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The Pioneers on the Internet

<p>We all learn the history of the internet in our Computer or ICT subject back in highschool and I'm pretty sure that you all know how to use it.<br />
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Internet is the most famous and easiest means of communication to other network or terminal and getting informed about something, It used today for education, social networking, news and public information and many more but do we know who are the pioneers on the internet? Who sent the first email? what is the first social network? what is the first picture uploaded? what is the first browser and many more.<br />
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In this article, we will find out the first and the pioneers of the Internet.<br />
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<li><b>The First Social Network - </b>No, you are wrong, it is not Friendster, the first social networking site was launched way back in the year 1997. It is the "SixDegrees", it is the first social media that allow a user to create a profile and to become friends to other users. The website is lo longer functional today. It was purchased for $125 million dollars in 2000 and was shotdown in 2001. </li>
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<li><b>First Email Sent</b> - The first email was sent by Ray Tomilson, also one of the developers of the file transfer program called CPYNET. The first mail he sent was a test so it was not preserved. He sent something like "QWERTYUIOP". Tomilson later said that these <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">"test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them." Mr. Tomilson died at his home on March 5, 2016</span></span></li>
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<li><b>The First Picture</b> - The first picture uploaded on the internet is from Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the internet. The Photo is about the musical group called the "Les Horribles Cernettes", it is a comedy band based at the CERN Laboratory which composed of admin assinstants and CERN scientist.  </li>
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<li><b>The First Youtube Video - </b>The first video uploaded on YouTube is the "Me at the Zoo" by one of its co-founder Jawed Karim with the username jawed. It was uploaded at 8:27 p.m on Saturday, April 23, 2005. The 19 second video was recorded by his high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo featuring Karim in front of the Elephants.<br /><br />Bonus: The first comment in this video is "interesting" by the user <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.9px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">COBALTGRUV
More fact about Youtube? Check this out - "<a href="http://www.dailytrend.xyz/2014/10/the-most-on-youtube.html">The Most of Youtube</a>"</span></span></li>
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<li><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">The First Tweet Ever -</span> </span></b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The<a href="http://www.dailytrend.xyz/2014/07/15-facts-you-dont-know-about-twitter.html"> First tweet</a> was posted by one of the Co-Founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey which is "Just setting up my twittr" but it is an automated tweet for new member before, so the first tweet ever written by a human is his second tweet "inviting coworkers" on March 21, 2006. More Twitter Facts? Click <a href="http://www.dailytrend.xyz/2014/07/15-facts-you-dont-know-about-twitter.html">here</a></span></span></li>
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<li><b>The First Website - </b>The first website is about the world wide web developed by CERN in a simple and basic HTML format, it is about how to use it, how it developed and how you can help. Here is the url - <a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html">The Project</a></li>
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<li><b>First Sentence Uttered on Skype</b> - And also the most used sentence uttered on skype right at the most present time is by one of its development team. It was in estonian saying "Tere, kas sa kuuled mind" or in english "hello, can you hear me?"</li>
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<li><b>First Instant Message - </b>The first instant message was sent thru AOL by Ted Leonis to his wife on January 6, 1993. It read, "Don't be scared... it is me. Love you and miss you" His wife replied "Wow, this is so cool".</li>
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<li><b>First User of Facebook - </b>Marck Zuckerberg was the first human joined facebook and the fourth member. The first three account was used for testing. The first non-founded that joined facebook was an Israeli name Arie Hasit. Read more weird fact about Facebook <a href="http://www.dailytrend.xyz/2014/07/5-weird-facts-about-facebook.html">here</a>. </li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>First Item Sold Online - </b>The first item sold online is a broken laser pointer on ebay for $14.83 in 1995 and the first book sold on Amazon was Douglas Hofstdter's <i>Fluid concepts and creative </i>in 1995.</li>
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<b>First Web Browser - </b>The first web browser is the WorldWideWeb. It was developed in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee for the NeXT computers.</div>
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The Pioneers on the Internet

We all learn the history of the internet in our Computer or ICT subject back in highschool and I'm pretty sure that you all know how to use it. Internet is the most famous and easiest means of communi…

