Viber is celebrating its 10th year. It doesn’t feel like 10 years. It seems I have known Viber for more than 10 years especially with its strong presence in the time of the pandemic. From hyper-local communities to friends’ chat groups. there is never a dull moment. My initial misgivings about Viber being a hotbed […]
Here is good news from Twitter. Look, Three years ago, we paused our public verification program after hearing feedback that it felt arbitrary and confusing to many people. A year later, we deprioritized this work further to focus on protecting the integrity of the public conversation around critical moments like the 2020 US election. Since […]
Planning for Christmas? I know I won’t be buying a lot of gifts this Christmas. Instead of gifts, I will send donations for typhoon victims. What better way than sending it through Paymaya. This Christmas, PayMaya is offering Filipinos more rewards as it launches its “PayMayaguinaldo” campaign, where users have a chance to win as much as 1 million pesos in the Grand raffle […]
I can live without Facebook. I went through LiveJournal, Friendster, MySpace and Multiply. Facebook will be irrelevant one day. Even Twitter. And yes, some of us might go back to having individual websites or blogs with our unique domain names. President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to ban Facebook as some “advocacy” accounts were taken down because […]
A new class of pandemic-inspired gadgets for this new normal summarizes this special edition of IFA 2020. The special edition of the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), the world’s leading trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, took place from September 3 to 5 in Berlin, Germany. Being the first onsite trade show for the tech […]