Archive for April, 2006
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Musta na? Ayos pa ba? Ang buhay natin...
Been busy taking a holiday and then busy at work.
Have some stories to tell, but my fingers are too slow to write them all in one go:
Two online projects: Finding Imeldists and Book Crossing
My father invented Friendster
Growing old with Dial-up
When in Roam, ...
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Community E-Centers
On a related note, there are a couple of local and international projects that aim to setup community e-centers in rural areas. There have been a couple setup by … DOST or TELOF, I believe. It wasn’t a rousing success. To say the least, it wasn’t rousing at all. ...
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
There was an article yesterday on the Inquirer about Smart Communications’ inauguration of Smart Click – an Internet-shop-in-a-box (more precisely, container vans). These Internet shops will cater to the most remote barrios in the country. They started off with Basco, Batanes and will be installing more in Aurora, Tarlac, Laguna, ...
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
On Pinoy.Tech.Blog: Smart Clicking in Batanes
Smart Communications recently launched a service dubbed “Smart Click – Internet and more”.
The shops will provide the common internet shop services such as web surfing, chat, printing, network games etc. The difference is the location of these shops. Smart Click aims to bring Internet-shops-in-a-box ...
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
One in Three (34% of the 80 million) Filipinos uses cell phones
63% of the upper middle to upper classes own cell phones
17% of the poorest sector have cell phones.
Reference: Pulse Asia’s March-April 2003
94% of Filipino cell phone users send SMS
70% of them sending as many ...
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Wordpress is able to screen out spam comments with multiple links to commercial sites selling pharmaceuticals or other products. Cool.
But wordpress doesn't screen seemingly legitimate entries that just say:
Hi :D
Buy X*n*x ?
So the past two days, I've been manually deleting these comments. Almost 30 comments each day for the ...
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