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NTT DoCoMo's augmented 3D chat system lets you have your virtual cake

Google's Project Glass has garnered lots of attention among Earthlings and Saiyans on the augmented reality front. Now NTT DoCoMo is serving up its take on the subject -- a tablet-based interface it calls the "Live 3D Communication System." An augmented version of video chat, the system lets users create virtual objects via speech and also check out 360-degree views of virtual environments by moving their tablet around. Use of a special range-imaging camera also allows the software to add people within virtual spaces. The technology is a prototype so it's still a bit rough around the edges. For folks pining for a future with holodecks, however, this is the kind of baby step that's likely needed to make such dreams a reality (though, to be honest, you'll probably be long dead before a real holodeck comes to fruition). Folks whose appetites aren't quite satiated by the video from the Wireless Japan 2012 show can also check the official Japanese promo in all its cake-filled, cheesy glory after the break.

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Crisis-laden Italy has a long list of problems

By ANDREW DAMPF

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 2:08 p.m. ET June 5, 2012

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) -From match-fixing to injuries and poor preparation, crisis-laden Italy was carrying a long list of problems to its European Championship training base Tuesday.

Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has had his banking records examined on suspicion he made large bets, Leonardo Bonucci is reportedly under investigation for match-fixing, fellow center back Andrea Barzagli may miss the tournament with a calf injury and standout striker Mario Balotelli is also hurting.

The betting and match-fixing scandal has created a climate close to the one before Italy won the 1982 and 2006 World Cups after similar problems, but Italy coach Cesare Prandelli wasn't interested in comparisons.

"I don't like this game," Prandelli said. "We would have liked to come here with a different mood, but we've got great spirit and we won't be discouraged."

Beyond all that, the Azzurri have lost their last three friendlies by a combined score of 5-0.

With fresh memories of its first-round elimination from the 2010 World Cup, Italy has only five days to restore order ahead of its opener against defending champion Spain.

Italy was eliminated from Euro 2008 by Spain on penalties in the quarterfinals.

"(Spain) plays great football but we shouldn't be afraid of anyone," Italy midfielder Claudio Marchisio said. "We've got to work hard in this final week, but we're not worried."

Also in Group C, Italy will face eighth-ranked Croatia and Ireland, which is coached by Giovanni Trapattoni.

Reports surfaced last week over large payments from Buffon to the owner of a tobacco shop that is also a betting parlor. Buffon has not been placed under investigation and is not accused of any wrongdoing, but the revelations still shook the Azzurri camp.

As for Bonucci, his inclusion on the squad has been in the spotlight since another defender, Domenico Criscito, was cut from the team after police showed up at the Azzurri's Coverciano training complex last week to hand him a notification that he was under investigation for match-fixing.

However, the Italian football federation insists that Bonucci's case is different, and that he is not under investigation, despite news reports that say otherwise.

Marchisio teamed with Buffon and Bonucci to help Juventus win the Serie A title last season.

"Bonucci and Buffon are the first people to give us serenity," Marchisio said. "They've always trained with tranquility."

Another Juventus player, Barzagli, strained his left calf in a 3-0 friendly loss to Russia on Friday and could be sidelined for 20 days. He's one of only four holdovers from the squad that won the 2006 World Cup, along with Buffon and midfielders Andrea Pirlo and Daniele De Rossi.

"We're going to try and hold onto (Barzagli) up until last minute if we can," Prandelli said. "We realize it won't be easy but he's a key player."

Meanwhile, Balotelli is still recuperating from a right thigh muscle problem and worked out only mildly in the squad's final training session Tuesday before flying to Poland.

However, Prandelli said Balotelli "absolutely" has a chance of playing the opener.

While Italy has won four World Cup titles, the team has won the European Championship only once, back in 1968. If recent performances are any indication, the Azzurri don't look poised to end their 44-year winless streak.

Against Russia, all Italy could produce were a few chances from Balotelli, and Prandelli has already indicated he will likely switch from a traditional four-man defense to a three-man backline against Spain, possible featuring Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi at center back

"I want a squad that can change formations many times during match," Prandelli said.

The Azzurri's other pre-tournament friendly against Luxembourg - slated for Parma last week - was canceled to due to an earthquake in central Italy.

Italy lost its two previous friendlies at home, first falling 1-0 to Uruguay in November then getting beat 1-0 by the United States in February.

The Azzurri's last victory came in Poland, a 2-0 win over the tournament co-hosts in November that featured Balotelli's first goal for the national team and another strike from Giampaolo Pazzini, who is now off the squad.

Based in Krakow, Italy will pay tribute to Holocaust victims by visiting the Auschwitz death camp Wednesday.

"I'm convinced it should be mandatory to go, for many reasons," Prandelli said. "First to not forget what happened, secondly to bear witness and make the new generations understand how little it takes at times to create a human disaster."

