Kapped.com
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 19th, 2006I made this a few minutes ago. Haha!
Check out Kapped! Hope you guys could contribute to the traffic.
dPolls.com
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 19th, 2006Found this new AJAX-based poll system called dPolls.com for your blog. Check it out, its pretty cool.
While you’re at it, answer mine!
The Blog Herald is IT!
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 18th, 2006Remember my post a few days ago about the mystery blog being sold for at least $40,000? Well it turns out (much to my surprise) that this mystery blog is …
The Blog Herald written by Duncan Riley.
The current high bids are 60K, 65K and 72K. The private auction will be ending today sometime, after which we’ll get down to the business of sorting out the transaction. Once that’s all done, we’ll be announcing the winner at whatever time works best for the winner.
The current high bidders are all looking at the blog as a brand / profile investment more than a pure cash investment. After all, 36 times monthly revenues is a fairly high multiple for any site, even if it experiences 10% growth every month (as Blog Herald does) and could earn more. At 72K, it would likely take someone about a year to earn it back with a redesign and with the growth it’s experiencing.
Read at Ensight
On a more personal note, it was through Duncan that I found out about Jeremy and b5. And on an even more personal note, I should be really nice to Duncan because he’s the guy who sends the cheques over.
But seriously, nice one Duncan! This is a huge step for him when he decided to go full time pro.
Urge dot com
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 16th, 2006
The Microsoft powered Urge, supposedly the competition to the iTunes Music Store.
But why does the G look like the inverted Q of Apple Quicktime?
Doh.
What to do with stray baby cats
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 15th, 2006Take pictures of them, of course!
Photos courtesy of my mom.
Caption: “Furball”
cute!
Cellphone9 is in the Top 100 Filipino Blogs
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 13th, 2006
My Cellphone9 site made number 39 out of the Top 100 Filipino blogs in the past six months. These stats were based on Technorati links.
Actually this is unfair. The reason why I have so many links is because I belong to a blogging network. But then again, one of the advantages of network blogging are the links. So it’sa chicken and the egg thing.
One person who deserves to be in the Pinoy Technorati 100 is Pammy. So why isn’t she there? Well that’s because she doesn’t have a Technorati profile. (Pam make one now!)
The listing is therefore a bit flawed in the sense that only registered Technorati users who are Filipinos are qualified.
Unpacking a WADE shoe
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 13th, 2006So Engadget does the whole Unpacking routine for gadgets.
Here’s mine.
I’ve taken a brief hiatus on gadgets for a while and concentrated my efforts to getting myself new clothes for 2006. You see, I rarely shop for clothes but the past month (mid December to now) had me buying shirts and jeans – and now, as icing on the cake, two pairs of shoes from WADE.
WADE shoes are made of Italian leather while the soles come from Singapore and exported to the Philippines. My encounter with WADE was pretty recent. I became the hapless victim of a fashion makeover for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
This can only happen once, so …
I’d like to thank Ms. Abby Arenas and Edgar of Emphasis in Rockwell for my hair and highlights as well as the golden brown air tanning. I would like to thank Kym de Guzman for my clothes and Alex Vergara of the PDI Lifestyle for making this all possible.
Done? Great!
One of the shoe brands Kym carried in were from this store called WADE, and I gladly bought the pair she made me wear a few days after the shoot. Small world – Kym was my batchmate from school. I was in Dev Ed and she was in Comm.
Now to Unpack a WADE shoe.
WADE shoes come in a black rice sack bags that are big enough to fit one shoe box. You cannot fit two shoe boxes inside a WADE bag because if you could, it would give the impression to other people that you only bought one pair. So the more WADE bags you carry, the more shoes you bought. This statement is not as obvious as it seems, and if you think about it carefully, there is a lot of wisdom to be learned from here.
Upon removing the shoe box, I noticed that the WADE text was in red, instead of the usual silver that lined the bag. After much contemplation, I became enlightened to the fact that WADE as a company, wants to use the color red to generate your appetite to eat food after shopping for shoes (hence the color red to whet your appetite). But what is the reason for this? This is because they want to take care of their customers. So why is the WADE logo printed in the box colored silver? Well, the answer is simple – the ones looking at it are not WADE customers.
*The camera I’m using colored the red into pink.
Unlike other shoe boxes in the shoe industry (although I am sure a number of shoe companies do have this design I’m about to talk about. But who knows, I’m a gadget guru, not a shoe swami.), the WADE shoe box does not have a lid. In its stead, the box has a hole for your index finger and can be pulled out from the side. This makes a WADE shoe box very useful for keeping things in (like shoes) and not to be used for your little brother’s grade school Christmas Belen project.
