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The Keep America Beautiful campaign is adding a new website to their name. They already have one for the organization, but are now building on it with a website that is called a social volunteer hub. This helps people who want to start their own clean-up project. Through this website they reach out with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to gain more attention nationally.

The most popular and most used websites.

This article discusses two new forms of video game websites (eyewire.org and Foldit). These websites are open to the public to play and through playing, scientific discoveries are being made about the brain and proteins. 

Fascinating use of social network - Orkut and how much it is used in Brazil.

Orkut is the most widely used website in Brazil -- and holds the record as having the highest percentage of use of any website in any country. Orkut is Google's social network and is also very popular in India, Pakistan, and Brazil.

As of October 20,2011 Facebook says: they have more than 800 million active users more than 50% of the active users have at least 130 friends more than 900 million interact with pages,groups,events,and community pages; average users is connected to 80 community pages,groups,and events more than 250million photos are uploaded daily they have more than70 languages and over 300,000 use translating applications 75% or more people using Facebook is out of the United States more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or experience Facebook Platform on other websites More than 7 million apps and websites are integrated with Facebook more than 350 million users have and use Facebook on a cell phone or mobile device

There is very little they can do on their own websites to create compelling content: audiences on the Internet are shifting interest and trust toward social networks and self-organized content.

This website is a centralized location for crowdsourcing US government initiatives, grants, contests, etc. Here are some great contests to engage your grad students and high school students if you're here in the US (or just about anyone.)

US government is crowdsourcing problems and ideas on this website.

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is currently completing a book for Viking/Penguin publishers called "What Technology Wants," due out in the Fall 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

This is about the first website used as World Wide Web.

"CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is where it all began in March 1989. A physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, wrote a proposal for information management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information. The following year, Robert Cailliau, a systems engineer, joined in and soon became its number one advocate. The idea was to connect hypertext with the Internet and personal computers, thereby having a single information network to help CERN physicists share all the computer-stored information at the laboratory. Hypertext would enable users to browse easily between texts on web pages using links."

Welcome to info.cern.ch The website of the world's first-ever web server 1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified.

This website outlines how the google apps aid in education and are able to be secure for schools. These apps help schools in many different ways. 

Google has created a website for students and teachers who need to find resourceful and official articles, documents, and facts in general.

An internet hacking group, called anonymous, said they would hack many major websites and disrupt web streams of Barak Obama's State of the Union adress. They are protesting some of the things that obama is backing, such as his cybersecurity order.

This week the Copyright Alert System is being put into effect on the Internet. The system is used as an alert to companies about copyright infringement on their websites. Now when people on the Internet attempt to copy and paste a company's work onto their own work, they will receive a series of warnings. Media companies will observe online traffic and report to Internet providers if they think work has been downloaded illegally. The person who did this will receive up to six warnings and after that service providers can stop their Internet flow or give them up to a $35 fine. This relates to the sharing of information through Web 2.0 because people's work that they upload can be stolen or plagiarized, and this is helping to prevent that by discouraging the stealing of work.

This article talks about how website designers who try and update their pages with available material but they cannot do so with so much distractions so this talks about how this site/softare can assit them. 

Web 2.0 statistics for multiple popular websites.

This website is a helpful summary of the world is flat, particularly about workflow software.