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Queen's Jubilee: Rock concert at Buckingham Palace

Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip leave from Chelsea Harbour in London on a launch on the first part of their journey in the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant Sunday June 3, 2012 . More than 1,000 boats will sail down the River Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest pageant on the river for 350 years. (AP Photo/Eddie Mulholland, Pool)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip leave from Chelsea Harbour in London on a launch on the first part of their journey in the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant Sunday June 3, 2012 . More than 1,000 boats will sail down the River Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest pageant on the river for 350 years. (AP Photo/Eddie Mulholland, Pool)

The Royal Barge is seen passing the Houses of Parliament during the Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant in London, Sunday, June 3, 2012. More than 1,000 boats were to sail down the Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest gathering on the river for 350 years. Despite cool, drizzly weather, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the riverbanks in London, feting the British monarch whose longevity has given her the status of the nation's favorite grandmother. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)

Sue Ridley waits on Westminster Bridge for the Royal Barge to pass the House of Commons and the Big Ben clocktower during the Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant in London, Sunday, June 3, 2012. More than 1,000 boats were to sail down the Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest gathering on the river for 350 years. Despite cool, drizzly weather, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the riverbanks in London, feting the British monarch whose longevity has given her the status of the nation's favorite grandmother. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II smiles during the river pageant commemorating her Diamond Jubilee, on the River Thames in London, Sunday June 3, 2012. (AP Photo / Dylan Martinez, pool)

Hundreds of boats make their way down the River Thames past for British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast towards Tower Bridge as they take part in the Thames River Pageant for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London,Sunday, June 3, 2012. More than 1,000 boats were to sail down the Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest gathering on the river for 350 years. Despite cool, drizzly weather, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the riverbanks in London, feting the British monarch whose longevity has given her the status of the nation's favourite grandmother. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

(AP) ? The celebration of the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II is ready to rock 'n' roll.

A gala concert kicks off at Buckingham Palace on Monday evening with Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Dame Shirley Bassey, Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Tom Jones heading the line-up, along with younger artists.

Will the queen enjoy it? Her musical tastes are a mystery, and the Press Association news agency reported that she brought a pair of earplugs with her to a similar concert a decade ago. According to The Guardian newspaper, the only song the queen has ever been known to request is "Some Enchanted Evening" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific."

"It may not be that pop or rock is her favorite music, but she has certainly supported us over the years and in return of course we have supported her," said Cliff Richard, who had his first hit in 1959. "I think she'd probably rather go and see an opera."

The small Pacific island nation of Tonga claimed the honor of lighting the first of more than 4,200 beacons to be set alight in Britain and abroad to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. The queen will light the final beacon following the concert.

One beacon will be lit in Kenya at the Treetops Hotel, where Elizabeth was informed of her father's death in 1952, making her the queen.

"We set out to have 2,012 beacons, which would have been the most ever for this type of occasion," said Bruno Peek, pageant master of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee beacons.

"To have reached double that figure reflects the national and worldwide respect and affection for the queen and the desire to celebrate her 60-year reign."

After a drizzly, gray start, the weather looked better Monday morning, with a forecast of some sunshine by the time the concert starts. Despite threatening weather, more than 1 million people estimated to have turned out Sunday to watch the queen's barge lead a 1,000-boat flotilla down the Thames endured heavy downpours at time.

Six participants in the pageant were treated in hospitals for exposure to the cold and wet, and medics attended to about 40 spectators along the river.

Exercising her royal prerogative, the queen is expected to attend only part of the concert. Ten years ago at a similar concert celebrating 50 years of rule, the monarch reportedly came prepared with a pair of earplugs.

Elton John is set to perform "Your Song," ''I'm Still Standing" and "Crocodile Rock." Tom Jones will pose the question, "Why? Why? Why?" in the song "Delilah," while Annie Lennox will sing "There Must Be An Angel."

Kylie Minogue and Stevie Wonder will play a medley of greatest hits, and Paul McCartney will play "Live and Let Die," his James Bond theme. American soprano Renee Fleming will perform with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The 262 residents of the remote island of Tristan de Cunha, a British territory 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from any other land, are combining their Jubilee beacon with some environmentally conscious gardening. They are lighting their fire with invasive species including the New Zealand Christmas Tree, loganberry and other alien plants.

"You don't get more patriotic than saving U.K. wildlife on the queen's Jubilee, so we decided to make the occasion by lighting a beacon made from all the plants we remove," chief islander Ian Laverollo said.

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Select liability limits appropriate to your needs and personal financial situation. Most states require relatively low minimum limits. However, if you are found at fault for an accident, you could be liable for damages beyond your insurance limits. Carrying higher limits based on your personal asset situation may make more sense to provide adequate protection in case of an at-fault claim.

If you are aiming to get affordable auto insurance, you should know your financing requirements. If you finance your vehicle, you may have more requirements set by the financing company that you have to maintain. This will likely affect the amount of your deductible, so you should know these requirements before raising your deductible.

When considering auto insurance for a young driver, be sure to consider building up his or her credit, prior to shopping for insurance. This will not only assist with the new driver being able to get a possible better rate, but will also help when the young person may need other large purchases or loans in the future.

Not only is auto insurance mandatory, but valuable. Purchasing insurance for your vehicle is a daunting task, as there are lots of options to explore. You want to shop around, perhaps by calling around using the listings in your phone book or by using the internet. Once you find a comfortable price and coverage plan for your automobile then you can be sure if you are in an accident or pulled over by the police youre protected.

If available in your state, request a copy of your driving history before shopping for car insurance. Information can be inaccurate on it which may be causing your quotes to be higher. Make sure you know what is on your report and if you find discrepancies have them corrected as soon as possible.

Maintain a great credit rating because auto insurance companies will check. Auto insurers give better rates to customers who have high ratings. If your credit history is poor, they feel that you have not made payments on time at some point, and you are a higher risk to the insurance company.