10 Jun 2016

The "Most" on Youtube

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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">YouTube is the most popular video-sharing site on the internet, it
was created by by three former employees of Paypal in February 2005 and has
been owned by Google since 2006. According to YouTube, users worldwide upload
100 hours of video each minute and more than 6 billion hours of video are
watched each month. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Do you know that there are over billions videos on YouTube, and
about 200,000 is uploaded everyday. You need over 600 years to watched all the
videos uploaded by 300 thousand accounts on the website. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">But with all the million videos uploaded, there are some that
stand out, or what most <i>netizens </i>use to say, "gone
viral". Now let's see what are the "Most" on Youtube</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Most Viewed Music Video of All Time -</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"> This
title belong to no other than PSY's hit song "</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Gangnam Style</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">",
it is the first video on YouTube that hit over 2 billion views on May 2014, it
surpassed the old "Baby" of Justin Bieber in November 2012. It is also
the first YouTube video that hit 1 billion views. PSY's second hit song,
Gentleman also in the top ten of the most watched on YouTube with over 700 million views</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Most Viewed Viral Video of All
     Time - </span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Time
     to bite your finger because it's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM">Charlie Bit my Finger</a>". The
     video is simply features two brother sitting in a chair, and when Charlie
     bit his brother’s finger, Harry repeatedly says ouch, and his brother
     begins to giggle, afterwards, Harry smiles and says “Charlie, bit me” <br /><br />The video ranks as the fourth most viewed video on YouTube with approximately 700 million views. The 56-second long video was uploaded on Youtube in May 2007 by Howard Davies-Carr, the father of the boys. According to the report, the family made over $500,000 off advertising revenue from the video, that is almost like winning a lottery.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><b>Most Liked Video - </b>According to Buzzfeed, the title still belongs to PSY's Gangnam Style with over 8 millions likes followed Ylvis hit song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE">"The Fox" (What Does the Fox Say)</a> with over 3 million likes. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="line-height: 24px;">Most Disliked Video - </b><span style="line-height: 24px;">The award belong to the song "</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0" style="line-height: 24px;">Friday</a><span style="line-height: 24px;">" by Rebecca Black with over 1 million dislikes, even though Justin Bieber's Baby have more dislikes with 2 million thumbs down, Friday was once had over 3 million negative votes but the video was later removed, and has been officially re-uploaded. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 24px;">The Song was written and produced by Los Angeles record producers Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson and released by ARK Music Factory on March 14, 2011. The song has receive universally negative reviews. Michael  Nelson called it Worst Video Ever Made on twitter and maybe The Worst Song Ever asked by Lyndsey parker on Yahoo! Music.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><b>Most Subscribed Channel of All Time - </b>And maybe the richest vlogger in the internet today, with over 32 million subscribers and over 6.2 billion total video views. PewDiePie holds the position in the top 1 since August 2013.<br /><br />PewDiePie is popular of being a game commentator on Youtube. He is known of playing video games while recording it,  but not in the traditional video walkthroughs, He describe it as "sharing gaming experience with my bros". He also support Independent Game Developers, and according to a reliable source, games featured on PewDiePie Channel have experience increased in sales.<br /><br />According to CelebrityNetWorth[dot]Com, PewDiePie net worth as of 2014 is $10 million. <br /><br />In June 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported PewDiePie earning $4 million a year. </span></li>
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The "Most" on Youtube

YouTube is the most popular video-sharing site on the internet, it was created by by three former employees of Paypal in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since 2006. According to YouTube, u…

03 Oct 2014

The Word of the Year is Selfie

<p>The word "Selfie" was declared Word of the Year among other 12 nominees at the recently held Sawikaan 2014.<br />
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Selfie was also the Oxford Word of the Year for 2013, the term means a self portrait photograph typically taken  with a hand-held digital camera or a smartphone. Selfies are often shared on different social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram.<br />
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According to CNN, the earliest usage of the word selfie was in 2002, in an Australian chat room to describe an undignified scene.<br />
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Earlier this year, Makati and Pasig was named as the <a href="http://www.tdtrend.com/2014/03/makati-and-pasig-named-as-selfie.html">Selfie Capital of the World</a> by the Time Magazine. With 258 selfie takers per 100,000 people.</div>
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The Word of the Year is Selfie

The word "Selfie" was declared Word of the Year among other 12 nominees at the recently held Sawikaan 2014. Selfie was also the Oxford Word of the Year for 2013, the term means a self portrait photogr…

