Remember the news about a social networking site in China that’s a Facebook ripoff (previously known as xiaonei.com, now renren.com)? Well, I am not expecting Microsoft China to rip-off Plurk, but they just did. Plurk is amongst the popular microblogging services used by Filipinos. Read more »
The website, Formspring.me is becoming popular here in the Philippines. In Formspring, you can either create a new account or login using your Facebook credentials. This is where people can ask you questions (anonymously or not) and you can share your answers to the questions directly in Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Blogger. Read more »
After MySpace bought imeem, they shut it down. imeem is one of the popular websites that a lot of Filipinos use. If you try going to imeem.com, you will be redirected to http://www.myspace.com/imeem. Read more »
Friendster has a new look which is a bit fresher than before. They seem to promote Yahoo! Mail by letting the soon-to-be users of the said social networking website with a link to create a Yahoo! account if in case they don’t have an email yet. Read more »
The newest feature of one of the widely used social networking sites of Filipinos is an IM (instant messaging) where one could chat with his/her friends online. The IM/chat functionality is powered by Meebo. The interesting feature about Multiply using Meebo is that you can also chat with your friends who are using other social networks and websites. Read more »
This has been making its rounds on various microblogs recently such as Twitter, Plurk and Tumblr. I’ve seen this being re-plurked a lot of times already.
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. 
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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. Read more »
Multiply, one of the popular social networking websites used by Filipinos, had already released the beta version of Multiply 4.0. How do you think about it? Here are the things that most people (including me) don’t like with Multiply 4.0.
1. Website with frames are so in the 90’s
Oh yes, the valley girl in me shows because using frames (even scrolling divs for the main content) in websites were so out. They previously have the floating icons (which I believe is better) and it worked because everything can be seen easily.Well, this isn’t only an issue on aesthetics. I am also thinking on the advertiser’s perspective. As you can see at the bottom of the photo, if an advertiser places an ad there, the Multiply user wouldn’t be able to see the full ad at once. Read more »
There’s really nothing much new regarding integrating mobile to social networks. This has been done with microblogging sites such as Twitter and Plurk wherein you send an SMS to update your status. For photo uploads, I remember before I tried uploading a photo to Flickr from my mobile phone using the Shozu app. But what’s good about it is that the social network is localized. Read more »