OPM Stands for Original Pilipino Music (1)
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Like any other Filipino, I know “OPM” stands for Original Pilipino/Pinoy Music. So imagine my surprise when I searched for that term on Google. The first result? The website of US government’s Office of Personal Management. What? The first result—at the very least—should lead to Wikipedia’s entry on Music in the Philippines! Even more insulting, the third result for “OPM” is the MySpace page of some American band called OPM. Bleagh! Filipinos online should do ...
Philippines on Asia’s Top 10 Internet Countries (1)
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In the latest report by InternetworldStats, the Philippines took the #10 spot with the most number of internet users at 14 Million, just 900k lower than Malaysia at #9. That number represents 15.1% of the total population of the Philippines {via}. That’s still a low internet usage density though. China tops the list at 253 Million followed by Japan at 94 Million and India at 60 Million. As for internet penetration, the Philippines is still ...
Questioning vs Doubting (1)
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Back in college I had a professor that taught us the difference between “questioning the faith” and “doubting your faith.” I’m not going to speak religion here, but more on looking back at my design career. I will be using the same words but swapping the word “faith” with “design career.” The past month was very busy indeed and one of the events that passed was my birthday. This in turn leads me to question ...
The Untold Story of the Globelines DSL Outage (2)
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It’s been more than two months since our home DSL broadband connection with Globelines got disrupted for 24 days. So in the interest of consumer interest, I decided to recount my own “horror” story even though it happened a long time ago. All I can say is that it was quite a difficult three weeks and I managed to subsist on retail Wi-Fi in various hotspots and about a week of ümobile 3G. it’s really ...
Interviews: Getting to know what you don’t know (1)
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Three years ago, I got into an interview into a company that was looking to hire a .NET developer for the first time. It was mainly a Java software house and, until that point, they have not had a requirement that called for a developer who mainly worked on the Microsoft stack. Having had worked on .NET for a year and a half with both Windows forms and ASP.NET development up my sleeve, I was ...
Nokia Takes Another Crack at IM With OZ Buy (2)
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Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has agreed to buy Montreal-based OZ Communications for an undisclosed amount of money in a move that will allow the Finnish handset maker to offer consumer IM technologies on its phones. Nokia’s internal IM efforts don’t even merit an “F” and this purchase pretty much proves it. OZ has about 5.5 million monthly paid users, and partnerships with carriers and many other handset makers. As we’ve already noted, ...
Alternative careers; Leadership (1)
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Thank you, Doc. I'm glad that you and Karen enjoyed it. It's good to have other talents--you never know when you'll need to fall back on them.***I listened to Fr. Ben give a talk on "Leadership as a gift." It's never a mistake to listen to Fr. Ben. He always makes a lot of sense and he is always inspiring. Some thoughts that stuck with me--He said that one way to deal with the stress ...
Anticipating the Next Generation of Search (3)
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Most of the world’s most important information has structure. To be clear, by structure I mean the data has separate fields for its component parts, like for example, a contact has separate fields for first name, last name, address city, country, etc.This structured information is where most of the value from the Internet resides. For example, all e-commerce is centered around structured data like product information records which have fields like part numbers, prices, descriptions, ...
The 20-Million-Peso DOST Website Scam? (1)
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This news article makes people go ‘woah?!’: The One-Stop-Information Shop of Technologies in the Philippines is an online database of over 280 technologies, inventions, and process improvements that can be used by small-to-medium scale businesses, manufacturing operators and other industries. The OSIST project cost P20 million and was funded through the e-Government fund of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology. Just read what my twitter buddies Jason and Joel says about it: jasontorres: “The ...
User Experience is ALL that Matters (8)
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I'm in the market for a new phone and I've been considering getting an iPhone 3G to replace my AT&T Tilt (aka HTC Kaiser). The Tilt is a great PDA (thanks to Windows Mobile 6) and I love the slide out QWERTY keyboard. My main problems with it are the relatively huge physical size, small amount of storage space and needing two hands if I want to send email or text messages. Although I've recently ...
