13-08-2012 14:46 Texas A&M University says a shooter has been taken into custody near its campus in College Station. The university issued a warning on its website just before 12:30 pm warning of an active shooter near football stadium, Kyle Field. (Aug. 13)
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12-08-2012 21:05 An incredible social networking game is now on the App Store! Keri Racing is a new type of Social Networking Game that merges tycoon game play, real-time PvP racing, and RPG-inspired pet raising. Download Keri Racing at: Publisher : Neowiz Internet Developer Pixel Ammo Friend us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter :
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By Phoebe Magdirila August 14, 2012
One of the longest running social networking sites, Multiply, has recently announced that it will shut down its social networking services to rebrand itself as an e-commerce platform.
After eight years of serving as a social media platform for its Philippine and Indonesia markets, this announcement was posted in the companys website as addressed by Multiply CEO Stefan Magdalinski.
As Facebook and Twitter has now become the most visited social networking sites of today, Multiply believes that such Internet sites who are committed to social networking services will do a better job.
Multiplys mission has evolved over the past year and a half to become the biggest and most beloved e-commerce marketplace, states Magdalinski. As our focus has shifted, we have reviewed all of our operations, and made some decisions.
By December 1 they will already be removing the social networking and content sharing aspect of the site. This means, all photos, videos, blogs and social messages of users will already be deleted.
The management has yet to announce how users can download or migrate their content. It will be your choice whether to download, migrate or just let your content lapse (and get deleted), he says.
The company will also provide refund of unused balances for users who have existing Multiply Premium subscriptions.
Meanwhile, existing e-commerce buyers and sellers need not to worry as they will not be affected of the changes.
Our singular focus now is for Multiply to retain its status as a vibrant e-commerce destination in Southeast Asia in the years ahead, notes Magdalinski. We are excited to pursue our own mission to give the 350 million consumers in Indonesia and the Philippines as a great way to buy and sell items online.
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12-08-2012 10:33 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned with his new running mate Sunday. Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan joined Romney in Mooresville, North Carolina. (Aug. 12)
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Social networking, in some form or another, has been around for as long as man. It's not hard to imagine cave dwellers who shared a common bond gathering together for a conversation about the day's events - even if grunting and elaborate charades was the only means of communication.
Perhaps the first person to identify and label a form of social networking was Auguste Comte back in 1853. He observed that one person in a certain social system were interconnected with others in the same system.
It was an observation way ahead of its time, and good old Auguste didn't even have a modem.
Wikipedia, the online mecca for information both accurate and questionable, defines a modern social network as: A social structure which, in general, facilitates communication between a group of individuals or organizations, that are related by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as: a special or common interest; shared values; visions, ideas, or perhaps ideals; financial exchange, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade.
Auguste was, indeed, way ahead of the curve. But since this column is more about technology, let's fast forward more than a few decades and all the way to the 1970s.
Other than just disco, which is the best invention man (or woman) ever created, folks started piecing together integrated circuits and a bunch of wires to make their own, early, personal computers.
Trying to find a way to communicate over standard telephone lines, a couple of kids in the Chicago area found a marriage between hardware and software for the first bulletin board system. The modem allowed data transfer from one point to another.
Hobbyists all over the world started to create their own BBS systems and users would dial into the centralized computer to share files, post messages and create new software.
As the young hobbyists grew older, they recognized a possible business opportunity. CompuServe and America Online came to the forefront in the 1980s, and file sharing, e-mail and data transfers became more and more popular. Groups of like-minded computer users would often create their own chat rooms inside the online communities.
As the Internet boom continued, the ideas took another leap forward. Instead of creating a chat room or social network inside AOL or CompuServe, the idea of using a dedicated Web site was born. Yahoo! and a host of other services hit the scene in the 1990s and Yahoo! Groups became a gathering place for many.
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