By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 7, 2009

If you’re on Facebook (who isn’t anyway?), don’t be surprise if you receive a notification coming from FishVille. It’s not a typographical error since FishVille is not FarmVille. It’s actually a new game from Zynga, makers of Mafia Wars and FarmVille, two of the widely played Facebook game apps. More →
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By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 6, 2009

Twitter is testing out a new way of ”ReTweeting” to selected beta users. Here’s how the Twitter blog explains this “new feature.”
We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know. More →
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By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 6, 2009
Is the current generation so hooked with social networking and other online activities that a young pregnant woman would let others view her most painful experience on the internet? Believe it or not, it’s true. A young pregnant woman who is expected to give birth anytime soon agreed to stream her time inside the delivery room.
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By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 5, 2009

With several mobile phones running Google’s Android platform already out in the market or are about to be released by current popular mobile phone makers, who woud have thought that Motorola might actually come up with possibly the best Android phone of them all?
I mean, Motorola has been struggling to join the likes of Apple, Samsung, HTC and even LG into the “smartest” phone niche but never seemed to get it right. Until now, as the Motorola DROID was finally launched. This early, Motorola DROID is gaining some accolades from industry analysts. More →
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By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 5, 2009

If there’s one good thing the came out of the recently ended recession, that has to be the proliferation of members-only online shopping sites. And guess who are supplying their wares? None other than the makers of luxury goods which have found a new avenue to sell their goods particularly the overstocks which remained in their inventory.
Thanks to private online shopping site such as Gilt Groupe, Rue La La, and Ideeli, luxury brands have found their way to fashionistas who were forced to tighten their belt during the economic recession. More →
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By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 4, 2009

Apple in collaboration with is releasing an Apple-shaped USB loaded with 14 Beatles stereo titles. Included in the USB are all the remastered visual elements of the CD’s originally containing the 14 Beatles songs. In addition, the USB will also be loaded with 13 mini-documentary films about the Beatles’ studio albums, replicated UK album art rate photos and other notes. More →
Topics: Apple, Downloadable Media, MP3, Media · Leave a reply
By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 4, 2009

I’ve created an Amazon Associate account a long time ago but never get to earn significantly from the referral program. The only time I got a commission from a sales coming from Amazon links from my blog is when a friend click on the link and actually purchase the product online.
Fast forward to now. Amazon Associates has launched a new feature that might actually give us easier way to gain commission. And this feature is called – Share on Twitter. More →
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By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 3, 2009
For Best Buy, it’s better late than never. While online movie delivery is no longer a new thing, it’s only now that the company more popularly known for selling DVDs has finally decided to start embracing the current trend in the movie distribution industry – direct online streaming.
To do this, Best Buy is set to announce that it has teamed up with SonicSolutions for the use of its CinemaNow streaming technology.
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Topics: Downloadable Media, Entertainment, Online Media, Video · Leave a reply
By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 3, 2009

The latest beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung mobile phones running on Symbian and S60 OS is now available for download. This latest version of the popular mobile web browser offers sleeker design similar to the previously released Opera Mini 5 beta for Java phones. More →
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By Arnold Zafra · Posted on November 2, 2009

Netvibes, one of the most popular web dashboard, start pages which can also serve as an aggregator for all your favorite news feeds is planning to relaunch soon. This time around Netvibes is taking a cue from the hype build by the so called “real-time” information produced by “real-time” information producers such as Twitter and Facebok to come up with a web dashboard that mines these real-time information. More →
Topics: RSS, Syndication, Web applications, Widgets · 1 lonesome comment