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Friday, January 4, 2013
calendar spelling: FREE BOWLING!!! | Studio City Sports ...
Voted number one by Los Angeles Magazine, PINZ is a fun, massive entertainment and bowling center with a full bar in house. The bowling alley features a plethora of lanes, shoe rental, private party areas and a full arcade with air hockey and billiards. The staff is friendly, outgoing and inviting. And?PINZ has food and drinks for everyone. There is a free parking lot?just outside the main entrance.
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Meet four social networks bigger than Facebook (in some countries)
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With its billion or so active members, Facebook once again dominates?the?World Map of Social Networks. As the No. 1-ranked social network in 127 countries out of the 137 tracked, Faceboook?seemingly swallows its competition in its march towards world dominance. But Facebook's competitors have over a billion members of their own ? you just haven't heard of most of them.
A quick look at the?December?2009 version of a social media map, composed bi-annually by strategist Vincenzo Cosenza using info from Internet metrics firm Alexa, notes that while Facebook was on top even?way back then, it had 16 competitors that bested it in various countries. Now there are only four that have bigger numbers, and in just?10 countries. Four plus Twitter, that is ? did you know that China is one of?Twitter's most active countries, even though it's blocked there?
It seems Facebook's planetary ubiquity is?inevitable?... until you take a look at the sheer size of?those competitors:?Total membership of the four major non-U.S. networks is?778 million.?Combine that with Twitter's 500 million active users around the globe, and you've got a social horde?that eclipses Facebook's.?Besides Twitter,?who are these plucky social networks standing firm outside the U.S.? Let's have a look.
Qzone - 552 million users
A massive social network that?dominates China and South Korea,?Qzone is sort of a cross between Facebook and Myspace. Users are encouraged to keep both diaries and blogs, share photos and listen to music, and as such,?attracts?mostly 18- to?24-year-olds. Qzone is owned by ?Shenzhen-based Internet portal Tencent, which also operates China's extremely popular instant-messaging service QQ.
The synergy of the social media platforms no doubt aids Qzone's popularity, but?of course, it also?helps that Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter are among the 2,600 websites blocked in mainland China. (As we noted earlier, however,?Twitter's most active users are reportedly in China, subverting government filters by using proxy servers. So if people in China really did want to use Facebook, it seems they'd find a way.)
V Kontakte - 190 million users?
Mark Zuckerberg took a tour of Russia last October, meeting with Russian Prime?Minister?Dmitry Medvedev, but the Facebook founder and CEO has a tough road ahead of him when it comes to establishing a foothold in that country. Unabashed Facebook clone?V Kontakte?(know these days as "VK") is not only the dominant social network in the Russian territories, it's also the second-most visited website in that part of the world (mostly by men, 35 and younger).?And since VK looks and operates a lot like Facebook, with profiles, messages, photo sharing and even a "Like" button, users have little reason to migrate.
Odnoklassniki - 45 million users
VK?isn't the only competition Facebook faces in the Russian territories.?Odnoklassniki?( "Classmates" in Russian), is also among the top five social networks. Designed?to reunite school chums and old friends,?Odnoklassniki gets its traffic mostly from?25- to?34-year-olds with kids and graduate degrees. It's also?is the?7th most-visited website in Russian, 60th worldwide, according to Alexa,?and a two-time winner of the Runet Prize, a mass-media award from the Russian government. Odnoklassniki's focus is largely on sharing photographs, and allows users to interact by rating those photos.
Cloob - 1 million users
Though?its user base is comparatively minute, Cloob is the top?social network in Iran, where its primary users are men over 65. Cloob is one of several social networks that emerged after the Iranian government blocked the former top network in that country,?Orkut (yes, Orkut), along with Facebook, Twitter and?other social networks. Cloob states on its site that it operates within the laws of the Iranian government. It is invitation-only and offers many social media features found elsewhere, including email, communities, photo sharing, news sharing, classifieds and resumes.
