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Rarely, do people get the chance to meet some of the luminaries in the Internet space. I was fortunate enough to meet the guy during the last GSM World Congress in Barcelona last February. Anyway, to the point. Here is an interesting interview with Tim Berners-Lee by Myla Crespo Villanueva of Meridian Telekoms and Wolfpac […]

Google seems to be trying really hard to replicate their extremely successfully web advertising model into other media such as radio and print. Here is the latest in Google’s attempts to spread their gospel of search. Here is a scoop from Techcrunch on the Big G testing TV advertisements in California.
Google is conducting a small […]

Second Life is one of the fastest growing online communities in the Internet today. It is growing so fast that it might have to build data center resources rivaling Google. They are not quite there yet but they are definitely on their way. Here is an article on What Power’s Second Life.
Second Life runs on […]

Here is a report from Jason spotting a test YouTube Mobile Page. This is particularly interesting because this provides once and for all the YouTube is going mobile.
At the end of last week there was a lot of talk in the blogosphere about the YouTube Mobile site going live and I was looking forward […]

eBay property Skype has launched a new service that allows called parties in the Skype system to earn money. This new service is called Skype Prime and is undergoing a public beta now.
In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a one-off fee or […]

VentureBeat has this scoop on some fabled Google Phone features. Here is the list and some of my comments.

Blackberry-like, slick device. Slick and slim devices seem to be the rave nowadays. The RAZR saved Motorola and Samsung is coming out with a lot of these types of phones. The Samsung phone with all the Google […]

Here is a scoop from Smart PR via our favorite Yuga’s personal blog about … wait for it … Mobile TV. Yes, Mobile TV is here under test broadcast from the mobile network operator with twenty-five (25) million subscribers.
Now under test broadcast, the new mobile TV service is being offered by MediaQuest Holdings, Inc. in […]

After attending a meeting in the office, my boss mentioned something that was very very interesting. It sounded like an old saying that could have been attributed to Confucious. However, I did a Google and did not find any match. So this must be something new I guess. In the spirit of my previous pearl’s […]

Here is an article by Tomi T. Ahonen of Communities-Dominate.blogs.com fame. He is a respected author and independent consultant. I don’t normally write a short profile spill of people. In this case, I make an exception because I like his Mobile as the 7th Mass Media post. My comments will be coming in pretty late. […]

Congratulations to the Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of Information Systems and Computer Science for recently being granted Center of Excellence (COE) for Information Technology Status by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Here are some of the details from our department chair’s blog.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) named the Ateneo a Center of […]