Month: February 2011

Philippines' NBI Calls for Laptop Regulation

cybercrime has tremendously increased in the Philippines affecting many IT PINOYs, to combat this the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) proposed to regulate devices connecting to the web such as laptops and sim cards. so far, at least two senators opposed the idea. “I can foresee tremendous opposition to this,” said Sen. Edgardo Angara, chairman […]

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Edsa People Power I As Told Through Facebook

What if the Philippine People Power Edsa Revolution, which happened 25 years ago, happened today? Imagine it happening @ the time of Facebook. Here’s EDSA PEOPLE POWER I as told through Facebook, which GMA News concocted. see more [gmanews.com] The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) […]

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Google Aims to Give High-Quality Sites

Google, the world’s top search engine has just implemented a change in their algorithm with the hope of improving the quality of search results. “Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes […]

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Facebook Worldmap

below is a world map drawn by Paul Butler by gathering 10 million Facebook friend connections.  “I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with […]

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Google Stings Bing

Google carried out a “sting” operation to prove Bing is copying some of their search results it is said the Google started the experiment last dec17 by crafting codes that would allow it’s search engine to manually rank a page for a limited time, and that a near-impossible search term will be associated with a […]

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