Government Website

Imee Marcos Online

The online portal of Cong. Imee Marcos. Contains her biography, legislative agenda, accomplishments, her Kabataang Barangay program, informations about The Arts and The Experimental Arts, articles and news about Imee Marcos, and her speeches.

Reaction:A personal tribute to Ms. Imee Marcos. Contains a short profile, her pictures and poems and songs dedicated to her.

Philippine Commission on Elections

The premier guardian of the Philippine ballot. With FAQs, statistics, election history, election results, pertinent laws, modernization, press releases, and links.

Reactions: The Commission said today that it has approved the Terms of Reference (TOR)/Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Solutions, Terms and Conditions for the automation of the May 10, 2010 National and Local Elections.

National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)

Philippines' policy-making and coordinating body on statistical matters. Source of official Philippine social and economic statistic.

Reactions: To enhance partnership among the development partners, donor community and the government on statistical capacity building and to serve as a venue for advocating the outputs of the Philippine Statistical System (PSS) and its resource requirements, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) is holding a Forum on Statistical Capacity Building on March 24, 2009 at the RCBC Plaza, Ayala Avenue, Makati City.

Instant Messenging

IBM Lotus Sametime

Is an enterprise instant messaging and web conferencing application sold by the Lotus Software division of IBM. Lotus Sametime provides enterprise instant messaging functionality, presence information, and web conferencing. It uses a proprietary protocol named Virtual Places (VP), but also offers support for standard protocols, including Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), SIMPLE, T.120, XMPP, and H.323. Lotus Sametime also integrates with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office. The consulting company Frost & Sullivan named IBM Lotus Sametime as the 2008 North American Enterprise Product of the Year.
The product was originally the synthesis of technologies IBM acquired from two companies: the first, an American company called Databeam, provided the architecture to host T.120 dataconferencing (for web messaging) and H.323 Multi-Media Conferencing; the second was Ubique, an Israeli company whose software technology provided the "presence awareness" functionality that allows people to detect which of their contacts are online and available for messaging or conferencing.

Reaction: Customized look and function according to each individual's needs. The
Management and organization of hundreds of IM buddies on many IM network. Can also be enhanced through the use of different sound sets.

Jabber

Instant Messaging and Presence technology. Built to be extensible, the protocol has accumulated features over time such as Voice over IP and file transfer signaling. Where anyone who has a domain name and a suitable Internet connection can run his own Jabber server and talk to users on other servers.

Reactions: It implements Standard network and many clients are also free and open source software. Since a user may wish to log in from multiple locations, the clients specify a further string known as a resource, which identifies which of the user's clients it is (for example home, work and mobile).

AOL

The best known for its online software suite, also called "AOL", that allowed millions of customers around the world to access the world's largest "walled garden" online community and eventually reach out to the internet as a whole. At its zenith, AOL's membership was over 30 million members worldwide,most of whom accessed the AOL service through the AOL software suite. AOL was quickly running out of room in 1996 for its network at the Vienna, VA campus and moved to Dulles, VA a short distance away. The move to Dulles took place in mid-1996 and provided room for future growth. Accordingly in a five year landmark agreement with the now reigning operating system winner was AOL bundled with Windows.

Reaction: AOL was relatively late in providing access to the open Internet. Originally, only some Internet features were accessible through a proprietary interface but eventually it became possible to run other Internet software while logged in through AOL.

Social Networking Services

Classmates.com

Is a social network service created in 1995 by Randy Conrads who founded Classmates Online, Inc. The social media website helps members find, connect and keep in touch with friends and acquaintances from throughout their lives — including kindergarten, primary school, high school, college, work and the United States military. Classmates.com has more than 40 million active members in the United States and Canada. Nielsen Online ranks Classmates as number three in unique monthly visitors (U.S. home, work) among social networking sites.

Reactions:They can write emails and send them, but the recipient cannot read them unless the sender becomes a paid member. This doesn't become apparent until an email is already composed and sent.

Face book

Is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 175 million active users worldwide. Facebook recently surpassed Myspace in amount of visitors, making Facebook the most popular social network, followed by MySpace and Twitter.
Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. It is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property

Raections: Users may choose to join one or more networks, organized by city, workplace, school, and region. These networks help users connect with members of the same network. Users can also connect with friends, giving them access to their friends' profiles.
The website is free to users, but generates revenue from advertising. This includes banner ads, users can create profiles including photos and lists of personal interests, exchange private or public messages, and join groups of friends. By default, the viewing of detailed profile data is restricted to users from the same network and "reasonable community limitations".

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My Space

Interactive, user-Is a social networking website with an insubmitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City. In June 2006, MySpace was the most popular social networking site in the United States. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors. The company employs 300 staff and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 6, 2006 in the Netherlands and the site counted approximately 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006,

Reactions:MySpace operates solely on revenues generated by advertising as its user model possesses no paid-for features for the end user. Through its Web site and affiliated ad networks, MySpace is second only to Yahoo! in its capacity to collect data about its users and thus in its ability to use behavioral targeting to select the ads each visitor sees.

