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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 Maps for Mobile

Google Maps for Mobile now has Real-time traffic reporting! How cool is that. Wish they'll soon include Manila, which IMO has one of the worst traffic congestions in the world. This will also be a big hit in cramped cities as Caracas, Bangkok and Taipei. Howev

Wordpress 2.0.4 Released

The much-awaited Wordpress 2.0.4 is out. More than 50 bugs found in 2.0.3 smoked and some security fixes. Upgrading my blogs went smooth as expected. Official release notes and download page .

Globe Telecom G-Blogs

Globe Telecom's G-Blogs now allows creating and updating blogs directly from cellphones with the ability to upload pictures, sound clips and video. From the G-Blogs website: G-Blogs is the hip and cool mobile blogging service of myGlobe. Like other popular blo

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

Looking for the best deals on computers, peripherals and gadgets in the Philippines? TipidPC.com is the leading resource for buying and selling brand new and second-hand computer parts and peripherals in the Philippines. TipidPC is the brainchild of Jesus A. D

Google Accessible Search

There's something new brewing at the Google Labs. It's called Accessible Search , a search engine tool by Google that sorts results based on the readability and simplicity of the page layout. This proves to be useful for those who are reading or sight impaired

Myspace Tom Anderson's Brush with Porn

Tom Anderson, creator of popular social site Myspace.com is rumored to have a porno past . According to Valleywag, Anderson hired Asian models for his productions and that he was close to being sued for sexual harassment. He even lost his job because of it. Hi

It's PayPal Time

J. Angelo Racoma calls for the inclusion of the Philippines in PayPal's list of accepted countries. I'm totally for it, but unfortunately our laws are giving them a hard time. I'm a big Internet spender and I have had numerous run-ins with PayPal not accepting

Giving Outsourcing in the Philippines a Bad Name?

Arnold Gamboa blogged about a UK company that was scammed by a group of Filipino web designers on one of their projects. The Filipinos, who call themselves " Wicked Innovations ", allegedly didn't deliver the goods as promised and refused to give back the init