From the site: “We invite musicians from around the world to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Your video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best of you to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in April 2009.”
From the site: “Ford Motor said Monday it was reviewing options for Volvo and could sell the luxury Swedish car brand, sending Ford shares up 8 percent.”
From the site: “I’ve been using an Android G1 phone for more than a month now on a daily basis, but I still haven’t given up my iPhone. The more I use them both, the more that I realize my iPhone is a Mac and my Android is a PC.”
From the site: “Add a Fast Forward button to your browser. Pressing it forwards you to the top page people visited next. It’s like Amazon recommendations for webpages - ‘People who viewed this page also viewed this other page next’.”
From the site: “A selection of 100 titles by the Book Review.”
From the site: “72 winners of 2009 Top Safety Pick awards; almost every category from minicar to large pickup has a winner”
From the site: “If someone were to rank the long list of people who helped Barack and Michelle Obama get where they are today, Ms. Jarrett would be close to the top. Nearly two decades ago, Ms. Jarrett swept the young lawyers under her wing, introduced them to a wealthier and better-connected Chicago than their own, and eventually secured contacts and money essential to Mr. Obama’s long-shot Senate victory.”
From the site: “AS he sought the presidency for the last two years, Barack Obama liked to say that ‘change doesn’t come from Washington — change comes to Washington.’ Nearly three weeks after his election, he is testing voters’ understanding of that assertion as he assembles a government whose early selections lean heavily on veterans of the political era he ran to supplant.”