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Slowly trying to build an online empire 2008-04-13 09:38:00 I'm sitting hereand waiting.Prepared to do anythinggiven the right timing.Calvin: Most people just muddle through their lives! They're passive and unmotivated! They lack ambition and drive!Calvin: Not ME, though! I'm going to have an EPIC life! I'm going to wrestle the issue of the age and change the course of history!Hobbes: How are you going to do that?Calvin: I'm going to sit here and wait, so opportunity will know where to find me when it's time to change the world.Hobbes: I wish I'd brought a book to read.Calvin: Nahh. It'll be any minute now. Read more:online
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How much is that Twitter account in the window? 2008-04-13 09:28:00 Experience has taught me that you can sell just about anything - from pirated CDs containing ripped MP3s to make believe money in some online game like Ragnarok. But a Twitter
account? Who would want to buy such a thing, when the service itself is free in the first place?Actually, the Twitter account in question here is Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron's, which has nearly 1,500 followers and I don't know how many tweets (I'm sure it's in the hundreds). And the answer to my question - who would buy such a thing? Quite a number of people, I suppose, or else the eBay auction would not have hit the $24 mark earlier today.I don't know who the lucky auction winner will be but chances are, Twitter's not going to like this. Or at least it shouldn't. But then again, there's nothing in their TOS that
The future of blogs without on-page activity? Certain death 2008-04-12 17:40:00 Lego Blogger Picture Originally uploaded by minifigJust the other day I was minding my own business, wishing that there was a way for me to make comments on interesting articles in my feed reader without accessing the page of the article itself. And I never realized that this was already being provided by a new web service called Shyftr, which seems set to change the way readers interact with blogs, big time.To answer Mark Evans's question, Are pageviews still relevant to Bloggers?, I say, why, Hell yes! And as a blogger himself, he should've known the answer. I don't claim to be the absolute authority on this, but I do believe that there are a couple of points that these big guys are missing.True, there is added convenience in being to able to add comments on blog articles without the nee Read more:death
How come I never heard of the era of Blogger's control? 2008-04-12 17:22:00 conversations_silhouettes_id228513_size450 Originally uploaded by b_d_solisCould it be that I have been blind all this time, while I'm aimlessly wandering the global blogosphere, and that's why I never thought I was previously in an era of Blogger
's control, or that there even was one? What is that really supposed to mean, that because of just a few immaterial words, I can take the destiny of perhaps a thousand people and dispose of them as I wish? Oh, man, how I wish this was true. Because frankly, while I think of this so-called era of Blogger's control, I can't imagine myself buying into it.Call me a critic, but I think ole' Scoble is generalizing things a bit too quickly, saying that the era of Blogger's control has ended. And to think, I never even realized that this little thing has
Why it's never too late to blog about something 2008-04-11 18:00:00 Want to blog about a certain keyword but worried that you'll never be able to reach enough people because someone else is already number one in the search results? I used to be too. But recently, I've been enlightened and realized that it's never really to late to do anything, especially not blogging about a certain keyword.Earlier today, I wrote a blog post on my other blog about a nipple slip (I had nothing to do with it), and already there are people searching for it on Google. Of course, as I'm probably the only one who has blogged about it so far, my site is number one in the Google Search Engine Results Page (SERP).What does this mean? This means that it's not yet too late to blog about anything, or in this case, the current season of Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition Plus.I started tha Read more:something
Challenge: Break into TopBlogs.com.ph Top 10 in one day 2008-04-11 17:50:00 I have just finished adding two of my web sites, this one and PBB Teen Edition Plus Insider, to TopBlogs.com.ph. I decided to go give it a try just for fun, to shame a blog that I've been hating for the longest time, because I saw that it was near the top position of the directory. I was originally planning on becoming number one, and with my current traffic levels, I was sure that I'd make it.But before logging off, I went to the TopBlogs.com.ph homepage, and voila! There were other, more high traffic web sites listed on the directory as well. I browsed through the listings and became satisfied at thinking that by tomorrow, I'd at least be in the the Top Ten, replacing GuitarTutee and possibly even Skirmisher.Right now, there's really no way to know for sure, but I can try. And I pray tha Read more:Break
