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April 10, 2012

Intex Avatar IT-M809RC Review

Intex Technology is a company that offers a wide range of electronic gadgets and appliances. They may not be that well-known here in the Philippines but they service to 63 countries manufacturing affordable devices that, according to them, aimed at experiencing future and living life which nobody has lived before. Let’s see if their tablet the Avatar IT-M809RC will live up to the company’s vision.

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Personal Computing, Reviews
January 18, 2012

MyMusicStore launched, are you buying?

A local music store was launched earlier tonight in an attempt to combat the growing trend of music piracy in the Philippines. MyMusicStore.com.ph is a collection of over 160,000 hit songs and OPMs with prices starting between Php20 to Php35 a pop.

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The Internet
October 30, 2011

Island Rose buys Flowers Express from LBC

I just learned last week that online flower delivery site IslandRose.net has acquired FlowersExpress from rival company LBC for an undisclosed sum. It was a bit of a surprise since the FlowersExpress has the backing of the biggest courier service in the Philippines.

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The Internet
February 29, 2008

Friendster Philippines is looking for Senior Product Manager

Friendster ain’t dead yet. They’re actually looking for a Senior Product Manager in their Philippine office here in Makati. That’s according to a recent job listing on Jobstreet.com.ph.

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Careers
August 22, 2006

Squabble over income downs TipidPC?

Those who have been PC enthusiasts at one time or another are likely to be a regular visitor at TipidPC.com. The site is undoubtedly the biggest online PC trading site in the Philippines. Only recently though, I have been informed that it has been having some rough times and went down for about a week due to alleged technical problems with the database.

There’s a rumor though of what really caused the extended downtime:

There’s allegedly been a squabble brewing lately between two giants on another site. This alleged fall out apparently precipitated during the last 48 hours.

The more technically gifted one, out of pressure from his partner, reportedly took the precious main database hostage ang fuxored the db schema of the backups. He has gone AWOL.

Under pressure from advertisers, the powers that be had a boardroom meeting last night. Last I heard, the assembly concensus was that if the hostage isn’t turned over soon enough, they might consider emptying what’s left of the damaged database and building it anew. Which means everything might just go back to scratch. {source}

It may have some truth in it. If it’s just some technical glitch, I don’t see why it would last that long.

This story reminds me about the history of Manila Tonight (MTC) and MyGimmick (MyG). There used to be MTC only, handled by partners one of which was the brains behind the forum while the other was the webmaster. After the site became popular and was getting some form of regular income, the two fought over money only to end with one creating a new and competing site (MyG).

A very common situation with lots of business partners, both offline and online.

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Netrepreneur
August 04, 2006

How to get a DOST SEI Travel Clearance

So, ok. A friend brought me to NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) yesterday to introduce me to her friend who works there. We asked for advise on how to get my NBI clearance quickly without the hassle of falling in line only to learn if I’m still on the hold departure list, again. Unfortunately, there was no way so I had to assume there hold order was still in force.

This means I have to go to DOST SEI in Bicutan and ask them to give me some sort of endorsement I can bring to the NBI next time. It was fairly simple though it took me several taxi trips from Makati to Bicutan to get some documents.

Here’s what you might need:

1) Formal letter of request addressed to the Director. You can check the current name of the assigned director here.

2) Bring your transcript of records. They might need to look at it to compare with their records.

3) Get the exact address right:

Science Education Institute
Department of Science and Technology
Room 207, 3rd Floor
PTRI Bldg., Bicutan, Taguig
Metro Manila, Philippines
Tel. Nos. (632) 837-1359
(632) 839-0241
Fax No. (632) 837-1924

When you arrive there, pick up a small slip at the front desk and write down the details of your scholarship. Hand it over to one of the officers there where they will check in their database the current status of your scholarship. If you’re not lucky enough, they may ask you to pay some penalties (esp. if you have failing grades) so be prepared to bring some dough. Fortunately for me, I didn’t incur any penalties.