26 Sep 2014

Busting Out A Hoax: Cosmic Rays From Mars Will Hit Earth

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Hoaxes have been part of the satirical world of the Internet ever since. Different hoax had been a global and phenomenal trend ever since. Some are really obviously false while other hoax is almost as near as a fact. Hoax had since then shaped the course of human life in different perspectives everyday.</div>
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One hoax news had recently spread these past days and this hoax is about cosmic rays from Mars that will hit Earth. This cosmic rays was rumored in the hoax that can cause high radiation in opened gadgets and it is added to the hoax that everyone mus turn off their gadgets starting 10:30pm up to 3:30am tomorrow. The hoax had spread all over the country thru text and was spammed all over other cellphone users. This hoax had started in late 2010 in the US in which BBC news had posted a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8465619.stm" target="_blank">news</a> article about it.</div>
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So what are these cosmic rays? A cosmic ray is a immensely high-energy radiation that originates outside the solar system. There is no confirmed study where cosmic rays come from but researches from NASA states that these cosmic rays come from supernovae, active galactic nuclei, quasars, and gamma-ray bursts. As contrary to the hoax, there is still no confirmed information that heavenly bodies such as planets can create cosmic rays and Earth has a stable atmosphere that can protect its inhabitants from cosmic rays.</div>
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My own opinions about this hoax is that this thing is 100% obviously satirical to people who has idea in the field of modern electronics and computers. If we do got caught by the satire news and followed such order, every computer and gadget will be turned off which will also include the vital computers used by radar operators in airports, weather agencies, or even in broadcasting stations. Shutting these down just for that kind of joke would cripple the entire nation in a very disastrous manner. Instead of putting nonsense hoaxes just to get the attention of the people, we should instead use it to spread information on what really cosmic rays are.</div>
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Busting Out A Hoax: Cosmic Rays From Mars Will Hit Earth

Hoaxes have been part of the satirical world of the Internet ever since. Different hoax had been a global and phenomenal trend ever since. Some are really obviously false while other hoax is almost a…

19 Sep 2014

All of Me Tagalog Version Gone Viral

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A video of a young man singing All of me by John Legend in Tagalog version gone viral on Youtube after a popular page on Facebook shared it. </div>
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The video was uploaded by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6rDoxOibzDL_fAnbMhn56w">Aarron Cadawas</a> on Youtube last May 2014 and caught the attention of the social media this just September after someone post it on Facebook and shared by hundreds. </div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6rDoxOibzDL_fAnbMhn56w">Aaron Cadawas</a> has also lot of other songs in tagalog version and parodies uploaded on his channel on Youtube. The Tagalog version of All of Me already hits over 40,000 views on Youtube up to date.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi guys! just having fun and tripping if you like this version of my song just simply like it! :) and my brother is doing a cameo at the background hope you enjoy it!</span></span></blockquote>
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17 Sep 2014

Three German Students Surprise A Homeless Guy

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A young man from Germany ask a homeless guy if he can borrow his bucket, confuse and don't have really any idea, He agreed. The next scene will surprise you.</div>
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According their YouTube channel, <a href="http://be%20japy%20e.v./">be japy e.V</a>, they been doing the act with more songs without a camera and decided to turn it to a video to send a message to others to encourage them to do the same.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">We could not believe how much of you have analyzed this video in the last view days. There was a lot of praise, but also a lot of critical voices making a particular sore point.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">In May of this year, we performed like this with more songs and WITHOUT a camera. We liked the massage of what we were doing so we decided to turn it into a video in order to encourage others to possibly do the same.</span></span> </blockquote>
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A young man from Germany ask a homeless guy if he can borrow his bucket, confuse and don't have really any idea, He agreed. The next scene will surprise you. According their YouTube channel, be japy …

01 Aug 2014

Sabina Altynbekova: The New Internet Dream Girl

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Volleyball is a sport that is mostly known to us being played by women and men alike. We always see it being played on local and international tournaments, as well as to some inter-collegiate competitions. This story will cover about a teenage girl who plays for the U19 Kazakhstan national volleyball team named Sabina Altynbekova.</div>
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Somewhat, volleyball fans who watched the 17th Asian Women's U-19 Volleyball Championship in Taipei would have an idea of her. People all over the internet would say that she is a "player on fire" for the Kazakhstan volleyball team but it gives out the reason that it was her "looks" and not her playing skills.</div>
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Critics say Sabina Altynbekova, 17, is so beautiful that it's a distraction to the sport. Even the athlete's own coach says his team is increasingly about one player, at least as far as the fans are concerned.</div>
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Their team's participation in the recent tournament in Taiwan had sparked an online sensation especially to Altynbekova. Taiwanese fans were spotted watching the games holding Kazakhstan flags and even went early before the match just to get a glimpse of her. It was like that Altynbekova just gets the eyes and the attention of fans and players, teammate or opponents alike.<br />
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She became an online sensation just because of her looks. Videos of her on YouTube just doing some simple workouts before the volleyball game receives thousands of views. Numerous Facebook pages and Twitter accounts had spawned claiming connection to her but she confirmed to her fans and followers that she is only limited to social networking sites, citing her Instagram and VK accounts. VK is a popular social networking site in Europe, as well as to the former Soviet Union countries, including her native Kazakhstan.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">It is told by her mother, Nuripa Amrievna, that the volleyball sensation had attended a school for gifted children and is recently enrolled at Kazakh University for Humanities and Law.</span></div>
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Sabina Altynbekova: The New Internet Dream Girl

