Following predictably poor Nielsen figures for MySpace in January – it now trails Facebook in the US by a factor of 1:2 – co-presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschorn plan a rapid roll-out of new content-discovery and sharing features, which they hope will lure back users and reverse the site’s continuing decline. Wifi-detecting applications allow users to bypass the pesky necessity of ‘paying for 3G’ – but they’ve now been unceremoniously dumped with the barest word of explanation, leaving developers confuzzled and bewildered as to what’s on, and what’s not. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.

First, and for us most importantly, in January 2009 the people of Bolivia adopted proliferation of patents and patent applications involving micro-organisms and Firstly, most of the patent holders and applicants are from developed countries. Recently Bolivia have published it’s cmmunication to WTO’s TRIPS Council on the Review of Article 27.3(b). b).

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. On December 8, 2009, OMB released the Open Government Directive (OGD), which provided specific guidance on fulfilling the vision set forth in the January memorandum. The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government.