Gates Hearts Jobs
They did not fight nor bash each other’s products. They just talked about history and the fun things they used to do while they were not yet the world’s biggest rivals. Read more
10 Cool Facebook Platform Apps
By now, you might have tried several applications which have started to populate Facebook’s much talked about platform, an ecosystem of third party applications that is built into the Facebook infrastructure that offers exciting new applications that can be used on a Facebook user’s profile page. For those who haven’t explored the Facebook applications directory, you maybe missing a quarter of your life. For those who don’t have a Facebook account yet, you maybe missing half of your life. Better head on to Facebook, register, create your profile and enjoy the 50+ applications available for your enjoyment. Or read these 10 cool Facebook applications and enable it into your Facebook profile page: Read more
4 Habits of Highly Effective Librarians
Inspired by Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Todd Gilmann, librarian for literature in English at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library wrote this 4 Habits of Highly Effective Librarians. As highlighted by Covey’s seven habits, the key to being effective is having to work as part of a team.
In the 4 Habits of Effective Librarians, Gilmann emphasized on the librarian’s interpersonal relationship with his/her co-workers to achieve success and happiness in the profession that they chose to practice. Read more
Technorati Gets a New Look and Features
Technorati refresh its look and added some new features which is a product of 6 months hard work. Here’s a summary of Technorati’s new features: Read more
PC World’s Top 20 Products of 2007
Surprise! surprise! Google’s Apps Premier Edition tops the list. The reason? PC World has this to say:
Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets (soon to be joined by a PowerPoint-esque presentation application) already makes for an interesting alternative to Microsoft Office. Combine it with Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar, and suddenly nearly all of your basic productivity programs and data can be available online. Read more
Wordpress Getz a 2.2. Release
It’s been more than a month since the last Wordpress release (2.1). It’s upgrade time again. Wordpress 2.2 is now available for download via the code name Getz. You know the drill, (1) download, (2) backup, (3) install or however you do your upgrade process. Here are the new features of Wordpress 2.2. Read more
Philippine Software Piracy Remains Constant (2005-2006)
Looks like the Philippine government is not doing anything to combat the growing software piracy industry in the country. Or is there any effort at all to stop software piracy? Last I heard the agency that was tasked to do this job was headed by Philippine actor Edu Manzano. And I have some news coverage with him and his men conducting “raids” in various movie pirates hot spot in Metro Manila (Philippines). Then, how come that based on the data by the Business Software Alliance and IDC, software piracy rate from 2005 to 2006 remains at 71% for both years? Read more
Top 5 Benefits of Joining a Group Writing Project
After participating in Problogger’s Group Writing Project for several times now. This blog has proven that aside from finding new great blogs and bloggers the GWP can also give your blog five cool things which you can’t get from my blog. 
Joining Problogger’s GWP can/will give your blog: Read more
Top 5 Group Writing Project: And the Lucky Winner Is?
Here’s a load of link love for all the participants of Problogger’s Group Writing Project: Read more
How Long Will it Take to Catalog Life?
Ten years as estimated by a group of scientists who are set to catalog the world’s life totaling to 1.8 million known species. The project which will be named the Encyclopedia of Life will consist of species descriptions, videos, pictures, videos and other media and will be available online perhaps the world’s largest online database. Read more
5 Things You Won’t Get From My Blog
MyDSL is Finally Activated
Finally, finally! After waiting for more than a month, after a dozen follow ups to the PLDT customer service hotline (171), and after getting stood up by a PLDT lineman, somebody from the PLDT activated my DSL connection. It took not more than 30 mins for the PLDT representative to set up my DSL connection. Ironically, it took them more than a month to go to my house and set it up. Read more
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