When it comes to selecting a new auto insurance carrier, do some research into the companys history of rate increases. Each state has an insurance oversight group, or Department of Insurance. This group can provide historical information on the frequency and amount of rate increases by a particular carrier. While a company may offer initially low prices, if they frequently increase rates, you may not save over time.

If youre getting rates and premiums higher than normal, then you should go check your driving record. You might not be aware of your driving record, but insurance companies use this to calculate your risk factor. Make sure you know whats on your driving record and that the insurance companies are using the right information.

There are a lot of factors that determine the cost of your automobile insurance. Your age, sex, marital status and location all play a factor. While you cant change most of those, and few people would move or get married to save money on car insurance, you can control the type of car you drive, which also plays a role. Choose cars with lots of safety options and anti theft systems in place.

As explained earlier in the article, auto insurance is a mandatory requirement in order to own and drive a car. But you need to know what the minimum limits are where you live and what types of insurance are needed and which are optional. By using the information in this article, you can find the right coverage at the right cost.

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Best Home Improvement Loans | Carpet Cleaning in Wheaton

If you are willing to do a little renovation in your home and don?t have the finance for it right now, you should be looking for the best home improvement loans. By comparing these loans you can find out which company is offering the best interest rates and the most affordable loan.

When trying to renovate such rooms as the kitchen or the bathroom the appliances alone take a lot of money. The work that needs to be done is usually beneath the skills that most of us have and that is why it is a good idea to finance your remodelling using a home improvement loan. These are unsecured or secured loans that have a fairly low interest rate and a short loan time.

All this means that you can expect to be paying back the full amount with interests in five to ten years maximum. Depending on the amount you need, this will usually come up with an interest rate of 5-7% which is the lowest end you can find for home improvement finance.

Since home improvement loans are so popular there is quite a lot of competition between the lenders, and you can easily haggle off one or two percent of interests.

Normally even the best home improvement loans are taken as unsecured loans, but you can also use your home equity to finance your remodelling. This means using the real market value of your house and deducting the amount that you still have a mortgage on. The amount that remains is your equity and that is the amount you can take a new loan against. Usually with home equity loans your interest rates are going to be much lower than with unsecured loans. You can be lucky and go as low as 2-3% interest.

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Monday, June 4, 2012

Animal cruelty at its worst

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A 20 year old man who killed a kangaroo and its joey in Wodonga earlier this year has been handed a six month suspended jail sentence.

Nigel Franks pleaded guilty before Wodonga Magistrates' Court this morning for aggravated animal cruelty.

The court heard he deliberately ran over the kangaroo with his car, tied its carcass to the back of his vehicle and dragged it 11.5km through the outskirts of Wodonga.?

There were also reports that he removed a joey from the Mother's pouch and threw it into an empty paddock on the side of the road, despite protests from others in the car.

Franks was apparently confronted by animal rights protestors in front of the Wodonga court.

Magistrate Stella Stuthridge described the offenses as 'appalling.'

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Uzbekistan coach Vadim Abramov: We scored a goal but the referee didn?t see it

Uzbekistan boss Vadim Abramov says his side scored a legitimate goal which wasn't counted by referee Yuichi Nishimura but was more concerned about conceding an against-the-run-of-play late winner in Sunday's 1-0 final round 2014 World Cup qualifier defeat to Iran in Tashkent.

Odil Akhemdov appeared to have scored from close range on 72 minutes when he scrambled the ball across the line only for the lunging Sayed Jalal Hosseini to block the effort. However television replays seemed to show the ball had crossed the line before the Iranian defender's block.


Uzbekistan protested the decision and would live to regret it, when Mohammed Reza Khalatbari stole in for a 93rd-minute winner for the visitors who had struggled throughout the match.

?We scored a goal in the second half, but the referees didn?t see it. Iran had two chances and won it,? Abramov told reporters after the game.

However, the White Wolves coach was more concerned with his side's play in the dying minutes before conceding the disastrous late goal, although he insisted the result wasn't a "tragedy".

?I don?t know what did happen with us in the last minutes, sometimes we concede goals at the end of the match," he said. ?We lost the game, but it is not tragedy. We have seven matches in the group and the hope will not die until the last moment.

?I changed the position of Akhmedov in the second half because we wanted to win, but you can?t always win. It is football. We are looking forward to the next games. I hope we will change our situation as our aim is to go to World Cup.?

Meanwhile, Iran coach Carlos Queiroz revelled in glory, claiming his side had adopted different tactics late in the game which ultimately proved decisive.

?Uzbekistan had several chances. After this we changed our style and we battled more against them and reached our target. I knew Uzbekistan would go forward in the last minutes, that?s why we changed our tactics and tried to score from counterattacks. We did it and our changes brought us three points.

?But it is just beginning and we have more matches. I think all matches in the group will be very tough.?

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Must See HDTV (June 4th - 10th)

Must See HDTV June 4th  10th

Franklin & Bash
We're not sure who decided putting Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer a legal comedy / drama was a good idea but we're kinda glad they did. Jared Franklin & Peter Bash bring a lighter take to what are usually very serious procedurals, a good match for our laid back summer viewing schedule. Season two kicks off this week and if you haven't seen it, just assuming their characters from Saved By the Bell and Road Trip grew up to be lawyers pretty much covers it.
(June 5th, TNT, 10PM)

Playoffs
As the NBA conference playoff battles continue on, the New Jersey Devils will have to find a way to fight back this week against the LA Kings. They're down 2-0, but as the Thunder and Celtics have shown, that can quickly be turned on its head. The only bad news? The next two games are at LA. Ouch.

