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The Yellow Issue1/4/2011

Vol. 1#4

2 The Yellow IssueTop five

Top Five Websites

3The Yellow Issue Top five

Contributors

5. IMDb - Kartik Iyer

4. Wikipedia - Kartik Iyer

3. Twitter - Nikhil Mane

2. Facebook - Saahil Dama

1. Google - Srimanta Mitra

A Saahil Dama, Ishan Dabri, Krushna Dande production.


Internet Movie Database, abbreviated as IMDb, is a website consisting of all the information of every movie ever released, and every TV show ever made. It literally is an online database of every movie and TV show you can lay your hands on, irrespective of its language, year etc. along with complete in-formation of its cast and crew.

IMDb was created by a film enthusiast, Col Needham in 1989. By the late 1990’s, with the help of contributors of expertise, they managed to acquire information of around 10,000 movies in all. Then, it was launched under the name of Cardiff Internet Movie Database. In 1998 the owner of Amazon.com merged it as a private company.

This entered the field of TV shows also in 2006. Also, during that time, char-acter filmography was introduced, which consisted of detailed info about the characters of the movie or a TV show. The ratings provided by the website are brilliantly accurate, and 99 times out of 100, the ratings serve their pur-pose well. Based on these ratings, the database has sorted out the best and the worst movies in general, as well as in their respective genres. The site is constantly updating, most of the flaws pointed out, and rectified. There are constant additions of upcoming movies, even if it is coming a year or two later. All the popular Hollywood news, widely ranging from upcoming movie talks to launching of a new music CD, everything is updated on an hourly basis. It also contains sneak-peeks of upcoming movies. The launching of this great site is really an epoch making event in the internet entertainment history, where it’s a fully loaded package of fun stuff and information.

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This website is really one of a kind in many spheres, for instance, its flaws. It truly contains no major flaws and is really easy to use. Every-thing lays a click away, and is extremely user-friendly. You just have to enter the name of the movie; TV show or game, there lies in front of you; everything you want to know about it, every tiny, miniscule detail about it.

And apart from the Shawshank-philia, there’s nothing wrong about it.

-Kartik Iyer



#4Now, who hasn’t heard of this website? From school-going youngsters to retired persons (of course, who are familiar with the internet), everyone is familiar with this website. Don’t know how things work, search Wikipedia for it. This website is a purely magical one, a real boon for people desper-ately hungry for knowledge. This website is a compact, organized venture of detailed facts and figures, a user friendly and an amazing online ency-clopedia.

The brainchild of Larry Sanger, it was launched in 2001 by himself and Jimmy Wales and within a few years became the most popular general reference website on the internet. This was initially launched in 2000 as a compliment to Nupedia, another free encyclopedia, but in 2001 it be-gan its operation free of Nupedia. With time, it grew and was translated in almost 300 languages and it became the biggest online encyclopedia ever built. Almost 900 articles are added every day to this site in English only, and presently it contains almost 3.5 million articles.

The general format of a wiki articles is introduction, index, main highlights and elaborations, relevant photos (if any) and useful reference links. This simple format makes the articles well organized and easy to navigate. The reference links include almost every relevant and related article and al-ways help the user to find the right information.

Wiki also supports public editing. This means that person can freely edit or add any bit of information, any article. And the funny part is, the offi-


cials bear no responsibility except for editing the articles up to wiki stand-ards. Also, the information contained is not merely for reference, it can also be copied, reproduced, distributed without any type of issue. The officials are not even sure of the writing quality, but people have a trend of not con-firming anything because articles from wiki are usually considered a stand-ard. Wikipedia doesn’t even make any guarantee regarding the articles va-lidity. This has the potential to make this website a source of illegitimate information, and other such problems.

Despite all this, Wikipedia is still expanding its venture. The Wikimedia foundation, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks are some of the major pro-jects taken up as a side product to Wikipedia. Thus, Wikipedia, even though having some serious flaws in it, is still trying to become the best information provider online. Still its popularity is ever on an increase and still there is no competition for this. We can just hope that they improve their flaws.

-Kartik Iyer



#3 You are reading this right now. So you are not one of the people that do not have a Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account. Of course, you are one of the million or so with all of these accounts. Plus, you maybe one of the rare ones with a regularly updated MySpace page (Really?! You are that idle?)

I am going to go further and assume you have an account and may or may not still consider that Castle Greyskull toy set the coolest thing you could ever get.

I've been on Twitter for two years now. I joined it as an experiment. I was bored. So, sue me. (My employers will pay my charges. There, now I have trapped *you* both.) It was a period in my life that saw me setting up a sec-ond blog and extensively drinking Sprite under the name of research.I've realized a few things. You may agree with some of these. You may want to actually pay me for some others. You may hate that dying alien who gave me his power ring. Please remember that I don’t particularly care for your option.

The above writing would be the mark of a typical twitter user. One with more followers than following count. Way more. Smart, overtly aggressive. Funny to some extent.All the people on Twitter can be made out into little lists. Keep in mind that categories may easily overlap.



