIn as a professional social network allowing registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. Members can search for jobs, trade resumes, find new hires and keep up with the competition.

Matt Mullenweg

WordPress. (wikipedia)

Matt Mullenweg founded the world’s most used open source blogging and the greatest boon to freedom of expression known as WordPress. Some of the most popular websites run on WordPress are Techcrunch, Huffingtonpost, Mashable and more.

Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim

Youtube. (wikipedia)

Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim met as early employees at PayPal. They later started the internet’s most popular video-sharing site YouTube which is broadcasting more than 100 million short videos daily on myriad subjects. When creating YouTube, the three divided work based on skills: Chad Hurley designed the site’s interface and logo. Steve Chen and Jawed Karim divide technical duties making the site work. They later split management tasks, based on strengths and interests: Chad Hurley became CEO; Steve Chen, Chief Technology Officer. A year and a half later, Google acquired YouTube for a deal worth $1.65 billion in stock.


Craig Newmark

Craigslist. (wikipedia)

Craig Newmark started a site that dramatically altered the classified advertising universe called Craiglist. It was an object of fear for newspapers who felt threatened by the free-for-all classified advertising site. It began as an e-mail list for Newmark’s friends in the Bay Area. Since then, it has grown into an online database for classified ads for those seeking everything from housing to romance.


Julian Assange

WikiLeaks. (wikipedia)

Julian Assange founded a website dedicated to publishing classified documents stolen from around the world. He designed an advanced software for the Wikileaks shielding the identities of the thieves who steal these documents by completely erasing their identities before spreading the stolen documents to servers ‘all over the world’. As a result, no one can trace who’s given him what or when. The site depicts itself as the “uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis” and has developed to be regarded as the most extensive and safest stage for whistleblowers to leak to.


Dick Costolo

FeedBurner. (wikipedia)

People generally check their preferred sites every now and then to see if there’s anything new. FeedBurner founder Dick Costolo created a news aggregator that automatically downloads an update that is visible in the places that interest you. An RSS feed, short for Really Simple Syndication, delivers those latest bits of media from their creator’s website to your computer. FeedBurner was later acquired by Google in 2007. Currently, Dick Costolo is Twitter’s Chief Operating Officer making twitter the next generation RSS.


Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook. (wikipedia)

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook to help students in universities keep in touch with friends. The “status update” started its rebirth in Facebook, where user after user tell their extended network of trusted friends what they’re doing. They also show off photos, upload videos, chat, make friends, meet old ones, join causes, groups, have fun and throw virtual sheep at one another. The site, which is believed to have 500 million registered users worldwide, has only four remaining countries left to conquer: Russia, Japan, China and Korea, according to Zuckerberg. Facebook is now twice as huge as Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace.


Jack Dorsey

Twitter. (wikipedia)

Jack Dorsey created Twitter to allow friends and family know what he was doing. The world’s fastest-growing communications medium let users broadcast their thoughts in 140 characters or less and repost someone else’s informative or amusing message to their own Twitter followers by Retweeting. No one thought people would want to follow strangers, or that celebrities would use Twitter to tell fans of their activities, or that businesses would use Twitter to announce discounts or launch new products.


Christopher Poole

4chan message board. (wikipedia)

Christopher Poole, known online as “Moot,” started a message board called 4chan where people are free to be wrong. Unlike most web forums, 4chan does not have a registration system, allowing users to post anonymously. Moot believes in the value of multiple identities, including anonymity, in contrast to the merge of online and real-world identities occurring on Facebook and many other social networking sites.


Joshua Schachter

Delicious. (wikipedia)

Del.icio.us is a more sophisticated multiuser version of Muxway, wherein his first implementation of tags. Joshua Schachter began del.icio.us as a way for people to store and share their favorite Web-browsing bookmarks online. Instead of organizing them himself, or even creating a standard taxonomy of categories, Schachter used something called user tagging-people simply labeled the bookmarks by any name they wanted, and eventually the group as a whole effectively voted on them by either adopting those tags themselves or rejecting them. And now del.icio.us has been gobbled up by Yahoo, which hopes to extend the tagging principle to all sorts of its services.


Jeff Bezos

Amazon. (wikipedia)

Jeff Bezos founded the world’s biggest online store known as Amazon, which was originally named Cadabra Inc. He made online shopping faster and more personal than a trip to the local store. The company now introduced Kindle allowing readers to download books and other written materials and read them on this handheld device.


Seun Osewa

Nairaland. (wikipedia)

Seun Osewa founded the largest forum site in africa and the third largest in the world. If you’re an active internet user, or you consult that machine to search for stuff, chances are you would have come across Nairaland. Well, Nairaland is Nigeria’s biggest indigenous website and only Facebook, Yahoo, Google and are more viewed than it according to alexa ranking. Put better, it commands more visits than Twitter and Wikipedia in Nigeria. It is the seventh most visited website in Nigeria and among the top 1000 most viewed sites in the world. Nairaland records more than one million views everyday..

Seun Osewa who some people regarded as Mark Zuckerberg of Nigeria.In 2013, he was listed as one of the 30 Under 30 youngest entrepreneur by forbes magazine.




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laivwire: How to answer calls without touching the screen on ANY phone.

Simply plug in an headset and press the pick button when a call comes through. Simple



Thanks for the tutorial Op, dnt mind me

At times, to answer a phone call may not be possible because you are busy doing something like washing cloth , plates e.t.c or maybe your hands are dirty or busy with something else. In situations such as this, accepting the call using voice commands or gestures over the phone’s screen is ideal. Both of these features are available on your Samsung high-end phone. However, they are turned off by default. Here is how to activate and use them.
Please note that the screenshots in this tutorial were taken using a Galaxy S5. However, the steps below will work on other high-end Samsung devices as well.
1. Open the app drawer, and choose Settings.
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2. Inside the Settings app under the Quick Settings section, you will find an option with a hand icon named Accessibility. Tap on this option to continue. If the option is not available there, scroll down to the Personalization section to find it.
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3.Next, tap on the Answering andending callsoption.
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4.At the top of the list, you will see three options that allow you to answer incoming phone calls without touching the screen: Pressing theHome key, Voice control, and Waving hand over device.From my personal experience, using the Voice control and Waving hand over device options are the most practical ways to answer a phone call when your hands are dirty. Depending on your situation, you may want to enable one or both of them. When you have enabled the features, just close theSettingsapp.
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Please note thatvoice control does not work when your phone is in vibrate mode. To improve the accuracy of the voice recognition system, try saying the command when the volume of the ringtone is reduced.
5.When there is a call, you can simply say,“Answer the call,”or wave your hand over the top of the device to accept it. To refuse the call, turn the phone upside down. Be aware that whenever you accept a call using your voice, the speaker will be turned on automatically.

Gerrie: Never mind the mods,
They are on their way with Keke,
Anyway, hope some dude hasn't posted this already in a more appropriate section.

Stbillion: Imagine: if it is battery power, u lock your house or bike and latter realise the battery is dawn.

Came back from stressful work bring ur phone and found battery low before your could......your phone shotdown.

DECOtech: yes nah! ...since it unlocks by sensing that Ur phone is close... Abeg leave story. Do you have it?

simplejayy: creativity...the true essence of life

DECOtech: I want to make my car a "keyless" entry car. OP, come and take money for one padlock

Mention: It may not sef.... And if it does, it would take time

Coldfeet: Nice artistry but how come I suddenly feel like eating chips, biscuit and walnut

GovWahala: Creativity.
Is today world Art day?