E3
Well, at least while the Devils are in LA they can stop by E3 and check out some new videogames. While we're covering all the action here, and video has spread to multiple platforms, if you prefer leaning back and observing all the HD trailers on your TV, Spike TV and G4 are both blowing out their coverage all week with feeds from the show floor during the day and in prime time.

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Study Backs Continuous Prostate Cancer Treatment

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Celtics Defeat Heat, 101-91: Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo Lead Boston To Game 3 Win (VIDEO)

BOSTON -- Kevin Garnett was fouled underneath the basket and went hard to the court. He remained on his back, motionless, as his teammates rushed over to check on him and offer a hand.

The Boston Celtics center ignored them, instead gingerly rolling over onto his stomach before extending his arms to ease himself off the court. Down and up he went, pushing off the floor on his knuckles eight times for some postseason pushups.

For the first time in the Eastern Conference finals, Boston was having fun with the Miami Heat.

"I'm getting crap about my form, but I want people to know it's because it was on my knuckles," Garnett joked in the locker room after leading Boston to a 101-91 victory over the Heat that cut Miami's lead in the best-of-seven series to 2-1. "That's old school. My uncle taught me to do pushups on my knuckles. That's some Army-Navy stuff."

Garnett had 24 points and 11 rebounds, Paul Pierce scored 23 points and Rajon Rondo had 21 points with 10 assists to help the Celtics avoid falling into a 3-0 hole in the series after losing the first two games in Miami.

Game 4 is Sunday night in Boston.

"They defended their home court," Rondo said. "In a couple of days, we'll do the same."

LeBron James scored 34 points, but the NBA MVP and the rest of the Heat went cold during a 7-minute stretch at the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second, when Boston outscored them 15-0 to turn a six-point deficit into a nine-point lead.

The Celtics extended it to 24 points early in the fourth quarter before Miami came back and cut it to 95-87 with help from three 3-pointers by Mike Miller. But James had a turnover and missed a 3-pointer in the last 2 minutes to squelch the Heat's hope of a comeback.

"You're trying to fight back the whole time," said James, who scored 16 points in the first quarter but just four with one rebound and one assist in the fourth. "We made a run but it was too much."

Miami still trailed by eight points with the ball when Dwyane Wade missed and Ray Allen grabbed the rebound, sending Rondo on a fast break that made it a 99-89 with 99 seconds to play. James threw the ball away underneath, then missed a 3-point attempt the next time down ? one of only four shots he took in the fourth quarter.

Pierce found Garnett for a long jumper at the other end, and the teams began emptying their benches.

Coming off his 44-point effort in the Game 2 loss in Miami, in which he played every second of regulation and overtime, Rondo was 9 for 16 from the field and grabbed six rebounds. Celtics coach Doc Rivers said he had little to tell Rondo on the day off.

"I'm like a pitcher throwing a no-hitter: you stay away from that joker," Rivers said. "The guy scored 44 points, what can I possibly tell him?"

Mostly: Get the ball to Garnett.

Many of Garnett's baskets were lobbed to him under the rim. Boston outscored Miami 58-46 on points in the paint, and Garnett was the reason why.

"He (Rivers) kept preaching to just throw it up to him," Rondo said. "They went small, and no one can jump as high as Kevin. He stood up to the rim, and he went up and got most of them."

Marquis Daniels led the Boston bench with nine points and five rebounds in 18 minutes.

Wade scored 18 points and Mario Chalmers had 14 points and six assists for Miami. Shane Battier was scoreless, missing all six shots, and Ronny Turiaf had three points while tangling with Garnett under the basket for much of the game.

The Celtics center, who has appeared rejuvenated during these playoffs at the age of 36, got called for another technical foul for a violent elbow but otherwise seemed to be enjoying himself. While waiting to inbound the ball in the second quarter, he high-fived a young child sitting courtside in a No. 5 Celtics jersey.

At the other end, after behind slammed hard to the court by Udonis Haslem, he did a series of crowd-pleasing pushups.

"K.G. plays a lot of mental games with himself ? and with others," Celtics guard Keyon Dooling said. "K.G. is a very focused individual and he loves these kind of moments."

Wade was 9 for 20 from the field and did not shoot a free throw in the game. James, who shot 24 free throws in Game 2, making 18, was 1 for 5 from the line.

James hit seven of his first nine shots, before making one of the next six. That helped Boston score the last eight points of the first quarter and the first seven of the second to turn a six-point deficit into a nine-point lead. Much of it came with Dooling and Daniels on the court for Boston.

Notes: During the first timeout, the Celtics acknowledged Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan, who is retiring this summer. GM Danny Ainge was one of the first to stand and applaud. ... K.C. Jones, who was celebrating his 80th birthday, and fellow Celtic great John Havlicek were in the crowd. ... Miami was 10 for 20 from the free throw line.

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Syria on brink of sectarian civil war, West says

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria is nearing full-blown sectarian civil war that would be catastrophic for the entire Middle East, Western nations said on Thursday, urging Russia to end its support for President Bashar al-Assad and put pressure on him to stop the bloodshed.

With anti-Assad rebels urging international envoy Kofi Annan to declare his peace plan dead, freeing them from any commitment to the tattered truce, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the prospect of spiraling violence presented "terrible" danger.

