Facebook has extended its "Gross National Happiness" prototype app to 18 new countries. The app analyzes words in status updates like "awesome" or "tragic" to track changes in the collective emotional state of its users.

When Facebook applied the methods to its U.S. userbase last year, it found that happiness went way up on holidays and way down when celebrities like Michael Jackson or Heath Ledger passed away. While the results of the study weren't surprising, the idea of using status updates to measure national happiness was a novel one.

The Vietnam Reunification Day (April 30) and Labor Day (May 1), this year, fell on weekend. People have more time for vacation, so, Globolstaff firm organized a tour to Ha Long Bay for every GS member.

With special values,at the 18th Session of UNESCO’s Council of World Heritage held on 17 December 1994 in Thailand, Hạ Long Bay was officially placed on the list of the World Natural Heritage. In 2000, UNESCO recognized it as the World Heritage for the second time for its geographical and geomorphologic values. This confirms the global premier value of Hạ Long Bay.

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 Last Saturday, Globolstaff’s branch in Vietnam had a trip to the Perfume Pagoda in Ha Tinh province. Visiting pagodas to pray for a peaceful and prosperous year is a tradition followed with fervor by Vietnamese devotees. Let see we had tried the trip Vietnamese style, praying and eating style. We had a great day!

Dave McClure has been known as one of the smartest and hardest working tech investor. He has been investing in early stage startups for years. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired, O'Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. Many years ago he used to do real work like coding or marketing or running conferences, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like sending lots of email, blogging, and hanging out on Facebook and Twitter.

"Has Bean Steve" is Stephen Leighton, a former prison guard turned coffee connoisseur, who launched "Has Bean Coffee", a UK-based Internet coffee-roasting business that has a worldwide following thanks to Leighton's use of social media to leverage his products and interact with his customers around the globe.

The Web's attention turns to the year ahead. What did we expect of the online realm in 2010?

While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Expect the following 10 themes to define the Web this year:

Real-time ramps up

Sparked by Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed, the real-time trend has been to the latter part of 2009 what "Web 2.0" was to 2007. The term represents the growing demand for immediacy in our interactions. Immediacy is compelling, engaging, highly addictive ... it's a sense of living in the now.