Google URL Shortener

Goo.gl is the url shortner service from the search king and with in short time span it has become one of the most popular url shortner services in the world.

One can use this service for shortening of their long url or weblinks. No registration is required by the users generally using this service. Those who wants to save their url history can create use their Google account details or if they do not have create their account on Google.

It is basically, real time url redirection service by the company which have become very useful while sharing the links through services like Twitter.com where one can just update a message upto just 140 character. When the charaters are the limit set by some services then link shortener turns very useful.

You can also find the past query details in the history with the option like two hours, day, week, month or all time details of clicks.

Official website: http://goo.gl/

I Paid A Bribe

I Paid A Bribe Dot Com is well knwon Indian website which has been making news again and again for its unique initiative by Bangalore based NGO Janagraha. According to IPaB, they are collecting the data from all over Indian from those who have been victimised / bribed through the corrupt employees of the Central or state governments in India.

I Paid A Bribe - Uconver the market price of corruption

In this web portal, you can submit your story, read the bribe stories by others, ask from Raghu, discussion forum and faqs etc.

Detailed analytics about the bribe reports have been generated by the IPaidABribe.com

You can also read the most popular articles, expert speak, bribe fighters and media coverage of I Paid a Bribe in Indian and international media.

EmployeesAgainstCorruption is the new initiative by the IPaB.

You can follow the I Paid a Bribe via Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Orkut, Delicious, stumbleupon, reddit etc.

You can become a volunteer or participate in the movement or find the latest opportunities / vacancies for career and jobs in the IPaB / Janaagraha.

Contact:

I Paid A Bribe

Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

4th Floor, UNI Building, Thimmiah Road

Vasanth Nagar

Bangalore 560052

Website: www.janaagraha.org

Email: info@ipaidabribe.com

Ph:+91 80 4079 0400

Top Universities In The World

Education is the one most important aspect in anyone's life. Good education is the path to the brighter future. In the world, there are thousands of universities and educational institutes but there are few dream institutes for the learners / scholars from all over the world. To rank the various educational institutes and universities various organizations have started ranking through various methodologies. Points are given to various universities on different parameters and finally the ranking is done. The popular few world universities ranking are THE QS World University Ranking, US News Universities Ranking, ARWU/ Shanghai Ranking are few popular methodologies and ranking list.

The list of Top 50 Universities in the world according to QS World University Ranking 2011 / 2011:

• University of Cambridge
• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Yale University
• University of Oxford
• Imperial College London
• UCL (University College London)
• University of Chicago
• University of Pennsylvania
• Columbia University
• Stanford University
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Princeton University
• University of Michigan
• Cornell University
• Johns Hopkins University
• McGill University
• ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
• Duke University
• University of Edinburgh
• University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
• University of Hong Kong
• University of Toronto
• Northwestern University
• Australian National University
• King’s College London (University of London)
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
• The University of Manchester
• University of Bristol
• The University of Melbourne
• Kyoto University
• École Normale Supérieure, Paris
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• École Polytechnique
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The University of Sydney
• Brown University
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Seoul National University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• New York University (NYU)
• Osaka University
• Peking University
• Tsinghua University
• The University of Queensland
• The University of New South Wales
• The University of Warwick

QS Ranking 2011 Link: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011

Visit the official websites of the universities for details.

Google Doodle

It is just re designing of Google logo on some specific occasion. Doodles history in details can be found at the official website. It was started when Larry Page and Sergey went to burning man festival in Nevada, USA. They redesigned a logo [change in second "O"] to make people aware that the founders are out of office. As it was later became a regular event and now a team of Googler Doodler gather from time to time and create new logos for the company for USA or international events. Till now more than 400 USA and more than 700 international doodles have been used in the website interface on various occassion.

Now the company also organize regional and global contest for Doodles, inviting entries from the school students of different class levels.

To know more about the event, participating, proposals, prizes and judging etc one should visit the official page of Google 4 Doodle.

You can search about the Doodles over the years, which have been used from 1998 to 2011: http://www.google.com/logos/

All the relevant information about the people engaged and events can be accessed trhough http://www.google.com/doodle4google/