Winners in FCC Auction Talk of More ‘Open’ Networks

By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer  Saturday, April 5, 2008; Page D01

Verizon Wireless and AT&T said they plan to create faster and more robust networks with a new chunk of radio spectrum they won at a recent federal auction of airwaves. They also talked about moving toward more “open” networks, offering consumers the ability to use a greater number of devices and more applications over their handsets.

The companies disclosed plans for their purchase of 700-megahertz radio frequencies after rules restricting them from discussing the Federal Communications Commission’s auction were lifted Thursday night.

Carriers currently control the types of phones and services their wireless subscribers can use.

Even though the companies touted their new networks as open, some said they won’t offer the extent of consumer choice that some public-interest groups and Internet companies sought.

The carriers’ definitions of an open network vary. AT&T argues that its use of SIM, operating and memory cards already allows the use of any device with those technologies on its network. It said it invites developers to create technologies for its networks, but it must approve their use.

Verizon Wireless, meanwhile, refused to elaborate on how it defines “open access.” It purchased a segment of airwaves at the auction that came with a requirement that it must build a network open to all devices and software applications. The company said it would begin testing technologies on its existing network by June.

“We don’t want to get into definitions at the moment that are ‘regulatory-ese.’ We want to get people to close their eyes and imagine all the possibilities,” said Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson.

Google, the Internet phone service provider Skype and some public-interest groups had hoped to push the FCC and carriers to offer more unfettered consumer access. They also sought clearer regulatory definitions from the FCC.

“Our objective is to bring the ethos of the Internet to the wireless world . . . gathering the world’s information, making it universally accessible and easy to use,” but carriers still can control what users can do over the wireless network, said Rick Whitt, telecom and media counsel for Google.

Google, which bid in the airwave auction but didn’t win, said it will continue to stay involved with the implementation of rules to ensure that Verizon Wireless carries out the openness principles.

Wireless carriers, meanwhile, said they are being friendly to consumers.

Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam said yesterday that the company’s purchase “will make Verizon the preferred partner for developers of a new wave of consumer electronics and applications using this next-generation technology.”

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Yahoo! added voice-enabled mobile search and set a new course for its mobile approach. by Jamie Lendino

Las Vegas—At this week’s CTIA Wireless show, Yahoo! introduced oneSearch 2.0, a major upgrade to its existing mobile search initiative. The new version adds voice-enabled search for instant answers to any query. It will also return richer, more detailed search results, the company said, since it is opening the oneSearch platform to third-party publishers for content integration.

Yahoo! also plans to make oneSearch—and the Internet in general—accessible on more cell-phone home screens. Starting now, BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, and 8800-series owners can head to m.yahoo.com/voice to download the voice-enabled Yahoo! OneSearch. Over the coming months, Yahoo! will introduce support for additional devices, as well as international availability.

Adam Taggart, the senior director of product marketing for Yahoo! Mobile, said in an interview that the previous version of oneSearch already has 49 partnerships and 600 million subscribers. The new version will be just one part of a more sharply defined mobile strategy for the venerable Internet portal.

“If you look at forecasts by 2010, there are going to be four times as many people around the world with a mobile device than there are with a PC—that’s four billion people,” Taggart said. “Everybody agrees that some point in time, more users will access the Internet on a phone than compared with a PC. If you look at current conditions today, however, it’s lopsided on a 10 to 1 basis—most people are still accessing the Internet on a PC instead of on the phone. What’s it going to take to tip the opportunity so that we really begin to realize the full potential of the mobile Internet?”

Taggart said that the path to get there is threefold: dealing with the huge amount of fragmentation (including hundreds of different devices, browsers, and carriers); making sure that core essential services—notably, finding information, communicating with people you care about, and managing your media content—work as well as possible; and making it all a sustainable business with a real monetization engine.

Meanwhile, the previously announced oneConnect and onePlace will roll out throughout this summer, along with more device support for oneSearch 2.0. When asked about Yahoo Go 3.0 —Yahoo’s major smartphone announcement from CES back in January, along with its new open mobile platform—Taggart said that its aim is to give all handsets the ability to access Yahoo! products as comprehensively as possible.

