Number of Google+ users increased by 30% in three days

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Google+ was finally opened to everybody a few days ago, and yesterday, it’s been reported that the number of people using the service has increased by 30%! Talk about a massive influx of new users to the service. Calculated by Paul Allen, an unofficial statistician for Google+, he estimates that Google+ now has 43.4 million users. Considering how the service has only been up for a few months, it’s quite an impressive feat (though it’s a long way off from Facebook’s 800 million active users).

With Facebook’s recent introduction of the Timeline profile, the two networks are going to be quite different from one other – which is a good thing in my opinion. After all why would anybody want to use two of the same thing? Google is keeping it simple and minimalistic, while Facebook seems to be going in the opposite direction by letting users add even more about themselves on the network. Both services have their merits, so I guess we’ll continue to see users using Facebook and Google+ instead of completely migrating to one. Have you tried Google+ yet? What do you think of it so far?

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The Top Three Sexiest Poems of All Time - Erotic Literature

Asking someone to name the sexiest poem ever if like asking them to name the most beautiful place in the world... the choice is just too vast and besides, isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder? Similarly, poetry in all its forms is already very subjective, so add to the mix the abstract concept of 'sexiness' and it becomes an impossibility.

There are more verses about love and romance than there are grains of sand on a beach and, if you take a look at the many opinion polls on the internet, many of these poems are considered sexy.

'Romance' by Edgar Allen Poe is one such poem, referring very subtly as it does to "forbidden things." Emily Dickinson's 'If those I loved were lost' also ranks highly in the opinion polls, although many would find it hard to describe what they perceived as 'sexiness' among its eight lines. Even more mysterious is 'Skunk Hour' by Robert Lowell, which tells how a man in his prime living in the small town of Maine is unable to find love.

E.E. Cummings is also a firm favourite in terms of sexiness. In his curiously entitled "because i love you)last night", for instance, he enjoys using an imagery that rolls and tumbles like the woman of his dreams, whose "face smile breasts gargled."

"The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" by T S Eliot, this time referring to a man approaching old age, is also highly ranked as a sexy poem. Perhaps because its opening six lines are delivered in Italian?

Some poems almost defy categorisation. For example, in one internet poll, Christina Rossetti's narrative 'Goblin Market' ranks top of the list. In this lengthy pre-Raphaelite tale, the sinister goblins lure Laura and Lizzie with their refrain to "Come buy, come buy, our orchard fruits."

What begins as a seemingly innocent pastoral verse leads into the girls' precipitous situation, with Lizzie eventually being overcome by the goblins. Its many double-entendre references to juicy peaches, plums and figs are mingled with a menace that results in this poem becoming the topic of many an academic discussion. Is it a feminist poem or a religious allegory? Many would clearly say it's just downright sexy.

Then there is blatantly erotic verse, which takes the concept of love poetry and drags it kicking and screaming to the end of the spectrum. Neil Rollinson's poetry, for instance, makes no bones about which category it belongs in. In 'French', with the eroticism totally unmasked by any of the devices used by Rossetti, he describes "extra-curricular" activities with the private tutor in the "cool expanse of her bed."

Erotic literature or romantic verse, it seems the discussion about what makes a poem sexy will continue for as long as there is poetry.

New website Erotic Literature seeks to offer a high class, price comparison website that specialises in helping adult browsers discover the best places online to buy erotic stories, poems and verse. There are over 30 erotic poetry collections available on this new website.

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Jack Ma Takes His Own Advice for Yahoo: Alibaba Splits Taobao Into Three Parts

In an interview I did with him at the recent ninth D: All Things Digital conference, Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma suggested that Yahoo would be better off splitting itself up into smaller pieces.

Today, he did that for one of the key units of the Chinese Internet giant, cleaving its Taobao e-commerce unit into three new companies.

Said Alibaba:

Alibaba Group is reorganizing Taobao into three separate companies to capture the Chinese consumer e-commerce opportunities. Effective June 16, 2011, the three companies, which remain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Alibaba Group, will begin operations as: Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com), China’s leading consume-to-consumer (C2C) platform; Taobao Mall (www.tmall.com), China’s leading business-to-consumer (B2C) shopping site; and eTao (www.etao.com), a product search engine designed to make it easier for consumers to find goods and services offered by all e-retailers.

We believe this move will benefit our customers, as each of the three companies will be able to focus on its own unique consumer experience. The board of Alibaba Group is fully behind this decision, as the move will create more value to shareholders by fostering innovation and capturing more opportunities in China’s fast-growing e-commerce sector.

Interestingly, the move means no massive IPO for Taobao, which some investors have been hoping for.

Here is Alibaba CEO Jack Ma’s email to employees on the change:

Ma Letter on Taobao Reorg –

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