The EmoIt is my duty to remind these people of the following: 1. She/He didn't care. 2. You're confused. So is most of the world including America. No need to tweet about it. 3. You can afford to rant about your identity crisis and existential issues thanks to a full tummy. More than half the world is starving right now. 4. You can rant but always remember Shiv Khera. Nightmares.

The Mutual Admiration SocietyOh so you discovered tea? You were the first one to realize that Led Zeppe-lin is real music? Maybe, you were the only one who saw the real ending of Inception. But, no.You are not alone. You are a team. And you roll around Retweeting each other and much licking involved.

The Social Media WallahsThey are interested in follower count. They take pride in click throughs. They make bots. They are bots.

The Fun-nersThe ones who don’t care a bit about what anyone else has to say. They rule their lives. They are the king and the subject. They have narcissistic display pics. They are mostly girls or guys posing as girls for a laugh or guys posing as girls for real.

However, the fact remains that compared to the average Facebook user, a Twitter user is much better. At least, they don’t like your ‘sad’ posts.

- Nikhil Mane


Facebook - the only place that has over 500 million people clustered togeth-er and doesn't smell of fart.

Facebook is the holy grail of social networking. Founded in 2004 by a Har-vard dropout, Mark Zuckerberg, it has taken the meaning of relationships to an unprecedented level - one where humans openly abhor one another without feigning love. Entertainment for some. Sheer retardism for others.

There was a time when we had Hi5, Orkut, Friendster and a dozen such things. Then Facebook went boom boom pow and the internet became a slaughter house, with Zuckerberg at the helm. Facebook clearly didn't in-vent the wheel, it merely perfected it, and did it so well that it blew all its competitors out of the water. Remember the archaic thing called Orkut which Facebook had for lunch? Don't worry, no one does.

But, all Facebook-fanboyism aside, let’s face some facts. Here's how an av-erage Facebooker's day proceeds:1. Get up. 2. Update status about the wet dream you had. 3. Poop.4. Warn people against eating from the new outlet because it causes consti-pation. 5. Go for work. 6. Illegally access Facebook and rant about your boss. 7. Have lunch. 8. Opine about how flies in your food tasted. 9. Come home. 10. Fight with someone on Facebook because he 'falsely' accused you of necrophilia. Which is true, of course.

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11. Play Farmville and feel miserable about your life. 12. Stalk your Ex. More miserable. 13. Get drunk as an aftermath of 12. 14. Become too inebriated to walk straight and fall in an open manhole. 15. Die. 16. Another person. Another day. Repeat.

In the end it will be worth it, because you're talking about Facebook here. Anything you do will be worth Facebook. When a doctor asked a person if he/she would be willing to get a liver transplant while hogging on Facebook instead of using anesthesia, over seventy nine percent of the people said yes. That's how cool Facebook is. Its advantages are:1. You can abuse anyone without running the risk of getting your nose bit-ten off. 2. It’s got Pirate English as a language. 3. It is an F-word.

Disadvantages: 1. No anti-retard button.

There's a reason why Facebook is the second website on our list. Two actu-ally. Google is first and Facebook is awesome.

- Saahil Dama


#1If Google doesn’t know something, nobody does.

Innocent preteens looking for pictures, lazy teens wanting to finish their projects a day before submission, perpetual procrastinators looking to waste time - you name them and they all use Google. In fact, Google is so widely used that it has now become a widely recognized and accepted verb, too. In 2006, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary had to include the verb “Google” as it had found its way into everyday lan-guage. And we’ve all asked somebody or the other to “Google it,’ haven’t we?

Creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page called the first incarnation of Google, “Backrub,” when they were PhD students at Stanford University in Califor-nia, justifying the name as a system that checked back links to estimate the importance of a website. Eventually though, they chanced upon the name Google as a spelling mistake of the word “googol” which is the number one followed by a hundred zeros. This word was picked, of course, to signify a vast ocean of information, which Google is itself.

Initially conceived in 1996, by 1998 Google had an index of about 60 mil-lion pages. The home page was still marked “BETA” when an article in Sa-lon.com argued that Google’s search results were better than those of its competitors and praised it for being more technologically innovative as well. Google also gained a loyal fan following during that time because of its simple design and more focus on providing search results than displaying toothpaste and weight loss advertisements. And with the exception of the occasional doodle, Google’s logo remains unchanged even after a decade of proper functioning, maybe because they know that the stripped down logo


is simple, yet appealing. Simplicity, after all, is the ultimate sophistication.

Google’s declared code of conduct is “don’t be evil”, while their official corpo-rate motto is “You can make money without doing evil,” both of them being deceptively and pleasingly simple. Sergey is, to many people, one of those rare individuals who care more about giving to the world than taking. And why shouldn’t he be? For, so is his brainchild.

Google today, is one of the most trusted and looked up websites in the world, in addition to being a household name all over the world. Of course, it has had its share of controversies but it has, in the end, emerged victori-ous.

Moreover, at this point of time, ‘search the web’ and ‘Google’ are roughly synonymous.

Why?

Google it.

- Srimanta Mitra


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