By arnoldzafra on March 6, 2009 11:17 AM

Rotorblog Weekly Highlights: Facebook, Twitter and the Kindle 2

So what stirred up the tech world this week? Guess what, just like last week Facebook is on the rampage again. Good thing was, what could be its emerging rival also managed to get into the tech buzz. But of course, the most talked about tech news was the release of the Kindle for iPhone application.Facebook managed to get some media mileage when it’s announced two new features that would spell the future of Facebook, and the social networking experiences of its members. First, the Facebook profile pages for corporate organizations and famous people will now be part of the Facebook profile updates. Meaning, it will now be treated as your usual Faceboom member pages. So, if you are a fan of a certain group’s profile pages you’ll also get their updates on your live news feeds.

But that’s just a minor issue and won’t really affect your Facebook experience unless you are subscribed to a highly active profile pages. The more important and more talked about issue about Facebook this week is of course the redesigned Facebook home page. It’s up for officially roll out next week. And Facebook has a demo tour of the new features of this home page.

That’s just about it for Facebook, we move now with Twitter. Actually, Twitter’s share of the media limelight came in just yesterday when some Twitter users noticed that the previously announced Twitter search engine started appearing on their Twitter pages. But prior to this, Twitter was also mentioned in the news items about Facebook’s announcement. More particularly, a comparison between the two most popular sites were made by many writers.

Going back in the earlier days of the week, the tech world was rocked by an announcement from Amazon – re the Kindle for iPhone application. Many were shocked and amazed to learn about the application. It seems unfit that Amazon would have to make its catalog of Kindle books, magazines and newspapers to iPhone users, instead of encouraging them to buy the Kindle 2. But then some say that this would have no impact at all with the Kindle 2. The Kindle for iPhone application is only available for the US iPhone users, like the Kindle 2.

So, those are the three big tech news that rocked the blogging world this week. Who knows what will happen next week? What’s it going to be folks?