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Why I hate catchy headlines 2008-04-11 16:21:00 Day 74 Originally uploaded by lisaschafferphotoMarketers and advertising agents are the bane of the society. Why? Because more people are likely to spend their hard-earned money on things that are mostly superficial. Because of clever ad agents and marketers, I'm likely to spend more money playing crappy video games, eating at classless restaurants, and reading useless blogs. Just like CarlOcab.com. His blog title reads, Make Money Online with a 13-year old. The problem is, that's just not possible. You mean to tell me that I should follow the advice of a 13-year old kid, who probably isn't even circumcised yet? Oh come on.What's more depressing, is that a lot of people actually believe this non-sense. I myself was inclined to believe in this a few weeks ago, and only recently had been cur Read more:headlines
Updates on my latest project: PBB Teen Edition Plus Insider 2008-04-11 14:49:00 I'm the guy behind a new controversial web site, called PBB Teen Edition
Plus Insider
. It's an ongoing online project of mine, which I made in order to try making money online. I'm no expert, and as you can see from my site's designs (I did them myself), I'm far from perfect.Anyway, I'm here with my new personal blog, which I'm going to call Electronic Pulp. I've had lots of other blogs before. And in fact, I had a blog called Electronic Pulp back in 2007! But unfortunately, none of my previous blogs ever made it big (obviously). So that's why I'm still here, and now making yet another effort of establishing an online presence.So what's happened to my latest online project? So far, I can say that I'm proud of what I've accomplished. And am only now beginning to realize just how high-traffi
Brain Drain 2008-04-11 14:23:00 I was half-awake on the floor yesterday morning when I heard the news on the radio. It was about an Israeli Nobel Peace Prize winner who was staying here in the Philippines. I think he's supposed to be an Engineer by profession. But I'm not sure. Anyway, the news was saying that he was currently travelling from one school to another, trying to tell the graduating students not to leave the country for work abroad.So basically, he's trying to stop brain drain, the process of leaving one's own country to work in another, from happening here in the Philippines. And while I'm sure he's doing it for a good cause, you'd be a fool to think there's nothing wrong with the situation here.The guy's trying to stop brain drain from happening in the Philippines, but he's not even a Filipino himself in th Read more:Brain
Lessons learned from receiving my first Paypal payment 2008-04-14 05:21:00 ... is supposed to be the world's leading online payment facility. The call center where I used to work in had a Paypal North America and Paypal UK wing, but unfortunately I never had the chance to become part of their team. That's why I'm as much of an ignoramus about Paypal as most normal folks, who can barely afford to keep money in their bank accounts, let alone have their own credit cards.Earlier today, while I was sifting through the dozens of new email, which were mostly notifications about new comments from my blogs, a lone email stood out. It read: You have a payment pending, and it was sent from service@paypal.com. This immediately got me excited and when I opened to read it, I just couldn't help but smile because it absolutely made my day. I received my very first Paypal payment Read more:Lessons
The answer to life, the universe, and everything... is blogging 2008-04-13 13:39:00 Thinker Close UpOriginally uploaded by marttjThis morning, I finished half of a new feature story that I was planning on posting tonight. It was supposed to be about the characteristics of Jumpers (who are special human beings capable of doing special (what else?) things like jumping through space and landing anywhere in the world) compared to those of Bloggers. Basically, I wanted to draw comparisons between the two, and in the end say that although Jumpers are cool because of their powers, Bloggers can be cool too. You just have to look at things from the right perspective.So anyway, like I said earlier, I had already finished half of that feature document, and successfully saved its draft in the memory card of my Nokia E50. You see, I don't yet have a computer of my own, and my smart ph Read more:answer
Download Youtube vids in MP4 format! 2008-04-13 11:51:00 Google Operating System has a great post today detailing how you might be able to download Youtube videos as MP4 files. Until recently, users such as myself have only been able to download Youtube videos as FLV files which we later have to convert to another format
