Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Revenue jumped 15% to $26 billion last year, putting the Internet ahead of newspapers for the first time.

Advertisers spent a record $26 billion in the U.S. marketing their wares online last year, putting the Internet ahead of newspapers for the first time.
The 15 percent year-over-year surge in online advertising put the Internet second to television as the leading medium for generating ad revenue.   Television, which includes local, cable and broadcast spending, brought in $68.7 billion. Newspapers took in $22.8 billion.   The data was released Wednesday in a 26-page report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.   The report also compares the Internet’s 16-year-growth trajectory as an advertising medium to the early days of broadcast and cable TV. Even adjusting for inflation, the Internet has been more impressive.    After the first 16 years of broadcast TV (beginning in 1949), the medium was raking in $16.1 billion in the U.S. Cable TV after its first 16 years (beginning in 1980) was generating $7.3 billion in ad revenue.   Internet advertising, though, has taken a rocky path to get to this point, reaching $8 billion in 2000 but taking four years to surpass that amount as the bursting Internet bubble had advertisers fleeing.    Online advertising took another hit in 2009 because of the recession.   But the IAB report touted five straight quarters of growth. The 2010 rebound, said PwC’s David Silverman, “points to a continued focus on digital media ad spend, with dollars catching up to the eyeballs.”   Search, the area dominated by Google, accounted for 46 percent of the online ad revenue generated last year, while display stood at 38%. Revenue from digital video commercials surged 40 percent to $1.4 billion, about 5 percent of the $26 billion spent last year.   For the first time, the IAB and PwC measured mobile advertising, which came in at $550 million-$650 million last year.   The biggest advertisers online in 2010 were retailers, accounting for 21 percent of the money spent, followed by telecom (13 percent), financial services (12 percent), auto (11 percent) and computing products (8 percent). Further down the list of big advertisers were media (4 percent) and entertainment (4 percent). Those two industries spent $1.1 billion to advertise over the Internet last year. If combined into a single category, it would be tied with computing products for fifth on the list of largest online advertising industries.  

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Adriana Lima wallpapers

driana Francesca Lima is a Brazilian supermodel. Lima is best known for her modeling work with Victoria's Secret and Maybelline. She was born on June- 12- 1981 to Nelson Torres and Maria da Graça Lima, a social worker. she has two half brothers, aged 7 and 11. Currently Lima is engaged to Serbian basketball player Marko Jarić of the NBA Minnesota Timberwolves.


Carmen Electra gallary



Electra was born in Sharonville, Ohio,to Patricia,a singer and Harry Patrick,an entertainer and guitarist.Both her mother and sister died in 1998.

Electra moved to California in 1991, where she met Prince who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra.she was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine in may 1996 edition.This brought her fame and she started to appear in hi profile tv programmes.she acted in Baywatch(97-98) and MTV's singled out.She came back to Baywatch serial in 2003. She even acted in several films like Good Burger(1997),scary movie(2000) etc.Her profile looks like this,


Professional name: Carmen Electra
Birth date: 20-04-1972 
Place of birth: Sharonville,Ohio,USA
Parents: Patricia and Harry Patrick
Sister: Debbie

Emma Stone Photos:Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery


mily Jean “Emma” Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. Stone was a cast member of the TV series Drive, and made her feature film debut in the comedy Superbad (2007). She appeared in The House Bunny (2008) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). She then starred in the horror-comedy Zombieland and the indie comedy Paper Man in 2009. In 2010, Stone voiced the character Mazie in Marmaduke, and starred in the high school comedy Easy A, which earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

Stone’s upcoming films include the Steve Carell comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, an adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett bestselling novel, The Help, and a role in the comedy Friends With Benefits. She will voice a character in the DreamWorks Animation comedy The Croods, and will play Gwen Stacy in a reboot of the Spider-Man film series.

Early life
Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Krista (née Yeager), a homemaker, and Jeff Stone, a contractor. She has a brother who is younger by two years. Stone’s paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, and his family’s surname was anglicized to “Stone” when immigrating to the U.S. through Ellis Island; her ancestors also lived in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

She was a member of the Valley Youth Theatre while growing up, a regional theater in Phoenix, Arizona, where she appeared in her first stage production, The Wind in the Willows, at the age of 11. Stone attended Sequoya Elementary School and then Cocopah Middle School for sixth grade. She was home schooled for two years, at which time she appeared in 16 productions at Valley Youth Theatre, including: A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail, The Princess and the Pea, Cinderella, The Wiz, Titanic, Honk!, The Little Mermaid, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Alice in Wonderland, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and performed with the theater’s improv comedy troupe.

Stone attended Xavier College Preparatory, an all-girl Catholic high school, as a freshman for one semester. She gave a PowerPoint presentation to her parents, set to the Madonna song “Hollywood,” to convince them to let her move to California for an acting career. She dropped out of high school, and in January 2004, moved with her mother to a Los Angeles apartment, at the age of fifteen. She was then home schooled, so that she could audition during the day.

Career
Stone launched a career in television after winning the role of Laurie Partridge on In Search of the New Partridge Family (2004), a VH1 talent competition reality show. The resulting show, The New Partridge Family (2005), only produced a pilot episode. Stone next had appearances in the television series Medium, Malcolm in the Middle and Lucky Louie. In 2007, she had a regular role on the Fox drama Drive, playing Violet Trimble, until the series was cancelled.

