Lively could make it to be the fastest project Google has killed in its lifetime. First introduced last July of this year, Google announced today that it will kill the project by December 31, 2008 — just before the clock hits 2009. A message on the Lively.com site reports the demise with and explanation...

Calling all loyal subscribers of Sky Cable who’ve been with them for at least a year and with no outstanding balance, you can try out their broadband connection for FREE for 15 days! SkyBroadband is offering a 15-day free trial of up to 12 mbps broadband internet connection for Sky Cable subscribers...

Sky Broadband is pushing the megabit speed limits to residential lines. It’s now offering up to 12Mbps cable internet service to residential area in Metro Manila. Formerly known as ZPDee Cable Internet, SkyBroadband offers new plans from 1Mbps to 12 Mbps. See chart below for the plans and pricing...

Yahoo! Buzz opened its doors to the public today. The Digg-like system by Yahoo! used to be an exclusive club to a select 40 or so publishers (e.g. TechCrunch, Read Write Web, etc) when it first launch in February 2008. Yahoo! Buzz has been touted as a more mass-market version of Digg and Yahoo has...

Fresh from an announcement that Friendster Philippines’ mobile content partner Entertainment Gateway Group being acquired by Globe Telecom, Friendster itself announced a new round of funding for the amount of $20 Million. Likewise, it will focus more on Asia where SEA alone attracts more than a...

Google today blogged about reaching the 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs indexed. And how do they crawl all these bazillions of pages everyday? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages...

Barely a day after Google Knol was launched to the public, several pages of knol.google.com are already ranking quite high on Google’s own search results. It’s a little weird to see the Google domain showing up on Google search results. This could be the start when Google becomes the content...

Google has just announced the Google Media Server. It’s basically a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google and your TV. It uses Google Desktop technology such as Desktop gadgets for the administration tool and Google Desktop Search to locate media files. All you need is...

Surprisingly, Google is also taking the lead in Mobile Search and that’s not just from wap.google.com but because if the huge number of users accessing the mobile web via the iPhone. Google managed to spank the rest of the mobile search world during the first quarter of 2008, according to data...

With the news of another Filipino landing the coveted job as Yahoo! Philippines Online Community Manager, we hooked up with Jonas de los Reyes to get some inside info about his new role over at Yahoo. A former eCommerce Manager at decade-old Yehey, Inc., Jonas is now based in Yahoo’s SEA Singapore...