===Search Engine===

A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in newsbooks, databases, or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.

The World Wide Web (commonly abbreviated as "the Web") is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, the World Wide Web was begun in 1992 by the English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a network,[1] and released that web in 1992. Connected by the existing Internet, other websites were created, around the world, adding international standards for domain names & the HTML language. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web. Cailliau went on early retirement in January 2005 and left CERN in January 2007.
The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularising use of the Internet,[2] to the extent that the World Wide Web has become a synonym for Internet, with the two being conflated in popular use.

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==Altavista==

AltaVista is an Internet search engine company, and that company's search engine product.AltaVista was created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier.[1] Although there is some dispute about who was responsible for the original idea[2], two key participants were Louis Monier, who wrote the crawler, and Michael Burrows, who wrote the indexer. The name AltaVista was chosen in relation to the surroundings of their company at Palo Alto. AltaVista was publicly launched as an internet search engine on 15 December 1995 at altavista.digital.com.[3][4]
At launch, the service had two innovations which set it ahead of the other search engines. It used a fast, multi-threaded crawler (Scooter) which could cover a lot more Web pages than were believed to exist at the time and an efficient search back-end running on advanced hardware. As of 1998, it used 20 multi-processor machines using DEC's 64-bit Alpha processor. Together, the back-end machines had 130 GB of RAM, 500 GB of hard disk space, and received 13 million queries per day.[5] This made AltaVista the first searchable, full-text database of a large part of the World Wide Web. The distinguishing feature of AltaVista was its minimalistic interface compared with other search engines of the time; a feature which was lost when it became a portal, but was regained when it refocused its efforts on its search function.
AltaVista's site was an immediate success. Traffic increased steadily from 300,000 hits on the first day to more than 80 million hits a day two years later. The ability to search the web, and AltaVista's service in particular, became the subject of numerous articles and even some books.[6] AltaVista itself became one of the top destinations on the web, and by 1997 would earn US$50 million in sponsorship revenue.

==Dogpile==

Dogpile is an Infospace service that has improved dramatically over the years. As a "meta search" engine, Dogpile searches other search engines, and returns cream-of-the-crop results in one combined list. What's even better, Dogpile also provides guiding search suggestions ("clustering results") to the user, which is very helpful when doing initial research on a new topic.
"A nice change from Google and Yahoo". "The sponsored links are deceptive... you have to look closely". Dogpile is excellent. Too bad about the visual imagery that goes with its name.

==HotBOt==

HotBot is one of the early Internet search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine. It was launched using a "new links" strategy of marketing, claiming to update its search database more often than its competitors. It also offered free webpage hosting, but only for a short time, and it was taken down without any notice to its users. Though competitive when it was acquired by Lycos in 1998, HotBot has in recent years reduced its scope. Today the website is merely a front end for third-party search engines Yahoo.com, and MSN, as well as Lycos' own lyGo.com. It was one of the first search engines to offer the ability to search within search results. The site still exists, however it is run by Yahoo! mainly.

===Kartoo===

KartOO is a French-based meta search engine, and a delightful twist on searching! Although lacking in database size, KartOO shines with its graphical presentation. By using a visual "mindmap" to display its results, users can see how keywords branch out to specific hits. You can even customize how the map displays on your screen! If you're not in a hurry to do your searching, then try this beautiful Flash interface!::"Very cool!". "I love the mindmapping". "Excellent graphics". : KartOO is building a niche for itself. Watch for this service to become big within 3 years

My New Year Resolution

==My Valentines==

MyNiceSpace.com

Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines". Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[1] The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.[2]
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.[3]

==My new years resolution==

My new years resolution is to help always first to the people who need my presence. I will help my parents to their work and I will not answer anymore when they scolded me. I want also to change my attitude especially of being a self-conscious to others. Being a hard headed person, the way I act that it hurts so much to the person I talk. Being a liar someday, being a two timer and especially I want to be contented of what I have.

My Christmas Vacation

Coming of christmas ,it was so excited of all people and I'm one of them, especially when the time of vacation because it was the time that i can do all what i want to do. Together with my parents , sister and my brother wake up early in the morning at the four o'clock to spend our time to Jesus and it was so great that we complete the 9th morning devotion of Mesa de Galeo. According to them, if you wish it will make come true. The most awaited time of christmas come, My family are so busy to prepare our noche buena for the celebrating the birthday of Jesus. All of us are happy so much because that 's the time that my father had a good mood to my kuya, lage kasi silang nagtatalo, I don't know why? Maybe, because my kuya has so pasaway. You know what, I see my mother cry,maybe its just a tears of joy because she see that her family ay nagkakabati. On December 30, I was join the party of youth organization held in beach resort at Tagum City. I was so enjoy because I join the play just like Jumping Rope,Volleyball, Train-train. I was join also the dance compitation with my cousin and luckily we won, we got a second price. We had a bunding with my cousin also, we meet my textmate and she introduce her boyfriend to me. I spend my time also to my boyfriend at the cellphone only, maybe because it too far. At this moment, I am very very happy and I was very thankful to god so much to the blessings that he give to me..