Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Nuffnang - "Asia's first Blog Advertising Community". It's the newest advertising network in the Philippines. It's a well established ad network in Malaysia and Singapore. I'm glad to be one of the first few to learn about Nuffnang and use it.
Some of the things I like about Nuffnang:
Posted in Blogging | 6 Comments »
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
In 2005, I conducted a study on m-commerce for microfinance as part of my action consultancy at the Asian Institute of Management.
In my meetings with microfinance members, I brought along a ... 1.5Megapixel Kodak camera to take snapshots of our activities.
I'm glad to hear from my friend John that there ...
Posted in Photography, m-Commerce | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I’ve been trying to figure out how to catch up with my blogging backlog.
What’s the problem?
Basically, I have quite a number of blog stories I had always planned to write. I have photos capturing some technology moments, but haven’t written about them. In fact I have a folder on my ...
Posted in Blogging | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Me and Dexter of TechAtHand.net had the same thing in mind when we each wrote an article entitled "Palarong Olimpiko 2008 sa Beijing". We both wanted to get traffic from the Philippine homepage of Google search. The Google doodle (the image above the Google searchbar) was hyperlinked to search results ...
Posted in Blogging | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 25th, 2008
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="156" caption="Globe G-Cash"][/caption]
Globe is raising the incentive to use G-Cash. They've made it more attractive for subscribers to use G-Cash to buy load.
I have friends who are earning quite a good profit by loading airtime through G-Cash. They get themselves some G-Cash and use it to buy ...
Posted in m-Commerce | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 25th, 2008
I've always found online travel guides useful before going on a trip, especially when its my first time in another country. A nice guided tour around the new place gives you the "basics" of a place, making sure you don't miss out on any of the important places a tourist ...
Posted in etc. | No Comments »
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="178" caption="BDO"][/caption]
There was a glitch in some credit card transactions using BPI (and Citibank, HSBC) credit cards on BDO credit card terminals between August 16-18.
The BDO credit card terminals debitted dollar amounts by mistake instead of the peso amount.
BDO and BPI were quick to make the correction.
Today, ...
Posted in e-commerce | 3 Comments »
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Here's something that might interest Jhay (i think!) with his interest in green technology (environmentally friendly technology): Re-using hardware.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="492" caption="Bote Dyaryo Kompyuter"][/caption]
I know it works, the huge monitor. It's no longer way cool. And the folks using the stuff have long moved on. It's time for
Posted in Tech World | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="PayPal"][/caption]
I described my PayPal dilemma last April. I got things resolved tonight! Wahoo! I expect to get my money via Paypal in the next 24-48 hours. Yey!
So let me describe what my scenario.
I have two Paypal Accounts.
Account A: Based in Canada, created in 2003. Cannot ...
Posted in e-commerce | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
There's an awesome wordpres plugin which has saved me so much trouble and sleepless nights. I was felt so appreciative for something that was given out "free". And I felt it was all fair to put in a few bucks as a donation to the great value this plugin has ...
Posted in Blogging | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
How would you like to know the general location of any cellphone or telephone number?
How would you like to know the name and address of any cellphone or telephone number?
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="279" caption="TraceNumber.com"][/caption]
There's a service called TraceNumber.com which allows users to
Posted in Telecoms | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Oh, Iron chef ... Boy was I slow! :-)
Got this email from a reader, Ramon Manzano III of HardwareZone Philippines Corporation.
Here's sharing their event with the rest of my readers.
The event is for computer technicians. Pagalingan mag-screw! mwahahaha!
This reminds me of a computer technician we had at a former employer ...
Posted in Techies | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Curious ...
This MRT RF sensor used to have the G-Pass icon. How come it's now labeled mCash?
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="436" caption="mCash"][/caption]
Posted in Tech World | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 18th, 2008
I remember playing the role of Marcos when I was in elementary. I was grade 5 during the People Power EDSA Revolution in 1986. I remember Kidlat and Chavi and Christine going to the rallies along session road.
I remember three years before that, watching TV, wanting to see what all ...
Posted in etc. | No Comments »
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Does that make it 4G with Globe's "G" included? :D
I see a lot of hype about the iPhone 3G launch here in the Philippines. There are a lot of blogs who've posted prices and other information about the launch. So let me just describe what I've heard about the iPhone ...
Posted in 3G, Mobile | No Comments »
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
I have a friend, Ricky, who had a website running for a couple of years now. After hosting his website with a certain company, he no longer found it necessary to get a webhost. He explained that he didn't have much cash and that he's been hosting a big part ...
Posted in TechTips | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Looking forward to seeing good ole online friends and meeting new ones.
Abe Olandres
Edwin Soriano
Noemi Dado
Carlo Ople
Ivan Henares
Annalyn Jusay
Sonnie Santos
Aldrin Cantos
Mon Macutay
Karla Redor
Kiven Codamon
Anton Sheker
At alam niyo ba kung ano ang nangyari?
Posted in Blogging | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
For future reference, here are a couple of sites that ask for bloggers to write about them. Taken from "Turn one pound into one million"
Pay to Blog - £124.25
Posted in Blogging | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The past few weeks, I learned so much more about call cards than I had the past year. And this is because of one reason: necessity. :-)
You see, my better half is in the US, and we both had to use call cards to communicate.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="414" caption="GetMeCallingCards.com"][/caption]
On my ...
Posted in ICT Industry, TechTips | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Yey! I registered for WordCamp Philippines 2008, got a nice WordCamp shirt and
Posted in Blogging | 4 Comments »