“The question is, how good an experience can we offer you? Whenever you can run the Yahoo! Go client, you’ll always get a better experience. Think of it as an experience or environment. It’s essentially an environment in which all the services run at their optimal level, because we’ve got software on the phone. We’ve got a [native] client on the phone, we can cache with that client, and so on. But we’ll talk less to a user about Yahoo! Go, and talk more specifically about those key features I mentioned above.”

“Our role is to be a critical enabler, and a leader, within the mobile ecosystem, in order to help it grow and service billions of consumers,” Taggart said.

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Yahoo on Monday will launch a new Web site aimed at women. The site, called “Shine,” will feature original blogs and content from major publishing partners including Conde Nast, Hearst, and Time.

The site is Yahoo’s latest foray into vertical sites, which include the popular Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance, as well as Sports and Entertainment, and the much less popular Yahoo Tech and Yahoo Green. This site is Yahoo’s first targeting a specific audience and not just a topic.

Yahoo aims to be the top destination site in the lifestyles category, said Amy Iorio, general manager of Lifestyles at Yahoo. Women as a demographic is a good target, particularly given the number of women who use Yahoo (40 million women between the ages of 25 and 54 every month) and the fact that females tend to blog more than males.

“This is really a key audience for Yahoo,” she said. “We’ve been calling them ‘chief household officers’ internally.”

Yahoo’s efforts at doing original content haven’t all panned out, but this site is more of a hybrid. Articles and original blogs will come from a range of sources, including Glamour, Epicurious.com, Style.com, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Women’s Health, and Good Housekeeping.

Eight editors are overseeing the various sections (such as home, parenting, fashion, culture, and career) and the editor in chief is Brandon Holley, former editor in chief of Jane magazine.

Shine readers will be able to start their own blogs and that content, if deemed worthy, can end up as some of the featured content in different sections on the site.

You will also be able to get to your Yahoo Mail on Shine, and there is integration with Yahoo Search, Food, Health, and Astrology. But there could be even more integration with things like Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Answers.

The site will compete with iVillage and fashion- and celebrity-news heavy Glam.com, but its content partners and editors will set it apart, Holley said. Shine will distinguish itself by having more of an editorial voice than the other sites and by interacting more with readers, she said.

On a quick glance, Shine looks more aesthetically appealing and less cluttered than the rival sites, despite the fact that Yahoo is not exactly known for simple site design. The site will be at http://shine.yahoo.com.

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Yahoo is still fighting off Microsoft’s marriage proposal. But it’s open to making more friends.

On March 25, Yahoo, the largest online destination, teamed up with two other Web titans—search goliath Google and leading social network MySpace—to form the OpenSocial Foundation. The not-for-profit, which is scheduled to launch within the next 90 days, is dedicated to preserving open source programming codes that allow Web developers to build applications that work across all major Web sites. “We believe common sets of specifications are beneficial to the developer community at large and enrich the experience of the Web both on and off Yahoo,” said Wade Chambers, Yahoo’s VP of Platforms, in a media conference call.

Google launched the OpenSocial platform in October in hopes of solving two problems created by the increasingly social Web. The first issue concerned developers. Facebook’s May decision to open up its popular real estate to applications from third parties spurred thousands of developers to create programs for the social networking site. The enthusiastic response of Facebook users to the new programs encouraged other social networks to follow suit. Soon most sites were allowing outsiders to create programs for them.

All the opening up, however, presented developers with a dilemma: who to program for? Most social networks had unique codes that demanded developers build programs specifically to work on their site. Most development teams, however, had staffs composed of only a handful of programmers capable of creating just a few such specific applications at a time.

If developers didn’t make their programs work across sites, they risked losing out on valuable audiences who might use their program only if they could get it to work on their favorite Web destination. Worse, developers risked their program failing to get virally distribution because a user’s friends were not all on the same site.

The developers’ dilemma presented a problem for Web site owners as well. If developers had to choose one or two sites to program for, and your site wasn’t on the short list, you could miss out on the hot new program. Web surfers wanting to use a particular widget—such as Slide’s popular photo sharing widget or iLike’s music sharing and discovery service—would potentially ignore your site if that particular application wasn’t available.

