Archive for September, 2007

SMS Competition for NGOs

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Got this from colleague Erwin Alampay .... SMS Competition for NGOs kiwanja.net have just launched their latest mobile initiative - nGOmobile ? a competition which encourages grassroots NGOs in developing countries to submit ideas on ways they could use text messaging in their work. The best four entries will win laptop computers, Nokia phones, GSM ...

Chrysler the Talking Car

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Blog at work Trying to embed media files. proceed with caution ....     Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA  Chrysler Brother got a Chrysler Blue tooth – connect to phone Voice activated Dial, phone book, emergency numbers Handsfree conversation via the SUV’s soundsystem Entering numbers on the phonebook was clanky But dialing ...

Radio Browsing

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Hi there this is Edong and I’m going to talk about radio browsing in this episode of Ka-Edong’s podcast. Radio browsing; let me first have an intro about perception of the internet for people who have not used the internet. So let me describe this through a story. I was assigned in ...

PC Pals - e-Learning across the seas

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

This podcast is about PC Pal. PC pal stands for personal computer pal. So what is PC pal? Pc pal is similar to having a phone pal or a pen pal but this is a cyber version of those. PC pals are two people exchanging e-mails to get to know each ...

Mobile Phone Banking making headway with Rural Banks

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Colleague John Owens from RBAP MABS keeps me attuned with developments in their mobile phone banking solutions for Rural Banks. John's group has a website ( Mobile Phone Banking for clients of Rural Banks - http://mobilephonebanking.rbap.org/ ) that brings together information about Mobile Phone banking solutions for Rural Banks. They have information about the different ...

watch sex 24 hours

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Those are the tags for this photo I took while flying to the US.   This is a watch passed-on to me by my brother. And every friday night, I have sex! hahaha! That's because the date and day of my watch changes close to midnight. And "Sex" is short for "Friday" in another ...

Selling Zen on eBay.ph

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Ah, the zen of selling on eBay! I'm far from it. Just posted my first item on eBay.ph . It's a Creative Zen Micro 5Gb Brand new MP3 Player with starting bid of Php3,999 only! Very affordable! http://www.ebay.ph/viItem?ItemId=290157473655 Made some comparisons. This guy over at Sulit.com.ph is selling his second-hand, 1-year used unit for Php6,000. Mine's ...

I look like Jet Li

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

That's what MyHeritage.com shows me.  Here's a face recognition application which matches your photo with a couple of celebrity look-alikes. Interesting. A few more months or years down, this technology will be so much more advanced that it could probably find *real* relatives on the net. Maybe find a long lost brother ... Got ...