Here’s an excerpt from my latest CNET Asia blog post.
With over 13 million monthly unique visitors in the Philippines, Friendster remains the top social network in the country.
Facebook may have made a lot of headway in the Philippines, overtaking Multiply, as fellow CNET Asia blogger Ignatius Javellana recently posted, but many Filipinos, particularly the youth, still seem to prefer to interact online via Friendster.
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Check out my latest CNET Asia blog post.
Here’s an excerpt.
The dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center maximum security prison are back with a tribute to Michael Jackson, who died of cardiac arrest on Friday at the age of 50.
As I previously blogged, the Cebu dancing inmates became an instant Internet sensation in 2007 with their Thriller viral video. Here’s their tribute to the King of Pop.
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I wrote my first Hub at HubPages.com. Hope you could read it when you have the time, and let me know how you feel about Michael Jackson’s death and what his music means to you.
Here’s an excerpt from my Hub, “Michael Jackson: Mourning his death, celebrating his music.”
It was early in the morning here in Manila when I checked my Gmail, and saw, to my shock, first a breaking news e-mail alert that Farrah Fawcett had passed away, and then another alert saying that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital.
I went to the microblogging sites Twitter and Plurk, and was quickly updated on the latest news by the tweets and plurks.
Michael Jackson was dead.
Just like that.
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