Manila Online: You Don't Have to Be in Manila to connect to Manila for your social networking, business enterprise or to keep in touch with friends and family
Manila Online: Filipinos and many foreigners here are enigmatic and thrive on social contact. It is far more that just what is in the water; the Mabuhay Spirit is at the fabric of the culture. Subsequently, it is not surprising that the per capita usage of various communication devices is the highest in the world in terms of sending SMS or text messages.
Whether you take advantage of a high-tech cell phone platform or visit a readily available internet cafe, philippine websites are only a click away in manila. Yes, the network communications are in place and You can choose to stay connected as often as you want via a Telco or internet based provider like Chikka via web links to any number of peripheral devices.
According to Nielsen wire, part of the The Nielsen Company, as reported on January 22nd of this year, “Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year”
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For December 2009, this listing represents the top ranked users by country on social media sites by unique audience and time per month.
United States: 142,052 Users, 6:09:13 time per month; Japan: 46,558, 2:50:21; Brazil: 31,345, 4:33:10; United Kingdom: 29,129, 6:07:54; Germany: 28,057, 4:11:45; France: 26,786, 4:04:39; Spain: 19,456, 5:30:55; Italy: 18,256, 6:00:07; Australia: 9,895, 6:52:28; & Switzerland: 2,451, 3:54:34.
Surprisingly, the Philippines is not on that list!
As of December, 2010, one site reports this information for www.manilatop10.com:
Alexa Rank 1973684
Google Links 3
Yahoo Links 162
Altavista Links 159
AllTheWeb Links 118
Online News of Interest
--May 3, 2010 by Matt McGee "Yahoo Answers — by far the largest answer search engine on the web — says it passed the one billion answer mark within the past week"
--Discover how to use social media to attract and engage quality customers, and quickly grow your business.
---Social Media Success Summit 2010: The Web's Largest Online Social Media Conference
---It starts Tuesday, May 4 and runs through May 25.
--Dropbox offers a place to store files as a back-up while traveling. Does anyone use this tool?
From Brazil to London to Singapore, social media & social networking have definitely arrived on the world stage. Add the facts that many Filipinos work and travel abroad, many dream of doing so combined with visitors coming here from every corner of the globe and you have a test-bed of sorts for the latest applications and tools.
A funny parody or is it reality, that finally reveals that Google "search" is done by a woman ;)
Without getting into the country-specific sites, here is a non-ranked collection of some popular social media or networking sites in the Philippines for business, photo sharing, music, art, alumni, avatars, video, game-playing, & blogging: Facebook, (Read Facebook News)Twitter, (see what is being tweeted on the Presidentiables with twitelect) Plurk, Friendster, Multiply (who partnered with ABS-CBN & perhaps learning from the exponential growth of the likes of call centers, transformed their service offerings largely based on their reach and the entrepreneurial directions that was promoted in this country), MySpace, Eskwela, Flickr, Tagged, digitalfilipino, Hi5, LinkedIn, Youtube, Veoh, Deviant Art, Downelink, Groove Net, Xanga, Philerweb, Pinoy Online Community, Filipino Friendster World, tumblr, imeem, yahoo messenger, yahoo chat, groups, 360 & buzz, google buzz, stumbleupon, MyBlogLog, Delicious, technorati, filipinopeople, filwhitepages, digg, windows live, bebo, aol, and sulit which is a top exchange for goods.
You just have to love some of those NAMES!
Aren't we all either under the influence or in the game?
What is social media doing for charitable activities? Rapid transmission of communications is combining with the growing presence of online causes/networks to add support to relief efforts.
Not sure if the term "buzz" is more associated with Yahoo or Google at this point but Google Buzz seems a decent integration tool to sample and is a functional tool for social media and social networking demands.
There are many online forums for discussing and learning from others here in the Philippines. Yahoo has some outstanding, well established groups that are worth a visit.
Manilatop10's group on Yahoo has not yet reached a level of significant value, but forums of this nature are partly only as beneficial as their participants. If you would like to join and or promote this particular group, visit Philippines_eclectic here.
Spiders bring benefit to some of our "internet" searches as this video from Google demonstrates:
April 6th, 2010: According to the Business Insider, Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million.
Excerpt: "A Foursquare acquisition makes tons of sense for Yahoo, where product executives believe that paradigm of Web pages could soon go away, to be replaced by a universe of service built on Internet-connected devices in, around, and outside the home. It would be a relatively cheap way for Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to show employees and Wall Street that she's serious about innovating."
For upcoming updates on Yahoo News, visit the Yahoo News page. on this site.
How do you "use" the World Wide Web and what is DARPA working on now?
Presidentiables likely have tweet reviewers; see what people are saying about the 2010 elections on twitelect:
"This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe."
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Update: 4/17/2010, Do YOU want another way to stay in touch with your friends or make new ones?
Note: Check out gowalla.com here & download the app on your next outing where you want to meet with someone; That's manila online.
"The promise of the social Web is that we can nourish more meaningful relationships with friends than ever before. Of course, we only get out in proportion to what we put in."
Just go to the SPOTS tab on the drop down menu and type in Manila or Manila or Manila!
Faris Yakob of MDC Partner brings us "A decade of digital: 10 things for 2010" ten top personal behaviours in the realm of digital marketing:
Earn your own attention
Stop saying viral
Be nice or leave
Socialise your mainstream media
Decrease the latency in the system
Abundance is more interesting than scarcity
The audience, isn’t
Ideas that create content
Be useful for where they are
Be awesome
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