Check out this AVP of the 3rd Social Networking Conference 2010, which will be held on April 22-23 at the InterContinental Manila in Makati City. I’m one of the speakers 
Social Networking Conference 2010 AVP
Yahoo! Philippines taps Flickr to help find missing Ondoy, Pepeng victims
Check out my latest CNET Asia blog post.
Here’s an excerpt.
Once more attesting to the fact that social media can be used for socially relevant causes, Yahoo! Philippines has tapped Flickr to create an online photo database of missing persons.
This initiative aims to help families find their loved ones who are still missing as a result of the floods spawned by the typhoons that recently devastated the Philippines, Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana) and Pepeng (Parma).
Read the full story.
(Updated) Ashton Kutcher-CNN Twitter faceoff: The Web is more than just news–and it’s bigger than TV
UPDATE: We’ve done it! http://twitter.com/aplusk is the first to reach 1 million users. Here’s @aplusk’s tweet:”Victory is ours!!!!!!!!” and @cnnbrk’s tweets: “Congrats @aplusk. Ashton Kutcher is the first twitter account to reach 1MM followers.” and “Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.”
Not even CNN’s aggressive TV push could stop the Web from winning. So I guess you could say we Punk’d CNN Malaria no more!
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Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia blog post.
I’m on sick leave right now and feel pretty awful, but I have to be part of this historic Twitter faceoff for a charitable cause.
Follow actor Ashton Kutcher at http://twitter.com/aplusk and help make him the first get a million followers on Twitter. If he wins, he will donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day, and 1,000 if he loses.
Read the full story and follow http://twitter.com/aplusk
Let’s make history!
