Philippines is still a Friendster nation despite of the increase of people adding me up in Facebook everyday. And so, Globe Telecoms’ Prepaid Subscribers may enjoy surfing their Friendster for 20 pesos a day. Yup, surf Friendster for 24 hours for only 20 pesos. Those who have mobile phones capable of surfing the internet would surely enjoy this deal.

LolaTechie looks like BayanTel DSL’s social media marketing strategy. Our favorite “techie lola” has accounts on Plurk, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Multiply. I would not wonder why Lola Techie won’t have a Friendster account for obvious reasons.

PoliticalArena.com is the Philippines’ first socio-political networking site by JobsDB and 88DB in partnership with COMELEC. The website was launched last Thursday at Manila Peninsula. In the said event, an Anti-Smear Covenant was also signed by politicians who will run for the 2010 elections.

The website is a common platform to be used by the candidates (for now, they only focus on the Presidentiables) where each of their profiles are shown and how will they address the issues listed.

Here’s our list of Trending Topics Week 3.

Technology

Most Filipino iPhone Users have updated to Apple iPhone OS 3.0 while some stayed with their current firmware the redsn0w (jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0) came out. Some are also excited about the iPhone 3GS as well but users in the Philippines will still have to wait (if ever they plan to get it from Globe Telecoms). HTC Magic was announced last week where we got a little confused on who’s offering it. Apparently, Globe Telecoms is the first to offer it but Smart Communications will be offering it exclusively this July.

Everyone was becoming impatient with the release of the iPhone 3.0 OS update in iTunes. I was one of those. Anyway, I did not download it from iTunes by clicking the Update button. Instead, I learned a tip from TUAW where I only have to execute a few command lines from the Terminal and I will be able to get the list of the download links. I got the correct download link and pasted it to my browser. Time to download was pretty fast and I was excited. Installing is also easy. And if you see emergency calls appear on your iPhone screen, just wait for the main screen of the iTunes to load with the heading “Unlock your iPhone”. After activating your iPhone, you’re good to go