like 3GP or MP4 before it becomes really useful. I myself have been downloading a lot of videos and uploading them to my own Youtube channel lately (though no one seems to notice) and I'm glad that this hack is now possible. And it's all because of the availability of higher quality videos option. It was bound to be useful somehow, right?Read [Google Operating System] Read more:Download
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How to get a Google PageRank of 6 in two weeks 2008-04-15 14:44:00 Well, this had to happen sooner or later. With my site receiving well over a thousand unique visitors per day and more than 5,500 page views on average, Google
was bound to notice it. What am I talking about? Well, today my other web site, PBB Teen Edition Plus Insider, registered a PageRank
of 6 in my FF browser's Google Toolbar. Am I bragging? Heck no. I just want to show you that things like this are not impossible. Even for a blog that's only been less than 3 weeks old.As you can clearly see (click on the image for a bigger version), I just got around to reinstalling my Google Toolbar today and voila, I see that my online showbiz/entertainment gossip site has a Google PR of 6. I tried to double check it by going to wholinkstome.com, but unfortunately, the results for searching who link Read more:Google PageRank
Top 30 Blogger Hacks Ever [Part 1] 2008-04-17 01:08:00 Don't get bitter or envious of your Wordpress using blogger friends. They think they're so good, when most of them don't even know half about what's going on with their site's design and backend. Everything that spices up a WP blog is done through automated software that's very easy to add. WP blogs are so open to hacking because every enhancement is done outside of the blogger's control. But still, many bloggers prefer this setup because of the convenience and the huge amount of time that it saves them.Unfortunately, this kind of setup is only available to Wordpress users, who pay for their own domain name and hosting, among other things. So even though the blog add-ons (called plug-ins) that enhance WP blogs are free, you'll still have to pay for them by way of ditching the yourname.word Read more:Blogger
Want to tell readers what you're really doing? Add a FriendFeed widget to your blog or web site! 2008-04-16 16:39:00 So, you use a lot of online services, and you're all across the Web all the time. You write your blog with Blogger, host your online photo album with Flickr, keep yourself updated with the latest news on Digg, and watch all your favorite videos on Youtube.While you're doing
all this, you hope to be able to update your blog readers
with your latest activities, or in other words, you take the question "What are you doing?" and post your answer to that in your blog. So far you've been able to do so with Twitter, an online service that asks you just that: "What are you doing?." And then it lets you answer with a quick update that can't be more than 160 characters long.Don't you see anything wrong with that? Or haven't you ever considered it ridiculous to be logging in on Twitter every other mi Read more:widget
BayWords.com, just another Wordpress blogging platform 2008-04-16 16:08:00 If you're looking for yet another blogging platform to showcase your expertise, I have news for you. The makers of The Pirate Bay have just recently launched their own blogging platform, called it BayWords.com, and is now open for applications.This new blogging platform is blatantly based on Wordpress
, currently one of the most popular blogging platforms available on the Web. And this comes as no surprise, knowing the nature of the guys behind this (technically, they founded a haven for piracy with The Pirate Bay). The idea behind this, they seem to say, is that no matter what you do in your blog, they will never shut you down or censor you. Unless it's against the Swedish law. I think it would be interesting to see what kind of blogs would surface from this surface. If the most prolific P
Updating myself on the latest in tech 2008-04-16 14:10:00 I've been offline for nearly 24 hours before I logged back on an hour ago, and my does the news spread fast. I might not have my own news to tell you, except that I've just received my Unionbank EON Visa Electron Kit (I'll write about that later) and, um, nothing else, actually. But the tech news keeps pouring in, and checking on my favorite tech news site Techmeme, I see there has been a lot of buzz in the tech world lately.First off, Nokia fans have two new reasons to rejoice. Nokia introduced the Nokia 6212 Classic yesterday, with run-of-the-mill features and something else: Near Field Communications technology. It's targeted for the mid-level market and will come out in Q3 2008.I think I also read that there will be a new Nokia 5000 series phone, and it will actually be called the Noki Read more:myself
