Janette Toral came up with a new initiative of naming the top 10 emerging influential blogs in 2007. I think this is a great idea because it will help us discover new blogs by looking at other people’s lists. Janette is also raffling off $100 to ten lucky bloggers. So what are you waiting for? Read up here and blog about it.

Now, as for my list, I wouldn’t exactly call them influential, but I make it a point to read them everyday because I like their content and writing style.

Off the top of my head, here they are in random order:
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Forget the Capulets and Montagues, the Hatfields and the McCoys.

It’s all about Diddy versus Diddy.

Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued by another Diddy in the UK for “causing confusion” and unfair competition. Music producer Richard “Diddy” Dearlove wants Combs to stop using the “Diddy” moniker as it allegedly caused some Puerto Rican teenagers to email him asking him to be in music videos or to check out their fashion designs. Like there’s anything wrong with that! Hehehe. Now Sean Combs has to change his name for the fourth time. He was once known as “Puffy” and “Puff Daddy”. As a designer he’s Sean John. What is with celebrities? They can’t seem to stick to one name. Remember when Prince wanted to known as the artist formerly known as Prince? Now he’s back to Prince! I know, it’s nuts. Publicity stunt? I guess.

The Internet is just as schizophrenic. Its known multiple personas are Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. I heard that Web 2.0 is the most sociable. Javascript has a superhero alter-ego, AJAX, who saves his girlfriend Ruby who seems to be always tied up on rails.

Then there are those Web 2.0 geeks who spit out cute names such as Mojizu, Meebo, Wablet, Zimbio, Blipstar, Ojor, Kroodle during lunch breaks. Do venture capitalists have penchants for such cutesyness? Well, nowadays they want to be called “seed financiers”. That’s a resounding yes to me.

Now that ex-Diddy has settled with the first Diddy, what is Dearlove going to do with Web 2.0 startup VDiddy?

Looking for the best deals on computers, peripherals and gadgets in the Philippines?

TipidPC.com is the leading resource for buying and selling brand new and second-hand computer parts and peripherals in the Philippines.

TipidPC is the brainchild of Jesus A. Domingo and has been online since July 2001 (about the same as Alleba.com). I hope to interview Mr. Domingo soon since not much information is available from their site. Nevertheless, TipidPC has an enormous following and has a good number of brick-and-mortar establishments doing business with them. Last I checked, there were 715 users currently browsing the site! Wow.

On the Net: TipidPC.com

It doesn’t just take a great idea to make it big, but actually have the gall to to go for it even if it’s so fantastically stupid.

Take this wise-ass guy from North Pole, Alaska, USA who, for $10, sends your kids realistic letters pretending to be Santa Claus! It’s crazy, but as of last count, he’s sent 200,000 letters already, making him $2 million richer.

And do I even have to mention Alex Tew’s Million Dollar Homepage?

More dumb ideas from the Weird Tech News Hub

Google Australia opened its doors to the media in Sydney, Australia, May 16, 2006. Yeah, it’s two months ago, but better late than never.

Some pics:

More after the jump.

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I was sniffing around for some nifty loading gif’s for one of my projects when I found Ajaxload, a drive-thru Ajax-powered site that spits out loading gif animations to your liking on-the-fly. Yeah … for you graphically-challenged Web 2.0 geeks out there, this is the place to go if you want your apps to look cool while they’re pretending to load something. Hehehe.

Some samples from their site:
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