Technology & Web 2.0
Service is Part of the Product
Let me start by saying that i love HP. It’s not Apple-level cult-like love, but it’s gadgetlove nonethelss. HP designs are 21st century industrial-hip, functionally impeccable, and with an overall coolness factor to boot. Nowhere is this HP love more manifested in (2) gadgets i have that are so dear to me .. my HP iPaq... »
What’s in Spore?
I have a new guilty pleasure. It’s the new game by Sims ubergamecreator Will Wright called Spore. It actually passed the wake-up-again test : I played it until i was on the brink of sleep. As i was trying to drift into dreamland, it lingered incessantly and just kept on replaying in my head.... »
When Hi-Tech is Low-Tech
This is a practical lesson on User Experience and Over-solving a Problem. You see, I attended the Manufacturing Expo in Mall of Asia yesterday morning. The maximizer that I am, I decided to go early and drop by for a quick run at Fitness First MOA. Now, this Fitness First branch is new relative... »
New Business Model Alert : Free!
Despite skyrocketing fuel prices, Cebu Pacific Air is currently “selling” tickets to international destinations for a princely sum of ZERO pesos. Boys and girls, for all intents and purposes, the tickets ARE FREE. While this validates Cebu Pacific’s mission to bring affordable air travel to “Every Juan”, it’s also one hell of a market-share-grabbing/market-building... »
Technology in Sari-Sari Stores
Scene from a recent Hapinoy activity : Nanay Lalein learning a Point-of-Sale System for her Sari-Sari Store. Whatever doubts of the applicability of technology for the smallest unit of retail were laid to rest after the training session. The potential of becoming more efficient in pricing controls, inventory management, and accounting were key benefits... »
Globe’s iPhone 3G and the Groundswell
The Groundswell is actually a term coined in a new book that analyzes in-depth this whole new phenomenon of social networking; of consumers en masse being empowered to connect and have a voice through web-based technologies. In fact, the subtitle “Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” says a lot about the arguments... »
IF : Starting na Internet-Based Business
You are invited to attend the Innovation Forum on Wednesday, 4-6 PM, July 2,2008, entitled, ‘Starting an Internet-Based Business:Lessons from a serial entrepreneur’. The speaker for this forum will be Sheila Lirio Marcelo, who received her juris doctor and MBA from Harvard in 1996. Shiela was VP for Product and Marketing for Upromise.com, an... »
Blessed Are the Geeks
http://www.popsci.com/exoskeleton Okay, i’m having a totally geek moment. While movies — especially those comic book-inspired characters such as recent fan favorite Iron Man — are supposedly fiction, it nonetheless has vestiges of its roots in reality. Using the same aforementioned example, some uberscientists featured in Popular Science are allegedly “building the Real Iron Man”... »
Why Not Innovate, Pilipinas?
Our Filipino brains have sadly grown acclimated to a culture of acceptance and resignation. The sad fact of the matter is that the path of least resistance is the path most taken. The status quo has allowed us to be at our most glaringly indifferent — as such, most of us have blindingly accepted... »
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