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Cory Aquino: Live video stream of funeral and global mourning in cyberspace - Aug 5, 2009

Blogs Today, August 5, the Filipino nation will bid farewell one final time to the woman who restored democracy in the Philippines and inspired peaceful People Power revolutions in other countries (some ... Read story »

Hack me if you can - Apr 26, 2009

Blogs The Philippine national elections will happen in 2010. It is somewhat momentous because aside from electing the leaders of our country, this will be the first time that our national elections ... Read story »

Online campaign launched vs. text tax in the Philippines - Sep 14, 2009

Blogs The youth party in Congress, Kabataan Partylist, has joined forces with consumer advocacy group TXTPower to spearhead an online and mobile campaign against the proposal to impose a five-centavo excise tax ... Read story »

Donate Wynne Arboleda salary to typhoon victims, online petition urges - Oct 20, 2009

Blogs An online petition is now circulating among Filipino Internet users, urging the management of the Philippine Basketball Association team Burger King to donate the lost income of its suspended player, Wynne ... Read story »

Online support for Philippine flood victims of storm Ondoy/Ketsana - Sep 28, 2009

Blogs The outpouring of support through different online networks for the victims of the epic floods unleashed by tropical storm Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana) in the Philippines has been nothing short of ... Read story »

Withdraw your PayPal funds to your Indonesian account - Jan 30, 2008

Blogs It's good news for Indonesian PayPal users. My fellow countrymen can finally conveniently withdraw funds from their PayPal accounts to their local bank accounts! Prior to this eBay's online payment division's ... Read story »

R.I.P. Cory Aquino: Live stream of Aquino videos as Filipinos mourn death of People Power icon - Aug 1, 2009

Blogs UPDATE: Added a video clip of an interview with Cory Aquino conducted in September 2008, six months after she was diagnosed with colon cancer. Former Philippine President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, who ... Read story »

Cory Aquino death used to spread malware - Aug 4, 2009

Blogs Once more showing how unscrupulous people can be in taking advantage of tragedies, some sites are tricking users into downloading fake antivirus software by pretending to offer news on the death ... Read story »

Who needs Facebook when you have Facebuko? - Aug 18, 2009

Blogs Think it's funny how much time a lot of us spend on social networks? Then have a good laugh by visiting the Philippine humor site Facebuko.com. Facebuko spoofs the popular social-networking ... Read story »

Add a yellow ribbon to your Twitter avatar to support former Philippine President Cory Aquino - Jul 28, 2009

Blogs A number of Filipino Twitter users are now sporting a yellow Twibbon on their avatar to express support for former Philippine President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, who has been hospitalized since June ... Read story »

Noynoy Aquino for President Twibbon launched for Twitter users - Sep 10, 2009

Blogs On September 9, which marked the 40th day of the death of former Philippine President and democracy icon Corazon "Cory" Aquino, her son Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III announced that he would ... Read story »

Of yellow Twibbons for Cory Aquino, online tributes and multimedia journalism - Aug 10, 2009

Blogs Check out this QTV report on how the online community paid tribute to former Philippine President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, whose death on August 1 sent the Filipino nation into mourning, with ... Read story »

(UPDATE) Of Maguindanao and how politicians use social media - Nov 24, 2009

Blogs We are still in shock over yesterday's massacre of civilians in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao in the run-up to the Philippine presidential elections in May 2010. The victims, who ... Read story »

Scrutinize Philippines cybercrime bill, Filipino Netizens urged - Sep 24, 2009

Blogs With the Philippine House of Representatives getting ready to deliberate on House Bill (HB) 6794 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2009, Filipino Netizens are being urged to read and critique ... Read story »

EllaGanda.com blog post sparks online furor over DSWD handling of relief goods - Oct 24, 2009

Blogs 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 ... Read story »

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