Volleyball is a sport that is mostly known to us being played by women and men alike. We always see it being played on local and international tournaments, as well as to some inter-collegiate competi…

29 Jul 2014

Assassin's Creed Unity Meets Parkour in Real Life

<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone want's to be Assassin? But what if you see one in the real life? It is when the famous stealth game Assassin's Creed meet Parkour. The viral video was uploaded by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwgURKfUA7e0Z7_qE3TvBFQ">devinsupertramp</a> on Youtube last July 22, 2014. It's about the new game of Ubisoft, Assassin Creead: Unity, which will take place on Paris, in time of revolution.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Set amidst the chaos of 18th Century France, Assassin's Creed Unity tells the story of Arno and the Brotherhood of Assassins as they struggle to uncover the dark forces manipulating the French Revolution.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Assassin's Creed Unity</b> is an upcoming historical action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is set to release on October 28, 2014 in North America for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game is the seventh major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and the successor to 2013's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Set within Paris during the French Revolution, the single-player story follows Arno Dorian in his efforts to expose the true powers behind the Revolution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The game retains the series' third-person open world exploration as well as familiar melee combat and stealth system. Assassin's Creed Unity introduces cooperative multiplayer to the Assassin's Creed series, letting up to four players explore and engage in narrative-driven missions.</span></span></div>
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Assassin's Creed Unity Meets Parkour in Real Life

Everyone want's to be Assassin? But what if you see one in the real life? It is when the famous stealth game Assassin's Creed meet Parkour. The viral video was uploaded by devinsupertramp on Youtube l…

24 Jul 2014

15 Facts You Don't Know About Twitter

<p>Twitter is the second most popular social networking site next to Facebook. Since 2007 Twitter have already over 600 millions active members sharing their ideas, photos and videos everyday in a 140-character limit per post. But having millions of members including you, Here are some facts you probably didn't  know about Twitter.<br />
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<b>1. The First Tweet Ever - </b>The First tweet was posted by one of the Co-Founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey which is "Just setting up my twittr" but it is an automated tweet for new member before, so the first tweet ever written by a human is his second tweet "inviting coworkers" on March 21, 2006.<br />
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<b>2. The First Homepage Design - </b>The Site opened to public on July 15, 2006 and the Twitter first ever homepage is this. Puberty done right?<br />
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<b>3. The Most Followed Person - </b>The most followed person on twitter is Katy Perry. The singer has 54.6 million followers that maker her on top since 2013, followed by Justin Bieber with 53 million followers.<br />
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<b>4. User with the Most Number of of Tweets - </b>This one below to a user @Yougakduan_00, a girl from Japan, who posted over 36 million tweets before twitter suspended her account.</div>
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<b>5. Twitter's Blue Bird Has a Name - </b>Yes! You read it right, that blue bird has a name. The Twitter famous logo named Larry. Larry the Bird was named after Larry Bird, A former NBA player from Boston Celtics.</div>
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<b>6</b>. <b>The Most Re-tweeted Tweet Ever -</b> and one of the most famous Selfie as well is from Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen take the photo with some of the celebrities during Oscar which and posted it on Twiiter with the caption "if only Bradley's arm was longer. Best Photo Ever. #oscars". After the ceremony the tweet have almost 2 millions re-tweets and still counting up to date.</div>
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If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/oscars?src=hash">#oscars</a> <a href="http://t.co/C9U5NOtGap">pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap</a><br />
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<b>7. User with the most number of "Following" - </b>The title belong to @ArabicBest who follows 2.4 million account followed by a social media company, Hootsuite, follows nearly 1.6 million accounts.<br />
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<b>8. The "Twitter" Origins - </b>Twitter team almost named the social network site as "Twitch" before finalizing it a Twitter. The team look at the Oxford English Dictionary and found the word "Twiiter" and Dorsey said "it means a short inconsequential burst of information chirps from birds".<br />
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<b>9. Never Again - </b>Jack Dorsey, one of the developer of twitter never again posted a photo on Instagram after Facebook bought it.<br />
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<b>10. </b> <b>Most Richest People on Twitter - </b>3 of the five riches people in the world have verified twitter account. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Elison.<br />
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<b>11. The Hashtag Godfather - </b>the hashtag was created in August 2007 by Chris Messina (@Chrismessina) tweeted, "how do you feel about using #(pound) for groups. As in #Barcamp [Msg]"<br />
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how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/barcamp?src=hash">#barcamp</a> [msg]?<br />
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<b>12. The Big Two Competition - </b>Did you know that Twitter have 13.1 million fans on Facebook. While Facebook have 13.8 million Twitter followers.<br />
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<b>13. The First Sad Announcement - </b> Sam Sethi was the first person to announced on twitter that he had been fired.<br />
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I have been fired by Arrington for not removing the post comments from Loic. I will be looking for work and writing on www.vecosys.com
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<b>14. Tweets Per Day - </b>Approximately Twitter receive more thatn 500 million tweets a day, that's  5,700 tweets per second. Back on July 15,200,6 the launching day of twitter, there were only 224 tweets sent.<br />
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<b>15. Billion Dollar Idea - </b>The idea was created on a playground slide in a small neighborhood in San Francisco that now worth $24 dollar billion.<br />
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15 Facts You Don't Know About Twitter

