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Yahoo! opens Buzz to the public

Yahoo! Buzz opened its doors to the public today. The Digg-like system by Yahoo! used to be an exclusive club to a select 40 or so publishers (e.g. TechCrunch, Read Write Web, etc) when it first launch in February 2008. Yahoo! Buzz has been touted as...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 5:22 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, yahoo, digg, yahoo buzz

Friendster’s new $20M funding & ex-Googler CEO

Fresh from an announcement that Friendster Philippines’ mobile content partner Entertainment Gateway Group being acquired by Globe Telecom, Friendster itself announced a new round of funding for the amount of $20 Million. Likewise, it will focus...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2008 1:01 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, friendster, friendster philippines

1 Trillion Unique URLs

Google today blogged about reaching the 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs indexed. And how do they crawl all these bazillions of pages everyday? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2008 3:37 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, yahoo, google

Google ranking on Google Search

Barely a day after Google Knol was launched to the public, several pages of knol.google.com are already ranking quite high on Google’s own search results. It’s a little weird to see the Google domain showing up on Google search results. This...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 1:42 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Telecoms, google, google knol, knol, serps

Google launches Media Server

Google has just announced the Google Media Server. It’s basically a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google and your TV. It uses Google Desktop technology such as Desktop gadgets for the administration tool and Google Desktop...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 2:30 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Software, google, media server, google tv, tv

Google leads in Mobile Search

Surprisingly, Google is also taking the lead in Mobile Search and that’s not just from wap.google.com but because if the huge number of users accessing the mobile web via the iPhone. Google managed to spank the rest of the mobile search world during...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2008 8:23 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Mobile, iphone, admob

Interview: Jonas de los Reyes, Community Manager at Yahoo! Philippines

With the news of another Filipino landing the coveted job as Yahoo! Philippines Online Community Manager, we hooked up with Jonas de los Reyes to get some inside info about his new role over at Yahoo. A former eCommerce Manager at decade-old Yehey, Inc...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 6:11 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Interviews, yahoo philippines

TorrentSpy closes after $110 Million fine

Popular sharing site TorrentSpy closes down after a judgment was handed down in Los Angeles. The site was found guilty of copyright infringement. The site now host a single page with this open letter to its members: Friends of TorrentSpy, We have decided...

Published Thu, May 05 2008 2:49 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, downloads, torrents

Aviary’s suite of rich internet applications for artists

Phoenix screenshot Aviary is a suite of rich internet applications targeted to all artists (graphic artists, layout artists, musicians, writers, directors and the like). 1. Phoenix (image editor) 2. Toucan (Color swatches and palettes creator) 3. Peacock...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 7:18 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Multimedia

Google #1 Top Brand of 2008

Just a couple of days after Google announced its 1st quarter earnings, Millward Brown released the BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands list. The search giant ended up on top of that list. See below for the rest of the top 10. 1. Google 2. GE 3. Microsoft...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 9:16 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, search, google, stocks, wall street

Globe Mobile Internet: 5 Pesos per 15 Minutes

Last Saturday, Globe Telecoms rolled out its new time-based charging for all mobile internet usage — GPRS, 3G, HSDPA. This new charging is now available on all pre-paid and postpaid Globe users - Php 5 pesos for every 15 minutes. Basically, the...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2008 8:54 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, Mobile, Wireless Technology, globe, hsdpa, smart, 3g, gprs

Google to sell off SEO Business

When Google first announced the acquisition of DoubleClick, a lot of people in the search engine marketing industry were concerned because the $3.1 billion company is also into the SEO business. This presents a huge conflict of interest for Google being...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 8:32 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, sem, seo

Happy April Fool’s Day

Here’s an interesting April Fool’s special from Google. Introducing, Google Romance. Make sure to take the tour and try creating your profile. Lifehacker posted top 10 harmless geek pranks. My personal favorites from Lifehacker’s list...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 7:26 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, Blogging

Testing the Chikka Web Version

Introducting, the all new Chikka. They now have a web-based interface where you could send free text and chat to Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, AIM and ICQ buddies aside from your Chikka buddies. I just made a test where I sent an SMS to my mobile number....

Published Sun, Mar 03 2008 10:09 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Mobile, chikka, free text, instant messaging

Facebook founder may be youngest self-made billionaire

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, may be world’s youngest self-made billionaire according to Forbes in its recent list of billionaires. Forbes estimates Zuckerberg’s net worth at $1.5 billion which puts him at #785...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 8:32 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Netrepreneurship

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