They will then hand you an info sheet indicating their office hours and numbers along with the possible date when you can go back and get your clearance. For travel purposes, you may have to wait 2 working days. For local employment, you can get it in a day.

That’s it. Hope people searching on the web for this finds it useful.

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June 01, 2006

Isulong SEOPH, 2006 SEO Philippines Contest

To help promote search engine marketing (SEM) in the country, SEO Philippines is launching a keyword ranking contest with over PHP 130,000 in prizes.

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SEO
April 07, 2006

Problogging Q & A from Manuel

In connection with my problogging interview series, Manuel shot me with the following questions in the SEO Philippines mailing list:

1. How does Yugatech go about choosing blog topics? (pixel/overture, wordtracker, database of keyword lists, ebay directories, adsense accelerator, whatever topic you’re truly and deeply interested in)

Frankly, I don’t even use any of those “tools” for my blog topics. I blog to generate conversations as it’s apparent from my post-to-comment ratio of 10.16 (which is pretty high IMHO). The topics that I often blog about are personal tech experiences, commentaries, tech news/tips, guides/tutorials, and some personal favorite topics which includes photography and gadgets (that I bought and toy with or wanted to buy). These will be the same topics I would talk about whenever I’m with friends, chatting over a cup of coffee or a bottle of beer.

2. How do you generate the content for those topics? (outsource, private label articles, automated article rewriters, CJ.com links, self-written)

For the most part, I write them myself (evident from the grammar and spelling mistakes I often make). There’s the occasional comment-quote-comment posting style, but that’s inherent with most bloggers these days.

I really have to thank all of my regular visitors and commenters. They practically doubled, maybe tripled my content. Sometimes, it’s not really just the posts but the comments that adds value to the blog.

3. How do you get your blog posts to rank highly in SEs? (heavy SEO, WordPress default settings, network with other bloggers, simply write for your target audience)

I really don’t know. I practically have the default WP settings. I have several hints though. My blog is relatively well linked to in the blogosphere (Technorati Rank: 4,546 – 659 links from 280 sites) with a nice PR5. If we follow Marc’s “The Google SERP Party” explanation, I have a good mix of links from trusted sites as well (.EDU, Press, etc).

The only SEO practice I actively do with my blog is to track old posts and rewrite them when I have time. That’s why I really like MeasureMap because it can easily show me which posts in my archives get the most hits for a certain day (and from what keywords) along with the number of comments. I then go back and edit those old posts to add related keywords or a permutation thereof, or even rewrite the title.

The “Related Entries” plugin is a good way to pass traffic (and PR) from popular pages to less popular ones within my blog or across blogs I own or write for.

I am no expert on SEO so I can’t say how much of what I practice is really good (or not) for my blog. In the last 5 years that I have been blogging out of passion, it’s only in the last 12 months that I seriously tried to monetize my blog and have been relatively successful at it.

Just over a year ago, when Connie’s cooking blog was raking in hundreds of dollars from Adsense, I remember telling myself that problogging is not for me. Still, that did not deter me to strive and persevere. Had I accepted the glaring truth that like millions of other regular bloggers, I have no future in problogging, I would not have been able to blog fulltime today.

Thanks to Robert Kiyosaki and a xerox copy his book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad“. But that story is for another time. :p

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Problogging
January 15, 2006

How do you migrate a 20GB site?

I’m moving over the entire Motorcycle Philippines site into this server. The problem is, it’s over 20GB worth of files, databasess and whatnots (17GB when tarred/gzip-ed.

The usual cPanel server to server transfer just wouldn’t work this time (times out just before it finishes). FTP cannot handle files over 2GB, scp and rsync could take hours and hours. Before this, the largest site I ever handled in this kind of situation was houseonahill.net at just about 1.8GB. This one is 10 times bigger.

Been at this since 3pm this afternoon and I’m on strike 3 already (splitting up the files into 17 1GB parts).

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