Social Security System of the Philippines SSS Online Inquiry. Click here to gain access to your SSS Contributions, Salary Loan Inquiry and Status, as well as SSS Number Inquiry. Note:You need to login using your User ID and password when you first registered for an account. Also select the Employee or Employer check-box before you [...]
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SSS Online Inquiry is a service by the Social Security System of the Philippines that provides updates on member contributions, salary loans, SSS ID information, among others. You can register and login for your member contribution information on the SSS Philippines website here: http://www.sss.gov.ph You need to login using your User ID and password when [...]
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Been in the boondocks for about a week now on a semi-vacation mode (and semi-retreat kind of way) so I’m not able to regularly publish new entries here. With a thousand miles away from mega Manila and a couple hundred more miles from the nearest city, my mountain resort hide-away is almost devoid of any [...]
Social Security System of the Philippines SSS Online Inquiry. Click here to gain access to your SSS Contributions, Salary Loan Inquiry and Status, as well as SSS Number Inquiry. Note:You need to login using your User ID and password when you first registered for an account. Also select the Employee or Employer check-box before you [...]
SSS Online Inquiry is a service by the Social Security System of the Philippines that provides updates on member contributions, salary loans, SSS ID information, among others. You can register and login for your member contribution information on the SSS Philippines website here: http://www.sss.gov.ph You need to login using your User ID and password when [...]
In an SMS correspondence with a former Epixtar employee, it was revealed that the BPO company has closed its offices in Eastwood City, Libis last January 16 leaving employees confused and anxious for answers.
In a memo circulated among employees of Intel Philippines, the chipmaker has finally conceded and will shut down its facilities in Gen Trias, Cavite by end of 2009.
I got a call last night from a media researcher (for an investigative TV program) asking me about my take on the recent series of layoffs in the local BPO sector. They wanted to know if I think the job cuts were  related to the global financial crisis.
Barely 3 months after we saw big blog networks re-balancing their budgets, there’s another one that’s just finished brewing headed by Gawker Media’s head-honcho himself, Nick Denton, with a self-leaked internal memo.
When the rumor that Intel Philippines was facing an impending closure in April this year, the company corrected this — saying that it’s weighing its options and could transfer its plant somewhere else. June has past and Intel officials have not released anything. I’ve sent out interview questions in the hopes of getting some updates.
Philippine Social Security System: SSS Online Philippines You can check your SSS contributions online by ff. these simple instructions: Text SSS Text-SSS is a short messaging service (SMS)-based information service system that allows members to inquire about their number of contributions, status of loan applications, salary loan payment period and loan balances using text messaging. [...]
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Reports of the new problogging pay scale over at Gawker Media has generated a lot of opinions and criticisms on how blog networks should compensate their bloggers. My thoughts are more about the apparent focus on pageviews over rss feeds.
A recent article from Read/Write Web hypothesizes that bloggers can’t make significant money off of the long tail. While others agree, I don’t on several points.
I went to meet an old acquaintance last week who was pitching an idea to me. Our discussion revolved around the choice between putting up an independent blog or writing for a blog network. I explained that there are two sides of the coin when going pro — would you consider it a business or [...]
There are days when you got too many ideas and stuff to post and then there are days where nothing gets published. I would normally suggest pacing them and future-posting some but more often than not, it’s the timing that really counts so you just got to hit that publish button. MarcVill writes a nice [...]
About four months ago, Om Malik announces that he’s gotten some VC funding for his GigaOm blog though he did not mention how much money he got to go fulltime. Then, ealier today blog network b5media announces a $2 Million VC funding — a well deserve amount to capitalize their growth and expansion. They really [...]
Stef is a mom of 4 and a prolific writer. She is still actually doing her book on cooking entitled “Beyond Adobo“.
Most of you may already know or read about Jayvee from the popular mobile gadget magazine, m|PH (among others). You can also read another write-up of him here. The rest, we can just read from his personal blog. Now, we’ll learn how this prolific writer/editor got into problogging. How would you define problogging? Problogging is [...]
Our next Filipino problogger is Paulo Ordoveza, more commonly known online as browpau. I’ve known him way back in college though we didn’t really got to know each other personally until he interviewed me back in 2000 as his replacement for a start-up company affiliated with PEx. He may not know this but he practically [...]
Glo often refers to herself as a tech-ignoramus for being such a novice in the blogosphere. A dear friend based in Germany lured her into the wonderful world of blogging a year ago, mainly for better tracking on each other’s lives. But blogging awakened in her a long-forgotten passion which is writing. Glo is originally [...]
Markku is a twenty–something Filipino geek who grew up around (Metro) Manila, but proudly labels himself as a true–blue Cebuano. After attending the Philippine Science High School, he studied at the University of the Philippines and graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering. After passing the boards in 2002 and more than a year of [...]
Our next Filipino problogger is J Angelo Racoma, a fellow PTBer and full time blogger. He will be speaking at the iBlog Summit on the 18th about his journey to being a full time problogger so I’ll leave the more juicy parts until then.
Our next on the list of Filipina Probloggers is Ruth Schaffer. She is a Microbiologist by training, and used to work on experimental research for an international agricultural research institute before being relocated to Europe. The rest of her personal details are still unknown to me but I’m very glad to also have her on [...]
Joachim Guanzon, or Kim, is a US-based web developer who plays lead guitars for Big Tym Berto, a nameless-all-pinoy-saturdays-only band. He started getting deep into photography while reading about Lomography early this year. He currently works for XanGo slaving through code and bugs as a web developer. Along with Rain Contreras, he co-founded the group [...]
The first Filipina problogger in my series of inteviews is Melissa Atienza-Petri, more commonly known as AnP in the blogging world. AnP current works for the mother company of one of the world’s top 5 providers of servers and PCs. Since her expatriation in Germany, she has been on the look-out for the best (and [...]