Many sites, including Google, found themselves quickly faced with the flipside of the developers’ dilemma. Facebook was already on most developers’ short lists, thanks to the early release of its APIs and its global audience, which now reaches more than 70 million people. Without common codes, MySpace, Yahoo, Google’s Orkut social network, AOL, and myriad other sites would find themselves competing for the remaining slots on individual developers’ lists.

It’s no wonder then that Google, whose own Orkut social network lagged behind MySpace and Facebook in the US, chose to create a common set of codes for developers. It’s also no wonder why MySpace, which opened up comparatively late, quickly signed on.

Despite already being the most popular site on the Web, Yahoo has a lot to gain by joining. The company suffers from a lack of innovation. Several of its social properties, such as Yahoo 360, have failed to take off. Moreover, it has lost some mindshare among young people—those most likely to pass around many developers’ applications — to hotter social networking properties. By joining OpenSocial Yahoo ensures it doesn’t miss out on some developers’ next great creation. It also gets an opportunity to increase adoption of its own properties such as photo-sharing site Flickr by enabling developers to more easily create programs that spread Yahoo’s offerings onto other popular sites.

Getting on the OpenSocial bandwagon now is particularly important because of where the Web is going. Joe Kraus, Google’s director of product management, sees a future where social applications will live on nearly every site and audiences will take their favorite programs and content wherever they wish. In that world, making sure your content is easily distributable and that your site can support a variety of different programs is key.

Moreover, cute little widgets are quickly evolving into full-fledged programs. It may not seem so bad if your site doesn’t support an application allowing people to turn each other into vampires. But it could be terrible, say, if everyone began using a widget notifying them of important business emails and they couldn’t see alerts when on your site. “In the future we see applications for OpenSocial and the MySpace developer platform moving beyond toys and widgets and becoming real features,” said Steve Pearman, MySpace’s SVP of Product Strategy.

OpenSocial is far from perfect. Developers often still have a lot of work to do to customize their applications so they truly work across all the sites that have signed up. Also, like any open source standard, there is some worry that competing developers will be able to easily copy existing applications built upon the APIs.
The other problem with OpenSocial is that it is still far from comprehensive. Microsoft has, notably, not signed on. But, even Yahoo says it would welcome the tech giant’s friendship in this respect. “I think any large platform should be able to participate and we would welcome anyone to participate,” said Chambers.

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Yahoo agreed to join rival Google’s OpenSocial platform, which aims at building an infrastructure for the social web, as Google described it. Through the OpenSocial, platform, developers will be able to create applications for social-networking sites. The platform was launched last November, and MySpace is already a member.

“OpenSocial has been a community-driven specification from the beginning,” said Joe Krauss, Director of Product Management with Google. “The formation of this foundation will ensure that it remains so in perpetuity. Developers and websites should feel secure that OpenSocial will be forever free and open,” Krauss added.

This association appeared as a surprise considering the known rivalry between Google and Yahoo, but, together with MySpace, the three said they were planning to ensure neutrality and longevity for OpenSocial and as founding members to offer developers the potential to connect with over 500 million people worldwide.

“Yahoo! believes in supporting community-driven industry specifications and expects that OpenSocial will fuel innovation and make the web more relevant and more enjoyable to millions of users,” said Wade Chambers, Vice President Yahoo! Platforms. “Our support builds on similar efforts with the OpenID community and will expand the opportunity for developers and publishers to benefit from an open and increasingly social web.”

MySpace also welcomed Yahoo! as an important addition to the OpenSocial network, stating that this alliance will provide developers with the necessary tools to make the Internet faster and ‘foster more innovation and creativity.” The organization will be created within the next three months.

With the help of OpenSocial, developers will be able to create applications to access social networks and update feeds, and with the help of a common API, they will also be able to make them available to users. This movement looks as a response to Facebook’s own open system that allows developers to create applications on the Web.

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By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, February 5, 2008; Page D01

Microsoft has begun lobbying Congress even before its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo has been accepted, while Google, the real object of Microsoft’s concern, has started to raise objections on Capitol Hill.

