Open Water
Reporting in the
MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook
By MIGUEL HELFT and BRAD STONE
Published: November 2, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 — MySpace and Bebo, two of the world’s largest social networking sites, on Thursday joined a Google-led alliance that is promoting a common set of standards for software developers to write programs for social networks.
...
“OpenSocial is going to be become the de facto standard for developers right out of the gate,” said Chris DeWolfe, chief executive of MySpace, in a press conference at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. “It will have access to 200 million users, making it way bigger than any other platform out there.”
The open standards could create a boom of innovation around social networks as applications reach more users than ever and encourage developers to create more Internet tools.
Water ... worth more than gold and necessary for survival above all other resources on earth.
And yet, over one billion men, women, and children (more than four times the population of the United States and Canada combined) do not have safe water to drink and therefore cannot live a healthy life.
|
Who are these people?
They are the innocent children and desperate families living in overcrowded urban ghettos, in refugee encampments, and in towns and villages too numerous to count in rural areas of developing countries.
Here, less than 50% of the population have access to safe drinking water and only 25% have access to sanitary systems.
They are unfortunate victims of drought and ever-changing environmental conditions. When drought occurs, their countryside is transformed into an arid wasteland where every living thing seems to cry out for lack of water.
These precious people do not have enough water to grow and harvest food, enough water to keep their livestock alive, enough clean water to protect themselves and their children from hunger and disease.
They do not have enough water to survive
No comments:
Post a Comment