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How Time Flies--Facebook now outranks Friendster in the Philippines - Dec 15, 2009

Blogs I wrote an article last August about how strong the Friendster phenomenon was in the Philippines and how, after years of being on top, it was still the most visited social ... Read story »

Bizarre green methods - Nov 9, 2009

Blogs How far would you go to save water and electricity? A week ago, I posted on my Facebook Wall about these washable and reusable sanitary napkins. When I showed them to ... Read story »

Upload Nintendo DSi photos to Facebook - Aug 4, 2009

Crave It's been a long time coming, but Nintendo has finally announced that the DSi system update will bring along the capability to upload photos from your DSi directly to your Facebook ... Read story »

Mad rush for Facebook vanity urls and who hijacked Ashton Kutcher's username? - Jun 13, 2009

Blogs It's Facebook Vanity URL Day, and at 12:01 noon in our time zone, a lot of Facebook users joined the mad rush to secure their usernames. My new Facebook URL is ... Read story »

StarHub provides free mobile access to MSN Live and Facebook - Aug 7, 2009

Crave To push for greater mobile broadband penetration among youths, StarHub is offering free access to Windows Live Messenger for selected Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian handsets from August 8. This allows ... Read story »

Facebook ban in the City of London - Oct 13, 2009

Blogs While sifting through the hundreds of headlines at work today, I couldn't help but notice this particularly interesting article from the Telegraph, which reports that over two-thirds of businesses in the City of ... Read story »

Obama: "I have never used Twitter" - Nov 16, 2009

Blogs One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama's admission: "I have never used Twitter". Obama casually divulged this ... Read story »

I'm hooked on Happy Farm - Nov 5, 2009

Blogs Who would have thought that a Facebook application like Happy Farm would take Hong Kong, Taiwan and China by storm? I didn't, and now I'm hooked. Just last week, unofficial numbers were ... Read story »

A robot penguin that connects Facebook to you - Jun 30, 2009

Crave Arimaz's MyDeskFriend is a robot penguin that talks. We admit we're suckers for cute robots around here, especially ones that are connected to the Internet in some way (remember the ... Read story »

Facebook cleans up its privacy controls - Jul 3, 2009

Crave Facebook is gearing up for a major revamp of its privacy settings. The social network's privacy controls had become so sprawling that they were distributed across six separate pages and 40 ... Read story »

Facebook letting third-party advertisers use you--SAY NO - Jul 31, 2009

Blogs The following message been bombarding me all week. "Facebook has agreed to let third-party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission. "Click on Settings up at the top where you ... Read story »

Problems with Facebook's custom url - Jun 13, 2009

Blogs Like most people, I just grabbed my custom url on Facebook. While I wanted Facebook.com/rickmartin, I noticed that the first option presented to me was /rick.martin. And that was what I ... Read story »

Samsung launches social media-friendly Corby (S3650) - Sep 1, 2009

Crave This just out. The Corby is Samsung's latest budget touchscreen handset which will be available across Europe this month at 150 euros. Targeted at teeny boppers, the funky, pop color-styled phone ... Read story »

The best food site on Hong Kong restaurants - Dec 19, 2009

Blogs Everyone knows Hong Kong is famous for not just only shopping but for its vast varieties of different cuisine and fabulous restaurants. Started way back in 1999, Open Rice, the ultimate ... Read story »

LG launches social media-friendly GW300 - Sep 29, 2009

Crave It's freshers' week, and the LG GW300 is joining forces with booze and spot cream to keep you from become a pariah--by offering built-in social-networking features and a full QWERTY keyboard. ... Read story »

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