Finally removed the largest pain in my a##! 2008-04-20 13:26:00 Man, I honestly thought my problems would NEVER end! Luckily, my fate seems to have changed today, and I have just successfully verified my Premier Paypal account. Woohoo!Now, I don't shouldn't have problems with withdrawing my money anymore, and other than realizing that I can now make online purchases with the money that's in my Paypal account, I can also withdraw the money to a local bank account. Or to a qualified credit/debit card. It's my choice. Heck, I'm glad I even have a choice, since I've been having this problem egging on me to be solved since last week. Good thing I gathered enough patience earlier today to call the customer service hotline of Unionbank to ask for my Paypal expanded use number. I talk too much, eh? Don't blame me, I'm just happy I finally got over this crap.Bu Read more:Finally
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Google Adsense for mobile and other mobile ad networks officially mashed up with DoubleClick mobile 2008-04-30 11:28:00 In a quick blog post, Google
's lets word out on the 'nets about DoubleClick Mobile and Adsense
for Mobile's integration. And apparently, Google and DoubleClick aren't alone in the party, because also appearing in the list of mobile ad networks now integrated with DoubleClick mobile are AdMob, Millennial Media’s premium MBrand network and the Decktrade performance network. And this integration is supposedly going to take effect immediately after their announcement.From Google's press release:"This integration is a great example of how DoubleClick is working with key industry players to bring value to publishers by enhancing the liquidity of mobile display inventory," said Ari Paparo, group product manager for DoubleClick products. "We believe that the ability to sell mobile inventory dire Read more:Google Adsense
First thoughts on my new 8GB iPod Touch 2008-04-30 10:26:00 You'd think that by saying I own an 8GB iPod
Touch, I'd have posted some pictures of it in this entry, right? I would have, only I still haven't recovered my camera phone from the pawn shop yet. So let this stock image from Apple's own iPod Touch gallery suffice. And anyway, I would just like to share my first thoughts
on owning my very own iPod Touch (which I will soon upgrade to an iPhone).How do I like it? I like it a lot. My iPod Touch is running the latest iPod Touch firmware available from Apple, and I was also able to hack it to bits by using a free program created by Zibris called ZiPhone. It's cool, and all I had to do (aside from updating the software of my iPod Touch from version 1.1.3 to version 1.1.4, downloading iTunes and Microsoft's .NET framework) was just plug in my iPod Read more:First
The Blogging Gods don't want me back 2008-04-30 10:11:00 I don't know why this is happening, but I think my on-and-off relationship with my personal blogs has gone far too long. I stage one comeback, make a new personal blog, set up a new Blogger template, and yet after only a few days, I stop writing personal stuff altogether again. What is wrong with me?I really don't understand why my posts have to be so far from each other, and I'm just glad that Blogger doesn't have a built-in calendar archive feature like your sissy Wordpress blog does.I hate it when this happens just as much as you do, you know? Proudly telling Olive Oyl and the rest of the world that, "Hey! Check me out! I'm blogging again!" And it just absolutely shames me to think that I was proud enough to call myself a blogger, when all I've been so far for the most part of a good tw Read more:Blogging
Brand new iPod Touch woes 2008-05-01 14:17:00 So I just bought a new iPod
Touch, and it's great. The music sounds good through headphones and through the bargain bin speakers that I got it the other day, I can connect to the Internet whenever there's an available connection, etc. It's really great. It's an awesome device.However, my problem is that I need to have it replaced because of two things: it has a defective LCD screen and a lot of scratches on its back (even though that's the way it was even when I first bought it. I went to the.. hey wait... I think I wrote this already a while ago. Let me check.I went to MP3 Express earlier today to see If I can return my iPod touch and exchange it for a newer one on the grounds that it has scratches on its back and a defective LCD screen, the proof of which can be seen in more than 6 dead Read more:Brand
OK, let the blogging begin! 2008-05-01 14:08:00 I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I've grown tired. But if there's one last thing that I want to think of, it's writing. I think I want to write. So write I will. Dig?[Image] Read more:begin
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