Online social networks have their own cultures. Erica Naone of MIT Technology Review (TR) writes that social networking sites’ growth outside the U.S. has exploded recently, but different regions have adopted different sites as their favorites. I find it interesting how each site has developed and grown in its own way. The […]

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The Philippines’ broadband Internet penetration may be low by Asian standards (less than 20%), so one would not expect “online” shopping to be taking off.
But almost 50% of Filipinos have mobiles phones, and the country is sometimes called the “txting capital of the world.” Thus it shouldn’t be a surprise that fast-fingered Filipinos […]

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