Twitter is the second most popular social networking site next to Facebook. Since 2007 Twitter have already over 600 millions active members sharing their ideas, photos and videos everyday in a 140-ch…

21 Jul 2014

5 Weird Facts About Facebook

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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">1. Facebook data suggest tat the common time of breakups is two weeks before Christmas and during Spring break. And according to Google data, the most popular search term after spring break is "Why does it hurt when I pee?" HAHA yeah right. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. In 2008, A British woman named Laura Michaels, created a Facebook group called "I need sex" and in ten minutes the group have 35 members and eventually attracted 100 men and she slept 50 of them. Read more at <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2008/04/02/facebook-sex-addict-laura-michaels-slept-with-50-men-63672/">Metro.co.uk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Facebook incorporated owns a hundred entire Facebook URL including ihatethefabooklikebutton.com, likebuttonsucks.com, likesucks.com, facebookcreditssuck.org and ihatefacebookcredits.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. According to a Colombian University study, 83% of prostitute use Facebook to conduct business. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And that's it, visit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQ96GPJ8BVatjeqDpY295Q">5Facts Youtube Channel</a> for more weird, funny facts about anything.</span></div>
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5 Weird Facts About Facebook

Facebook: You can't live with it, you can't burn it in a grease fire. That's what they say, right? While everyone knows about happening on everyone on facebook, and all of it's basic. Here are 5 wei…

16 Jul 2014

[Video] The Best Philippine Commercial

<p>From the popular classic commercial of Alaska, to the irresistible taste of Fita, to the never ending happiness of Coke. Famous brand given us some memorable commercial that become part of our childhood.<br />
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Upload by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkK6_fEFWvL3Od6f7PQsJ8A">Eunice Joy Narido</a> on Youtube, the compilation of the best Philippine commercial.<br />
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[Video] The Best Philippine Commercial

From the popular classic commercial of Alaska, to the irresistible taste of Fita, to the never ending happiness of Coke. Famous brand given us some memorable commercial that become part of our childho…

09 Jul 2014

Philippines has Slowest Internet Connection in Southeast Asia

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Philippine has an average internet speed of 3.54 megabits per second according to ASEAN DNA that shows that the country has slowest internet connection in the whole Association of South East Asian Nations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Singapore has the fastest internet speed with 61.0 megabits per second followed by Japan that has 41.7 megabits per second. The report showed that the avereage internet speed for ASEAN regions is 12.5 Mbps, which is four times faster that the current internet speed of the Philippines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Other ASEAN nations that did not reach the Asean average internet speed are Laos(4.0 Mbps), Indonesia(4.1 Mbps), Brunei and Myanmar(4.9 Mbps) Malaysia(5.5 Mbps) and Cambodia(5.7 Mbps). While Vietnam(13.1 Mbps) reach the above average for Asean Average Internet Speed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">ASEAN nations that reach or above Average Global Internet Speed which is 17.5 Mbps are Thailand(17.7 Mbps), China(18.3 Mbps) Japan(41.7 Mbps) and Sigapore(61.0 Mbps)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just last February 2014, <a href="http://www.tdtrend.com/2014/02/philippine-has-slowest-lte-broadband-in.html">Philippine also rank as the slowest LTE or Long Term Evolution connection</a>  and Globe has the poorest coverage and slowest connection in the world by Opensignal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the report, Australia has the fastest average LTE speeds in the world while the USA and the Philippines is the slowest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Globe has the poorest </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">coverage</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"> and slowest connection with 38% at a time among the 38 telecommunications network worldwide and was even described as "Worst Performing Network" according to the study. While Smart is at 6th with poorest </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">coverage</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"> at 48%</span></span></p>

Philippines has Slowest Internet Connection in Southeast Asia

Philippine has an average internet speed of 3.54 megabits per second according to ASEAN DNA that shows that the country has slowest internet connection in the whole Association of South East Asian Nat…

