A couple of days ago, my friend Migs (who recently and finally launched his own domained blog on mobile technologies) introduced the idea of becoming a gadget reviewer for WOM World / Nokia. Since I was starting preparations for a tech vlog already, I thought I’d send in an application. And yesterday, I got approved!
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A Swedish company that’s known worldwide for its openly aggressive stance for what’s generally known as piracy, has launched a new blogging service called BayWords. The Pirate Bay created it specifically to provide bloggers with unencumbered self-expression. This move was ostensibly in response to the deletion of a WordPress.com blog by Automattic (operator of WordPress.com) for linking to copyrighted material.
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Is this true? I mean, it’s so painfully clichéd and downright hard-sell — I was cringing most of the time, watching this "promotional" video — I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears. If indeed the YouTube flick below is a promotional video produced by Microsoft Corp. to sell more copies of Vista, I doubt very much that they will see positive movement.
How could a multi-billion-dollar company, with a marketing expense account the size of a small country’s annual budget, come up with a video like this? Could it be a spoof? But… it’s not even funny! Watching it was utterly excruciating.
What do you think?
This is the logo of an upcoming Filipino tech vlog — PinoyTech.TV. It’ll have reportage on IT industry current events, personality and company profiles, features on IT investment destinations, tech jobs postings, and a bit more.
This is my newest venture, and I’m happy to announce that my friends and fellow bloggers, Winston Almendras and Aileen Apolo, have agreed to be part of the initiating group of PinoyTech.TV.
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After reading about a man who was practically saved from Egyptian detention thanks to Twitter, I think I may have been too harsh on this online service. According to the story, James Karl Buck, a graduate student of journalism in University of California at Berkeley, was arrested in Egypt. The charge: none, but he was picked up while photographing a public demonstration.
Thank goodness for Twitter’s mobile phone service! Come to think of it, I used to twit from my cellphone before… but it’s just too darned expensive (P10 per text message, I believe). The important thing is, it’s an available option!
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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 this point, is that you earn points for having text-link advertising appear on your site. The redeemed points can then be used to purchase links, or you can sell them back to TNX.net for cash. Oh, you can also assign your points to other users.
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I use OpenDNS during times when I feel that my ISP’s own DNS server is lagging behind. For example, currently I’m working on a new website, but the domain name hasn’t fully propagated throughout the Internet yet. In simple terms, my ISP still isn’t aware that the domain name already exists. Usually on OpenDNS, this isn’t a problem.
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When I first signed up for a Twitter account, I thought it would be nice to have a cute little gadget on my blog for letting people know what I was up to. It was a way to connect with my readers, to let them in on my personal side once in a while. So that’s how I used it at first — just a glossy-looking box in my sidebar to tell people I was doing this or that. Oh, and it was a good way of announcing events and stuff. So I left it at that.
Before I knew it, people were using it like it was a chat room, a globally public chat room. Until now I feel put off by this. But I do get it. It’s just not my thing.
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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 of blogging, and are starting (although slowly) to accept it as a new avenue of communication that can pave the way for new advertising for their products or services.
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What is one thing that matters a whole lot on the Internet? I’m sure most of you will readily answer: customer support. Fast, reliable, intelligent customer service. Netizens abandon many Internet-based providers, which eventually fall by the wayside and die, because of poor customer relations practices.
I happen to like what MyBlogLog does, and I remember a time when my emails were answered quite promptly and personably by the people running it. Now it’s under Yahoo. And twice now I’ve received slow, undependable and, well, not very intelligent support responses.
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