"A civil war in a country that would be driven by sectarian divides ... could then morph into a proxy war in the region because, remember, you have Iran deeply embedded in Syria," Clinton said during a trip to Copenhagen where she urged Moscow to increase pressure on Assad.

Russia, like China, has vetoed two Security Council resolutions calling for tougher action against Damascus, while stressing hopes that Annan's plan can spur a political solution. Washington called a reported shipment of Russian arms to Syria "reprehensible" although not illegal.

"The Russians keep telling us they want to do everything they can to avoid a civil war because they believe that the violence would be catastrophic," Clinton said.

"I think they are in effect propping up the regime at a time when we should be working on a political transition."

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Syria was moving towards "all-out civil war or a state of collapse". The European Union was drafting new sanctions against Syria, he added, calling on other nations to pressure Assad.

A bloody crackdown on what began 14 months ago as a peaceful mass uprising has increasingly turned it into an armed conflict between heavily armed forces representing an establishment dominated by Assad's Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, and rebel forces drawn largely from the Sunni majority.

Damascus says the rebels are backed by Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab states fearful of the growing influence of Syria's main ally in the region, Shi'ite Iran.

HOULA MASSACRE

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that another massacre like Friday's killing of 108 men, women and children in the western Houla region could pitch Syria into a devastating civil war "from which the country would never recover".

The United Nations has said the army and pro-Assad gunmen were probably responsible for the Houla killings, but Syria said on Thursday that a preliminary investigation had shown that anti-government armed groups carried out the killings with the aim of encouraging foreign military intervention.

Washington's U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, said Syria's version of what had happened in Houla was "another blatant lie". The massacre led a range of Western countries to expel senior Syrian diplomats and to press Russia and China to allow tougher action by the U.N. Security Council.

Syria's main rebel commander, Colonel Riad al-Asaad, urged Annan to declare that his peace plan had failed.

"There is no deadline, but we want Kofi Annan to issue a declaration announcing the failure of this plan so that we would be free to carry out any military operation against the regime," Turkey-based Asaad told Al Jazeera television, contradicting rebels inside Syria who issued a 48-hour ultimatum on Wednesday for Assad to abide by Annan's plan.

Annan's spokesman said it was not for the peace envoy to declare defeat.

"The Annan plan does not belong to Kofi Annan. It belongs to the parties that have accepted it and the international community that has endorsed it," Ahmad Fawzi told Reuters.

"So a failure of the Annan plan would be the failure of the international community to solve this peacefully ... If anyone has a better plan, they should come up with it."

The United Nations says Assad's forces have killed more than 9,000 people since the start of the uprising. Syria blames Islamist militants for the violence and says 2,600 soldiers and police have been killed.

Rebel leader Asaad said his fighters had so far honored Annan's plan. But activists have reported frequent attacks by militants and army defectors on government forces since the April 12 ceasefire agreement.

BODIES FOUND

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based network that collates reports of violence in Syria, said 11 bodies had been found outside the town of al-Qusair - killings that a Syrian television station blamed on "terrorist groups".

At least one person was killed and dozens were wounded in artillery and rocket bombardment in the Houla region on Thursday following rebel attacks on soldiers and pro-Assad 'shabbiha' militiamen, opposition activists said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin flies to Berlin and Paris on Friday for talks that European leaders may hope to use to lean on him to loosen Moscow's strategic links to Assad.

Russia has sought to justify its weapons deliveries to Syria, saying government forces need to defend themselves against rebels receiving arms from abroad. Damascus says Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Libya are among the countries helping the rebels.

The United States and the EU have suggested a U.N. arms embargo, but that would need the consent of Russia and China, which have so far resisted tougher action at the Security Council.

China said it still had faith in the Annan plan, despite the "pain and sadness over what happened in Houla".

"Annan's efforts are facing difficulties but no one can deny that they are making progress in some respects," Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said.

"We knew from the beginning that his path would not be strewn with flowers."

Annan met Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman to discuss the regional impact of the Syrian crisis, before flying to Lebanon where he met President Michel Suleiman, telling his interlocutors he had urged Assad to "take bold steps now to end the violence" and implement the peace plan, his spokesman said.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati visited Turkey for talks with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on the fate of a dozen Shi'ite pilgrims taken hostage last week in northern Syria, shortly after crossing the border from Turkey.

Syrian rebels in Aleppo province said in a statement that the hostages were in good health and suggested that some had participated in fighting the rebellion.

They demanded an apology from Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, an ally of Assad, for remarks on Syria he made in a speech last week.

(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam and Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Ben Blanchard in Beijing, Seda Sezer in Istanbul, Douglas Hamilton in Tel Aviv; Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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mundo errante: glosario sobre social media marketing

El mundo medi?tico nos come o m?s que comer nos engulle y tenemos que estar listos para enfrentarnos a estas herramientas o p?ginas que cada vez nos abocan m?s a su uso, lo queramos o no. Muchas veces nos podemos encontrar con qu? no sabemos realmente a qu? se refiere esa cantidad de nuevos t?rminos con los que nos encontramos y, en muchos casos, hemos de pasar por el aro y aceptarlos y entenderlos aunque sea por intuici?n. Aqu? os copio una lista de 120 t?rminos sobre el marketing medi?tico social?extra?do?del blog?

