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WordCamp-PH merchandise coming soon!

Lyle Santos, Chattee Lara and yours truly have been joining heads for some time now to come up with a line of cool WordCamp Philippines merchandise for everyone. Yesterday, the two went out to have a few laptop stickers prototyped. And here they are! The WordCamp Philippines online store will be open very soon! Please [...]

red mobile on 3G

red mobile, the telecommunications company that has successfully captured the eye of young, technologically-inclined Filipinos, is gearing up to engage an even broader market. Recently, red mobile launched a line of 3G handsets to carry its signal nationwide, in a bid to provide not only affordable mobile communication, but also trendy and cutting-edge devices. The [...]

Beware of el cheapo services!

There was a blissful time when I truly appreciated this Filipino domain registration company, Cheaper Than Cheap Domains (or CTCD). I’ve always believed that we should patronize our own, because doing so would help our economy somehow. But boy, I made a mistake with this one! When I started using them a year ago for [...]

Virtual jobs

In these times of skyrocketing fuel prices, the Internet is proving to be a haven for creative entrepreneurs and IT workers. Huge contact center operators and outsourcing companies have capitalized on the global digital network to deliver their services. By the same token, work-at-home private citizens have taken advantage of this as well.

Planning for more IT seminars in Davao

Inspired by the activeness of local bloggers, Ted Padova — Davao’s resident Adobe expert and co-founder of ApoVisions.com — has come up with a plan to organize high-value seminars primarily for Mindanao bloggers. It’ll be a series of teach-ins that will arm Dabawenyos with gainful knowledge in various I.T. fields. Of course, Ted is more [...]

Off to another blogging workshop

This is the third time that I’ve been invited to conduct a seminar-workshop on blogging by the Department of Trade & Industry. This time it’s for DTI – Tagum City. Apparently, one of the participants in the 2nd seminar is from Davao del Norte Province, so now they want their own. As before, I’ve invited [...]

I’ve joined TNX.net

I’ve recently decided to join TNX.net, which is another way for bloggers and webmasters to make money via their Internet presence. The signup process was fairly painless, but I find submitting sites to the system rather tedious, especially if you go for advanced settings. The way it works, as far as I can tell at [...]

Blogging: the emerging new medium

Blogging in Davao has certainly matured quickly — from the time I started eyeballing with Dabawenyo bloggers and organizing small get-togethers, we’ve certainly come a long way. It’s not just the successful events, such as the weekly Davao Food Trip sessions, or the Mindanao Bloggers Summit. It’s the fact that businesses are now taking note [...]

Overcharged for a piece of software?

A couple of days ago, I bought a one-year license for Kaspersky Internet Security 7. I used PayPal for the transaction. From the catalog to the checkout screen to the PayPal authorization page, the amount declared was $59.95. That’s $59.95. I have an account on that site and was signed in, so that arvato systems [...]

[Updated] Blogging 101 now set

Due to some logistical difficulties, this Seminar won’t be happening on the 24th of November. Please refer to this blog for further announcements regarding this activity. As I’ve mentioned before, we are going to do a Blogging 101 seminar-workshop here in Davao City. This will now be a project of The Usual Suspects. Ria Jose [...]