Qzone,??V Kontakte,?Odnoklassniki?and Cloob aren't the only social networks that challenge Facebook's hegemony. We talked about Twitter earlier, and there's also a little thing called Pinterest, which has about 25 million users.?Earlier?this week, we learned from Google Trends that "Tumblr" ??the short-form blogging platform ??recently surpassed "blog" in Google searches. Speaking of Google, the search giant is adding to its social ranks by forcing people into signing up for Google+, even if they just?want to use Gmail, YouTube and other services, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Even though it often feels like?it's all about Facebook,?there's lots more going on out there in the social media eco-system. Think of it this way:?You know everybody in the U.S. is all "Oh, that PSY with his 'Gangam Style' is just a one-hit wonder blah blah blah!"? In South Korea, he's been selling hit records since 2001. Just because it doesn't happen in the U.S. doesn't mean it's not happening.
Helen A.S. Popkin?goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook.?Also,?Google+.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Excellent Advice For Someone Dealing With Bankruptcy - Finance ...
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96% Argo
All Critics (245) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (234) | Rotten (11)
'Argo' is one of the best movies of the year.
Argo has that solid, kick-the-tires feel of those studio films from the 70s that were about something but also entertained. Only it's as laugh outright amusing as it is sobering.
The movieland satire is laid on thick, but it's also deadly accurate. Schlock has never seemed so patriotic, and Arkin and Goodman have rarely been so good.
Argo is a rollicking yarn, easily the most cohesive and technically accomplished of Affleck's three films so far, but a part of me wishes the director hadn't cast himself in the lead role.
If nothing else, it proves that every so often, the CIA can pull something off - and that yes, Canadians are just about the nicest people on the planet.
The film is a whopper of a tale, one designed for Oscar nominations, Best Picture and Best Director among them.
A strong yet uneven effort...
We are invested in this rescue mission not simply because these are fellow Americans in peril, but also because Argo takes the time to make each person behind enemy lines unique and authentic.
An edge-of-your-seat thriller not to be forgotten at Oscar time!
'Argo' only clocks in at a two-hour running time and tells a much better story than the films that over-stuffed audiences with nearly three-hours.
Second billing to unabashed jingoism
This may be the most geek-friendly movie that never did the rounds at Comic-Con.
When Tony (Ben Affleck) lands in Tehran and trains the frightened Americans to play their parts as a Canadian film crew, Argo compares the ruses run by governments and movie studios.
The whole thing is paced like a whip, and the third act may literally be the most suspenseful piece of film I've ever seen - and yes, I have seen Rear Window. Recommended without any reservation for every and any cinemagoer.
A terrific supporting cast, especially the non A-list actors, make the dramatic license taken justified and redeem Affleck for miscasting himself in the hero's role.
A brilliant thriller that's based on a historical incident, 'Argo' is one of the best films of 2012.
A wonderfully lively and engrossing movie ...
An enthralling and deliciously entertaining movie -- and a deserved triumph for its star and director.
The details make for a rip-roaring story, which Affleck invests with old-school directorial ?lan.
Ben Affleck leaps on to the A-list of directors with this relentlessly entertaining thriller, combining comedy and nerve-jangling suspense to maximum effect.
If you're a nailbiter, bring gloves, because the suspense will see you reach your knuckles.
Surprisingly enjoyable, given that you may have little prior commitment to this story and only mildly fancy Affleck.
Affleck skilfully turns the screw of suspense, gaining added traction from an extremely convincing recreation of the setting and period.
Ben Affleck's movie tells an amazing but true story set against the context of the Iranian hostage crisis.
Talent borrows and genius steals, but Affleck does something in between: he mimics.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/argo_2012/
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Obama signs cliff deal to boost taxes on wealthy
HONOLULU (AP) ? President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while preserving tax cuts for most American households.
The bill, which averts a looming fiscal cliff that had threatened to plunge the nation back into recession, also extends expiring jobless benefits, prevents cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and delays for two months billions of dollars in across-the-board spending cuts in defense and domestic programs.
The GOP-run House approved the measure by a 257-167 vote late Tuesday, nearly 24 hours after the Democratic-led Senate passed it 89-8.
Obama, who is vacationing in Hawaii, signed the bill using an autopen, a mechanical device that copies his signature.
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