23 Apr 2014

Watch White Guy Orders at Jollibee in Deep Tagalog

<p><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">Tagalog speaking Aussie Chris Urbano (Host of Maputing Cooking) orders at Jollibee... in deep Tagalog. Watch as he inspires Jollibee employees to use more Filipino language - and even try to get a discount. Jollibee. - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/maputingcooking"><span style="color: blue;">maputingcooking</span></a></span></span><br />
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Chris Urbano is an Australian living in Manila, He owns the Youtube channel "maputingcooking", which he cook filipino food and match delicious Aussie wines to his dishes.</p>

Watch White Guy Orders at Jollibee in Deep Tagalog

Tagalog speaking Aussie Chris Urbano (Host of Maputing Cooking) orders at Jollibee... in deep Tagalog. Watch as he inspires Jollibee employees to use more Filipino language - and even try to get a dis…

01 Apr 2014

Makati and Pasig named as Selfie Capital of the World by Time Magazine

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Selfies are more fun in the Philippines after Pasig and Makati named as the "Selfie Capital of the World"</div>
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Time Magazine made a database of over 400,000  instagram selfies and found out that the two cites have the most number of selfies having 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Makati City, known as the financial center of the Philippines, can now boast another distinction: It is the Selfie Capital of the World.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">An examination of hundreds of thousands of selfies—the low-fi, self-shot photographs that are <a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/sdt-next-america-03-07-2014-0-04/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;">intensely popular</a> among younger social media users—suggests<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"> that the city, part of metropolitan Manila and home to 500,000 people, produces more selfies per capita than any other city in the world.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">To investigate the geography of selfie-taking, TIME built a database of more than 400,000 Instagram photos tagged “selfie” that included geographic coordinates. In total, we ranked 459 cities to determine the selfiest places on earth - <a href="http://time.com/selfies-cities-world-rankings/"><span style="color: blue;">Time.com</span></a></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The </span>article<span style="font-family: inherit;"> said that the photos were downloded </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 26.880001068115234px;">from the </span><a href="http://instagram.com/developer/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; font-family: inherit; line-height: 26.880001068115234px; text-decoration: none;">Instagram API</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 26.880001068115234px;"> in two sets of five days: from Jan. 28-Feb.2, 2014 and Mar. 3-7, 2014. Each day’s data consists of the 24-hour period from midnight to midnight to account for all time zones equally. During that time, 402,197 Instagram photos tagged “selfie” that included geographic coordinates. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 26.880001068115234px;">For every city in the world of at least 250,000 residents, we then counted the number of selfies taken within 5 miles and divided by the population of that city.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, according to to <a href="http://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"><span style="color: blue;">Chris Wilson</span></a> not all photos tagged as selfie are in fact selfies. They ran a test in their database using <i>out-of-the-box facial detection </i>and found out that the majority of photos were of a single person. Added by Wilson Photos were matched to cities using a simple "nearest neighbor" algorithm that found the nearest city with atleast 250,000 residents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the study , the top ten countries with most selfies are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. Makati City and Pasig City, Philippines: </strong>258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. Manhattan, NY, USA: </strong>202 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. Miami, Fla., USA:</strong> 155 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. Anaheim and Santa Ana, Calif., USA:</strong> 147 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: </strong>141 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. Tel Aviv, Israel: </strong>139 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. Manchester, England: </strong>114 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8. Milan, Italy:</strong> 108 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9. Cebu City, Philippines: </strong>99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10. George Town, Malaysia: </strong>95 selfie-takers per 100,000 people</span></div>
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Cebu also make it to the top ten havng 99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people while Baguio is in 16th with 82 selfie-takers. Quezon city and Iloilo are also among the top 100 listed<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">selfie</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is a type of self-portrait photograph, usually taken with a hand-held digital camera or a phone. Selfies are often associated with social networking like </span>Facebook<span style="font-family: inherit;">, Twitter of Instagram. They are often casual, are typically taken either with a camera held at arm's length or in a mirror, and typically include either only the photographer or the photographer and as many people as can be in focus.</span></p>

Makati and Pasig named as Selfie Capital of the World by Time Magazine

Selfies are more fun in the Philippines after Pasig and Makati named as the "Selfie Capital of the World" Photo by Time.com Time Magazine made a database of over 400,000 instagram selfies and found …