Will Credit Crunch Hit Silicon Valley? (8)
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Updated: The San Francisco Bay Area is living, it seems, in a protective cocoon of its own, oblivious to the current credit crunch and fiscal crisis that has been roiling the rest of America. This morning, while there is talk of a bailout plan being finalized, it hasn’t stopped almost everyone from cab drivers to doctors from worrying about the jaw-dropping sequence of events that has unfolded over the past few weeks. I’ve been thinking ...
Economic doldrums = Web 2.0 Twilight (1)
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Judging from the rumblings on Wall Street, we may be headed back to the Great Depression sooner than we think. And while we might not see New Yorkers selling apples on the street, or Okies making their west through the dust bowl, or we Filipinos fueling their cars with charcoal (as was the practice during world war 2), one fallout that netizens might be soon encountering is the death of the Web 2.0 boom. I ...
How to Build a Financial Crisis-Proof Business (5)
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We’ve written recently about how bootstrapping founders can help themselves navigate a very tight credit market. Now, the implosion of the investment banking industry promises to level what was left of the landscape for both IPO and M&A exits. Startup founders would be wise to reassess their strategic priorities. With fewer opportunities to cash out of their current and future portfolio companies, the agendas of angels and VCs will also shift. Founders who are raising ...
Stop Complaining about Apple and the App Store (32)
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This week there have been several stories on the blogsphere (here, here, and here, for example) which consist of developers complaining that Apple has rejected an iPhone application that they submitted to be part of the App Store in iTunes, or because they believe that the process for submitting an application is too cumbersome. At least two of these have been because Apple believes the applications would be competitive with a product or feature set ...
American vs. European style of Software Development (2)
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There are two different cultures in the US and Europe. The US is more about freedom and power, one can get to the top alone, gun slinger mentatlity. Europe is more about security and safety, about making it as a group. This can be seen in foreign policy, gun laws, social security and health care (as always this is a generalization. If you want to know more about that, read “The European Dream” from Jeremy ...
Blast From the Past: Virus Survival Kit (1)
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There are at least two reasons why I enjoyed reading Virus Survival Kit, and really really old book I dug up from somewhere a few days ago: It was written by the editors of PC Digest Philippines. Is that magazine still alive? According to the book, it was bundled with copies of VIR-X and VSCAN, two anti-virus programs written by Luis F. G. Sarmenta and Randy Gonzales Gutana Jr. respectively. Both men are Filipinos, and ...
Dr. Robert Sapolsky offers stress tips for professionals (UPDATE) (1)
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If you've never been pursued by a carnivorous predator in the workplace, you've probably never stressed in the way Mother Nature intended. Instead of stressing about immediate survival, professionals stress over deadlines, job security and the economy — not the kind of life-threatening moments stress can help resolve. As Dr. Robert Sapolsky tells it, humans constantly turn on stress responses for the wrong reasons, and it's killing us. Sapolsky's National Geographic special, "Stress: Portrait of ...
The 2 Secrets of a Successful Software Consulting Company (1)
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Seems a lot of software consulting companies don't get it, so we'll give away our "secret". There's two keys to a successful consulting company:RecruitmentTrainingSome companies try to replace #1 with more of #2. They settle for second-string or third-string recruits and hope that spending enough money on training will be enough. This is the approach I see with a lot of the bigger companies. Let me tell you right now that by our own experience ...
Constructive criticism (1)
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Now and then, teachers get feedback from their student. Some is great. Some is good. Some is constructive. And some is complete bull.I normally don't react to the bull because I know it comes from a place that has more to do with young adult angst than teaching style or subject matter. I'm also not the kind of teacher who goes all drama queen to get her students in line. However, let me break with ...
Should we panic? BDO, Metrobank, RCBC hit by Lehman collapse (2)
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At least three Philippine banks face possible loss of investments due to their exposure to bankrupt global financial services firm Lehman Brothers. As Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy early this week, local banks Banco de Oro (BDO), Metrobank, and Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) announced they have set aside provisions for possible write-downs ranging from P658 million ($14 million) to P3.8 billion ($80.7 million). Surely the question right now on depositors’ minds: Is ...
