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New-Media Power List

As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Check out the list of new media moguls from WSJ.com. Categories include podcasts, amateur video, social networking, music, blogging, photography, TV and film…

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Add comment July 30th, 2006

The Best Blue Sky in the World

The blue skies over Rio de Janeiro have been voted the best in the world, according to a new survey from travel site Expedia.com. The company made a list of the world’s top 20 blue skies, taking into account factors such as colour and density. The analysis was compiled by Anya Hohnbaum, of Expedia, who visited 20 countries in 72 days, covering 64,000 miles. Rio de Janeiro boasted the bluest sky in the world, followed by the Bay of Islands in New Zealand and Australia’s Ayers Rock. View the full report…

TOP 20 BLUE SKIES
1. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. Bay of Islands, New Zealand Best Blue Sky in the World
3. Ayers Rock, Australia
4. Denarau Island, Fiji
5. Cape Town, South Africa
6. Antananarivo, Madagascar
7. Karumba, The Maldives
8. Tokyo, Japan
9. Castell Dinas Bran, Wales
10. Long Beach, LA, USA
11. St Lucia, Caribbean
12. Dublin, Ireland
13. Marrakech, Morocco
14. Juneau, Alaska
15. Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
16. Amalfi Coast, Italy
17. Koh Samui, Thailand
18. Edinburgh, Scotland
19. Giza, Egypt
20. Cornwall, England

Add comment July 30th, 2006

Favorite Books of Successful People

BusinessWeek Online asked over 30 prominent professors and business professionals about their favorite books, business or otherwise. The resulting list is a diverse tip sheet with something for everyone – from Kotler to Kerouac, fantasy to finance. Browse around and discover what made these books inspirational, instructive, or influential in their thinking and their careers…

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Cellular Services Comparison

Most everyone has a cell phone, but many people don’t know that they may be employing the wrong cell phone provider. If you’re into text and picture messaging, T-Mobile may be the best choice for you. Absolute coverage a must? You may want to stick with Verizon. Your personal needs make a huge difference when choosing the appropriate cell phone provider. Choosing the right service can save you hassle and money. DigitalTrends.com reviewed the top cellular phone services, detailing the pros and cons of each provider…

Add comment July 29th, 2006

40 Best Cities For Singles

Denver-Boulder defends its No. 1 spot on Forbes.com’s sixth annual ranking of America’s “Best Cities For Singles.” This marks the third consecutive year in first place for the Denver-Boulder metro area. Boston is still hot at No. 2, garnering top scores for “coolness” and online dating, a new measure this year. New York City and Phoenix make their debut in the Top Five, at No. 5 and No. 3, respectively. The list covers 40 of the largest metropolitan areas in the continental U.S. as defined by the U.S. Census. View the full report…

Cities were ranked in seven different areas to determine the best. In addition to online dating and coolness, criteria included job growth, the cost of living alone, culture per capita, nightlife per capita and the number of singles. The top 10 cities for singles on this year’s list are:

1. Denver-Boulder, CO Forbes.com Top Cities for Singles
2. Boston, MA
3. Phoenix, AZ
4. San Francisco-Oakland, CA
5. New York City, NY
6. Raleigh-Durham, NC
7. Seattle, WA
8. Austin, TX
9. Washington, DC-Baltimore, MD
10. Miami, FL

Add comment July 29th, 2006

The 100 Best Global Brands

Google, Starbucks, Motorola, and eBay are among this year’s top gainers in BusinessWeek’s annual ranking of The Best Global Brands. For the sixth consecutive year, BusinessWeek has teamed up with Interbrand, a leading brand consultancy, to publish a ranking of the top 100 global brands by brand value. The Best Global Brands ranking measures an elusive but crucial quality. Every company wants its brand to get bigger. The hard part is balancing what the brand already is with a vision of what it would like to be.

Brand value is calculated as the net present value of the earnings that the brand is expected to generate and secure in the future for the time frame from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. In order to be included in the top global brands list, a brand must have a minimum brand value of $2.7 billion, achieve about one third of their earnings outside of their home country, have publicly available marketing and financial data, and have a wider public profile beyond their direct customer base.

Add comment July 28th, 2006

America’s Best New Chefs 2006

Food & Wine magazine’s annual Best New Chef awards honor exceptionally talented men and women who are pushing culinary boundaries in America. Meet this year’s winners and try their recipes…

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America’s Best Places to Live 2006

Fort Collins, Colorado is the best place to live in America, according to the editors of Money magazine. Why? Great schools, low crime, good jobs in a high-tech economy and a fantastic outdoor life. See Money’s full list of winners, including detailed city stats and maps…

1. Fort Collins, CO
2. Naperville, IL
3. Sugar Land, TX
4. Columbia/Ellicott City, MD
5. Cary, NC
6. Overland Park, KS
7. Scottsdale, AZ
8. Boise, ID
9. Fairfield, CT
10. Eden Prairie, MN

Add comment July 17th, 2006

50 Albums That Changed Music

Fifty years old this month, the album chart has tracked the history of pop. But only a select few records have actually altered the course of music. To mark the anniversary, The Observer’s panel of critics picked 50 albums that caused a revolution. The Velvet Underground & Nico topped out at #1. Check out the rest of the influential albums on the list…

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MSN.com’s Hot List

The hottest content on MSN.com: Most popular headlines, top videos, sports, greeting cards, tech, people searches, money makers, most downloaded songs, and top movies…

