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		<title>&#8220;Ondoy&#8221; Flood Victims, Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>manchingjp</dc:creator>
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<p>An amateur video of a flood in the Philippines that happened last week.</p>
<p>Donations needed for the victims, click here for the Donation details.</p>




		
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<p>An amateur video of a flood in the Philippines that happened last week.</p>
<p>Donations needed for the victims, <a class="wpGallery" href="http://techathand.net/2009/09/philippine-national-red-cross-ways-to-donate-for-odoys-flood-victim/" target="_blank">click here</a> for the Donation details.</p>


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		<title>Twitter Expanded it&#8217;s TOS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Twitter, the popular microblogging site that allows you to send unlimited 140-character microblog or messages is now open for advertisements and now seeking it&#8217;s ways to make money.</p>
<p>Having 45 million visitors monthly, now even more attracting users due to the changes made according to reports.</p>
<p>After two years of venture capital-backed without monetizing, twitter is now ramping up.Last Thursday,  it expanded the TOS (terms of service), specifying that it may run ads.</p>
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<p><a class="wpGallery" href="http://www.twitter.com" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, the popular microblogging site that allows you to send unlimited 140-character microblog or messages is now open for advertisements and now seeking it&#8217;s ways to make money.</p>
<p>Having 45 million visitors monthly, now even more attracting users due to the changes made according to reports.</p>
<p>After two years of venture capital-backed without monetizing, twitter is now ramping up.Last Thursday,  it expanded the <a class="wpGallery" href="http://twitter.com/tos" target="_blank">TOS</a> (terms of service), specifying that it may run ads.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Employees in Jakarta, Indonesia are now prohibited to access social networking sites including Facebook, Friendster, and Yahoo Instant Messenger but only in office or working hours.</p>
<p>This is because they spend their working hours on facing these social networking sites and not working anymore. The city mayor had to close these sites because of the decline of productivity of the employees.</p>
<p>Access to search engines like Google and Yahoo are allowed as this is one way of getting informations.</p>




		
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<p style="text-align: left;">Employees in Jakarta, Indonesia are now prohibited to access social networking sites including Facebook, Friendster, and Yahoo Instant Messenger but only in office or working hours.</p>
<p>This is because they spend their working hours on facing these social networking sites and not working anymore. The city mayor had to close these sites because of the decline of productivity of the employees.</p>
<p>Access to search engines like Google and Yahoo are allowed as this is one way of getting informations.</p>


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