Top Microsoft executives, including General Counsel Brad Smith and Jack Krumholz, head of the company’s Washington office, contacted the offices of key lawmakers on Friday, one day after the unsolicited bid for Yahoo was announced.

The company’s approaches, made by e-mail and phone, were largely informational, according to congressional aides. The executives explained what the bid was and what advantages they saw in its completion. They also said they wanted to come in later to talk about the transaction at greater length, especially in advance of any hearings on the subject.

In lobbying parlance, this is known as “checking the boxes” — meticulously informing powerful congressmen and senators about a transaction they might want to weigh in on down the road. Lobbyists live by the rule that when it comes to senior government officials, surprises should be avoided at all costs.

Google’s lobbying, on the other hand, was unusual because the company is not involved in the proposed acquisition. Still, lobbyists for the Internet search engine, which has raised its misgivings in public pronouncements, spotlighted those objections for lawmakers and their aides over the past few days, congressional staffers said.

Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo is an effort by the software giant to compete for search and online ad dollars with Google, which dominates both forms of advertising.

Washington decision makers are gearing up for what could be a major policy and legal battle over Microsoft’s surprise offer. Technology industry executives and consumer advocates are pressing officials to think hard about the merger, which may have major antitrust and privacy implications.

In response, congressional committees are preparing hearings, and administration officials are making plans to investigate the transaction. The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Friday on “The State of Competition on the Internet.” In the Senate, the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee expects to hold a hearing if the deal goes through.

Should the companies agree to the transaction, the Justice Department has made clear it would review the merger for potential anticompetitive implications. “We’d be interested in looking at it,” said department spokeswoman Gina Talamona.

Yahoo has not yet made its presence felt in official Washington circles, according to congressional aides. A spokeswoman for Yahoo would say only, “Yahoo’s board is carefully and thoroughly evaluating the Microsoft proposal in the context of all of the company’s strategic alternatives.”

Spokesmen for Microsoft and Google declined to comment.

Consumer groups, however, were getting ready to speak out against Microsoft’s bid. Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said his group and the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups plan to complain to the Federal Trade Commission that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo poses a risk to individuals’ privacy rights. He said the groups will also urge Congress and the Justice Department to block the buyout.

“The danger is that by combining their platforms, the companies will be able to have a vast storehouse of information, of detailed dossiers on users that they can access without an individual’s consent or awareness,” Chester said.

The groups made a similar objection to the merger of Google and the online advertising company DoubleClick, but the FTC approved the merger in December.

Microsoft, aware of the consumer groups’ wariness on the privacy issue, began a campaign to win them over. After the bid was announced, a Microsoft executive sent an e-mail Friday to several consumer advocacy organizations.

It read in part: “Some of you have raised privacy concerns and may have questions about how consumer data might be treated. We’d be happy to discuss any issues you may have related to this deal. Microsoft has been at the forefront of privacy over the last few years, including support for a federal privacy bill. . . . Our strong views that privacy is important and needs to be protected have not changed. We will work to ensure that consumer privacy continues to be protected moving forward.”

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PageRank is an algorithm that measures the importance or quality of a Web document.

It can be used in a number of ways by a search engine, such as being combined with relevance factors to rank search results, or to determine which web pages to crawl (pdf) and how frequently to crawl them, or which part of a database a document should be placed within.

Search algorithms are based upon assumptions about how people use the Web, how they might search, what they might pay attention to, and what they might find important. That’s true with PageRank in both theory, and how it may be used in actual practice.

Challenging PageRank Assumptions

It’s good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank. A patent application from Yahoo, published last week raises a number of issues, from people who know PageRank very well.

Here are some problems the inventors of the patent filing point to involving some basic assumptions about PageRank:

Not All Links are Equal — people don’t randomly choose links on pages that they visit - some pages are more important than others, and some are rarely followed at all like “disclaimer” links.

The assumption that all the outgoing links in a Web page are followed by a random surfer uniformly randomly is unrealistic. In reality, links can be classified into different groups, some of which are followed rarely if at all (e.g., disclaimer links).

