Tag: social media

Will social media as we know it thrive in a corporate setting?

June 26, 2012December 21, 2018 benign0 7 Comments

If you can’t take on social networking giant Facebook on its home court, bring the battle to your own field. Microsoft seems set to leverage its still undisputed hold on systems that run big corporate networks to capture business-oriented social networking. Bill Gates’s IT behemoth has recently acquired “enterprise social networking” startup Yammer for USD1.2…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Filipinos tops in NBA armchair sportscasting over Twitter

June 21, 2012June 25, 2013 benign0 20 Comments

Suddenly it all makes sense to me. Sorry I’m kinda slow when it comes to sports trivia. So Erik Spoelstra, coach of the NBA team Miami Heat is a Filipino-American. Kaya pala. According to a Philippine Star report, Filipinos have been so enthralled by the NBA finals in which Heat is up against Oklahoma City…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Tech Talk

Facebook.com acquires facial recognition startup Face.com

June 19, 2012 benign0 1 Comment

Facebook has recently acquired Israeli startup Face.com for an undisclosed sum. AFP reports that Face.com in a blog post had hinted on a focus on developing products to improve user experience among Facebook members who are “increasingly using smartphones or tablets to interact with the service” but that Facebook “has yet to show how it…

Society, Tech Talk

BAYO failed to mix equality and forward thinking in their ad

June 8, 2012June 8, 2012 Ilda 22 Comments

A racist is someone who believes in racism, the doctrine that a particular human race is superior to another or all others. Are Filipinos racists? Generally speaking, yes. Most Filipinos are even racist to their own kind in the way they consider people with fair or white skin and those with straight noses superior to…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Facebook share price continues to decline

June 5, 2012 benign0 4 Comments

As of the start of this week, Facebook is now trading at 29% below its IPO price. After being priced at $38 per share by its underwriters and floated in the market on the 18th May, the stock performed disappointingly on its first day, rising just a few cents before the market closed. It’s been…

Media, Tech Talk, Technology

Philippine Congress mints new anti-cybercrime and anti-slander laws

June 1, 2012June 1, 2012 benign0 9 Comments

Media people whether they be old-school journalists, “on-line reporters” or Web publishers (such as bloggers and much of the rest of humanity who have access to Facebook and Twitter among others) are up in arms about the raft of “anti-media” bills being drafted and passed in Congress. Critics of these measures assert that these “anti-media”…

Crime, Culture, Media, Tech Talk

Is Facebook becoming another MySpace?

May 30, 2012May 30, 2012 benign0 11 Comments

I hate Facebook’s new timeline thingy. Back in the early days, Facebook delivered a clean and light user experience. Its pages loaded straight away and you could scroll up and down the page smoothly within a fraction of a second of its key elements appearing. With the new user interface (UI), the experience is completely…

Society, Tech Talk

Malacañang continues to fail in ‘social media’ spin

April 3, 2012August 14, 2013 benign0 211 Comments

According to a GMA Network news “report”, many of the almost 14,000 members on the Facebook group “We Support Chief Justice Corona and the Rule of Law” were “added” to the site against their will or without their knowledge. This, the news report seems to be aiming to imply, is reason to conclude that there…

Politics, Tech Talk