If you thought Google+ use is on the decline, think again. The Google+ team just made two exciting announcements. The first is that there’s no need to wait for an invite – Google+ is now open to the public, and anyone can easily sign up for an account. The second announcement is...

Give your favorite online media personality the recognition he or she deserves with the first ever Tatt Awards, sponsored by the Globe Internet brand Tattoo. This award is designed to celebrate the accomplishments of influential bloggers and Twitterers who use their respective platforms to...

With the launch of the Nokia C7 smartphone, Nokia kicked off a global competition, the Nokia C7 Social Challenge to find the world’s biggest users of social media. You think you can be one of them? Read on… What is the Nokia C7 Social Challenge? Facebook users can gather votes for...

Google is changing the way women shop online (at least, if you live in the States) with the launch of Boutiques.Com. This website aggregates inventory from various designers, online boutiques, and small online store owners, and makes suggestions based on your style preferences. The first...

Looks like animals aren’t far behind in using Web 2.0! Early this month, the female Orangutan Nonja from the Schönbrunn Zoo just made her own Facebook account. No, it’s not the kind of account that the zookeepers keep; many of the photos of the ape’s everyday life are to be...

A couple of weeks ago, I deleted my Friendster account because I got annoyed at all the email updates I kept on receiving. Even though Friendster was the pioneer of social networking sites, I eventually disliked using it because of the confusing user interface, the slew of advertisements...

As if there weren’t already enough self-proclaimed social media experts spamming uninterested Twitterers with links to badly written blog posts, a new mobile phone from INQ lets people Twitter on the go by default. The INQ Mini 3G, also dubbed as the “Twitter phone”, is...

Google Wave could be the next big thing in social media, and the lucky 100,000 who got invites to beta-test this new communication platform are probably having a blast playing around with it. For those of you who don’t know, Google Wave combines email, instant messaging, social...

The National Disaster Coordinating Council was swamped with calls during the height of Tropical Storm Ondoy last weekend. Dozens of people were stuck in homes or trapped on their rooftops as flash floods turned streets into rivers. Rescue from the authorities seemed very unlikely, because...

You may have noticed some downtime on Twitter and Facebook Thursday evening (or Thursday morning, for those in the West). I assumed it was because too many users were logged on to both services at that particular time but according to Symantec, what happened last night was a...