Year: 2007
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Xoom partners with Happyslip: Send money to Lola
Lola (Filipino for grandma) needs money to buy more jewelry. What’s the fastest way to remit money to the Philippines but through Xoom? It’s been days since I applied for my Union Bank EON card (so that I can link it to my PayPal account) but still no word. When PayPal fails, there is still…
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Two Blog Openings
Takashi of Yanko Design is looking for contributing authors for his blog. Yanko Design is perhaps one of the more famous, if not the most prominent blog on anything to do with design and innovation. I’ve been in touch with the guy for the past few months and he’s pretty cool to deal with. If…
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October 26 2007: The Countdown Begins to Leopard
In theater, there is a term known as “playing to the crowd” that describes an actor that divulges into pleasing the crowd at the expense of risk. But that’s theater. This is Apple. The countdown begins to October 26 as Apple releases the much awaited OS X 10.5 Leopard. On the other side of the…
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Hey PR Agencies! This is how to do a social media PR campaign!
This is a template I took from the news blog of CNET. The post caught my eye because it talked about an actual TEMPLATE to doing social media campaigns. I’m not sure if Mike Abundo (head curmudgeon) or Steve Rubel (PR guru) would agree with this chart — but hear me out for a bit.…
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Stephen Colbert: I am America (And So Can You!)
I’m a faithful listener of Leo Laporte’s TWiT podcasts. For the past few weeks they took in Audible.com as a sponsor partner offering a free audio book (1 credit) and a 14 day free trial. To many peoples’ disappointment though – most especially to the international crowd, the free audio books were not made available…
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Nintendo Wii Firmware Update 3.1 supports USB keyboard
As the Wii at home is connected to the Internet, I received a firmware update request just moments ago. The 3.0E update allows for the use of a USB keyboard attachment to the back ports. The Wii has two USB ports which, by far are useful for charging your Lithium Ion Wiimote batteries and attaching…
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SEMCON 2007 follow up and presentation slides
Talk about following up your SEM strategy – it’s been almost a week since I updated. Right after the two day conference, I headed out to Fort Ilocandia for a business conference with EPSON. Though wireless connection was available during the two day show, SmartBRO prohibited me from accessing the Philippine blogoshpere. So better late…
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Nintendo DS Nights Part Deux!
The guys from GEEK CHORUS are proud to bring you another Nintendo DS Night gathering! When: October 16 2007 Where: mag:net cafe Bonifacio High Street We’ll be there as early as 6 PM till the night fades into morning. SPIT will be performing on that evening too at 10:00 PM so it’s going to be…
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What is web copywriting?
This is. See you tomorrow 🙂 How do you write effective web site copy that engages the reader and also helps your search engine rankings? We’ll walk you through best practices for writing for your customers (conversions) and for search engines (traffic). [Read] I’ll be doing something rather different tomorrow as there are just too…
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For P20,000 you can get yourself a good phone and laptop
It’s official. The Palm Centro will be retailing for $99.00. Couple this with the ASUS eee ultra mobile PC for a rumored price of $250.00 and you have yourself a fine pair of gadgets to last you a while. I wrote about the Palm Centro earlier as a in your face approach of Palm to…
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