Such “internal links” are known to be less reliable and more self-promotional than “external links” yet are often weighted equally. Attempts to assign weights to links based on IR similarity measures have been made but are not widely used.

See, for example, The Intelligent Surfer. Probabilistic Combination of Link and Content Information in PageRank (pdf), M. Richardson and P. Domingos, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, MIT Press, 2002.

Bored Surfers Don’t Go to Random Pages — one of the assumptions of the PageRank formula is that sometimes, instead of following a link on a page, the “random surfer” will grow bored and just go anywhere else at random. The patent application notes that it is unrealistic to assume that most people using the web choose major portals and tiny home pages with an equal probability. When someone leaves a page to go somewhere else (a uniform teleportation jump to any random page under PageRank) it’s unlikely to be any random page at all where they will go.

Bored Surfers Don’t Only Go to Trusted Pages — when that “random surfer” leaves instead of following links, it’s also unlikely that they will only go to a trusted set of pages or sites, under something like TrustRank (See, for example, Combating Web Spam with TrustRank - pdf). This assumption really has nothing to do with how people actually use the Web, but is instead retrofitted into PageRank to combat link spam instead of being “reflective of real-world user behavior.”

Pages Change and Lose Value at Different Rates — the PageRank process also ignores that pages are purchased and repurposed, or decay and become less valuable over time and do so at very different rates.

Sometimes PageRank Calculations Cheat — some uses of PageRank formulations in practice are “typically implemented with regard to aggregations of pages by site, host, or domain, also referred to as ‘blocked’ PageRank.” See Exploiting the Block Structure of the Web for Computing PageRank (pdf)., This means that links between pages are being somehow aggregated to a block level. The patent application tells us that, “Unfortunately, most heuristics for performing this aggregation do not work well.”

User Sensitive PageRank Patent Application

I mentioned that the people behind the patent application know PageRank well. One of the most comprehensive and detailed documents I’ve seen on PageRank is A Survey on PageRank Computing, which was written by one of the named inventors on the following document. It’s also cited in the patent filing.

User-sensitive pagerank
Invented by Pavel Berkhin, Usama M. Fayyad, Prabhakar Raghavan, Andrew Tomkins
Assigned to yahoo
US Patent Application 20080010281
Published January 10, 2008
Filed: June 22, 2006

Abstract

Techniques are described for generating an authority value of a first one of a plurality of documents. A first component of the authority value is generated with reference to outbound links associated with the first document. The outbound links enable access to a first subset of the plurality of documents.

A second component of the authority value is generated with reference to a second subset of the plurality of documents. Each of the second subset of documents represents a potential starting point for a user session.

A third component of the authority value is generated representing a likelihood that a user session initiated by any of a population of users will end with the first document.

The first, second, and third components of the authority value are combined to generate the authority value. At least one of the first, second, and third components of the authority value is computed with reference to user data relating to at least some of the outbound links and the second subset of documents.

The patent application adds elements of user behavior to the calculation of PageRank.

Link Weight — the weight or value of links can be influenced by actual “user data representing a frequency with which the corresponding outbound link was selected by a population of users.”

Likelihood of Randomly Leaving to a New Page — the chance that someone might leave (or teleport) to another page instead of following a link on a page is also influenced by user data.

Satisfaction with Found Pages — the probability that someone might stop, and not visit new pages by following links on the page they are on also is calculated by looking at user data.

These three components can be used to create an “authority value” for a document on the Web.

The importance of anchor text, and other text associated with a link, is also addressed in User Sensitive PageRank:

According to yet another embodiment, an authority value of a first one of a plurality of documents is generated.

Text associated with each of a plurality of inbound links enabling access to the first document is identified.

A weight is assigned to the text associated with each of the inbound links.

Each of the weights is derived with reference to user data representing a frequency with which the corresponding inbound link was selected by a population of users.

The authority value is generated with reference to the weights.

The Role of User Data

User data incorporated into this algorithm should “reflect the behavior and/or demographics of an underlying user population.” It’s actual real user data reflecting the way that people browse pages. User Sensitive PageRank can reflect “the navigational behavior of the user population with regard to documents, pages, sites, and domains visited, and links selected.”

