Technology & Web 2.0
A Heritage of Smallness = 21st Century Bigness
Before anything else, let go of your easily-prickable Pinoy pride for 15 minutes and read (or re-read) Nick Joaquin’s A Heritage of Smallness. In this influential essay, the one-time National Artist for Literature holds up a mirror to the Filipino Soul and eschews our love affair with all things small : “Society for the Filipino is... »
The SkyEye Project and the Ateneo Innovation Center
Ateneo student, inoventling, and crazy innovator/entrepreneur Matthew Cua woke me up early the other morning to check out his group’s new, crazy idea, the SkyEye Philippines project. The SkyEye team listed above. Not in picture are : JB , Chemical Engineer from La Salle; Serge Gonzales, 2nd Year Management Student (Chief UAV pilot), and Philip... »
Free?
Yesterday, i just renewed my flickr account for $25/year. Next month, i’ll be continuing my BusinessWeek Zinio Digital Edition subscription. Over the weekend, I was scouring eBay for Wired Magazine back issues that i missed so I can make sure there aren’t any gaps in my library. I’m slowly rebuilding my movie collection with... »
CyberPress awards Inovent as Startup of the Year for 2009
Woot!! Woot!! The IT Journalists Association of the Philippines (a.k.a. CyberPress) awarded Inovent as IT Startup of the Year for 2009. The other nominees in the category were Sulit.com.ph as well as ANTS. Unfortunately, Brian Quebengco was in the US so he couldn’t join myself and our partner Henry Nguyen for the awarding. Aside... »
U2 + YouTube + Free! = Live Concerts 2.0
I formerly blogged about the new Business Model FREE, as popularized by Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson – who eventually wrote an entire book built on the concept. Read the book here. Now along comes the greatest rock band in the world, U2, and they play this card to the hilt — to the point of... »
Did You Know? 4.0
I’m a great fan of Shift Happens, a presentation made by educator Karl Fisch that spread like wildfire around the world – seamlessly blending statistics, infographics, and social media and making it digestible for the 21st Century. Shift HappensView more presentations from Jeff Brenman. Of course, it was also largely due to the face that xplane,... »
Democratizing Innovation Through the Web
Upon the invitation of UP Professor, Education Advocate, and TEDFellow Rom Feria, I gave a talk yesterday in Y4IT – the Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology. It was an extremely awesome event, with thousands of Filipino youth all coming together to learn more about the latest trends and opportunities in this space – just... »
Booklove in a Connected World
I was in the process of organizing and rationalizing my bookshelf last night. As is the usual case, my geek-self couldn’t help but start cataloging into a database the latest iteration of my library. And so I started typing away in a Google Docs spreadsheet so that the list would be cloud-accessible. But then memory struck, and... »
Innovations for the Base of the Pyramid
Hapinoy recently presented as a finalist in iBoP-Asia’s small grants competition. iBoP-Asia is an organization based in the Ateneo School of Government that is pushing for science and technology innovations for the base of the pyramid in Southeast Asia. In line with developing what we call Hapinoy+ (new business models and revenue streams for our... »
Make or Break
In a rare treat, Inovent was asked to present to the Electronics and Communications Engineering Society of DSLU for their recent Convergence Seminar. Now, this is an audience i’m particularly interested in talking to. So aside from Ryan, Nikko, and myself sharing the Ilumina (Brian was in the US), I also took the opportunity to share... »
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