Meanwhile, Fortune has put up a whole section tribute to Bill Gates throughout from his early years at Microsoft up till his last official day on June 27, 2008. Also, check out the photo slideshow with narration from the man himself.

More info: Microsoft Without Gates

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Lacy, a BusinessWeek columnist and Yahoo Finance video personality, spent many months with the Web 2.0 entrepreneurs she profiles: Max Levchin, Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson and Mark Zuckerberg. Her cozy, flirty interviewing style may not work well onstage, but in this book, it delivers. Lacy has details about these men’s lives (and they are nearly all men) that provide real insight into their personalities as well as the businesses they have founded. For example:

* Max Levchin, Slide’s founder, was a sickly child who learned to speak fluent English by watching Diff’rent Strokes on a TV he salvaged from a Dumpster after his family emigrated to the U.S. His early life, Lacy writes, has contributed to Levchin’s fiercely analytical mind and his drive to succeed.
* Digg CEO Jay Adelson felt burned by the venture capitalists who backed his first startup, Equinix, an experience that led him to adopt an anti-VC motto,”Fuck the sweater vests,” when he joined Digg.
* Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is an ambitious kid whose business instincts were shaped by a close association with Silicon Valley wunderkind/bad boy Sean Parker, whose history also gave him a deep mistrust of VCs.

Read more: Review: Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good

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Is Michael Arrington One of the World’s Most Influential People?

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1. Ben Casnocha, 19 - The Serial Entrepreneur
2. Stephen Yellin, 19 - The Youngest ‘Old Pol’, DailyKos
3. Ashley Qualls, 17 - The MySpace Millionaire, Whateverlife.com
4. Andrew Sutherland, 17 - The Quiz Master
5. Garrett Yazzie, 16 - The Junkyard Genius
6. Anshul Samar, 14 - The Alchemist
7. Sean Belnick, 20 - The Chair Man
8. Matt Wegrzyn, 19 - The Master of Domains
9. George Hotz, 18 - The iPhone Hacker
10. Catherine Cook, 18 - The Social Director, myYearbook

In a recent article published by Dan Tynan, he had summarized the tech industry most recent young and bright minds, who has somehow made an impact in their fields. Personally, I think the iPhone hacker is the top out of the 10 young entrepreneurs listed.

Well you be the judge, read more of Meet the whiz kids: 10 overachievers under 21.

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Catch All South Park Episodes Online

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Quoted from the same title post from NYT: So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?. Here’s a quick list to guide you.

1. Don’t expect to get rich. (I should stop dreaming on this)
2. Write about what you want to write about, in your own voice. (Business/Technology related, startups, random stuff)
3. Fit blogging into the holes in your schedule. (Well, timing is very flexible on my side, I just need some inspiration to blog on some subjects)
4. Just post it already! (Yeah!)
   
5. Keep a regular rhythm. (It is not easy, but I’m trying)
   
6. Join the community, such as it is. (Well… trying to fit in)
7. Plug yourself. (Is spamming a blog community a good one?)

Talking about making a career out of blogging and generating money are no easy feat, as I’m relearning (tried it before back in 2005, but gave up) my way to write the stuff that interest me and my visitors, at the same time trying to make money and having a blast?

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More pictures can be viewed here, Facebook security lapse exposes Mark Zuckerberg’s private Facebook photos.

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1. AJAX Programming
2. Distributed Systems
3. Web Security
4. Languages (C++, Java and Python concepts are being covered)

Also included is the introduction to databases and MySQL. Embedded videos found on the site also makes learning and understanding a lot easier.

Below is one of the videos found on How to Break Web Software

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Measuring 260 metres wide and up to 30 metres deep, the divot is thought to be between 10,000 and 100,000 years old and was stumbled upon in the rich, rust coloured landscape of the Hamersley Ranges in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

If confirmed, the Hickman Crater will become just the 30th officially-verified meteorite impact crater in Australia and the first such discovery since 2005.

Sudden impact: Google unearths rare meteorite crater

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