Articles tagged with "facebook"

Jul
20

Link, Like, Love: Not a movie but the latest daily deals platform from Facebook and American Express

Some haters naysayers claim that the daily deals business is nearing its demise, well not, at least for American Express and Facebook which just launched (yesterday morning if I am not mistaken) a new daily deals platform, the aptly named Link, Like, Love. With Link, Like, Love, American Express (AmEx) cardholders can link their cards

Jul
07

Just Launched: Skype Powered Video Calling on Facebook

Skype and Facebook announced that “awesome” new feature: video calling on Facebook powered by Skype. It’s a feature that’s been rumored for quite a while, and it’s one that Facebook is putting a lot of weight behind. Skype’s Chief technology Strategist Jonathan Rosenberg said “At Skype, we are super excited about this product, which we

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Jun
24

What to do When Your Flight Gets Delayed

Once again Metro Manila has received a major blow from Mother Nature, when in a span of three hours tropical storm Falcon dumped a third of the volume of water tropical storm Ondoy brought with him in September 2009, flooding huge areas in and around Metro Manila. Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration’s (PAGASA)

Jun
07

How to Survive a Break-up in the Digital World

Breaking-up is tough enough as it is, breaking-up in the world ruled by Facebook, Twitter, smart phones, and group buying (Yes, group buying, remember that romantic getaway you bought together from Groupon? Groupon still has records of your voucher, with both your names on it) is (digital) torture. We have here a non-scientific, yet statistically

May
24

Facebook Status Updates Categorized

Aside from Google, what other website do you visit the most? Don’t you dare lie, it’s Facebook right? And what particular feature of Facebook do you check out first? I am guessing it’s the status updates, that hard to avoid stream of sometimes hilarious, sometimes informative, sometimes sad, sometimes shocking, and mostly annoying nonsense your

May
11

Facebook Security Alert: Apps Accidentally Leaking Info to Third Parties

Symantec, a leading security firm discovered that access to hundreds of thousands (whew, I thought millions) of Facebook accounts may have been leaked (accidentally of course). Symantec estimates that as of April 2011, around 100,000 applications were still enabling leaks which may be used by advertisers (that explains the buy 1 take 1 chicharon offers

May
04

Facebook Spam Warning: Osama Bin Laden Shoot down Video Virus

It has not been a week (or is it? short term memory loss kicking in) since the last Facebook spam, the decepticon guised as a “See who has viewed your profile” event and now this: “Osama Bin Laden Shoot down” video. Sophos, an online security firm identified the virus to be a spyware, which spreads

Apr
23

Facebook Spam: See who has viewed your profile event

Upon receiving my first event invitation labelled “See who has viewed your profile” early yesterday, I immediately thought it was the latest version of one of those Facebook spam scam. I also thought that people by now, should have realized that it was yet another spam, but I was wrong. Apparently, a little over 20%

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