AIM- is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May 1997. Stand-alone official AIM client software inclavailable for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Linux. The software, maintained by udes advertisements and is AOL, LLC, has a large share of the instant messaging market, especially in the United States (with 52% of the total reported as of 2006).<sup>[1]

reaction:</sup>AIM is different from other clients such as Yahoo Messenger in that it does not require approval from one buddy to be added to another's buddy list. As a result, it is possible for users to keep other unsuspecting users on their buddy list to see when they are online, read their status and away messages, and read their profiles. However, one can block another user from communicating and also enhance privacy by selecting a menu option allowing communication only with those on one's buddy list.

EBuddy-started the world's first, independent, web browser-based instant messaging service in 2003 as e-Messenger (www.e-messenger.net). The company was rebranded in 2006 from e-Messenger to eBuddy.

Now, eBuddy enables millions of people to chat with buddies on Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, MySpace IM and Facebook using one interface. Millions of monthly users also access eBuddy on their mobile phone, independent of carrier or device.

eBuddy is a privately-held company backed by Prime Technology Ventures and Lowland Capital Partners. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam and has offices in London and San Francisco.

eBuddy started the world's first, independent, web browser-based instant messaging service in 2003 as e-Messenger (www.e-messenger.net). The company was rebranded in 2006 from e-Messenger to eBuddy.

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)- is an open, XML-inspired protocol originally aimed at near-real-time, extensible instant messaging (IM) and presence information (e.g. buddy lists), but now expanded into the broader realm of message oriented middleware.^[1] It remains the core protocol of the Jabber Instant Messaging and Presence technology. Built to be extensible, the protocol has accumulated features over time such as Voice over IP and file transfer signaling.

Unlike most instant messaging protocols, XMPP is an open standard. Like e-mail, it is an open system where anyone who has a domain name and a suitable Internet connection can run his own Jabber server and talk to users on other servers. The standard server implementations and many clients are also free and open source software.

THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES

Multiply is a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media - such as photos, videos and blog entries - with their "real-world" network. The website was launched in March 2004 and is privately held with backing by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors.^[1] Multiply has over 11 million registered users.^[2]

On Multiply, a user's network is made up of their direct contacts, as well as others who are closely connected to them through their first-degree relationships. Additionally, users are encouraged to specify the nature of their relationship with one another, making it possible to share content with their entire network of closely-related people, or subsets thereof including friends, family, professional contacts, and so on.

Multiply is also known for stronger user security than most social networking sites. Users can limit if their item can be viewed by setting security settings to Public, Private (network only), or Private (invite only) for each item on their site.

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of November 2008^[update], it claims to host more than 3 billion images.

THEY FEATURES:

• 3.1 Organization
• 3.2 Organizr
• 3.3 Access control
• 3.4 Interaction and compatibility
• 3.5 Filtering
• 3.6 Licensing
• 3.7 Map sources

Xanga's origins can be traced back to 1999, when it began as a site for sharing book and music reviews. It now has an estimated 40 million users worldwide. As of May 24, 2008, Alexa Internet ranked Xanga as the 231st most visited site on the Internet.
All Xanga members receive a "Xanga Site", a web site made up of a weblog, a photoblog, a videoblog, an audioblog, a "Pulse" (mini-blog), and a social networking profile. Members also have the option of joining or making blogrings (groups).
Xanga supported limited profiles as early as its launch in 2000. Profiles were revamped on February 1, 2004 to hold more information and offer better email security and control. Each member was allowed to upload one profile picture. On April 30, 2004, Xanga upgraded its profile image uploading to offer better quality images. Then on July 27, 2004, Xanga followed up with multiple profile pics; classic members were allowed to upload up to 3 profile pics, while Premium members were allowed to upload up to 99 profile pics. Xangans were allowed to set a default pic that would appear next to their username, as well as choose between their profile pics in each entry. Then, on November 19, 2004, Xanga extended its support of multiple profile pics to comment icons; now Xangans could choose which profile pic they wanted to appear next to each of their comments.

=====SEARCH ENGINES=====

• Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com Alta Vista is a full text search engine, which uses “spiders” or “robots” to create its own databases from public Internet Web pages. It uses the word, acronym or phrase that is input and creates a database of Web sites containing those terms. The results are listed with the most relevant sites first. Alta Vista is considered a single or individual search engine since it searches individual sites only. Additional features of Alta Vista include a directory of Web sites reviewed by its editors and organized by category. If you’re not sure what terms to search, you can select a category and follow its path to get where you want to go. A section with Web tools allows you to send and receive email, map out a set of directions, translate foreign language information, catch up on the latest news, etc. A business center and shopping directory are also available from the home page. Alta Vista for me, is a good example of search engines because it provides web and newsgroup search engines, as well as paid submission service and it is a unique engine because it uses spiders or robots to create its own databases.
• Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com
  Dogpile is a meta-search engine that transmits a search simultaneously to several individual search engines and their databases of Web pages. The default list of search engines queried varies. You can also customize Dogpile to search specific search engines. Results are retrieved in lists of 10 hits from each engine queried. If more than 10 results are found, a link to the next list of hits is given. It is important to remember that meta-search engines only spend a short time in each database and may only retrieve a small percentage of any of the results in any of the databases queried.
  Dogpile also for me is a best example of search engines for the reason that Dogpile fetches and ranks results from multiple search engines, letting you search for key word, pictures, audio, video, news,or phone numbers.
  
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  A great product!This is really awesome system and its ground breaking.I have never seen another product internal and external.Spiderline provides services to large and small corporation ,and government agencies and individual website owners.Every website needs a search engine for extremely fast searches.I am empressed wiht your services.The account set up is very nice(simple and easy to used,yetgives the users a lot of control) .Just seconds after registering your website can be searchable with the features and you want realibility you need

Valentines Ever

Valentines brings harmony and prestige moment to all couple in which they love each other. Suddenly it is the time of sharing and contrast a special love with those who have partner.
Maybe not only couple who has a right of celebrating this event but also all people that may have a right to become more happy.

My New Year Resolution

One of the tradition of being a Filipino is that every year they need to change our habit, specially those habit doesnt morally good. In this year I need to change my bad habit, I need to dispose of what I am doing that does not totally good. I want to fulfill myself in a way that I am weak, I need to have strength to face the consequences in our everyday living in order to anchor my goals of life.

My Christmas

During the season of christmas me and my parents celebrate a sad christmas it because my whole family do did'nt complete. My older sister have her own family and for the meantime she did'nt spend time to visit during christmas day although she call at exactly 12 midnight in christmas time to greet and to give an apology that her family did'nt came because she lack of money to arrive. My younger sister eventually did'nt came also it is very danger to her family to commute because of the landslide. My celebration not merely sad because the spirit of christmas succeded to hug in my whole family even though my sisters in her family going far.