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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 »

Three Taiwanese workers fired for using Facebook - Oct 12, 2009

Blogs The Taipei Times Online recently wrote a story about an auto parts factory in central Taiwan that fired three workers for spending too much time on Facebook.  Meanwhile, a Taiwanese factory ... 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 »

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 »

BarCamp HK and Twestival HK both on September 12, 2009 - Sep 4, 2009

Blogs Mark your calendar, BarCamp Hong Kong and Testival Hong Kong 2009 is back. For this year's BarCamp, the date is set for September 12, 2009, at Turner International Asia Pacific, 30/F, ... Read story »

Manny Pacquiao wife gets support from Filipino Twitter users - Nov 19, 2009

Blogs Ironically, rumors of an affair with a sexy young actress may have done more to hurt boxing's pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao than tough erstwhile welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. A ... Read story »

Vote for Efren Penaflorida as CNN Hero of the Year - Oct 6, 2009

Blogs Many ordinary Filipinos have become heroes in the past two weeks, helping the victims of tropical storm Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana). We won't be able to name them all, but to ... Read story »

Of minimizing the awkward social "face" issue - Oct 14, 2009

Blogs Recently, on one of my coffee-hunting trips along a deserted lane through Melbourne City, I had a rather peculiar debate with a friend who was furthering her studies here as well, ... Read story »

Of normadic lifestyles and changes - Sep 27, 2009

Blogs Recently, amidst the tedious transition between ordering a first-hand factory-second double-size mattress and organizing my new faster-than-lightning unlimited 8pm-8am broadband connection, I came to a realization. What would life be without ... Read story »

Screaming in cyberspace... - Oct 20, 2009

Blogs ...Seems to be a waste of time when it comes to the Government of Malaysia. Because it appears they're rather deaf when it is about what the citizenry has to say, ... 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 »

Testing five VPNs that'll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China - Nov 11, 2009

Blogs Living and working in China may bring many cultural pleasures, but trying to use the Internet here is a daily headache. It's not just nearly every English-language social-networking and video-sharing site ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)... - Sep 11, 2009

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

Teenagers love the Internet! No kidding... - Jul 15, 2009

Blogs Fifteen-year-old Matthew "teenage scribbler" Robson describes how he and his friends consume digital media in a 2000-word essay at the request of Morgan Stanley. The scent is picked up by various ... Read story »

Disney's Iger: People willing to pay for quality content - Jul 23, 2009

Crave Fortune's Richard Siklos interviews Disney CEO Robert Iger as the Brainstorm:Tech conference kicks off in Pasadena, Calif., Wednesday. Disney CEO Robert Iger said he appreciates the fact that his company ... Read story »

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