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Philippine Blog Party Makes Technorati Top Ten
More proof Filipinos are taking over the blogosphere: the tag for the Philippine blog party this Saturday, blogparteeh07, is now the #7 top search on Technorati. It’s the #11 tag, too.
Note that the party hasn’t even happened yet. Imagine what’ll happen once the attendees, bloggers all, start tagging and sharing their photos, videos, and reports. Any flamers brave enough to fight me at the party will win a ton of social media mileage.
This is the power of a unique event tag: buzz marketing and monitoring. Thanks to Shari for the heads-up.
Google-Friendster Deal Revealed
The unwashed masses of the Philippines use Yahoo and five million of them use Friendster. This deal will introduce said unwashed masses to Google.
Fresh from a deal with MySpace to power the site’s search and ads, Google is set to score another big partnership.
Friendster CEO Kent Lindstrom revealed today that the social network is going to partner with Google – the search giant will power Friendster’s search and text ads, just as it does on MySpace. The deal is to last two years and financials weren’t disclosed. But since Friendster reports less than 1 million monthly unique visitors, the agreement won’t be on the same scale as the $900 million Google-MySpace deal.
The hookup is another letdown for Yahoo, which currently powers Friendster search.
Hm, five million Filipinos use Friendster, yet Friendster reports less than one million monthly uniques? No wonder all the hottest Filipina babes are migrating to MySpace.
