US-based BusinessWeek has come out with its “25 Most Influential People on the Web” list for 2008.

As expected, the list is US-centric, with only a dash of non-Americans in the mix. But what is quite interesting is the analysis that accompanies the release of this report, which says that the internet has caused an explosion of US political campaign discourse.

T-Mobiles G1, the worlds first smartphone powered by Googles Android OS. Photo grabbed from Engadget.
T-Mobile's G1, the world's first smartphone powered by Google's Android OS. Photo grabbed from Engadget.

Update: Visit the official T-Mobile G1 website

US mobile phone network T-Mobile today launched the G1, a smartphone powered by Google’s Android operating system which pundits and techies say may give Apple’s iPhone a stiff fight for hearts and minds of cellphone users everywhere.

Graphic artists are excited over the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 4.

A blog post at ZDNet said that:

Adobe will offer numerous flavors of CS4 including editions for Design, Web, Production Premium and Master Collection. Individually, Adobe rolled out the latest editions of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash Professional and Dreamweaver among others.

Applause, cheers and the never-ending flicker of camera lights welcomed the country’s top bloggers at the 2nd Philippine Blog Awards held Sunday at glitzy rites held at 1Esplanade near SM Mall of Asia.

Some bloggers came in formal attire, while others came in smart casual wear, but no one seemed to mind. Everyone was up on their toes on who were chosen by the judges, mostly bloggers too, as the best across 36 categories.

A number of attendees twittered and plurked and liveblogged, while those who were not present watched the proceedings through webcasts.

Filipinos are at the top of the world in terms of social networking and up there too in terms of blogging!

This is no wonder since Pinoy culture is strong on networking:

Filipino Netizens among most sociable
By Riza T. Olchondra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:29:00 09/19/2008

MANILA, Philippines — You think that collectively sending about one billion text messages daily is enough for Filipinos to stay in touch? Apparently not.

In the third edition of Universal McCann’s study on social media, the Philippines had the social networking highest penetration among Internet users (83.1 percent) compared with the global average of 57.5 percent.