Archive for: October, 2009

Watch U2 Rose Bowl concert via free live stream on YouTube

Oct 26 2009 Published by Joey Alarilla under Uncategorized

Yup, you can watch the U2 Rose Bowl concert live on YouTube wherever you are!

Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia blog post.

At 8:30 pm PT (11:30 am today in the Philippines and Singapore), join thousands of fans around the world who will watch U2′s Rose Bowl concert for free via the live video stream on YouTube.

This isn’t the first time YouTube is live streaming an event, but with the expected success of a concert of this magnitude by a band of U2′s stature, I’m hoping that YouTube will leverage on its dominance of the online video space to make live streaming a permanent fixture on the site.

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EllaGanda.com blog post sparks online furor over DSWD handling of relief goods

Oct 24 2009 Published by Joey Alarilla under Uncategorized

Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia blog post.

For the better part of Friday, the Philippine online community was buzzing over a blog post on EllaGanda.com lamenting the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s handling of  relief goods donated to typhoon victims. The blog post showed photos of “relief goods rotting in DSWD warehouses”, allegedly still undelivered to victims due to the agency’s lack of manpower.

When the blog became inaccessible, other sites such as Jenni Epperson’s Mabuhaygirl.multiply.com and Gang Badoy’s abashet: what a glorious time to be free reposted the original entry and photos. Filipino Internet users spread the word via social networks and microblogs such as Twitter, Facebook and Plurk, even making DSWD one of the top Trending Topics on Twitter for a time.

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AsiaPacificFilms.com: Watch Asian movies online for free until Nov 1

Oct 23 2009 Published by Joey Alarilla under Uncategorized

Found out about this cool site today. Cinema lovers who’d like to watch acclaimed Asian films, shorts and documentaries online should check it out.

Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia blog post.

While blogging this, I’m watching the award-winning documentary Squatterpunk directed by Khavn De La Cruz of the Philippines. Squatterpunk, which takes a look at the punk lifestyles of young garbage scavengers in the slums of Manila, is just one of 500 acclaimed and culturally significant films, shorts and documentaries from Asian directors in the online library of AsiaPacificFilms.com.

Apart from the Philippines, the other countries represented include China, India, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Iran, and more. To introduce the new site, AsiaPacificFilms.com is offering unlimited access in a free trial until November 1, after which the subscription rate will be US$8.99 a month for unlimited access.

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