Interactive Design and Technology Firm to Accelerate the Social Application Strategy at Leading Online Latino Social Community. Quepasa Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: QPSA), (http://quepasacorp.com), which owns and operates the popular Latino social networking site Quepasa.com, has partnered with the interactive design and technology firm speakTECH, which played a vital role in the successful development of MySpace, to build out Quepasa’s OpenSocial framework and significantly broaden Quepasa’s selection of social applications. “As social networking continues to resonate with people across the globe, Latino online communities like ours are aiming to become more standardized and to offer similar applications, widgets and other interactive features,” said John C. Abbott, CEO of Quepasa.

He continued, “We selected speakTECH not only for their wide range of experience implementing social computing sites, but also for their ability with OpenSocial and OpenID. These technologies are currently considered to be industry standards, and speakTECH has been working with them from the beginning of their social computing practice.”

is BrownPride Next?

The Latina Population Boom!

Nearly one-in-four Latinas born in the United States to immigrant parents has a child before age 20. Only immigrant Latinas have a higher teen pregnancy. WP

Pointing out isolated incidents and showing no real references or government reports for his rants. although he did use “Violent Crimes Institute” as the only resources. and so  i went to that website and it’s from Dr. DSK “Deborah Schurman-Kauflin” Charging $400.00 fee  for 30 min and thats just for talking. and btw most of her writings are very much right wing.

So , by using fuzzy math like  “sex offenders comprise of two percent of illegals apprehended” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records , she comes up with speculation that  approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders currently residing in the United States.

Do you think Dave Gibson is racist for using fuzzy math and speculation to push anti immigrant xenophobia?

Latino In World War II
from: http://www.latinalista.net

It’s estimated that anywhere from 250,000 to as many as 750,000 Latinos and Latinas served in the armed forces during World War II. Yet, their stories were never known outside their immediate families. The U.S. Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project has changed that.

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I found this nice article about  Lou Dobbs , very much worth the read.

from: irishcentral.com
By Niall O’Dowd

Lou Dobbs doesn’t need a new platform. He needs psychiatric help. Dobbs suffers from Superior White Man Syndrome (SWMS).

He hits all the checkpoints; paranoid, yes; delusional, yes; irrational hatred, yes; unreasonable prejudice, yes; delusions of grandeur, even now that he is departing and hinting at a political career, yes.

Prescription? Lots of rest, Valium and three weeks in Mexico to study history, demography and the real lives of people instead of the manufactured lies he has used for years.

The ranting and raving, the finger-pointing and hate speech, and the complete lack of rational analysis has made it clear for some time that Dobbs is ill, and definitely in need of a good shrink.

Hate-filled speech did not come naturally to Dobbs, who was once a deeply respected economic commentator and a trailblazer on CNN, the network he just quit. read it all at [irishcentral.com]

First 9/11 was used as excuse to attack immigrants and now they are using unemployment as an excuse to harass immigrants. racist will ultimately go after immigrants at any given opportunity. from denverpost.com: Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo wants every Colorado business to verify that new hires are U.S. citizens, a proposal that immediately prompted cries of racism from critics. [read more]

“I can’t think of a better time to bring this forward,” Tancredo said. “The fact that we’ve got high unemployment is enough to make people more sensitive to people working here illegally.”

Venezuela to upgrade Palestinan ties, offers aid

“We … are on the side of the Palestinian people’s memorable struggle … against the genocidal state of Israel that knocks down, kills and aims to terminate the Palestinian people.”

Chavez ordered his education minister to circulate maps Abbas gave him to illustrate the small dimensions of the Gaza Strip, where he said 1.5 million people lived in “concentration camp” like conditions, their movements to the outside world virtually blocked by Israel.

“We (Venezuelans) should devote the entire force of our hearts and souls towards the creation of a Palestinian state,” he said. “Venezuela is Palestine; Palestine is Venezuela, we have a common struggle.”

* Venezuela to send ambassador to Palestinian Authority

* Venezuela offers medical scholarships for Palestinians

Popular Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Friday his country would open an embassy in Palestine and upgrade ties to ambassadorial level to help support Palestinians and their struggle against Israel. Reuters reported.

‘We have decided to designate an ambassador and open an embassy in Palestine,’ Chavez told reporters after a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas. ‘We now have a charge d’affaires; we will name an ambassador in coming days as part of accords to boost our bilateral relations,’ he said.

Venezuela also provided scholarship for 20 Palestinian to study medicine in Venezuela.

read more [hamsayeh.net]

By Teresa Puente

A recent poll administered by Latino Decisions found President Obama has a 74 percent approval rating among Latino voters.

This is startling especially when you consider a recent Gallup poll found the president only has a 39 percent approval rating among whites.

Also the new Latino Decisions poll found that Latino voters rank health care reform as more important to them than immigration reform.

I was surprised to learn that so many Latinos still support our president compared to the general population

read more [chicagonow.com/blogs/chicanisima/]

A mistrial has been declared for two Los Angeles men accused of spraying bullets into a crowd in a 2006 gang attack that killed a 10-year-old

A judge declared a mistrial today in the case of two gang members accused in the “49th Street Massacre” of three people in 2006.

The decision came after a jury deadlocked in the case, which sparked community outrage and became a symbol of the long reach of gang violence in South L.A.

Los Angeles Police Department detectives concluded that members of the Rollin’ 30s gang fired at the victims — who had no gang ties — while driving around the neighborhood looking for members of the Eastside Trece. The suspects, who are black, fired on a group, all Latinos, standing outside a house on 49th Street.

The shooting was dubbed “the 49th Street Massacre” by then-Police Chief William J. Bratton.

read more [latimesblogs.latimes.com]

Univision Interactive Media has launched a new advertising and publishing network, Univision Partner Group, with screened Spanish-language online and mobile sites.

Univision is the latest major media company to launch its own mini ad network. In this case, the company is looking to replicate the ad-network model in the less-cluttered Spanish-language market. To that end, Univision has formed Univision Partner Group, a collection of Spanish-language Web sites from the U.S., Latin America and Spain that reach a significant U.S. Hispanic audience. Univision will be able to sell advertising across these partner sites, which include a range of content.

“By developing a network with such broad reach,”

Univision Interactive Media Kevin Conroy said, “we are meeting the needs of our publishers and advertisers in a way that has not been done before in this category.” The network is being built out with Adify for ad serving, targeting, traffic, and other services; Quattro Wireless handling the mobile platform; and Univision’s own Ad-Ready self-service platform for online display advertising. Among the publishers participating are Caracol Television, Revista Caras, news sites Perfil.com and El Espectador, and TYC Sports. [radioink.com] ImpreMedia portals and publication websites are: www.impre.com, www.imprerewards.com, www.lavibra.com, www.impreautos.com, www.laopinion.com, www.eldiariony.com, www.hoynyc.com, www.laraza.com, www.laprensafl.com, www.elmensajero.com, www.rumbonet.com, www.vistamagazine.com, and www.contigola.com.