11 Mar 2014

Philippines has Slowest LTE Broadband in the World - Int'l Surver Says

<p>After six million users from around the world were asked to comment about their download speed and time spent during LTE access, Philippines rank as the slowest LTE or Long Term Evolution connection among the 16 countries surveyed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">The OpenSignal app allows users to contribute to our impartial coverage maps of mobile networks, we took data from those of our 6 million users who have LTE and focussed on their experience of two key metrics: download speed, and the proportion of time spent with LTE access. All data included in this report comes from the second half of 2013. - OpenSignal</span></blockquote>
According to the report, Australia has the fastest average LTE speeds in the world while the USA and the Philippines is the slowest.<br />
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Globe has the poorest coverage and slowest connection with 38% at a time among the 38 telecommunications network worldwide and was even described as "Worst Performing Network" according to the study. While Smart is at 6th with poorest coverage at 48%<br />
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<li>Fastest  Country with LTE - Australia (24.5 Mbps)</li>
<li>Fastest Network with LTE - Claro Brazil (27.8 Mbps)</li>
<li>Most Improved Country for LTE Speed - Japan (66% LTE Improvement)</li>
<li>Network with Best Coverage - Tele2 Sweden (93% Coverage)</li>
<li>Country with Best Coverage - South Korea (91% Average Coverage)</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">LTE or</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Long Term Evolution </b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">is a standard for </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">wireless</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals.</span></span></div>
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Philippines has Slowest LTE Broadband in the World - Int'l Surver Says

After six million users from around the world were asked to comment about their download speed and time spent during LTE access, Philippines rank as the slowest LTE or Long Term Evolution connection a…

26 Feb 2014

[Video]YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?

<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">To celebrate 2013, </span></span><span style="line-height: 17px;">YouTube</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"> invited some YouTubers to star in a </span></span><span style="line-height: 17px;">mash up</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"> of popular moments last year. Can you spot all the references?</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Can you name all the YouTube stars in the video? Did you get all the references to the top videos and memes of the year? (Also look for the secret easter egg video annotations!)</span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">#REWIND2013</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Best watched in HD!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br />
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[Video]YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?

To celebrate 2013, YouTube invited some YouTubers to star in a mash up of popular moments last year. Can you spot all the references?Can you name all the YouTube stars in the video? Did you get all th…

21 Jan 2014

UP Student Wins Photography Contest Using Stolen Photo

<p>Mark Joseph Solis, A graduate student from University of the Philippines admitted submitting a photo he did not personally take for the Chilean Embassy in Manila's contest "Smile for the World" that was took place last September 18th.<div>
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The photo that won him a $1000 and a round  trip tickets to Chile and Brazil was actually owned by Gregory John Smith and was taken on a beach in Paraty, Rio De Janeiro Brazil in 2006. It featured a boy playing seaweeds with his brother</div>
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Contradicts on what Solis said in his speech that the photo "The Mettle of the Filipino Spirit" is about a young boy help his father farming seaweeds in Zamboanga.</div>
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Gregory John Smith discovered the stolen photo and showed his outrage in Facebook saying that the first prize was awarded "to an impostor who has abused his copyright image".</div>
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<br />Solis already sent a letter of apology to Smith and confirmed that he received the letter.</div>
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<a href="http://rappler.com/">Rappler.com</a> reports that according to the post on the "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/NarinigKoSaUP/?fref=ts">Narinig ko sa UP</a>" Facebook page. This is not the first time that Solis did the plagiarizing.</div>
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Solis was also won other Photography Contest using a "Stolen Photo" and had done it at least five times.</div>
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Ambassador Mayorga of Chile and also host the contest said that they will conduct an investigation into the matter.</div>
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UP Student Wins Photography Contest Using Stolen Photo

Mark Joseph Solis, A graduate student from University of the Philippines admitted submitting a photo he did not personally take for the Chilean Embassy in Manila's contest "Smile for the World" that w…

24 Sep 2013

The Million Peso Flagpole

<p>The controversial photo showing the construction details of the flagpole soon to be rise in Luneta went viral on facebook after seeing that the total cost is nearly 8 millions pesos.<div>
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The photo was uploaded just after the Million People March against the Pork Barrel and corruption held in Luneta last August 26, 2013.</div>
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Dir. Reynalno Tagundando of the Department of Public Works and Highway NCR, that the project went through a bidding, and not overpriced. He also explained that the specifications,size, including the foundations were changed, it will be taller and powered by a mechanized pulley.</div>
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The proposed flagpole will be 52-meters in height and 400 - 800 millimeters in width. It will replaced the old 32-meter flagpole that will be transfer to Kawit, Cavite.</div>
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The target date of the completion of the project is before December 30 in time for the Commemoration of the death anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal.</div>
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The Million Peso Flagpole

The controversial photo showing the construction details of the flagpole soon to be rise in Luneta went viral on facebook after seeing that the total cost is nearly 8 millions pesos. The photo was upl…

