Philippines, Technology News & Reviews
The Search Engine Roundtable blog confirms that the recent PR adjustments where targeting raw paid links. An email response from Google Search Quality Engineer Matt Cutts puts all speculations to rest.
But the question remains…
Continue reading ‘Will you stop selling link ads now?’
One of the fastest ways of getting feed subscribers is by offering RSS-to-Email subscriptions in your blog. This gives visitors a way to get updates from your blog even if they’re not familiar with feed readers like Bloglines, Netvibes or FeedDemon. However, this option also opens you to accidental or arbitrary subscribers.
Continue reading ‘How to deal with arbitrary feed subscribers?’
Here’s another way of getting your Paypal funds into one of your credit cards here in the Philippines. I initially thought this method would before but only got confirmation about it from Citibank just yesterday.
Continue reading ‘Withdraw Paypal Money from your Citibank Credit Card’
Some developers don’t want to wait for February 2008 when Apple opens up the iPod API. So, it’s not a surprise that the new Jailbreak for the iPhone and the iPod Touch now does it all for you in one-click.
Two of the most recent blog ideas pitched to me have become an almost instant hit in the local webosphere. When the authors of these blogs came up to me and pitched the proposal, I knew right then it would be a success. I’d like to share their stories here so to inspire others.
Got back from from Davao City this afternoon. Did some exciting stuff over the week-end there, on top of the partying after the Mindanao Bloggers Summit. See my recent picture after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Scuba Diving along the coast of Samal Island’
The ever expected launch of Apple’s OS X 10.5 (codenamed Leopard) was met with alot of enthusiasm. On top of that, there have been reports of the new OS flying around some torrent sites.
Got this from a reliable source and the scoop was Innove is partnering with Intel Philippines to roll out a commercial WiMax service this April 2008.
Continue reading ‘Globe Innove to launch WiMax Service in 2008′
The MBS just started here at the NCC Mall in Davao City. Great crowd. More pictures after the jump.
Been receiving emails in the last 24 hours about the recent and radical changes in Google PageRank. The growing trend is downhill, especially for popular and highly trusted sites. Despite all these, the question remains — does it really matter?
Let me answer several of the more important questions thrown at me.
It was a fierce battle between Microsoft and Google in gaining a stake on Facebook. Earlier today, Facebook announced that it has made an agreement with Microsoft for a 1.6% equity stake worth $240 million.
As in it’s all over the blogosphere now. A lot of popular sites have been slapped with PageRank penalties, some scrambling for their lives. And some though it was just this blog.
This just in — Google Mail (GMail) is now officially supporting IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol. And people thought Google would not give in to the popular demand.
Google just announced an upcoming change in its AdSense Program that allows Publishers to modify their ads without changing the code.
PEx is probably the largest and one of the oldest existing forums in the country. Despite the growth and the amount of traffic it gets, the happy problem of making money off of the eyeballs is still a constant challenge. Looks like PEx is squeezing out all it can do to bump up the effective CPM. However, lately, there have been some allegations of spamming though.
This is like walking down memory lane. This YouTube video shows all of the logos, sounds, and start-up screens of Microsoft Windows.
Interested with what Nokia is bringing this quarter? Tech bloggers are invited to join the Nokia Mobile Mix Event this Friday, October 26, 2007.
This is actually a similar event I attended last time in Singapore (Nokia: Go Play). The media roundtable will be held at the Fiama Bar, Jupiter Street, Makati City at 11:00 in the morning. Leave a comment if you’re interested in attending this event.
The TechCrunch blog was launched in June of 2005 and in just 2 years, they’re the world’s #4 blog (Technorati Popular) and maybe the 2nd most influential (after Engadget).
Will be in Davao for the 1st Mindanao Blogging Summit this week-end. Hope to catch up with people. It will be a busy sked as we have another business agenda the same week-end. Will probably hit Cagayan de Oro City next month too for another Business Blogging series.
More on that next week. Here are some more side stories:
Continue reading ‘Going to MBS and Other Side Stories’
We got a new poll for the week. Everyone is curious — just how many blogs do you read every day? Just give us a quick estimate if you don’t have an RSS feed reader to count. Again, please head on tot he Polls section to submit your answers.
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