Archive for the 'Web' Category

Pinoy Top Blogs Sold for an Undisclosed Sum

Friday, September 7th, 2007

We are not quite used to seeing Filipino entrepreneurs sell their creations on this new dotCom market. So, I believe this one makes it news worthy. Here is a link from his blog describing the sale.
After several months of negotiations, I have finally agreed to sell the Pinoy Top Blogs project. It’s a decision […]

Philippine Regulator Wants All Websites to Register with Them?

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Where does one draw the line between government regulation and plain meddling? Yuga has this post about some of the NTC’s plans to force websites and blog to register with them. I have been trying to dig for the original Manila Times article but could not find it. So if somebody has a copy please […]

Unlimited Yahoo Mail with API: The Battle for Free Email is Now Getting More Interesting

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Here is a scoop from Techcrunch on Yahoo announcing its decision to offer free unlimited electronic mail to its Yahoo mail users. Yes folks. That is free UNLIMITED email. So will people start moving to Yahoo?
Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current […]

Distributed Booking: Bringing in Outsourcing Opportunities?

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Previously, I had a blog about the release of Skype Prime Beta and its potential as a BPO enabler. Now, Techcrunch has an article covering other developments in the distributed booking space (with other players)..
Real world services become much more efficient when paired with Internet-based search and booking platforms. Today, event venues, hotels, airlines, restaurants […]

Adobe Apollo: Just Another Virtual Machine? - Reverse Engineered!

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

What is happening right now has been predicted by numerous computer scientists through out the years. As computing resources increase so will the applications that require it increase. Today, we are seeing movement towards virtualization both in the operating systems and the application side.
Java was previously mocked, as a development environment, a few years […]

Google Graduates from Cost Per Click (CPC) to Cost Per Action (CPA)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Yes, that is right. Cost per action (CPA) might not be the most innovative thing in Internet advertising. But, if Google is doing it then it probably is something worth looking into. Here is some coverage by Techcrunch abiet using the term Pay per action (PPA) instead.
Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or […]

Colorado Woman Suing for Page Crawling?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

We all know that United States of America has become a very litigious society where filling a lawsuit is become more and more common. But, this article from InformationWeek about a Colorado woman suing the Internet Archive for crawling her website despite a notice on her website clearly prohibiting its copying for any reason. The […]

Tim Berners-Lee on Web 3.0?

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Rarely, do people get the chance to meet some of the luminaries in the Internet space. I was fortunate enough to meet the guy during the last GSM World Congress in Barcelona last February. Anyway, to the point. Here is an interesting interview with Tim Berners-Lee by Myla Crespo Villanueva of Meridian Telekoms and Wolfpac […]

Google does TV Ads

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Google seems to be trying really hard to replicate their extremely successfully web advertising model into other media such as radio and print. Here is the latest in Google’s attempts to spread their gospel of search. Here is a scoop from Techcrunch on the Big G testing TV advertisements in California.
Google is conducting a small […]

Adobe to Join The New World Wide Web Order

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

We are definitely beginning to see signs of what a possible new world wide web order will look like. This new WWW order is categorized by the increase in traditional desktop applications being offered in the Internet using Web 2.0 technologies. A WWW beyond content. With the release of Google Apps, we have seen the […]