. Espero que lo encontr?is interesante, a m? al menos me pareci? curioso:

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AddThis?- AddThis is a social bookmarking service that provides a code users can put on their websites so that when people visit that site, they have the option to share via Facebook, Twitter, etc. Its analytics service can show you which pages are trending, where people are interacting with your brand, and what they're saying about your content on Twitter. Algorithm?- An algorithm is a set of formulas developed for a computer to perform a certain function. This is important in the social sphere as the algorithms sites like Facebook and Google use are critical for developing content-sharing strategies. Avatar?- An avatar is an image or username that represents a person online within forums and social networks.

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BackType?- BackType is a social media analytics company that helps companies measure their social engagement. Previously, the service started as a blog comment search engine. Bitly?- Bitly is a free URL shortening service that provides statistics for the links users share online. Bitly is popularly used to condense long URLs to make them easier to share on social networks such as Twitter. Blip.TV?- Blip.TV is an online video sharing site that provides a free and paid platform for individuals and companies who host an online video show. Blog?- Blog is a word that was created from two words: ?web log.? Blogs are usually maintained by an individual or a business with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning?to maintain or add content to a blog. Blogger?- Blogger is a free blogging platform owned by Google that allows individuals and companies to host and publish a blog typically on a subdomain. Example: yourblogname.blogspot.com Blog Talk Radio?- Blog Talk Radio is a free web application that allows users to host live online radio shows. BoardReader?- BoardReader is a free search engine that allows users to search for keywords only in posts and titles of online forums, a popular form of social networking. Boxee?- Boxee is a social video application that allows users to watch online videos on their TVs and computers. Users can share and watch videos from a variety of online videos sources for free. Bookmarking?- Bookmarking online follows the same idea of placing a bookmark in a physical publication--you're simply marking something you found important, enjoyed, or where you left off to continue reading later. The only difference online is that it's happening through websites using one of the various bookmarking services available, such as?Delicious.

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Chat?- Chat can refer to any kind of communication over the internet but traditionally refers to one-to-one communication through a text-based chat application commonly referred to as instant messaging applications. Circles?- Circles are clusters of a user's friends on Google+, meaning you can group certain people you choose to connect with on your Google+ into a certain Circle--such as colleagues, college connections, family, etc. When you want to share content with only these individuals, you include that specific Circle in your post's sharing options. Collecta?- Collecta is a real-time search engine that includes results from blogs, microblogs, news feeds, and photo sharing services as they are published. Collective Intelligence?- Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision-making in social networks. Comment?- A comment is a response that is often provided as an answer or reaction to a blog post or message on a social network. Comments are a primary form of two-way communication on the social web. Compete?- Compete is a web-based application that offers users and businesses web analytics and enables people to compare and contrast the statistics for different websites over time. Connections?- The LinkedIn equivalent of a Facebook 'friend' is a 'connection.' Because LinkedIn is a social networking site, the people you are?connecting?with are not necessarily people you are friends with, but rather you met in brief, heard speak, or know through another connection. Craigslist?- Craigslist is a popular online commerce site in which users sell a variety of goods and services to other users. The service has been credited for causing the reduction of classified advertising in newspapers across the United States. Creative Commons?- Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. It provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

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Delicious?- Delicious is a free online bookmarking service that lets users save website addresses publicly and privately online so they can be accessed from any device connected to the internet and shared with friends. Digg?- Digg is a social news website that allows members to submit and vote for articles. Articles with the most votes appear on the homepage of the site and subsequently are seen by the largest portion of the site?s membership, as well as other visitors. Disqus?- Disqus is a comment system and moderation tool for your site. This service lets you add next-gen community management and social web integration to any site on any platform.

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Ebook?- An ebook is an electronic version of a printed book. However, most ebooks are not actually available in print (unless you print them). These are typically published in PDF form. Eventbrite?- Eventbrite is a provider of online event management and ticketing services. Eventbrite is free if your event is free. If you sell tickets to your event, Eventbrite collects a fee per ticket.

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Facebook?- Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study, and live around them. Facebook is the largest social network in the world with more than 800 million users. Firefox?- Firefox is an open-source web browser. It has emerged as one of the most popular web browsers on the internet and allows users to customize their browser through the use of?third-party extensions. Flash Mob?- A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The term?flash mob?is generally applied only to gatherings organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails. Flickr?- Flickr is a social network based around online picture sharing. The service allows users to store photos online and then share them with others through profiles, groups, sets, and other methods. Forums?- Also known as a message board, a forum is an online discussion site. It originated as the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. Follow Friday (#ff)?- Follow friday is a trend via the hashtag #ff every Friday on Twitter. Users select other usernames and tweet them with #ff in their post, meaning they recommend following those Twitter users. People tweet at their favorite brands, colleagues, celebrities--you name it! Foursquare?- Foursquare is a social network in which friends share their locations and connect with others in close physical proximity to each other. The service uses a system of digital badges to reward players who ?check in? to different types of locations. Friends?- No, not your pals you play poker with on the weekends. We're talking Facebook friends. These are individuals you consider to be friendly enough with you to see your Facebook profile and engage with you.

