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Facebook: No.1 in the Philippines

While Google dominates the web traffic globally, Facebook seems to get the heart of the Filipinos. Recent data from the Amazon's subsidiary company , Alexa.com shows that Facebook is the king of the internet here in the Philippines. It is currently the number one website in the country pushing search engines like Yahoo and Google on second and third places. Facebook had a very steep growth rate in the recent years. It has overtaken several pioneering social networking sites like Friendster. The same report also shows that most of the web sites in the top ten slots are social networking related. These sites are the following: No. 4 YouTube.com You tube is the number one video sharing website in the world. You tube is owned by Google. No. 6 Friendster.com As mentioned earlier, Friendster slowly declined in popularity in the country. Most of its former users have now converted to Facebook.

Google Buzz: Right on My Gmail Account!

Google’s latest service, the Google Buzz finally reached my account a day after its big announcement. Actually, on the day of announcement I’ve been hitting the F5 key on my keyboard several times even though I was well aware that Buzz will not reach all Gmail accounts for a few days after the announcement date. And, finally yesterday, when I opened my Gmail, this message appears on my browser: