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This article is about how the UK Government will work alongside technology titans including Google and Facebook to help Sir Tim Berners-Lee in his mission to bring affordable internet to all. The Alliance for Affordable Internet founded by Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation received backing from the UK government on Monday, which will help the group reach its goal of bringing affordable internet to 90 percent of the global population that don't have access yet.

"The internet has changed the lives of people around the world. It has never before been easier to acquire various types of information and to reach people around the world by entering social online networks, such as Facebook. However, the infinity of the internet also leads to information overflow. Likewise, the majority of social online networks address private people, oftentimes leaving the opportunities from which the professional world could benefit unused. Thus, modern web tools which filter information and social networks that enable people to easily communicate, network and share knowledge with each other in the professional context are a tremendous help. "

My topic talks about internet websites such as Facebook, so i decided to post a picture of Facebook.

"While Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google remain mega-leaders, Internet companies from China and Russia, like Baidu, Tencent, and Yandex, are becoming more successful and influential. According to Meeker, 81% of users of the top global Internet properties are outside the U.S. "

Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team Q: What do zippers, baby oil, brassieres and trampolines have in common? A: No, the answer isn't that they're all part of the setup for a highly inappropriate joke. In fact, the above list (along with thermos, cellophane, escalator, elevator, dry ice and many more) are all words that fell victim to those products' very success and, as they became more and more popular, slipped from trademarked status into common usage. Will "Google" manage to avoid this fate? This year has brought a spate of news stories about the word's addition to the Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English dictionaries, an honor that's simultaneously highly flattering and faintly unsettling. Consider, for example, this passage from a New York Times story published last May: "Jim sent a message introducing himself and asking, 'Do you want to make a movie?'" Mr. Fry recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Buda, Tex. 'So we Googled him, he passed the test, and T called him. That was in March 1996; we spent the summer coming up with the story, and we pitched it that fall.'" Now, since Larry and Sergey didn't actually launch Google until 1998, Mr. Fry's usage of 'Google' is as distressing to our trademark lawyers as it is thrilling to our marketing folks. So, lest our name go the way of the elevators and escalators of yesteryear, we thought it was time we offered this quick semantic primer. A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device that identifies a particular company's products or services. Google is a trademark identifying Google Inc. and our search technology and services. While we're pleased that so many people think of us when they think of searching the web, let's face it, we do have a brand to protect, so we'd like to make clear that you should please only use "Google" when you're actually referring to Google Inc. and our services. Here are some hopefully helpful examples. Usage: 'Google' as noun referring to, well, us.

"Social network sites may be changing people's brains as well as their social life, research suggests."

Web 2.0 is an echo-chamber - let's face it. Many deny the fact, but it's true. Ask anyone on the street about RSS, widgets, APIs, or wikis and you'll get a blank face. Chances are they'll think you're speaking another language. Even fairly tech savvy Internet users frown upon such terms and phrases.