Month: July 2007
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T9 Advocacy: “We’ve lost one generation to TXT Speak”
[display_podcast] I was able to interview T9’s Marketing guy, James Young last week. For those unfamiliar, T9 is the company behind the “predictive text” software we see in most Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile and Motorola phones: A campaign is being launched in the South East Asia region to address the alarming rate of elementary…
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Blogger Breakfast at Portico, Serendra
Yesterday morning, I brought my family to a mini breakfast meet up with Dine, Noemi, their husbands and Chats. My mother was quickly assimilated into the group and boring talk about child rearing and childbirth were brought up. The small meet was held at Portico, at Serendra by invitation of the marketing group of Chateau.
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Afterthoughts on Making Wii Wii
Kirby, veteran (and cutest) fighter from Super Smash Brothers photo c/o SSBB website This post is more than a year late. With the Nintendo Wii becoming yesterday’s news, the iPhone is now the news breaker as the dawn of a new technology revolution has begun. I’d like to dedicate this post to write a bit…
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P45,000.00
I’m going to make an educated assumption that SM Hypermarket / Taste Asia spent no more than P300.00 per head for the Taste Asia Blogger Meet. Factor in the 150 guests and we come up with a magic figure of P45,000.00 for the food. What can P45,000.00 buy in terms of advertising? It can buy…
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SM Hypermarket: Business Blogging Booming?
The SM Group of Companies has always been, in my opinion, one of the more traditional and conservative corporate institutions to have inculcated itself as a strong part of Philippine culture and mass consumerism. Which is why I was surprised to have been invited as a resource speaker a few weeks ago to help shed…
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Mike Leano: Gamer, Video Games Channel Editor for b5media
I have known Mike Leano to some capacity as a fellow gamer, gaming journo (he is a member of AGJA which was founded by Joey Alarilla) as well as a behind the scenes guy in doing market research for the local video games industry. He’s quite a fun character who I bump into the oddest…
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New Yahoo! Messenger for Macintosh: Let the Users Decide!
There is a poll currently being conducted by the Yahoo! for Macintosh development team. Since YM for OS X has very long graduation dates between versions, the team is letting the users decide whether it deserves to be updated now or later. I am honestly apathetic to whatever verdict they come up with as the…
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Elbert Cuenca has an iPhone
Ladies and gents, Elbert Cuenca, PhilMUG chairman has an iPhone. I guess to the western readers, it doesn’t really matter but to us Asians, it does. A lot. He’s not just the first person in his block, but the first consumer in the Philippines to have one. The plan cost was $29.99. In addition, I…
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My Blog Addiction
80%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Mingle2 – Online Dating [from Yuga] I can actually think of more questions for the quiz that can tell if you’re an addict or not, but I don’t want to further apparent addiction to blogging. The remaining 20% of the time, I’m checking email and sleeping. 🙂
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