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	"WAVE" No.10 August 2007 Editorial Topic of the Issue Online Social Networks Real People in Virtual World A group of people that communicate in virtual surrounding could be named as an online community. These persons choose the reasons for communication (topics), use computer technology and respect some written or alluded conditions of behaviour. In the last decade, or even more, whole generation of Internet users is trying to take advantage of this kind of social networking throught different online communities. Of course, many people find themseleves offended by even mentioning the fact they create their social life through the Web but statistics show it is evidently high number of users interested in chat rooms and similar tools... >> The most popular tools Find your Network Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. MySpace is one of the online communities that lets you meet your friends' friends. With more than 47 million members worldwide, Friendster is a leading global online social network focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people Development of online social networks History of Internet Communities From 1968 till today... Politics Parliamentary Elections in Turkey Ruling Party Wins The elections were initiated after the opposition parties in the parliament prevented the AK Party from appointing Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as a President. But Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) rose from 34% in the 2002 election to nearly 47% of votes this time, according to preliminary results. It marks the first time in 52 years that Turks have voted an incumbent party back into power with even more support than before... >> Society European Youth Events Once upon a time a Steal and Coal Community... Helsinki, Vienna, Rome, Cologne, Brussels and soon Lisbon: those are some cities where the young people met in the last months. Since 2000 the European Union has enforced the community dimension of the youth policies and the youngster are invited to participate. Many documents have been approved in each youth event but, will someone take care of them?... >> International Culture Week in Pecs, ICWiP 2007 Addicted to Fun This year's topic was EdYOUcate, which was really an interesting one when the average age of the participants had been taught. It was easily understood by the number of participants keeping attending to the workshops. And it was a nice idea to put workshops far from the starting days for ice breaking and putting most of them in the afternoon for giving some time to recover from hangovers... >> Students Challenge: Summer University Studying during Holidays The application rate for summer programs is high, classes are full. Is it the matter of being extremely curious, other words a nerd? No, indeed! It's a matter of efficiency. Everything goes quickly. You have one month to complete the course, so you attend classes every day. Add to this that you are in the strange city, for example her Majesty Vienna, with lots of temptations around you, and people who have at least one thing in common with you, they have been courageous enough to come... >> Culture & Arts Rock'n'Roll Serbia Stoned and Peppered It turns out that the music that our parents listen (the Stones) can make a greater impression and that those musicians 'with experience' hold the audience in higher reverence, that the happening presented as 'the biggest music event of the year' (the Peppers) does not have to prove to be so, and that bands like The Prodigy never get tired... >> Science & Tech Every Man is a Book History written in our genes For most of our genome we receive a half of our genes from our father and a half from our mother. Each half represents shuffled combination of DNA passed down to us from our ancestors. This recombination process makes it difficult to study lines of descent - it creates a genetic mix of everyone who has come before. Fortunately for anthropological geneticists there are parts of the genome that are passed down unshuffled from parent to child... >> Entertainment Disney Interactive Studios at E3 Media & Business Summit 2007 New Titles announced Disney continues to make major investments in growing its video game self publishing business to develop creative and innovative entertainment experiences. Disney Interactive Studios plans to invest $130 million in product development in 2007. The company also continues to invest in talent, which has grown to around 700 employees in 11 countries... >> and much more in all sections... explore!