Thursday, March 12, 2009

Government Websites

http://www.bir.gov.ph/

BIR History:
During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Contador de' Resultas served as the Chief Royal Accountant whose functions were similar to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was the Chief Arbitrator whose decisions on financial matters were final except when revoked by the Council of Indies. During these times, taxes that were collected from the inhabitants varied from tribute or head tax of one gold maiz annually; tax on value of jewelries and gold trinkets; indirect taxes on tobacco, wine, cockpits, burlas and powder. From 1521 to 1821, the Spanish treasury had to subsidize the Philippines in the amount of P 250,000.00 per annum due to the poor financial condition of the country, which can be primarily attributed to the poor revenue collection system.

http://www.comelec.gov.ph

The Commission on Elections is mandated to give life and meaning to the basic principle that sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them. It is an independent constitutional body created by a 1940 amendment to the 1935 Constitution. Since then, its membership was enlarged and its powers expanded by the 1973 and 1987 Constitutions. The Commission exercises not only administrative and quasi-judicial powers, but judicial power as well.

Before the creation of the Commission, supervision over the conduct of elections was vested in the Executive Bureau, an office under the Department of the Interior, and later directly vested in the Department itself. The close official relationship between the President and the Secretary of the Interior and the perceived compelling influence of the former over the latter bred suspicion that electoral exercises were manipulated to serve the political interest of the party to which they belonged.

The National Assembly was impelled to propose the creation by constitutional amendment of an independent Commission on Elections. The amendment was ratified by the Filipino people in a plebiscite on June 17, 1940 and approved on December 2, 1940.

http://www.neda.gov.ph

The NEDA is the Philippines' social and economic development planning and policy coordinating body.
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), as mandated by the Philippine Constitution, is the country’s independent economic development and planning agency. It is headed by the President as chairman of the NEDA board, with the Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning, concurrently NEDA Director-General, as vice-chairman. Several Cabinet members, the Central Bank Governor, ARMM and ULAP are likewise members of the NEDA Board

Social networking

A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
Social networking has created new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life. The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust.


Facebook.com

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] 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.[4] 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.[5] Facebook recently surpassed Myspace in amount of visitors, making Facebook the most popular social network, followed by MySpace .

hi5.com

hi5 is a social networking website, which, throughout 2008, was one of the top 20 most visited sites on the Internet (among people who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browser.[1]) The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO.[2][3] As of January 2009, hi5 claims to have over 60 million active members.[4]
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).

Tagged.com

Tagged.com is a social networking site. It was co-founded by Harvard graduates and entrepreneurs Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith.[1] Tagged.com was launched in October 2004 by Tagged Inc. and is privately owned. Tagged Inc. has raised $7 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mayfield Fund.[2][3][4] The site initially targeted US high school students[5] but has since opened to all users worldwide age 13 and older. The company reached profitability in early 2007.[6] The site allows its users to build and customize profiles, send messages, leave comments, post bulletins, customize status, browse photos, watch videos, play games, give gifts, give tags, chat and make friends.[7] Early innovations include the use of third-party widgets and YouTube as a part of the site’s graphical interface. Other partnerships include Slide, RockYou, PhotoBucket, Meebo[8], Razz[9] and Jangl[10]. As of July 2008, the site claims to have 70 million registered users.[11] In late 2008, Tagged raised $5 million venture debt from Horizon Technology Finance and Leader Ventures.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Search Engine Examples

A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files.Examples of Search engine:

Lycos.com

Lycos.com is your source for all the Web has to offer--search, free online games, e-mail, free blogs & websites, videos, & movies,news, weather and more.It provide you with all the information you need about websites and services offered by Lycos web sites Additionally, you will find other legal information you should keep in mind while using the web sites. Lycos.com provides its users with lots of technical information helping them find a solution to their problems.The Lycos team is made of specialist working together in order to make the online world better for their customers.

GigaBlast.com

With one of the largest and freshest indexes in the world, GigaBlast Inc. has recently joined the elite ranks of major search engine companies.
Founded in 2000, Gigablast was created to index up to 200 Billion pages with leasdt amount of hardware possible. Gigablast provides large-scale, high-performance real-time information retrieval technology for partners sites. The company offers a variety of features including topic generation and the ability to index multiple documents formats. This search delivery mechanism gives a partner"turn key" search capability and the capacity to instantly offer search at maximum scability with minimum cost. It provides "Gigabits" of information, enabling visitors to easy refine their search based upon related topics from search results.

HotBot.com

HotBot.com is meta search tool for searching multiple search engines.Offers a search powered by a choice of Ask or Windows Live. There options to block offensive language , customize search results, and skins.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

My nEw years resolution

Its a new year and a new life.We made changes in our life not only for new year but also for our daily lives.
My New years resolution is to be more faithful to the Almighty God.I will study hard to pursue my dreams and aspiration.Generally, I want to changes all the mistakes that I've done.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

mY CHRISTMAS vAcation


Hello!Today I want to post my Christmas vacation even if I was late.
My Christmas Vacation was so enjoy and excitement because I had a lot of gifts that I received to my "ninang" and "ninong" .I feel the presence of Christmas because of the completeness of my family.In our noche buena,we have macaroni,spaghetti,chicken lechon and other delicious foods.

Monday, January 12, 2009

My new blogger

Hello everyone!This is my new blogger because I forgot my password in my past blogger.