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Google Chrome?- Google Chrome is a free web browser produced by Google that fully integrates into its online search system as well as other applications. Google Documents?- Google Documents is a group of web-based office applications that includes tools for word processing, presentations, and spreadsheet analysis. All documents are stored and edited online and allow multiple people to collaborate on a document in real-time. Google+?- Google+ is Google's new social network. It differs in that it promotes social sharing that is more similar to how people share in real life by providing features such as one that limits who you are talking to, creating 1-on-1 conversation. Google Reader?- Google Reader is an RSS reader that allows you to aggregate various blogs and sites and collect updates to new content in one location. You can log on whenever you choose, and the latest content from multiple blogs will be in one stream so you don't have to navigate to each site individually. Gowalla?- Gowalla is a social network in which friends share their locations and connect with others in close psychical proximity to each other. Groundswell?- A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations. (Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff,?Groundswell, pg. 9)

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Hangout?- A Hangout is a video service on Google+ that allows you to video chat with up to 10 Google+ users are a time. You can name these chats, watch YouTube videos during them, open a Google Doc with colleagues, and much more. Hashtag?- A hashtag is a tag used on the social network Twitter as a way to annotate a message. A hashtag is a word or phrase preceded by a ?#.? Example: #yourhashtag. Hashtags are commonly used to show that a tweet, a Twitter message, is related to an event or conference, online or offline. hi5?- hi5 is a social network focused on the youth market. It is a social entertainment destination, with a focus on delivering a fun and entertainment-driven social experience online to users around the world. HootSuite?- HootSuite is a social media management system that helps brands streamline campaigns across social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ Pages. Teams can collaboratively monitor, engage, and measure the results of social campaigns from one secure, web-based dashboard. HTML?- HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a programing language for web pages. Think of HTML as the brick-and-mortar of pages on the web. It provides content and structure while?CSS?supplies style. HTML has changed over the years, and it is on the cusp of its next version: HTML5.

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Inbound Marketing?- Inbound marketing is a style of marketing that essentially focuses permission-based marketing techniques that businesses can use to get found by potential customers, convert those prospects into leads and customers, and analyze the process along the way. Inbound marketing leverages tactics such as?SEO, blogging, social media, lead generation, email marketing, lead nurturing, and analytics. It is in direct contrast to outbound marketing, which utilizes traditional interruptive marketing tactics such as direct mail, trade shows, print and TV advertising, and cold calling. Instagram?- Instagram is a photo sharing application that lets users take photos, apply filters to their images, and share the photos instantly on the Instagram network and other social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Foursquare. The app is targeted toward mobile social sharing, and in just over one year, it has gained almost 15 million users. Currently, it is only available for iPhone devices.
Instant Messaging?- Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time, direct text-based communication between two or more people. More advanced instant messaging software clients also allow enhanced modes of communication, such as live voice or video calling.

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Joomla?- Joomla is a content management system (CMS) that enables users to build websites and online applications.

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Klout?- Klout is a measure of social influence. The service allows users to connect various social accounts such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc., and then provides every user with his or her Klout score. The score is out of 100--the higher the score, the more inlfuence you have on the social world.

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Lifecasting?- Lifecasting is a continual broadcast of events in a person's life through digital media. Typically, lifecasting is transmitted through the internet and can involve wearable technology. Like?- A ?Like? is an action that can be made by a Facebook user. Instead of writing a comment for a message or a status update, a Facebook user can click the "Like" button as a quick way to show approval and share the message. Link Building?- Link building is an aspect of search engine optimization in which website owners develop strategies to generate links to their site from other websites with the hopes of improving their search engine ranking. Blogging has emerged as a popular method of link building. LinkedIn?- LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of June 2010, LinkedIn had more than 70 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. LinkedIn Today?- LinkedIn Today is LinkedIn's own version of a social news service. Every industry on LinkedIn (marketing, journalism, technology, etc.) has its own LinkedIn Today. Stories are selected based off which ones are posted and shared the most by users of LinkedIn. Lurker?- A lurker online is a person who reads discussions on a message board, newsgroup, social network, or other interactive system, but rarely or never participates in the discussion.

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Mashup?- A content mashup contains multiple types of media drawn from pre-existing sources to create a new work. Digital mashups allow individuals or businesses to create new pieces of content by combining multiple online content sources. Meme?- A meme on the internet is used to describe a thought, idea, joke, or concept to be shared online. It is typically an image with text above and below it, but can also come in video and link form. A popular example is the?"I Can Has Cheezburger?" cat meme that turned into an entire site of memes. MySpace?- MySpace is a social networking website owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006 and was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008. Punchbowl?- Punchbowl.com is a social site that facilitates party planning and provides members with ideas, invitations, favors, gift registries, photo/video sharing, and more.

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News Feed?- A news feed is literally a feed full of news. On Facebook, the News Feed is the homepage of users' accounts where they can see all the latest updates from their friends. The news feed on Twitter is called Timeline (not to get confused with Facebook's new look, also called Timeline).

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Opera?- Opera is an open-source web browser. While not as popular as Firefox, Opera is used as the default browser on some gaming systems and mobile devices. Orkut?- Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google. The website is named after its creator, Google employee?Orkut B?y?kk?kten. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil.

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Pandora?- Pandora is a social online radio station that allows users to create stations based on their favorite artists and types of music. Permalink?- A permalink is an address or URL of a particular post within a blog or website. Podcast?- A podcast, or non-streamed webcast, is a series of digital media files, either audio or video, that are released episodically and often downloaded through an RSS feed. Posterous?- Posterous is a blogging and content syndication platform that allows users to post content from any computer or mobile device by sending an e-mail. PostRank?- PostRank monitors and collects social engagement related to content around the web. Essentially it helps publishers understand which type of content promotes sharing on the social web.

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Qik?- Qik is an online video streaming service that lets users stream video live from their mobile phones to the web. Quantcast?- Quantcast provides website traffic and demographics for websites. The tool is primarily used by online advertisers looking to target specific demographics.

