Top Rank

Kelvin Beecroft is the head of Mashable Labs, which conducts unique research into social networks, particularly widgets and other social networking add-ons. You can request research through the consulting form.

As the end of 2006 approaches, it’s clear that MySpace has spawned a cottage industry of sites supplying add-on content or media sharing services for profile owners. Many of these sites have seen phenomenal growth this year while at the same time questions loom around how to monetize. It’s interesting now to look at the top sites to see how they’re embracing such questions because for them this market is becoming big business.

This post is a look at the top add-on sites using a simple metric – reach. This is our measure of the number of profiles containing content from any of nearly 300 sites we’re tracking. We’re going to eliminate MySpace’s own widgets because we’re only interested in third party sites here. If we had included MySpace then their MySpace music player would certainly be in this list. We’re also going to look at sites as aggregate rather than individual widgets.

So, who’s in the top 10 for 2006? The table to the right shows Photobucket way out in the lead as the top add-on site by hosting content (photos, videos and slideshows) for nearly 17 million MySpace pages. But there’s more to this statistic than meets the eye. The number three site, Freeweblayouts.net, interestingly uses Photobucket for hosting of their layout graphics such as backgrounds. The same thing is going on with ImageShack and other layout sites. These are mutually beneficial relationships because they indirectly increase the user base for photo sharing sites (thus increasing hits) while providing reliable image hosting for layout sites. This demonstrates the value of establishing good partners in fast growing markets and being able to identify who good potential partners might be.

YouTube needs no introduction after their $1.65B deal.
But not everyone’s heard of Kwiz.biz, which came in at eighth place. They let you write survey questions such as “What do you dream about?” and then share those on MySpace or other social networking sites. This is a bright idea because it’s entirely user generated content which means lots of visitors to the Kwiz.biz website. They report over 30 million “kwizzes” taken. Since the site is monetized by AdSense those visitors translate into lots of clicks. This brings us to the mother of all AdSense sites – MySpace layouts sites.

Valentine's Day

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Republic Day (India)

The Republic Day of India is a national holiday of India to mark the transition of India from a British Dominion to a republic on January 26, 1950 and the adoption of the Constitution of India. It is one of the three national holidays in India. This is not to be confused with the Independence Day on August 15th.

History

Although India obtained its independence on August 15, 1947, the Constitution of India came into effect only on January 26, 1950. During the transition period from 1947 to 1950, King George VI was the head of state. C. Rajagopalachari served as the Governor-General of India during this period. Following January 26, 1950, Rajendra Prasad was elected as the president of India.

Chief Guest

India hosts another head of state as the chief guest on this day. The strategic importance of any nation as associated by India can be easily attributed from this list.

Year	Guest Name	Country
1976	Prime Minister Jacques Chirac	France
1978	President Dr.Patrick Hillery	Ireland
1986	Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou	Greece
1992	President Mario Soares	Portugal
1996	President Mr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso	Brazil
1997	Prime Minister Basdeo Panday	Trinidad and Tobago
1998	President Jacques Chirac	France
1999	King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev	Nepal
2000	President Olusegun Obasanjo	Nigeria
2001	President Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Algeria
2002	President Cassam Uteem	Mauritius
2003	President Mohammed Khatami	Iran
2004	President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva	Brazil
2005	King Jigme Singye Wangchuk	Bhutan
2006	King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud	Saudi Arabia
2007	President Vladimir Putin	Russia
2008	President Nicholas Sarkozy	France

HAPPY PONGAL

Pongal Greetings

Pongal is a festival when the natives of Tamil Nadu, in particular the farmer community, celebrate the Sun God and the farm animals. In Tamil Nadu, Pongal is celebrated with great pomp and show for 4 days. On Thai Pongal day, the entire family wakes up early in the morning take bath, wear new clothes and congregate in the courtyard to cook the customary Pongal (rice pudding). The eldest member of the family does the cooking of Pongal who is aided by the other members. When milk begins to trickles from the pot, everybody shouts "Pongalo Pongal". This very moment signifies a promising sign. Some of the cooked meal is then put aside as a sign of thanks giving to the sun, nature and farmers. Later the left food is shared among the family, friends and neighbors

About MySpace

MySpacebk is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; in turn, the owner of Fox Interactive and therefore MySpacebk, News Corporation, has its headquarters in New York City.

Profile customization (HTML) :

MySpacebk allows users to customize their user profile pages by entering HTML (but not JavaScript) into such areas as "About Me," "I'd Like to Meet," and "Interests." Videos, and flash-based content can be included this way. Users also have the option to add music to their profile pages via MySpacebk Music, a service that allows bands to post songs for use on MySpacebk.

MySpacebkTV :

In early 2007, MySpacebk introduced MySpacebkTV, not a YouTube look-alike video sharing website.

MySpacebk Mobile :

There are a variety of environments in which users can access MySpacebk content on their mobile phone. American mobile phone provider Helio released a series of mobile phones in early 2006 that can utilise a service known as MySpacebk Mobile to access and edit one's profile and communicate with, and view the profiles of, other members.[16] Additionally, UIEvolution and MySpacebk developed a mobile version of MySpacebk for a wider range of carriers, including AT&T[17], Vodafone[18] and Rogers Wireless[19].