Other Implications of a User Sensitive PageRank

The patent application describes a number of different mathematical formulations to calculate this User Sensitive PageRank. I’m not going to delve deeply into those. It also addresses some other interesting implications:

User Segment Personalized PageRank — user data from different demographic profiles (based upon age, gender, income, user location, user behavior, etc.) could be specified, so that search results could be different for people from those different demographics. This could be used with other approaches to personalized PageRank, like a Topic Sensitive PageRank.

People Visit Blocks — user behavior based upon visiting and browsing blocks (sites, hosts, or domains) may be helpful in understanding how people go from one block to another block, and augment a block level PageRank approach based solely upon links between those blocks.

How the Passage of Time Can Affect PageRank — PageRank should be updated regularly because the links between pages on the Web change over time. Pages that might be considered core pages can also change in significance, or go out of fashion even though the links to and from those pages haven’t changed. Incorporating user data into PageRank means that recent events can be emphasized, and older events discounted.

Choosing Pages to Crawl — PageRank can be used in determining whether to crawl and follow links associated with a page. The addition of user data in PageRank may make choosing easier.

Beyond PageRank to Analysis of Text Associated with Links — anchor text can be “one of the most useful features used in ranking retrieved Web search results.” The importance of anchor text (and related text) can be associated with user behavior scores much like the importance of link weights can vary in User Sensitive PageRank.

Conclusion

PageRank, in most of the different formulations that have been described in patent filings and papers, focuses upon links published upon the Web, and makes a number of assumptions about how people visit, browse, and use documents attached to those links.

User Sensitive PageRank attempts to replace some of those assumptions with actual user data about how people do travel to and use Web documents.

Highly recommended: David Harry digs pretty deeply into this patent application too, in Yahoo, Page Rank and Teleportation Oh My! and offers a view of this document from a different perspective. David pulls out a number of fascinating aspects of the document that I didn’t, like “The Web Garbage Collection Utility,” and explores the user data aspects of the patent filing.

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The best UK websites of 2007 which include a dog version of Facebook and a site which pesters users to do good deeds - have been unveiled by Yahoo.

Every year the search engine compiles a list of the most innovative and useful British sites and judge them in eight different categories including travel, social networking and educational.

Topping the list of the most ethical websites of 2007 was The Nag, a site which sends its members daily emails telling them how to do good deeds to help save the planet.

Doggy Snaps, a site which allows dog owners to get in touch with each other, won the best social networking category. Similar to MySpace, Bebo, and Facebook, the website lets members set up their own page or “kennel” and post pictures of their pet.

The best educational site was named as friendsabroad.co.uk which puts users in touch with penpals overseas and helps them learn new languages through online chats.

The competition is now in its sixth year and is judged by 10 journalists and web experts including Andy Williams, the editor-in-chief for Yahoo! Europe and Tom Dunmore, the editor-in-chief of Stuff, the best-selling gadget magazine.

Salim Mitha, the senior European director of Yahoo who is also a member of the panel, said: ““We’ve seen a big trend in socially aware sites - trying to be more ethical, more eco-friendly. And obviously more sites that allow people to connect who have certain passions.”

The winners:

Ethical The Nag (www.thenag.net) : A site which helps people do one thing a month to ‘make the world a better place’.

Travel World Reviewer (www.worldreviewer.com): Travel site which uses reviews of world tourist locations to inspire your next holiday.

Innovative Move Me (www.moveme.com): Online guide to moving house, from removal companies to mail redirection.

Educational Friends Abroad (www.friendsabroad.com): Social networking for learning a new language

Social Doggy Snaps (www.doggysnaps.com): Social networking for your pooch.

Weird and Wonderful Faces in Places (www.facesinplaces.blogspot.com): Snaps of faces in everyday objects.

Charitable Free Rice (www.freerice.com): Test your vocabulary while donating food aid to developing countries.

Shopping Nigel’s Eco Store (www.nigelsecostore.com): Online retailer of environmentally friendly products and gifts.

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