Archive for the 'Personal Technology' Category
Last week i’ve met Joel to discuss about rebooting the development of zaatu.com. Zaatu was meant to address the growing BPO industry in the Philippines, by providing a web service for job listing. Now it will be pursued to be a talent management platform targeted for the small and medium enterprises.
Google Docs has been my [...]
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Tags: google docs, project management tools, talent management, zaatu.com
Abet’s 24/7 view
24 x 7 operations has been a trend since the boom of the call center industry. But in the food and beverage industry, Kowloon (siopao and siomai) has been one of the pioneers of operating round the clock. My friend Abet (and his wife Lei) acquired a franchise about 2 years ago. With the franchise business model and [...]
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Tags: 24x7 operations, dyndns, ip camera, kowloon
home network
The two weeks off i took before the year ends got me a good chance to document the home network that was gradually getting ‘technical’ from the beginning of ‘08. The Intenet subscription has always been there since i was using this to connect to the office when i’m on ‘home-office’ mode — via VPN. I bought [...]
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Tags: canon dslr, dsl, hp, internet, lan, linksys, nokia, psp, voip, vonage, wireless, wlan
Micropreneur Trends
Brussels, Belgium — Increasingly, consumers are participants instead of passive audience members, and this mega-trend manifests itself in a variety of ways. In fact, the more we hear about GENERATION C making money from its creations, and the more we focus on the financial rewards consumers are reaping from participating in CUSTOMER MADE projects, the [...]
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Tags: micro enterprise, micropreneur, PajamaNation
GO get your name.
No, not that you need to be born-again and register your name. I’m talking about getting your own domain name. Have a business, for personal use or even for your pets, having your own brand in the internet provides the easiest channel to promote your intent. Imagine how many Jose or Maria, John or Mary [...]
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Tags: $9.99, domain name, sme, url
i believe about a month ago, Bank of the Philippine Island (BPI) had a facelift – their homepage that is. www.bpi.com.ph. And it’s a facelift it is, only a facelift. The same issues they have with regards to usability and performance are still issues that the bank needs to deal with.
the bank obviously has a [...]
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Tags: bank, bpi, homepage
Wordcamp Philippines 2008
Finally, it’s here! WordPress’ Wordcamp Philippines 2008!
WordCamp Philippines will be on 6 September 2008 (Saturday), from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
How to get there! It’ll be the first in South-East Asia! It’s ashame i may not be able to make it : ( I do have a pre-scheduled trip – at least i’m ordering
wordcamp shirt
Register now!
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Tags: philippines, wordcamp, wordpress
Manny Pacquiao and technology
Congatulations to the PacMan! Manny Pacquiao, currently the no. 1 boxer in the world to have achieved capturing four world titles in four different weight division. The only Filipino and Asian to do it! Aside from basketball and billiards, boxing is one of the popular sport in the Philippines — we both excel in the latter two! Growing [...]
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Tags: boxing, digital tv, manny pacquiao, mobile tv, pacquiao, pay-per-view, people's champion, satellite broadcast, smart tv, sms, social network, wbc lightweight
It’s been two years over now since we’ve moved in to our condominium unit. It was the first wave of pre-selling model of real estate developers’ ditch to regain from the slump in the late ’90’s. In the span of two years i’ve seen the community grow, although the whole project has yet to be [...]
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Tags: bulletin board, california garden square, condo, condominium, online community, phbb
I’m not sure if you have read about the notebook that was developed from MIT Lab for $100. It was not designed to be commercialized rather to aid the less fortunate communities in giving affordable access to technology and information. More specifically for the countries in the African continent.
Here comes a PC for $100, about [...]
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