Oscar Award Academy: the Winners are
AP reports the Award Academy winners
Heath Ledger won the supporting-actor Academy Award for “The Dark Knight,” while best-picture favorite “Slumdog Millionaire” cruised to six wins in an Oscar evening that was following the script of earlier Hollywood honors where the underdog tale dominated.
Penelope Cruz claimed the evening’s first prize, supporting actress, for her role as a tempestuous artist in Woody Allen’s Spanish romance “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” while the robot romance “WALL-E” won for feature-length animation.
For his demented reinvention of Batman villain the Joker, Ledger became only the second actor ever to win posthumously, his triumph coming exactly 13 months after his death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs on Oscar nominations day last year.
I haven’t watched it, but based on many reviews, it really deserves the Academy Award
Slumdog has ten Oscar nominations, not as many as Benjamin Button, which leads with thirteen. However, having captured top honors at every awards show to date, Slumdog Millionaire is easily the favorite to win the Academy Award for best picture.
Slumdog Millionaire, the little $14 million picture shot in the slums of India, is on it’s way to grossing $100 million. “I’d never been to India,” says Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle. “Because India is a democracy, the slums have become incredibly powerful places politically. They have a lot of people in them. There are a lot of votes in a small area.”
A.R. Rahman got the double awards for best music and song:
Indian music director AR Rahman’s score for Slumdog Millionaire has won an Oscar for best music, and a second for best song. The BBC’s Soutik Biswas discusses what makes Rahman tick.
… the jingle maker-turned-musician has finally got recognition as India’s first truly global film music composer with his score for Danny Boyle’s sleeper hit Slumdog Millionaire.
The score is an untidy smorgasbord of hip hop, Bollywood remix and signature pop anthem. But it works because it follows the film’s giddy pace, the darkness of its characters, its portrayal of lives on the edge.
Slumdog Millionaire one sequence
Watch the Slumdog Millionaire Trailer
With Internet Everyone can Publish
With internet (and blog) everyone can publish, and everyone will. And what an amazing willingness it is when opportunity comes. Have a look at the following statistic:
One thing that we have learned in our industry is that people have a lot to say. They are using the Internet to publish things at an astonishing pace. 120K blogs are created daily — most of them with an audience of one. Over half of them are created by people under the age of nineteen. In the US, nearly 40 percent of Internet users upload videos, and globally over fifteen hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The web is very social too: about one of every six minutes that people spend online is spent in a social network of some type.
Publishing used to be constrained by physical limitations. You had to have a printing press and a distribution network, or a transmitter, to publish to any sort of critical mass, so broadcasting was the norm. No more. Today, most publishing is done by users for users, one-to-one or one-to-many (think of Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube). Free speech is no longer just a right granted by law, but one imbued by technology.
Creating Facebook Pages
Fatih Syuhud’s Facebook Pages. Feel free to join. 
Like WordPress, Facebook has the so-called Pages.
To create a Facebook Pages is simple.
After login to your Facebook account, open this URL: facebook.com/pages/create.php and just follow further instruction which is self-explanatory.
Facebook Pages, products and its mission:
Company Overview:
Facebook Pages is a Facebook Product, built by Facebook engineers. Facebook Pages, which launched in November 2007, allow local businesses, sports teams, artists, films, brands, public figures, non-profits and other business organizations to have a presence on Facebook. Today, hundreds of thousands of businesses are leveraging Facebook Pages to reach consumers.
Mission:
Through Facebook Pages we hope businesses have a more powerful tool to build a consumer base, sell products, run promotions, schedule appointments or reservations, share information, and interact with customers.
Products:
Users can add themselves to your Facebook Page as fans, write on your Wall, purchase products, learn about special promotions, upload photos, and join other users in discussion groups. You can send Updates to all your fans whenever you like. And you can add applications to your Page and engage Facebook users with videos, notes, links, Flash content, and more.
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iPhone and Ipod Touch can Paint
Mobile devices are no longer just for communication, entertainment and business: They can make art, too. Several different iTunes apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch allow users to edit photos, record music and now paint. more
