10 Things To Know About Barack Obama

1.Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name, Barack, means "blessed" in Swahili and was also his Kenyan father's name.

2. He says he hasn't liked ice cream since working at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager.

3. His childhood nickname was Barry.

4. Obama was the third African-American senator since Reconstruction.

5. He married Michelle Robinson, also a Harvard Law School graduate, who supervised him while he was working as a summer associate in a Chicago law firm. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

6. As an Illinois state senator, he sponsored a bill to require the police to videotape interrogations in capital crime cases. Illinois was the first state to do this.

7. A school in his father's hometown near Lake Victoria in Kenya has been renamed the Senator Barack Obama Secondary School.

8. He loves playing Scrabble.

9. Obama and his wife bought a house on Chicago's South Side in June 2005 for $1.65 million. It has four fireplaces.

10. His heroes are Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Pablo Picasso, and John Coltrane.

Best 10 Business schools

Score	2008-2009 Tuition	Total graduate business enrollment (full-time)	Distance
Rank 1	Harvard University Boston, MA
100	Full-time: $43,800 per year	1,801	Enter your zip
Rank 2	Stanford University Stanford, CA
99	Full-time: $48,921 per year	740	Enter your zip
Rank 3	Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
93	Full-time: $46,791 per year	1,254	Enter your zip
Rank 3	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
93	Full-time: $44,480 per year	1,611	Enter your zip
Rank 5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA
92	Full-time: $46,784 per year	788	Enter your zip
Rank 5	University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL
92	Full-time: $47,260 per year	1,144	Enter your zip
Rank 7	University of California--Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
89	In-state, full-time: $30,925 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $40,605 per year	500	Enter your zip
Rank 8	Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover, NH
87	Full-time: $45,600 per year	506	Enter your zip
Rank 9	Columbia University New York, NY
86	Full-time: $46,476 per year	1,234	Enter your zip
Rank 10	Yale University New Haven, CT
85	Full-time: $43,700 per year	382	Enter your zip
Rank 11	New York University (Stern) New York, NY
83	Full-time: $41,800 per year	841	Enter your zip
Rank 12	Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC
82	Full-time: $44,100 per year	875	Enter your zip
Rank 13	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
81	In-state, full-time: $40,250 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $45,250 per year	843	Enter your zip
Rank 14	University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA
80	In-state, full-time: $33,295 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $38,563 per year	731	Enter your zip
Rank 15	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA
79	Full-time: $47,800 per year	392	Enter your zip
Rank 15	University of Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA
79	In-state, full-time: $40,398 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $45,398 per year	644	Enter your zip
Rank 17	Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca, NY
78	Full-time: $44,950 per year	593	Enter your zip
Rank 18	University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX
74	In-state, full-time: $24,200 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $40,500 per year	540	Enter your zip
Rank 19	Georgetown University (McDonough) Washington, DC
71	Full-time: $39,984 per year	522	Enter your zip
Rank 20	University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC
70	In-state, full-time: $19,525 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $39,049 per year	562	Enter your zip

Why Blogger.com Dominates, wordpress can’t

Blogger.com was developed before the evolution of Wordpress. This is the reason for setback of wordpress from capturing the internet market. An acquired product from Google blogger.com had a redesigned layout. Since it has powerful backup by the brand name Google, it went into the market smoothly.

Wordpress.com entered the time when blogger made a strong foundation in the internet business. So it took some time for wordpress to reach an altitude in the blogging market. Google adsense annexed with blogger.com made domination over the other free blog service. This is trademark service by Google build a trust over blogger.com. So it has become a reason to sustain in the internet market. Another feature that added the gain points in blogger.com is the multiple posts from single user account. This is the field where wordpress still making their efforts to come with a solution. Blogger control the market only because of its early arrival. Other than that we can’t comment on the efforts put forward by wordpress. They are still flourishing in the market because of their knowledge and hard work. Wordpress team is expecting a reputation after the release of its latest version which may beat blogger.com.

Impact of Blogging on internet revolution

Blog made a revolution in the world by getting news and information, sitting right in your computer. Today’s newspapers are created into e newspapers by the blogging business. It has made a lot of impact in the internet evolution.

Few years back people have to search for official website URL of a company to get information on their products. But now there is no need to visit official websites for product details even in the existence of powerful search engines. Since these details are available in many blogging websites along with suggestion from professionals and comments from other users. All you need to do is identify a trusted list of websites.

Blogs are so easy to update and customize. This gives the advantage of updating the content every day. Therefore people can get updated every day with new information. This is one of the most important impacts in internet fruition. Daily blogging is the fuel for internet marketing. If a blog is get updated every hours then it will yield more number of viewers visiting 24×7x365. This is the major achievement made by blogging. Blogging also provide job opportunity to writers as many organizations are hiring people to keep their website updated with best contents.

Difference between Blogger and Wordpress

Software is designed to manage blog by creation, editing, providing support and publishing is called as Weblog. There are many weblog today with lot of blog content management options. In this field there will be always a good competition between Blogger and Wordpress.

These two free blog sites which are designed with many options to maintain blogs. Let us discuss some of the features between the two:

1. Blogger has more control over the template. The implement sidebar also adds the credits to its features. The Wordpress doesn’t have attractive features rather from its new version’s friendly sidebar. Point: Blogger
2. Blogger don’t have the option of static info page such as ‘About us’ and ‘Contact us’. It has fewer categories compare to wordpress, which offers category to each of the post with best archiving option. Point: Wordpress
3. Blogger is the google product whereas Wordpress is open source software which depicts all the users are the proprietors. Point: Wordpress
4. Worpress facilitate to import all the posts and comments, even older by its new import option. Blogger doesn’t have this option. Point: Wordpress

Hence if you want to have catchy blog then go for blogger. For an alternative option wordpress is suggested for the bloggers.