Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’

Time to Vote: Open Web Awards

At last, Mashable’s Open Web Awards is now accepting votes. After a month of nominations, it’s now down to the top five of each category. Anyone can vote as long as you have a Twitter or Facebook account. I’m more interested in the top Facebook game category. The contenders are Pet Society, Fish Wrangler, MouseHunt, Ghost [ READ MORE ]

Mashable’s Open Web Awards

Please nominate my favorite Facebook game, Ghost Trappers in this year’s Open Web Awards by Mashable. No, I’m not influencing you to nominate.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers.Ghost Trappers… Putting that aside, the Open Web Awards is now in its 3rd year. Hooray! As an advocate of the power of social media, Mashable in partnership with Motorola [ READ MORE ]

Fail Whale Strikes Again

The glee and bitterness of this screen. I love the Fail Whale. It makes me laugh for some reason. And after a few seconds, I’ll realize, “Hey, Twitter’s down. Dang!” “Twitter is over capacity.” doesn’t sound correct though. Oh well… my forte is PHP not English. [ READ MORE ]

Microblog for Book Readers

I’m supposed to give this post a title, Twitter for Book Readers, but Twitter doesn’t like people using the words Twitter, tweet and tweeting so loosely. Sony just launched a new website called Words Move Me. I like these website–simple yet cool. It’s a social network for readers to share quotes from their favorite books. That’s [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft Now Owns office.com

I just recently subscribed to Ars Technica and the first post that caught my attention was this. Last Tuesday, Microsoft just bought office.com.  And the big question is, why am I writing about it? Well, I’m bored. And Google Reader+Twitter is just a haven of stories for my blog. I should rename my blog to Around [ READ MORE ]

When Twitter Is Down

I promised to write an opinion article on the recent Twitter-Facebook-DDOS thing. This is not it. Before writing the opinion article, I wanted to make sure I knew the whole story. Was LiveJournal and YouTube affected too? What’s Russia in the whole disaster? The target was just one person aliased as Cyxymu but it pissed off millions [ READ MORE ]

Twitter Can’t Tweet

Kind of pissed of right now. I spent midnight till dawn trying to find a good mobile app for my Symbian phone that supports YM, Facebook and Twitter (the 3 social realms that I live in). I stumbled upon fring. It was perfect after seeing the screenshots. I downloaded it and tried YM. It worked [ READ MORE ]

Twitter, Facebook Died on Us

Around 13:00 UTC (if my timezone conversion is correct), social websites Twitter and Facebook died. I “shed tears” for those websites. Apparently, a crude but seemingly effective method of bringing a website down was used. I didn’t notice this because I was asleep between 12:30-15:00 UTC. Damn… The exciting things happen when I’m asleep. See TechCrunch [ READ MORE ]

On the Topic, Cory

Just like the time when the Iran elections was a buzz, the death of former president of the Philippines, Cory Aquino, was in every corner of the country’s internet. My TwitterFox gave out an alert every few minutes. At least half of the new tweets were about Cory. People “shed tears for Cory.” I have no [ READ MORE ]

Truth About Lucio Tan

While I was taking a stroll around PCIJ’s Blog, I saw in the website’s shoutbox a link to a controversial website. http://truthaboutluciotan.blogspot.com I’ll begin first with a disclaimer: I am not in any way confirming that this blog contains factual posts nor am I rejecting the possibility that there is indeed truth behind those posts. Now back to [ READ MORE ]