Add comment July 16th, 2006

100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900

Holden Caulfield and the Cat in the Hat? Scarlett O’Hara and “Boo” Radley? They might not seem to have much in common, but they’re all on Book magazine’s list of the 100 best fictional characters of the 20th century. View the full list…

1. Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
2. Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
3. Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
4. Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
5. Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
6. Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
7. Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
8. Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
9. Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
10. Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, 1905

Add comment July 16th, 2006

The New York Times Best Selling Book Lists

Browse The New York Times best seller lists, book reviews and news for authors, fiction and non-fiction, literature, biographies, memoirs, children’s books, science fiction, and self-help. On NYtimes.com, the best selling book lists are available one week ahead of the print edition of the Book Review…

Add comment July 15th, 2006

Real Estate Asking Prices for Cities Across the U.S.

HousingTracker provides real estate market statistics (including median asking prices and the number of homes for sale) for cities/metros across the United States. The data is compiled weekly from MLS listings which contains asking prices as opposed to the Realtor reported sale prices. Presumably, asking prices are correlated with sale prices and both are a function of home inventory, mortgage rates and lending conventions, and the local economy.

Add comment July 14th, 2006

The Top 30 Game Show Hosts of All Time

Bert Convy is #30 (Tattletales, Super Password, Win Lose or Draw) according to RetroCrush.com. View the entire list, plus a video clip from each host in action…

Add comment July 14th, 2006

Top 25 Rejected Movie Roles

Charlton Heston in Jaws? Sylvester Stallone in Star Wars? NotStarring.com keeps track of roles actors turned down, auditioned for, got fired from, or simply didn’t get. These are the top 25 most popular entries according NotStarring.com visitors…

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Ad Age’s Leading National Advertisers Report

Procter & Gamble Co. rode the acquisition of Gillette Co. to become the nation’s largest advertiser in 2005, spending $4.61 billion in all forms of advertising and promotion to outdistance runner-up General Motors Corp. at $4.35 billion. The 100 Leading National Advertiser Profiles contain the details of lead marketing personnal, brands, agencies, agency contacts as well as advertising spending by media and brand, sales, earnings and more for the country’s 100 largest advertisers. Read Ad Age’s annual Leading National Advertisers Report overview and download the 103-page Leading Advertisers Profiles…

Add comment July 14th, 2006

Wired’s Most Innovative Companies 2006

Wired magazine starts by looking for the basics: strategic vision, global reach, killer technology. To land a spot on their annual Wired 40 list, a business also needs the X-factor — a hunger for new ideas and an impatience to put them into practice. Such companies inevitably become trendsetters, literally: As Wired debated the list this year, six major themes flickered into view. From the rise of peer production to the end of carbon pollution, they tell us where the world is heading. These are the companies leading the way. New this year: Verizon, Lenovo, InfoSpace, and more…

Add comment July 12th, 2006

Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards 2006

In Travel + Leisure’s 11th annual poll, readers name the very best in travel: hotels, cities, islands, spas, cruises, airlines, tour operators, business hotels, and more. A questionnaire was made available to Travel + Leisure subscribers during the first quarter of 2006. Respondents reported where they had traveled worldwide and how, and rated the destinations, properties, and companies that were relevant to their recent travel experiences. Check out the winners…

Add comment July 11th, 2006

The Art World’s Biggest Spenders

It’s the list every artist and dealer wants to have — ARTnews magazine’s annual ranking of the top 200 art collectors, now out in the summer issue. Top collectors include producer and writer Michael Crichton, Warner Bros. President Alan Horn, and entertainment moguls David Geffen and Michael Ovitz. View the full list…

The top ten — billed as “the art world’s biggest spenders” –are:
* New York investment banker Leon Black and his wife Debra
* Sunamerica CEO Eli Broad and his wife Edythe
* Steven Cohen, billionaire hedge fund investor
* Museum of Modern Art chairman Ronald S. Lauder and his wife Jo Carole
* Israeli shipping magnate Sammy Ofer
* Francois Pinault, owner of Christie’s auctioneer
* Billionaire art collector Mitchell Rales
* Charles Saatchi, art collector and gallery owner
* Leslie H. Wexner, founder and chairman, Limited Brands and his wife Abigail
* Las Vegas casino developer Stephen A. Wynn and his wife Elaine

Forbes.com also features a slide show of top billionaire art collectors.

Add comment July 10th, 2006

Yahoo! Editors Favorite Websites

Each day Yahoo! Picks editors looks for sites that are different, compelling, educational, and, most of all, entertaining. Over the course of the year, their team of editors has plucked hundreds of sites from the Web’s offerings, and the most exceptional deserve a second look. From obscure TV miniseries to the principles of Einstein’s theories, from flea market photos to animated guitar gurus, this group reflects the best of Picks of the Year sites from 2005…

You can also view the list of websites Yahoo! picked recently, as well as the entire Picks Directory of sites through this link…

Add comment July 9th, 2006

Self Magazine’s Best Beauty Products 2006

Self asked 1,300 readers to identify their favorite products for its seventh annual Healthy Beauty Awards. Readers tested approximately 1,200 beauty products, which were limited to those released in the last 12 months. The products were divided into five categories: Skin savers, body basics, sun stars, makeup marvels and hair helpers.

Download the PDF list of winners (file size 93k)