Dumping Friendster

I’m sooooo dumping Friendster effective immediately. It was understandable if their system went nuts after a huge power cutoff when their data center was affected by the fire in California. But more than a month after the incident, my account is still not fixed. I can’t see my friendslist, the account is totally useless.

So for now, I’m moving to Facebook. It’s sexier, sleek and has the elegance factor. It’s more stable and faster and the applications available are better. Though most of the applications also works with friendster (a lot of the apps are shared through opensocial by Google), you can feel quicker response of Facebook.

Yes, it’s kinda late already to switch over but actually, I’m not really into social networking. A lot of my friends know that I only use it for SEO purposes and the social part of it is just a bonus. But even then, I seldom visit my account. But with facebook, I’ll try not to. I think it has a lot of potential to become a spring board for a number of campaigns. I wouldn’t even mind shelling some hard earned dollar for advertisements. Once I get the hang of it, I’ll definitely the ads feature.

Friendster has been very Jologs already so it’s for the “jologs”. Haha. Sorry for the slang. I’m not really my real self today.

2008 Google Zeitgeist on Philippine Tourism

The 2008 Google Zeitgeist offerred interesting information on what Filipinos are searching for. First, SEX is not in the list. Apparently, more and more people are using google to search information in the web that Sex is no longer part of the most search words. But more than that, I’m surprised to see that tourist destinations is part of what we search most.

The report also showed that it looks like Filipinos are looking for information on local travel destinations. As Google describes it, “Local tourism was also alive and kicking with several beach resorts making the list”. Does it mean that Pinoys are now keen on travelling? Will they help boost the local tourism? What made it possible? It looks like more and more Filipinos can now afford a vacation

Below is part of Google Zeitgeist 2008.
Local travel destinations

1. pangasinan
2. cebu
3. palawan
4. baguio
5. sagada
6. bohol
7. el nido
8. plantation bay
9. tagaytay
10. punta fuego

Interestingly, Boracay is not in the list. I really wonder why. Is the island paradise of Boracay already losing its allure from local tourists? Why do Pangasinan is on the list? Is Bohol going to replace Boracay?

This is very interesting and I’ll definitely run a test on this.