YouTube turned 5

5 years ago when Yakov Lapitzy pointed a video camera at his friend Jawed Karim standing in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo and hit the record button, he not just recorded another video but he made history which was the first video ("Me at the Zoo") to go online on YouTube,

Five years time-line of YouTube

Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google. Its Slogan is "Broadcast Yourself".

To celebrate the occasion, YouTube added a candle in the shape of a five to its logo. Additionally, the company launched an official YouTube Five Year channel, which contains the “My YouTube Story” — a project that includes videos of people from many places describing how YouTube has changed their lives. The channel also features some of the most popular videos in the history of the site.

Video sharing website YouTube now gets more than two billion hits daily

Beautiful Brands @ Cannes

Aishwarya Rai with Swarovski "Mybag", a clutch in Crystal Mesh. "Mybag" features over 700 crystals to give it an incomparable shine.









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Elsa Pataky is wearing Mont Blanc Bouquet Necklace

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Fan Bing Bin wearing Cartier jewelry

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Eva Longoria is wearing de Grisogono jewelry

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Renault is providing more than 100 vehicles to escort stars to the red carpet

Keshav Pandit from book stalls to TV Show

Zee TV, is launching the much read novel of Keshav Pandit as a TV show and trying to foray into an entirely new genre on television. Previous venture with Balaji Telefilms, The character of Keshav Pandit, played by Sarwar Ahuja a find from Zee Cinestar Ki Khoj.

Ved Prakash Sharma, the writer of the show, said, “I am very happy that Zee TV & Balaji Telefilms is taking my stories to national audiences. Keshav Pandit is one of my most popular characters and the book is already in its 10 edition". The show is being marketed in a unique nature where Zee TV has taken the initiative of educating masses about their basic rights through messages in local trains, buses, traffic police booths, on-air television promos, newspaper stalls etc.The existing distribution network of ‘Keshav Pandit’ books would be used to spread these messages through various communications at the book stalls. The show will be shot across North India, featuring various rural and urban locations of cities like Lucknow, Allahabad and Varanasi.

Flags of 220 countries on his body

Guinness Rishi's (yeah, that really is his name) , a desi Indian based in Chicago, is doing it. His wife refuses to walk hand-in-hand, and the in-laws address him as a joker. But well, he's still enjoying the last laugh, with his 220 tattoos at 67.

Modi's reply

Helpers bring cartons containing the 12,000-page reply of the suspended IPL Commissioner, Mr Lalit Modi, to the BCCI's headquarters at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai

Chhalia mera naam

This 1960 Hindi film, was directed by Manmohan Desai.  It stars Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Pran, Rehman and Shobhna Samarth. This was one of the first formulations of thr famous lost-and-found theme, however the backdrop was Ram Lila not the Kumbh Mela.

Quit Smoking. Now

Deepika at Cannes, as brand ambassador for Chivas Regal

Also, it was her first appearance at Cannes, and for the first time a celebrity has walked the Cannes red carpet in the traditional Indian dress.

Shazan Padamsee to promote VIP- Superlite

Shazan Padamsee is the daughter of renowned ad guru / theatre personality Alyque Padamsee and prominent pop singer Sharon Prabhakar. She made her feature film debut in 2009 in the film Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year, opposite Ranbir Kapoor.

An MSc in Cricket

In the Caribbean cricket is losing its pitch but a new pavilion (classroom) is buzzing with activity around the game. In that, students are taught the management of cricket. At the end of the one-year postgraduate programme, they get a degree from the University of West Indies: an MSc in Cricket Studies.

Introduced four years ago, the PG programme has eight courses, a research project and a practical. According to faculty members, it is designed for people with a minimum required experience of three years in a managerial position in a cricketing environment, or two years in another sport.

Several West Indian players, both past and present, are being contacted to deliver guest lectures. The unique programme, offering the only postgraduate degree in cricket, is taught at the CLR James Centre for Cricket Research at the University of West Indies’ Cave Hill, Barbados, campus. Indian cricket is a key focus area for this academic session: the prestigious Frank Worrell Memorial Lecture will be delivered on the “rise and fall” of the IPL — the “most revolutionary and lucrative tournament in cricket”.

The curriculum

It includes the political and social history of West Indies cricket, contemporary management and financial issues in the West Indies, sports psychology, leadership and human resource management, cricketers’ text and testimonies, cricket and West Indies nationalism. Among the objectives listed is the need to develop managerial talent and contribute to the regional requirement for highly qualified persons in the field of cricket management, besides fostering an appreciation of the role of cricket in West Indian society. The courses have references to Sunil Gavaskar, GR Vishwanath, Ajit Wadekar and his team (that beat the Windies in 1971), Sachin Tendulkar and Kapil Dev’s Devils of 1983.