Stone made her feature film debut in the 2007 teen comedy Superbad, playing Jules, the love interest of lead character Seth (Jonah Hill). In 2008, she appeared in the comedy The Rocker, with Rainn Wilson. Stone played Amelia, the bassist in a band featuring singer Teddy Geiger. Stone learned to play bass for the role. Also that year, Stone appeared in The House Bunny, starring Anna Faris, alongside Katharine McPhee, Kat Dennings, Rumer Willis, and Colin Hanks. Stone played the president of a sorority and sang on a single from the film, “I Know What Boys Like,” a cover version of the 1982 song by The Waitresses.

In 2009, Stone appeared in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a romantic comedy directed by Mark Waters, the director of Mean Girls, starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. Stone played “The Ghost of Girlfriends Past,” a takeoff of the Ghost of Christmas Past from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. She starred in the horror/comedy Zombieland, along with Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg. The project, her third comedy for Columbia Pictures, began shooting in Atlanta in February 2009. Stone played Wichita, a survivor/con artist from Wichita, Kansas, traveling across the U.S. with her younger sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).

Stone starred in Paper Man, alongside Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds and Lisa Kudrow, directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney. In the film, a middle-aged novelist, Richard (Jeff Daniels), has an imaginary friend named Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds) and also suffers from writer’s block. Stone plays Abby, a babysitter Richard hires after moving to Long Island. Stone began filming the independent comedy on Veterans Day, November 11, 2008, in Montauk, New York, using well-known local locations.

Stone had a voice role in Marmaduke in 2010, a film adaptation of the long-running comic strip about a Great Dane. She voiced Marmaduke’s friend, Mazie, an Australian Shepherd who is a bit of a tomboy. Stone landed her first leading role starring as a high school student in Easy A with Amanda Bynes, a comedy directed by Will Gluck. Her character scandalizes her teachers and more conservative religious classmates after a false rumor circulates that she is sexually promiscuous. The script contrasts the novel The Scarlet Letter and its heroine, Hester Prynne, to the life of the protagonist in the film. Stone was nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for her role.

Stone will star in Crazy, Stupid, Love, alongside Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Marisa Tomei. The Warner Bros. film, about a husband (Steve Carell) with marital problems and difficulties with his children, began shooting on April 16, 2010 in Los Angeles. Stone will also star in The Help, an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel of the same name, a period piece set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s. She plays Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, an aspiring writer, and plans to employ a Southern dialect for the role.

Stone joined the voice cast of The Croods, a 3D computer animated caveman comedy by DreamWorks Animation. She will voice the role of Eep, the oldest daughter of Grug (Nicolas Cage) and Ugga (Catherine Keener). Ryan Reynolds voices Gy, the love interest to Stone’s character. The film is scheduled for release on March 30, 2012. She also joined the cast of Friends With Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, and directed by Will Gluck. The relationship comedy began filming in July 2010 in New York.

Stone appeared at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010, and introduced Linkin Park. She stated in 2008 that she would eventually like to venture into film production, producing her own films, and that her dream was to appear on Saturday Night Live. Stone hosted the late-night sketch comedy show on October 23, 2010. She stars in the comedic short film, “Veronica,” alongside Kieran Culkin, directed by Griffin Dunne. The short is a comedy segment that is part of an anthology film called Movie 43, featuring Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, and others. The feature-film was produced by the Farrelly brothers and directed by Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill and Steve Carr.

Stone will star as the female lead in The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment of the Spider-Man film series. She plays Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker’s love interest, in the Marc Webb-directed film; a release date of July 3, 2012 has been set. The film went into production in December 2010 and is scheduled to last through April 2011. Stone was considered for the lead in a reboot of 21 Jump Street, alongside Superbad co-star Jonah Hill. She did not take the role however, after signing on to Spider-Man. Stone will again work with writer/director Will Gluck, starring in and executive producing an untitled comedy for Screen Gems.

Movie updates

Movie buffs everywhere will agree there's nothing more irritating than getting to know a character and then watching the actor who plays he/she be replaced in the second or third installment of the series.  It completely destroys the persona we have of the character and we lose all the attachments we've had for them since the beginning of the story. Like it or not, it's something directors and actors have to deal with, either out of necessity, conflicting schedules, or (like recent events) out of pure anger.  Check out this list of celebrity flip-flops in movies throughout the years and decide for yourself if producers made the right call to switch things up or not:

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Nadal prefers playing against Federer


Nadal prefers playing against Federer:




Madrid: Spain's world number one Rafael Nadal says he prefers to play against his main rival Roger Federer of Switzerland, who he defeated during the final of the French Open earlier this month.

"It is clear that the matches against Federer are always of great intensity. When I have a final against him, I feel something special and I imagine people feel the same," he said in an interview published on Sunday in Spanish daily ABC.

"I have always liked Federer. I think the good thing about both of us is that we have always known how to lose as well as win. He is a gentleman."

Either Nadal, 25, or Federer, 29, has held the world’s number one ranking since February 2, 2004, the longest two-man stranglehold since the rankings began in 1973.

The prospect of a fourth Wimbledon final between Nadal and Federer moved a step closer on Saturday as the two rivals cruised into the last 16.

The left-handed Spaniard won a record-equalling sixth French Open title with a dramatic 7-5, 7-6 (7/3), 5-7, 6-1 win over Federer on June 5 on the red clay in Paris.

The win tied Nadal with Sweden's Bjorn Borg and allowed him to retain his world number one ranking, fending off Serbian second-seed Novak Djokovic.

It also extended Nadal’s head-to-head record against the right-handed Federer to 17-8.

"I am conscious of having won something that days earlier did not seem possible. I am satisfied at having been able to overcome the initial disaster," said Nadal.