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Real-Time Search?- Real-time search is the method of indexing content being published online into search engine results with virtually no delay. Reddit?- Reddit is similar to Digg. It is a social news site that is built upon a community of users who share and comment on stories. Retweet?- A retweet is when someone on Twitter sees your message and decides to re-share it with his/her followers. A retweet button allows them to quickly resend the message with attribution to the original sharer's name. RSS Feed?- RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of? web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blogs and videos in a standardized format. Content publishers can syndicate a feed, which allows users to subscribe to the content and read it when they please, and from a location other than the website (such as reader services like Google Reader). RSS Reader?- An RSS reader allows users to aggregate articles from multiple websites into one place using RSS feeds. The purpose of these aggregators is to allow for a faster and more efficient consumption of information. An example of an RSS Reader is Google Reader.

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Scribd?- Scribd turns document formats such as PDF, Word, and PowerPoint into a web document for viewing and sharing online. Search Engine Optimization?- Search engine optimization is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a website from search engines via unpaid or organic search traffic. Second Life?- Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab that was launched on June 23, 2003. Users are called "residents," and they interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade virtual property and services with one another, and travel throughout the world. Seesmic?- Seesmic is a popular desktop and mobile social application. Using APIs, Seesmic allows users to share content on social networks such as Twitter and Google Buzz from the same application. Sentiment?- Sentiment is normally referred to as the attitude of user comments related to a brand online. Some social media monitoring tools measure sentiment. SlideShare?- SlideShare is an online social network for sharing presentations and documents. Users can favorite and embed presentations as well as share them on other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Skype?- Skype is a free program that allows for text, audio, and video chats between users. Additionally, users can purchase plans to receive phone calls through their Skype account. Social Media?- Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social Media Monitoring?- Social media monitoring is a process of monitoring and responding to mentions related to a business that occur in social media. StumbleUpon?- StumbleUpon is a free web-browser extension that acts as an intelligent browsing tool for discovering and sharing web sites.

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Tag Cloud?- A tag cloud is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, typically used to describe the content of web sites. Technorati?- Technorati is a popular blog search engine that also provides categories and authority rankings for blogs. Timeline?- Timeline is the new Facebook format for personal profiles. It is essentially a digital scrapbook of a user's life, displaying their profile in an actual timeline format so they can see at exactly what point in time something a story occurred. Trend?- A trend is seen on every social network. Facebook shows what is trending when multiple users are sharing the same link or discussing the same topic. Google+ highlights trending topic when a user conducts a search. Twitter has a section to the bottom right of its home feed which clearly shows what topics and hashtags are trending in tweets. And LinkedIn shows what industries (in LinkedIn Today) that a certain story is popular. Tumblr?- Tumblr lets users share content in the form of a blog. Users can post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, or email. TweetDeck?- TweetDeck is an application that connects users with contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more. Tweetup?- A tweetup is an organized or impromptu gathering of people that use Twitter. Twitter?- Twitter is a platform that allows users to share 140-character-long messages publicly. User can ?follow? each other as a way of subscribing to each others' messages. Additionally, users can use the @username command to direct a message toward another Twitter user. Twitter Chat?- A Twitter Chat is a chat or discussion that is held on Twitter and is open to all users. Questions are prompted from the user hosting the chat, while anyone else can respond using a particular hashtag. The hashtag is the marker for someone participating in the chat. HubSpot has its own chats hosted every other Tuesday via the hashtag #inboundchat. Twitter Search?- Twitter Search is a search engine operated by Twitter to search for Twitter messages and users in real time. TypePad?- TypePad is a free and paid blogging platform similar to Blogger. It allows users to host and publish their own blogs.

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Unconference?- An unconference is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered on a theme or purpose. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees and sponsored presentations. USTREAM?- USTREAM is a live interactive broadcast platform that enables anyone with an internet connection and a camera to engage and stream video online.

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Video Blog?- A video blog is a blog the produces regular video content often around the same theme on a daily or weekly basis. An example of a successful video blog is Wine Library TV. Viddler?- Viddler is a popular video sharing site similar to YouTube and Vimeo in which users can upload videos to be hosted online and shared and watched by others. Vimeo?- Vimeo is a popular video sharing service in which users can upload videos to be hosted online and shared and watched by others. Vimeo user videos are often more artistic, and the service does not allow commercial video content. Viral Marketing?- Viral marketing refers to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives through self-replicating viral processes.

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Web Analytics?- Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. Webinar?- A webinar is used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the internet. Widget?- A widget is an element of a?graphical user interface?that displays an information arrangement changeable by the user, such as a window or text box. Wiki?- A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser, allowing for collaboration between users. Wikipedia?- Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit?Wikimedia Foundation. Its millions of articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. WordPress?- WordPress is a content management system and contains blog publishing tools that allow users to host and publish blogs.

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Yammer?- Yammer is a business communication tool that operates as an internal Twitter-like messaging system for employees within an organization. It is used to provide real-time communication and reduce the need for e-mail. Yelp?- Yelp is a social network and local search website that provides users with a platform to review, rate, and discuss local businesses. YouTube?- YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. Three former?PayPal?employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by?Google Inc.?for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. YouTube is the largest video sharing site in the world.

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Zoho?- Zoho is a suite of online web applications geared toward business productivity and collaboration. Zooomr?- Zooomr is a online photo sharing service similar to Flickr.

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