I am quite excited with Vibal Foundation’s latest venture, the Vibe electronic bookstore, the first in the Philippines. With Vibe, Filipinos will be able to access and buy all kinds of reading material through their smartphones, and computing devices. VIbe is also the name of a reading...

I switched to the new Facebook timeline and am loving it. Facebook is enabling Timeline early for open graph developers. You, too, can be an open graph developer — even if you’re just looking to dabble. Just check out this step-by-step walkthrough from Mark Monta on how to enable...

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...

This morning, I received an email from Delicious announcing that they had just been acquired by YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. Delicious will now be a part of AVOS, their new internet company. I was worried that my carefully-curated bookmarks would disappear after the...

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...