The official Facebook blog has just reported that the social networking site has just reached a new milestone – 150 million users worldwide, with 50% of them using the social networking site everyday. No wonder, my 15-year old son is now on Facebook, and so does his throng of teen-age friends. And guess where they [...]

Libraries are so long gone with the advent of social media sites catering to books and reading. And that’s coming from a Library Science School graduate like me. Hopefully, my college friends and instructors will not chanced upon this post and crucify me for stating what most librarians refuse to admit. But how can [...]

Remember that cool location-based social networking site we featured earlier this year called – Brightkite? Well, at lot of things has happened with the site, and the latest of which being its integration with, well Facebook Connect. It’s certainly nothing biggie, since everybody seems to be jumping on either the Facebook Connect bandwagon or the [...]

Although there are already a couple of applications that lets you send voice messages to your Facebook contacts, Voicetag however works well with regular phones and SMS messages. Meaning your Facebook friends can receive your voice messages even when they are not on online in Facebook – that is through their mobile phones or through [...]

We know it’s the closest to the impossible thing to happen – the union of MySpace and Facebook as we all know that these two top social networks are nemesis for so long now. It would probably take a lot to make them work together, oh well at least Meebo wants to try as the [...]

During hard times like what we are all experiencing right now, everyone could certainly use a discount coupon or two, especially now when Christmas is just around the corner. There are still a few days left before the holiday festivities begin, and just in time for this Coupons.com has announced that Facebook users can now [...]

If there’s any indication that social networking and social media tools have become more relevant, it’s got to be the fact that even the World Economic Forum is utilizing some of the famous social networking and social media tools in advancing its cause and carrying out its socially-relevant activities. In time for its upcoming annual [...]

TVLoop is was used to be just a Facebook application that brings TV shows on TV Fans’ profiles is now a full-blown social networking site boasting of 16 million registered members coming from various social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace and now boasts of 200 popular TV shows.

Although I don’t find time to post updates and make use of Facebook as often as a I want to due to busy schedule, I still make it a point to check on my Facebook account on a daily basis. But want I don’t really notice that much is Facebook’s video feature. If you’re not [...]

Frankly, I’m wondering why Facebook took this long to implement this feature or service. Friendster has a birthday reminder for a long time now, where it sends you Birthday reminders of your friends through email alerts. And I must admit that I found Friendster’s birthday reminder alerts pretty useful in ensuring that I get to [...]

If you find switching from email to chat using Gmail helpful and convenient, you might be even more glad to know that Google has just enabled voice and video on Gmail’s chat facility. Yes, you read it right, Gmail Chat has become a Skype-like service with pseudo-VOIP features. The new video and voice chat facility [...]

We’ve heard this kind of news before. Famous people getting into the online bandwagon. Tom did it with his own website. Presidential candidates have done it with their campaigns. And now look who is going social and even utilizing one of the most popular web 2.0 app? Britney Spears on Twitter. But aside from that [...]