As if there weren’t already enough self-proclaimed social media experts spamming uninterested Twitterers with links to badly written blog posts, a new mobile phone from INQ lets people Twitter on the go by default. The INQ Mini 3G, also dubbed as the “Twitter phone”, is...

Google Wave could be the next big thing in social media, and the lucky 100,000 who got invites to beta-test this new communication platform are probably having a blast playing around with it. For those of you who don’t know, Google Wave combines email, instant messaging, social...

The National Disaster Coordinating Council was swamped with calls during the height of Tropical Storm Ondoy last weekend. Dozens of people were stuck in homes or trapped on their rooftops as flash floods turned streets into rivers. Rescue from the authorities seemed very unlikely, because...

You may have noticed some downtime on Twitter and Facebook Thursday evening (or Thursday morning, for those in the West). I assumed it was because too many users were logged on to both services at that particular time but according to Symantec, what happened last night was a...

What I love about social networking sites is the convenience they bring: no more having to click on so many links just to get news from my favorite sites and updates from my closest friends! Of course, now the problem is finding the time to update all my social networking profiles with my own...