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If you were following TechCrunch50, an annual event which TC has started last year, whereby startups are given to demo their product to a panel of judges and whoever gets to pass on certain criteria gets to bring home with the plum. Whereas last year’s winner, MINT is an uber cool startup with its innovative features, this year’s winner though was a mere copycat of Twitter - it’s a Twitter-like service called Yawner, er Yammer. Continue reading the story called Twitter Goes to the Corporate World as Yammer

Flickr has become an icon of Web 2.0 particularly when it comes to photo sharing and uploading. Since it was acquired by Yahoo not so long ago, nothing much has happened with the site in terms of new features, site improvement and other things. On the user perspective site, Flickr as a photo sharing and uploading site is pretty much that it. Users upload their photos, create photo albums and then share it with their friends and family. That’s pretty much it. No interaction, not too much buzz and hype. Until now. Continue reading the story called Flickr Becomes More Social with New Interface

Yahoo just launched a new mobile product and it happens to be an application for our favorite gadget, the iPhone. I must admit that I got pretty excited when I was reading the PR pitch for the said application because it’s got two main ingredients - iPhone + Yahoo. I said to myself, finally, a well established internet player getting onto the iPhone bandwagon. Yahoo oneConnect has a big internet brand name attach onto it - it should be a killer iPhone app. Continue reading the story called Yahoo! oneConnect Could be a Killer iPhone App

Debuting at TechCrunch 50 is new gossip site dubbed Blah Girls. The site is owned by Holywood Actor Ashton Kutcher. And as such, the expectations for the site are pretty much high. But playing game and all, Kutcher played it like a true Silicon Valley startup developer and even presented Blah Girls infront of a panel of judges, one of them was Google’s Marissa Meyer. Continue reading the story called Ashton Kutcher Launches Blah Girls

Environmental problems, issues and solutions will always be a hot topic in both the online and offline world. There’s probably thousands or more websites catering to green computing, green marketing and everything else that you can probably attached with environmental or green contents.  But despite the dearth of “green” information resources - blogs, social networks, video contents etc, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales did not mind it and launches a green version of his open-source encyclopedia and calls it Wikia Green. Continue reading the story called Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Launches the Green Wiki

Back in April I expressed my love for Jott, the voice transcription service that allows you to send yourself reminders.

However, as the weeks have gone by, I have noticed a serious change in the service’s accuracy and quality.  Assuming that my speech hasn’t dramatically changed without me noticing, I don’t know how to account for the decline.  What I do know, is that this was not the time to let the wheels come off the bus. Continue reading the story called It Was Nice Knowing You, Jott

When we did our coverage of social networking sites the day after the iPhone 3G was released, there were only a handful of social networking-related apps then. From our previous posts listing down 10 of these apps, we now have 49 iPhone apps listed under the Social Networking category. So, this means we’ve got 39 to cover. To guide you in choosing which applications to install in your iPhone, we’ve categorized them into free and paid apps. So, here it is, 39 social networking-related applications for our iPhone. Continue reading the story called 39 More Social Networking-Related iPhone Apps

Not so long ago, I wrote about 16 social networking sites for pet and pet lovers since I’ve noticed that these niche have been growing pretty well and was wondering how could this be possible. A couple of weeks ago, an article in Time Magazine also pointed this fact. And this article was picked up by the editor of a local news program in the Manila, Philippines - GMA News and asked on of his news correspondents to write a piece about the proliferation of social networking sites for pets and pet lovers.

Continue reading the story called This Blogger’s 10 Seconds to Fame Courtesy of the Rotorblog

Recently, some Friendfeed fanatics launched a new tool which lets you find out about the latest buzz on Friendfeed land - dubbed FFholic. Yes, dear readers it’s like FFholic on the rocks as the site would say about itself. FFholic is a simple tool for Friendfeed users like you and me. And it does a pretty simple task - tell us the latest buzz in the whole of the Friendfeed universe. Continue reading the story called FFholic is your Friendfeed on the Rocks

Fitness and getting-in shape type of sites are one of the most covered social networking niche. There’s probably more than a dozen fitness-related social networks around the web or perhaps even more. With the non-social networking type of sites, there are definitely a couple of dozens of these kind of sites. It only goes to show that getting in shape and fit  as an athlete is still a priority among netizens like us. Continue reading the story called Top Fitness-Related Social Networking Sites to Help You Stay In Shape

By now, there are probably millions of users who have downloaded the new browser in town - the lightweight, clean and simple Google Chrome browser. If you haven’t, waste no time, head on to Google.com/Chrome and download it now. Or if you wish, you might want to read first, our initial impression of Google Chrome.

Continue reading the story called Suddenly, Web Browsing Becomes Clean and Simple with Google Chrome

Years of Internet rumors have panned out as Google sets to launch the initial version on Chrome, their very own shiny Web browser.

Available in more than 100 countries (Windows only), Google promises innovation and a satisfactory user experience, all within a clean and simple interface.

Continue reading the story called Google Tackles the Web Browser (and Microsoft)