The story so far: Yahoo! is in a rut, Microsoft wants to buy it for $44.6 billion, and Google is worried that the Internet’s “openness and innovation” may cease to exist if the two make a deal. Scary times. Update (08/13/09): Yahoo! and Microsoft have agreed to join forces in search. Update (05/04/08): Microsoft gives up on its bid. Here’s a good coverage and a timeline of the whole thing. […]
Yesterday marked the beginning of the UP Centennial celebrations, and it was a blast. No, it was crazy! If you don’t have enough heart—and I mean both the love of UP and the will to wade through the crowd—you wouldn’t enjoy it as much. It’s easy for students and alumni who have been harassed by the pressures of college life to undervalue UP, but as someone who has lived and […]
It’s amazing how many old, backward methods can be eradicated by the Web. Months ago a friend invited me to attend a business networking chapter meeting. I knew not too many details about it, only that it was a very prestigious organization, it would help grow my roster of contacts as a budding entrepreneur, and it would be better to experience firsthand how it worked. MLM? Despite how suspicious it […]
Everyone, I hope you’re enjoying your Christmas. Last year I mentioned our furry Belen, and if you were still wondering about that one, here’s a look. Maligayang Pasko! Maligayang Kaarawan ni Hesus!
Correct me if I’m wrong when I say putting Yahoo!-powered advertisements inside Adobe PDF files stinks a bit like the ad-ridden Opera browser. Except that since 2005, Opera has thrown out the pay-for-an-ad-free-version. So is Adobe going backwards and doing what Opera has done ages ago? Not quite. These pay-per-click ads will be contextual, like Google Adsense and Yahoo! Publisher Network. Publishers also stand a chance to earn from this, […]
You might have heard PayPal has arrived in the Philippines both for sending and receiving funds, and that the ideal way of receiving your funds would be through a debit card—rather than a credit card—which is provided solely by UnionBank. Setting up the link between the Philippine bank and the online payment site was hardly troublesome, however I’ve tried withdrawing funds from PayPal over to my UnionBank account since November […]
EDSA Dos. Electronic cash. Train passes. Dual-SIM phones. Miss calling phones. Most of the innovations in this texting republic take on specific and unique needs—be it avoiding theft, minimizing expenses, or ousting no less than the President of the Philippines. Could literacy and education be added to that list? Last night I learned literacy rates among Filipinos have diminished by 7% since 2003. And that predictably, text messaging and online […]
Yes, T-Mobile supposedly owns the rights to the color magenta. I just learned about this from thehappycorp, whose cheery logo also happens to be same hue. COLOURlovers warns against the use of said color in the industry which the company belongs to. It’s telecommunications, and that’s a pretty broad area. The article also quotes exactly which type of magenta is “owned” by T-Mobile and its mother company, Deutsche Telekom. Apparently […]
I find the awe over kids drawing paper laptops as design inspiration surprising and ironic. (You can find more photos of the kid’s “laptop club” in this interview.) The article says we should pay attention to how these schoolchildren are designing their pretend laptops: The kids have seen and used computer keyboards. Their designs are partly their own memory of what computer keys they’ve seen, party keys they would like […]
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made in the Philippines by Sophia Lucero.