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Even if you weren't tuned into the tech festival SWSX, you may have been thinking it would be easier to ignoresocial networking sitesand hope theyll go away. They wont. The age of social media and openly sharing information to find others with shared interests beyond geography is here to stay. While navigating tween and teen years in real life can be precarious, its equally important these days to learn the process of finding and defining oneself in the online realm as well.

The best social media sites for kids and tweens (ages 7 to 13) adhere to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which regulates how much personal information sites can ask from kids under 13 years old, among other things. Likegood kids' online gaming sites, most of these sites require a parental account, or for parents to prove they are who they say they are via a one-time credit card verification (typically requiring a $1 fee). It's a good step toward keeping your kids safe online.

With the popular Togetherville site shutting its doors after being acquired by Disney last year, many kids and parents are looking for a similarly safe-yet-fun place to hangout online and practice savvy social media skills. Here are some social networking sites for kids and tweens that give them some freedom to explore the social media realm while giving parents the control to monitor and guide their process:

giantHello Previously called FaceChipz, giantHello is a social gaming network for tweens that comes very close to mimicking the social networking look-and-feel of Facebook with similar profile pages and layouts.

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Once you friend another tween, you can leave comments, send private messages, join groups, update your status, upload photos and more. Users even have a news feed and can follow tween celebrity Twitter feeds.

Kids need to share invites with their friends in real life via email or by printing out an invitation code to friend them on the site, so everything is connected through the real world.

To establish an account, parents must verify their identity via the usual credit card charge, or via the last four digits of their Social Security number. The gaming experience is similar to what you find on Facebook.

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Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology. Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University... Learn More

Programers should spend their time crushing code, not on setting up domains and configuring editors. San Francisco startup Koding has raised a$2 million Series A from RTPVentures and Greycroft to eradicate friction for programmers with its browser-based cloud development platform and developer community.

As of today Koding lets you program remotely in a wide variety oflanguages, quickly configure WordPress, Joomla, and web servers, and meet other developers who can be instantly authorized to work on your environment. Developers can even ditch localhost and get a free hosted server to work on.

Koding was founded in mid-2011 when co-founder & CEO Devrim Yasar discovered how tedious it was to get a development project started. When he launched the first iteration of Koding that handled basic tasks like domain and FTP setup, 10,000 developers jumped on board in the first two weeks. Now over 40,000 have signed up.

Today Kodingreleases a big expansion, allowing for full software development from the browser in ruby, python, C++, php, perl, & node.js. Developers can code from a functional Terminal in their browsers that connect to a free hosted server. Its got proper security, and doesnt discriminate between languages or hosts. Programmers can bro out and collaborate through the development community, and authorizing each other to work on products is as easy as friending someone on Facebook.

While competitors like Cloud9 IDE address development individual issues, the Koding team tells me their company aims to look holistically at all the biggest problems developers face and knock them off. With the time and new office its paying for with this new funding, Koding will be able to continue smoothing out pain points and become even more integral. Yasar tells me Koding wants to become the next GitHub. Youll share code on GitHub and work on it over here on Koding.

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"PHPs prominence as the web development language continues to be incredibly strong, thanks in large part to a worldwide community of developers who contribute to popular PHP-driven projects such as Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and Zend Framework. Corporate backing is similarly strong, with global businesses such as Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft ranking among the high-profile contributors which help to further solidify PHPs status as the worlds most popular open source web development language.

"Yet, despite its popularity, PHP has never really caught on as a multi-purpose language in the same way as contemporaries such as Perl and Python despite a powerful array of libraries capable of manipulating files, interacting with the operating system, and performing network tasks. Nevertheless, Ive come to rely upon PHP for a wide variety of shell scripting tasks, including most recently for building carb, an open source code generator for the awesome Fat-Free Framework. You too can put your PHP knowledge to work on the command line."

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HostUCan.com release Joomla Hosting search tool which could help people find the best hosting solution based on their site traffic.

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Joomla is one of the world's most popular open source content management systems. It powers 2.7 percent of the web sites for individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations. Backup by a community with over 200,000 contributors, you could easily find hundreds of free plug-ins and themes to create a beautiful site using Joomla.

The minimal hosting requirements of latest version of Joomla are PHP 5.2.4+, MySQL 5.04+, and Apache 2.x+ (or IIS 7). It looks easy to find a web hosting solution for Joomla, but most of them could not offer rich features to empower the potential of Joomla, or run it smoothly. Joomla needs higher memory than some simple CMS system (like WordPress). And the factors like datacenters, web server configuration, customer technical supports, and etc, all play a critical role in making a hosting Joomla friendly.

HostUCan Joomla hosting search tool is designed to help find the best hosting solution for Joomla site. The system will leverage customer reviews submitted for each web hosting solution, in combined with data center facility, price value, uptime data, year in business, and branding, come out a score for each plan based on Joomla and the daily page view. With this tool, Joomla user could find an ideal solution based on the traffic of their sites.

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The Associated Press March 15, 2012

By Steve Szkotak

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The state is giving strong signals that it will appeal a jury's decision that Virginia Tech officials were negligent in their actions leading up to the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

The verdict in the wrongful death lawsuit is the latest of three decisions that have faulted the university for its actions on April 16, 2007, when it hesitated at letting students know of a gunman on campus who ultimately fatally shot 32 people before killing himself.

Jurors sided with the parents of two students slain in the massacre Julia Pryde and Erin Peterson that officials should have known the campus was at risk without a gunman in custody. The parents said the botched response led to the deaths of their daughters.

Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski said after the verdict that the school would review the case with the attorney general's office before deciding on any further options.

"We are disappointed with today's decision and stand by our long-held position that the administration and law enforcement at Virginia Tech did their absolute best with the information available on April 16, 2007," Owczarski said in a statement.

Likewise, the attorney general's office said it was discussing "our options" with the Virginia Tech administration on an appeal.

Officials stuck with their argument that President Charles Steger and other university officials relied on the best information they had that morning involving the rampage by student gunman Seung-Hui Cho.

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