Brian had just flown in from Los Angeles after attending a reception hosted by the U.K. Trade and Investment Council the night before with the Royal Couple, who attracted a star-studded audience, from Barbra Streisand to Nicole Kidman to Tom Hanks, everywhere they stopped during their U.S. tour.
So what was it like meeting the most watched woman in the world? Roya Nikkhah, The Sunday Telegraph’s royal correspondent, writes that America has royal stars in her eyes:
“It takes a lot to impress a room of Hollywood celebrities – but the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Los Angeles left some of the world’s stars decidedly star-struck.”
Apparently that goes for techies as well. Here’s what Brian had to say:
This week TechCrunch launched a new design for their site and Michael Arrington, the founder, posted links to the previous designs. Which gives us a unique chance to see the evolution of blog design from 2005 to 2011.
Screenshots of all four changes are provided below and here are the big changes I noticed, what did you see?
Ads – most dramatic change, in number (1 ⇒ 8 ⇒ 10 ⇒ 1) and size (wide banner is gone).
Admin links – like categories, search, about, have steadily moved up the site, now resting on the very top.
RSS – went from prominent placement to completely missing.
Content – hasn’t changed, except for picture on left and title font growth.
Sidebar – the eternal experimental space with the site going from sidebars at dual surround, dual right, thinner dual right, and single right.
In honor I have selected my favorite women of the 2011 World Cup.
Hope Solo
As the goalie for the USA, Hope presents a dominate aggressive attitude. I really think the players are scared of her. It works too because she looks gigantic on screen with those goalie gloves (though she is only 5’9). Still, she is gorgeous and considered the best goalie in the world.
Josefine Öqvist
Ahh, Josefine.
Photo: Peder Sterling
She is more like a sex symbol than an athlete with all her photos and magazine covers (maybe NSFW). Plus, she really seems to be having fun. In this viral video, Josefine shows skin as she trades jersey’s with a guy in the stands, but I can’t tell if she is flirting with him (he is cute) or this is all a stunt:
Regardless, Josefine is a powerful player and a “rapid and unpredictable forward who can decide any game”.
French Women
Gaetane Thiney, Elodie Thomis and Corine Franco.
All three of them decided to do some stylish nude photographs for Bild magazine. Their intention was to alert the French public that games are actually being played. They feel that women’s soccer is ignored and men’s is a spectacle since the Zidane headbutt in the 2006 World Cup Finals.
It’s really is a cool photo (NSFW) since it doesn’t reveal all and the women look like athletes not plastic surgeries.
Mana Iwabuchi
The Japanese Team has a 18 year old “teen phenom” playing for them, Mana Iwabuchi. This girl was born in 1993!
This team is definitely my favorite to watch because they show such technical skill on the field (they have to since every team is so much taller than them). Plus, they also have good clean fun:
Final
Ok, since you made it this far I have a link for you (if you’re male). The German women’s team also went all out for their publicity. Posing in the German Playboy (definitely NSFW).