The first shoe I bought were black leathers which I could wear to the office as well as to some semi-casual events (semi-casual and semi-formal are the same. It’s like the half-full, half-empty thing, depending on your outlook in life). In this case, I say semi-casual because I’m usually a formal person, like the British. But casual at times, like Mr. Bean, who is also British.
I can wear these with socks and without socks. I think. The price is P1,980.00 if I remember right.
The second pair of shoes is something for the more casual me which I can use to go to laid back Friday night gimiks, drinking with friends, watching movies, and even playing football – which will destroy the shoes (But wasn’t that fun??). I also won’t mind stepping on animal crap since the natural color of this pair is .. “natural turd.”
And the price is the same, P1980.00 I think.
I spent less than P4,000.00 for two pairs of great shoes. Yipee!
WADE can be found in the 3rd level of Glorietta 1, Ayala Center, Makati. They also have branches in Greenhills, SM City North, Robinson’s Place Malate and Robinson’s Galleria.
Massive blog for sale ($40,000)
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 12th, 2006Jeremy of Ensight has posted the open negotiations for the sale of a MASSIVE BLOG worth $40,000.00 Right now, private negotiations for the secret blog are ongoing. In a few days, the name of the blog will be revealed to the public.
There’s actually an ongoing contest with clues to determine what this blog is. No, it’s not Engadget.
This is one of the defining blogs in the industry. When I go to conferences and mention the blog, and the author, I get an “oh yeah!” kind of response. Everyone knows this blog. It’s no Engadget, but it is in the top 100 blogs in the world (in every measure but Technorati, which is inherently flawed since it counts all time links).
Blog stats:
As I said, this is a defining blog in its industry. It’s currently hitting just shy of 1M pages per month, has a PR of 7 and pushes massive traffic around with its links. It has more than 150,000 pages indexed in Yahoo/MSN and 60,000 in Google.
Read Ensight
Isabel Roces
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 11th, 2006
I love Isabel Roces. I hope she loves me too.
Appearing Jan – Feb 2006 for m|ph.
What a nice lady. She made us all feel at ease during the shoot.
I’m also sporting my new look for 2006, facial hair and all. At least people don’t say I look like Mr. Bean anymore.
Excited for MacWorld 2006!
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 11th, 2006Tonight, just like all true Mac lovers, I am staying up to “watch” Steve Job’s keynote for MacWorld 2006.
1:00 am, our time.
Our official correspondent is author and fellow mugger Butch Dalisay. W00t!
UPDATE: You can view a live coverage here:
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/
UPDATE 2: *Yawn*
I was bored for the better part of Steve Jobs’ keynote. Honestly, nothing completely impressive here.
1. Most of the new stuff has tight integration with .mac users. This is a good thing for current subscribers because I feel that they aren’t getting their money’s worth with the current subscription. IMHO, a .mac account is nothing more than a glorified email address and a Plaxo solution for the Macintosh since Windows is the only one supported.
2. < sarcasm >New widgets! More fixes! Full screen editing! Less bugs! I can now make greeting cards! Whoop dee doo!< /sarcasm >
3. The podcast studio is pretty cool. It sorta helps podcasting newbies edit their own stuff. Of course, you can do thise using an external app, but I guess it’s part of Apple’s core competency to make stuff a lot easier for everyone.
4. Podcasting, videocasting, and now photocasting! Share your photos online … huh? Doesn’t Flickr and Shutterbook and even Yahoo! Photos do this already? PLus, these services are free! Jobs better brush up on his spellcasting.
5. I like the new magnetic tip for the MacBook (the Powerbook is dead, long live the MacBook!). This is perhaps the best innovation they’ve come up this whole keynote. The charger that plugs into the portable is magnetic, making it easier to whip out. So when your dog steps on the power cord, the cord flies away easily, leaving the portable safe on the desk – not getting yanked!
6. And the new MacBook? Cool. Fast. Expensive – $1999.00. Blech. I’m not rich. And more importantly, I don’t need it.
I think one of the reasons why I’m downplaying the new product releases is because I’ve already seen most of these services being offered by 3rd party dudes. The recent months have brought several great web-based / open source stuff such as Protopage, Writely, Meebo, Flickr and Shutterbook. Is Apple merely playing catch-up to the indies?
Denise Albert
Posted by Jayvee Fernandez at January 9th, 2006
We shot Denise for the upcoming fashionably geek section of m|ph. It will be out some time February. Meanwhile, read our blog.
Nice to see you again Den, after a looong time. T’was fun.
* denise used to play the virgin mary in our high school christmas plays. hyuk hyuk
