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Project Sunrise: Save Guimaras

I am appalled at how slow the government and Petron is acting on the recent oil spill off the coast of Guimaras province. Tens of thousands who depend on their once lush beaches for livelihood are now rendered helpless as the sunken tanker continues to leak oi

Wablet and Filipinos Crunched

Wablet’s going to rock web IM , according to Marshall Kirkpatrick, after he road-tests Wablet. His review was nothing short of an endorsement which makes me feel good because it is for the most part a product of Filipino innovation. Yet if you course through

Wablet Looks Cool!

Is Mike Abundo Wablet's official spin doctor? If so, he's doing a great job at it. Techcrunch's Marshall Kirkpatrick should be demo-ing it anytime now. Jeez, I hope I can get a chance to test it. Here's a screenshot of the client login window: And here's how t

Windows Live Writer

With Windows Live Writer recently recently, it's only natural that I should try it on my blog.  Does it work?  If you see this, most probably.

Meebo, Wablet, Friendster MoBS

So I was just talking about the mysterious Filipino Web 2.0 undertaking Wablet and how it will give Meebo a run for its money (well, not really). Now comes Friendster MoBS , another web-based instant messaging platform that bears a frightening resemblance to M

PayPal for the Philippines

J. Angelo Racoma's PayPal initiative now has a website . I still strongly share J. Angelo's sentiments that having PayPal here in the Philippines will spur growth in the web development and technology sector of the Philippines. We've got the talent, but no dec

Google does a MySpace

Google won over MySpace with a hefty $900 million revenue-sharing deal that will allow the search engine to provide its search and advertising services to the latter's 70 million-plus users. That also means MySpace dumping its current ad provider Yahoo! who al

Wablet, Anyone?

Techcrunch recently profiled Wablet , a Filipino Web 2.0 startup offering IM services similar to that of Meebo . Mike Abundo of the Mike Abundo Effect , claims that Wablet "will blow away Meebo". What's strange though is how its developers are wrapping this pr

PayPerPost - The End of Serious Blogging

PayPerPost made quite a stir a month ago when it revealed that it will pay bloggers to write about products and services of its advertisers. The company made good with its promise recently when it began paying off its first set of bloggers. The issue all boils

Google Talk Tries to be Spiffy

Google announced three new features to its instant messaging software, Google Talk: File Transfer 'Bout time. Its absence may have been the reason why many have stayed away from it. It's reported that only 44,000 were using Google Talk, or 1% of total market s

(Kazaa) Want Legal Music and Movies

It's a done deal. Kazaa has agreed to shell out $115 million to the record industry to pay for its sins of the past. And not only that, version 3 of their once popular software has been released, but now works just like its predecessor Napster where users have

TipidPC.com

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