Month: October 2006
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Why Shel Israel should come to the Philippines
The announcement was made earlier today that b5media, the online blog network I write for has sent Shel “the Ambassador of Content” Israel to Europe to engage in discussions with local folk about local content. Seems vague when reading it but this is part of a world tour series to bring home a heterogeneous idea…
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Philippine eCommerce: First Paypal, then eBay and now Google Philippines
I had previously written about Paypal being announced in the Philippines a few days ago. And then several hours later, I was able to sign up for an eBay PH seminar with Jim Griffith of eBay University. And then, I was reading Marc’s blog, where he writes about Google opening shop in the Philippines, specifically…
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Crocs shoes in the Philippines: the gender debate
Today I decided to buy myself an advanced birthday gift (November 3 for those of you who feel generous!). I have been eyeing a pair of Crocs for the past three weeks. With eyeing came the resistance to buy, mainly because of the slightly hefty price tag of about P1,700.00 to P2,900.00. I finally bought…
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Ronnie Quizon: My second concert shoot
I was lucky enough to catch a few bands on stage for the second day of Mobile Pilipinas 2006. Here are some shots I took of Ronnie Quizon, being the most animated on the microphone at “100% rockstar” character. Most of these are from Makatha with Ronnie Quizon’s animated appearance on the microphone. After the…
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PayPal is now in the Philippines … sort of!
The moment we have been waiting for is finally here! Albeit in a lite version. I guess when they said “Paypal, they really just stressed the “pay” part. Apparently you can only send money but not request. Nonetheless, this is a step in the right direction to our eCommerce. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Other people covering…
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Prices of Moleskine in the Philippines
Before the personal digital assistant, there was the notebook and the organizer. But there also emerged the moleskine, which was dubbed as the writing enthusiast’s journal. It’s sorta like the Macintosh of the journal universe. Haha! In any case, a lot of aspiring, feeling, and would be writers have been searching far and wide for…
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Sorsi’s blogging adventure begins!
One of the nicest things about blogging is that it is, just like art, never a finished product. As an advocate of continous improvement, we left BlogCon 2006 with a case study for the migration of Sorsi Soriano’s blog from Friendster to WordPress. Correct me if I’m wrong but Friendster does not archive posts. I’ve…
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If you were to meet five bloggers …
Who would they be? Darren has posted this question up on ProBlogger and this is a repost of the comment I’ve left. Since i have to limit this list to five, im not going to include the b5 founders because that would be a given already. I’d love to meet the following: BRIAN CLARK –…
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Battlefield 2142 Demo
I was a huge fan of Battlefield 1942 a few years back. Now it’s the same thing, 200 years later! You can download the demo here. The file is about 1GB fat though.
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