GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

Development Bank of the Philippines(DBP)

The Country's Premiere Development Financial Institution The Development Bank of the Philippines is the country's most progressive development banking institution. We stand firm on our primary mandate of providing for the medium and long-term financing needs of enterprises, with emphasis on small and medium-scale industries, particularly in the countryside. For more than five decades, we have continued to assist strategic and critical sectors of Philippine society and have likewise continued to achieve substantial financial growth even amidst difficult economic scenarios.

Development Academy of the Philippines(DAP)

Invitation for Business Proposals of DAP Pasig Lot Long-Term Lease The DAP, a government-owned controlled corporation, engaged in capacity-building through consulting/technical assistance, training/seminar professional education, and/or policy-action research is inviting Proponents/Offerors in the business development of a 1,030 sqm lot covering TCT No.32171.

DAP Corporate ProfileFor three decades now, one institution has focused on approaches to national development. This is the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP).Established in June 1973, its mandate has been to assist in the country's development efforts in two ways: as change catalyst and as capacity-builder. Remaining constantly focused on this two-fold mission, it has assisted in shaping new government policies, crafting innovative development programs, and modernizing the management of government agencies and private enterprises.As change catalyst, DAP has played the role of "think tank" of government. Its greatest achievement can be gleaned from all the new ideas that have been adopted in government whether they be programs, policies, or new technologies.

Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System(MWSS)

One hundred thirty years of safe water and sewerage services for Metro Manila

When the Manila Water Supply System began its task of providing a steady and potable water supply for Metro Manila in 1878, the City of Manila, like the rest of Las Islas Filipinas, was still governed by Spain. Before the winds of revolution swept the Philippines into a long struggle for self-determination, the agency that would become the Manila Water and Sewerage System we know now had already begun its task of watering the capital seed that grew into a sovereign state.

The Manila Water Supply System is the oldest such system in Asia. Constructed in 1878 with funds donated by Spanish philanthropist Francisco Carriedo y Peredo, the MWSS began its task of providing water on tap to what is now Metropolitan Manila by delivering 16 million liters of water daily to 300,000 people.

From 1908 to 1924, the MWSS increased the water supply sourced from the Marikina River by ensuring additional pumping capacity at Santolan in what is now Quezon City, building a masonry dam at Wawa in Montalban and a 42-inch gravity line to San Juan town (now a city) where the line filled a 224-million liter reservoir. The total supply capacity of this system was 92 million liters of water a day.

From 1924 to 1944, the MWSS established the Angat-Novaliches system tapping the Angat river in Bulacan province as a source that is the centerpiece of the backbone of Metro Manila’s existing water system.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Facebook

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 bloAcked intermittently in several countries including Syriaand 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.

HI5

In hi5, users create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments. hi5 also allows the user to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users. When a person receives a friend request, he or she may accept or decline it, or block the user altogether. If the user accepts another user as a friend, the two will be connected directly or in the 1st degree. The user will then appear on the person's friend list and vice-versa.Some users opt to make their profiles available for everyone on hi5 to view. Other users exercise the option to make their profile viewable only to those people who are in their network. The network of friends consists of a user's direct friends (1st degree), the friends of those direct friends (2nd degree) and the friends of the friends of direct friends (3rd degree)

Cyworld (Hangul: 싸이월드)

is a social networking website launched on Sep 1, 1999. Cyworld is a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications (Hangul: SK커뮤니케이션즈), a subsidiary of SK Telecom (Hangul: SK텔레콤). Literally translated, "Cy" can mean "cyber", but is also a play on the Korean word for relationship (Hangul: 사이 'between'), so it could also mean "relationship." Cyworld, much like an virtual space in the internet, which users can decorate their "home" and invite friends. Members cultivate on- and off-line relationships by forming Ilchon (Hangul: 일촌, Hanja: 一寸) buddy relationships with each other through a service called "minihompy" (mini-homepage), which encompasses a photo gallery, video, message board, guestbook, friend list, and personal bulletin board. A user can link his/her minihompy to another user's minihompy to form a buddy relationship. It is similar to U.S. based Facebook and MySpace websites. Reports show that as much as 90 percent of South Koreans in their 20s and 25 percent of the total population of South Korea are registered users of Cyworld , and as of September 2005, monthly unique visitors are about 20 million Korean Celebrities are also known to have their own Cyworld. Today, cyworld has extended its operation to the United States, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. In 2007 Cyworld launched an international social & photosharing youth community called thephotodiary - http://www.thephotodiary.com/ The Swedish version of the site called bilddagboken.se has already gained nearly six million users.

Hotbot.com engine

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.

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HotBot, owned by Lycos, allows you to search using Google, MSN and Ask.com. Enter in your search terms and select the search engine you want to use. You can then switch between search engines to see how the results differ.

Dogpile.com search engine

Dogpile is a metasearch engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers. It is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc. Dogpile started on the 3rd January 1996 The Dogpile search engine earned the 2006 and 2007 J.D. Power and Associates award for best Residential Online Search Engine Service. The site was developed in 1996 by Aaron Flin and later sold to Go2net (which was in turn acquired by Infospace).

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Dogpile is a metasearch site — it searches multiple engines, filters for duplicates and then presents the results to the user. Dogpile uses multiple popular search engines, as well as sponsored links.Dogpile is singled out in a number of publications for mixing a high percentage of paid listings in with the search results returned by the various search engines.

Ask.com Search Engine

History

Teoma has been the heart of Ask search technology since 2001. The power of the Teoma algorithm, now known as ExpertRank, makes Ask one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Two significant events helped develop Ask search technology. First, in 1999, Ask acquired Direct Hit, a Massachusetts company that had developed the world's first "click popularity" search technology, which was licensed to MSN and Lycos, among others. Second, in 2001, Ask acquired Teoma, a 10-person start-up out of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and its unique index and search relevancy technology. Teoma was the first, and is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity: ExpertRank. In fact, Teoma means "expert" in Gaelic.

The Ask Website Crawler FAQ

Ask's Website crawler is our Web-indexing robot (or crawler/spider). The crawler collects documents from the Web to build the ever-expanding index for our advanced search functionality at Ask and other Web sites that license the proprietary Ask search technology.

Ask search technology is unique from any other search technology because it analyzes the Web as it actually exists -- in subject-specific communities. This process begins by creating a comprehensive and high-quality index. Web crawling is an essential tool for this approach, and it ensures that we have the most up-to-date search results.

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A website crawler is a software program designed to follow hyperlinks throughout a Web site, retrieving and indexing pages to document the site for searching purposes. The crawlers are innocuous and cause no harm to an owner's site or servers. Ask utilizes website crawlers to collect raw data and gather information that is used in building our ever-expanding search index. Crawling ensures that the information in our results is as up-to-date and relevant as it can possibly be. Our crawlers are well designed and professionally operated, providing an invaluable service that is in accordance with search industry standards.

My Valentines Day

A pleasant valentines day to each and everyone…………Valentines day is the day of heart. The heart that truly in love to a person whom they love. It is like an open book, it depends on how you read me. Don’t judge me by my cover, look inside and discover, I will be one of your TRUE PAGE forever.

It’s better to lose your pride to someone you love than to lose your love because of your pride. Be a friend of thousand, be a lover of one. Give your smile to everyone, but give your heart to only one.

When your life goes wrong don’t waste your time looking back in what you’re lost, for the road of life was never meant to be traveled backward. Just move on and say thanks always happen for a reason.

My New Year resolution

We have different likes and dislikes to ourselves. Different visions, ambitions and etc.. In celebrating new year's day we have different wishes to ourselves that could be possibly happen. For me I hope in this Christmas