28 Aug 2013

The Story Behind The Crying Cop

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">This Story and Photo was originally taken and written by <a href="https://plus.google.com/110367850779921090576">Rem Zamora</a> and goes viral on Facebook. Having thousand likes and shares.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The story behind the crying cop...</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">It all started
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">People were
starting to converge along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City early Monday
morning,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">a few hours before the State of the Nation Address.<br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Street vendors were selling kwek-kwek (quail eggs),
bottled water and other drinks while kids were roaming around the car-free
Commonwealth Avenue looking for coins dropped by passing vehicles the previous
days.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">What set the scene apart from an ordinary day along
the busy highway: container trucks and barbed wires were in place, signs of of
things to come.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">On the other side of the fenced area, policemen
were lying on the road resting. Some of them had been posted there since two
days ago.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><b>Chaos</b></span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">At around 11:00 a.m., a big group of activists
arrived near Ever Gotesco Mall. The protests began.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Activists hurriedly removed the metal fence on the
island, allowing them to bypass the police barricade. Anti-riot policemen from
the other side of the road ran and tried to block them, but the protesters
pushed through.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">There was one policeman who flashed a peace sign to
the protesters, asking them to remain calm. He urged activists to hold a
dialogue instead of resorting to violence.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">And then chaos began.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">On one side, policemen blocked and pushed
protesters away. On the other, the activists told the first line of security
that they wanted to go near Batasan Complex.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Rocks were thrown and people were hit with
truncheons and shields. Most of the members of the media stayed on top of a
dump truck to give them a good vantage view, while some remained in the middle,
sandwiched by the clashing protesters and policemen.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><b>Crying cop</b></span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">It was a long and tiring dispersal. According to
reports, at least 50 were injured in the clashes.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">But amid the chaos, my lens caught a scene I
thought I would never see during a dispersal.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">A foreign protester was berating a policeman asking
him why they were hurting the people. “Why are you doing this to us? Why are
you hurting us?!”</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">The officer simply stood his ground. “I am a
policeman, I’m just doing my job.”</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">He said his job was to maintain peace and order. He
said they were given orders and they had to follow.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Suddenly, the police officer cried.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">The foreigner kept on shouting at this officer. But
the policeman couldn't stop crying. He was trying to hold his tears, but he
couldn't.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Another round of clashes erupted. The policemen
were still trying to push and shove the protesters away. The crying cop simply
stood his ground. He was still holding his shield firmly. Still weeping,
sobbing.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Later, I approached the policeman and asked him his
name. He said he is Joselito. A quick glance at his name tag revealed he is
policeman Joselito Sevilla.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">He said he is a private, and his uniform patch
showed he is from the Marikina police unit.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Asked why he cried, he only said: "Sa gutom at
pagod. Walang tulog. Walang pahinga. Dalawang araw na kami naka-deploy dito.
Tapos ganito, nagkakagulo."</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">It was also PO1 Sevilla's first dispersal
assignment.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><b>Realization</b></span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">I finally understood him. No sleep. No food. No
rest. And he came face-to-face with protesters whose goal was to break the
police line.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Sevilla was physically and emotionally exhausted.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">But he was following orders. He was just doing his
job not to let protesters get near the Batasan Complex.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">He did not hurt the protesters, even if some were
already throwing rocks and hitting cops with wooden sticks.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Finally, some protesters noticed him, too: a
policeman, whom they expected to retaliate, was in front of them, holding his
shield firmly, weeping.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">And then they started to console PO1 Sevilla. A man
held his shoulder, telling him that everything would be alright. Another woman
comforted him, as she tried to give him a handkerchief to wipe his tears.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Amid the chaos, these two protesters hugged PO1 Sevilla
and assured him everything would be fine.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Seconds later, other policemen noticed what was
happening and they moved PO1 Sevilla away from the front lines, away from the
activists.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">I was caught in the middle and I couldn't find him
anymore. He was gone.</span><br />
<br />
<b><span class="textexposedshow">Show of strength</span></b>
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">State forces, especially policemen, are expected to
be firm and not show emotions. What PO1 Sevilla did was not what was expected
of him.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Did the other anti-riot policemen remove him from
the front line?</span><br />
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">This incident only shows we are all human beings.
It is not bad to show weakness by crying; that we can still do our job, stand
our ground, but still be peaceful and not hurt another human being; that two
opposing groups can still show compassion as shown by the man and woman who hugged
PO1 Sevilla.</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="background-color: white;">
<span class="textexposedshow">Hours after the violent protests, I reviewed my set
of photos taken during the day. I smiled when I saw the photo of the policeman
flashing the peace sign before the dispersal. It was PO1 Joselito Sevilla</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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