Category: Mostly Everything
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Speedlinking October 24 2006
Gail has launched a new blog about dogs. Pinoy Dog Lover is a resource about man’s best friend. She lives with 13 dogs and 4 other humans. RockEd Philippines starts a new Futkal project in partnership with the Gawad Kalinga sites. The project leader for this endeavor is Peter Amores. Futkal is the local version…
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HIP gets into blog network buzz
So the cat is out of the bag. Adel Gabot and I had the privilege to be interviewed by Erwin Oliva for an article in today’s Infotech section of INQ7. Adel Gabot, group editor at HIP, said the “print as a medium” is in transition. Thus HIP is working on integrating their specialized magazines with…
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November 2006 Photo Classes by Jo Avila
If you’re dead set on enhancing those photo skillls, or really just want to get those basic photography lessons, you may want to check out this schedule of classes for November. The year is about to end and it may be good to learn something new before 2007. The great legendary Jo Avila will be…
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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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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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