Huffpost and AOL: 1+1=11??

The world famous online newspaper, the Huffington Post, has merged with AOL. Okay, so AOL has swallowed it up. What does this say to the online world, to bloggers and to social media users worldwide?

AOL has done this before and so have other big players in the market. The idea of making a small, but exciting, player into part of a global conglomerate is not new but its success is patchy. Some have failed spectacularly and some have worked. All start ups dream of this. The Associated Content start up in 2005 found themselves part of Yahoo in November 2010. Quite a journey from article writing to becoming the Yahoo Contributor Network.

The Huffington Post came into being in May 2005 and has grown into a highly reputable, big coverage online newspaper and social media resource. The focus is to the American market and success called in the last few days in the guise of none other than AOL. The 250 million strong player with a trusting and loyal following would seem to be the ideal home for the Huffpost and Arianna Huffington, the co-founder, calls it a "merger of visions".

If you are a blogger with 100 followers, or a bigger fish in a small, specialist pond then keep going. Build your followers, keep producing content and one day AOL or Yahoo or Google may come knocking. One plus one may make eleven for you too!!

Autism meets Basketball

This is a brilliant clip of a young man with Autism who coaches a basketball team. When one day he is given a place on the bench, almost as an award, he comes on and stuns the team, the crowd and the press.

If you love this clip as much as I did, then share it with everyone you know. Every time someone views this clip it will help them and will help a young person with Autism. Thanks.

WATCH THE CLIP AND BE AMAZED!!

iphone, sat nav, google and amazon - "Away in a Digital Manger"

The digital trappings of Christmas 2010 mixed with the traditional picture of the nativity. This combination has come together for a wonderful two minute video that will be your highlight of the pre christmas season!! Ordering on amazon, GPS on the sat nav, texting on the iphone - it's all here!! How did Mary and Joseph ever manage without our technology?

Well, of course, they managed perfectly well. But it's great fun to see how they would have done it all. Click through to the video and you will help make money for my Autism charity

Thanks and enjoy!! JUST CLICK

Ashes cricket - ducks, golden ducks and diamond ducks

Ashes fever has struck England over the last few weeks. Already in the series down under records have been falling. England have scored over 500 runs in two consecutive innings, Swann took 5 wickets in an innings and there were ducks, golden ducks and even a diamond duck!!

But what are these ducks - what do they mean? The answer is in this week's article.

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Triond crisis as Malware strikes

Disaster struck at Triond headquarters today as Firefox browser security showed a Google report that rated Purpleslinky, Triond's entertainment site, as "suspicious". A speedy "three o'clock in the morning" blogpost from Triond blamed malware, adverts were withdrawn and, like a hospital with an MRSA outbreak, rapid cleaning began.

Later, Authspot, the writing site, became affected and efforts were redoubled at Triond HQ:

Read more at Bukisa article
Look at the original Google warning