We have the Apple iPad2, which sold out immediately after being released into Philippine shelves, much like all the other Apple goodies. Then there is the Samsung Galaxy Tab for those who either do not like Apple products (which is very unlikely), or can’t wait for the next replenishment of stocks to get their hands on a tablet.

Most recently, the Asus EEE Slate is arriving at the archipelago anytime soon. The question is whether it is going to enjoy the same craze as the iPad2 and Galaxy or not. How about you – are you going to buy this Asus gadget or not?

Facebook has successfully almost eradicated all social networking competition by really providing all you need in one place. Quiz addicts, gamers, twitter-itchy posters, dramatic bloggers, camera hogs, enthusiasts, rabid fans, music lovers, or friend-count conscious people… there’s something for each type of personality at Facebook, so there’s really no point in checking out other sites.

With this in mind, I’d like to find out if this fact, indeed, holds true, even in the Philippines, one of the primary Friendster spots before. Do you still friendster? Yes or no? If yes, how often do you check? Let us know

This is one girl who doesn’t have to work a single day again… provided she knows how to handle her money. Congratulations! Now excuse me while I sulk just a bit more before I come to terms with the reality that I didn’t win. Hahaha

Am I going to join again this time around? You can bet your load, haha! As long as Globe has something juicy to offer as a prize, then I’m probably going to bite. How about you guys?

If you’ve ever parked in a mall carpark, and during peak hours at that, you’ve probably cursed a word or two, scouring through all the lots, and trying to look for an available slot. Sometimes, you encounter those parking oasis slots – it looks like a vacant slot from afar, then when you get near you realize that it’s really not. And the frustrating search continues on.

MOA has almost completely obliterated this problem. Each slot has a light above – red for occupied, green for vacant. So when you just get into that floor, you can immediately rush to the nearest green light you see! The sensor is simple – as long as an object is standing above this detector (sort of looks like a small smoke detector), the light turns red. My friends and I tried standing below these detectors, and the lights turned red.

Now if only every carpark adopted this handy gadget.

Of course, don’t forget to consider your food and lodging expenses and some extra moolah to buy yourself some unique trinkets, interesting outfits, a couple of Sanrio’s, and some steals at the 100 yen shop.

For lodging, you might want to try sleeping at a capsule hotel, which will cost about P1500 a night. Not very cheap for a coffin-sized room! I checked out Yahoo Travel and there are P1500 a night hotel rooms out there too.

You’d probably spend around P1,200 to P3,000 a day for food. Hit the takoyaki stands, the street-side ramen houses, the Izakaya’s, and the convenience stores (instant ramen, anyone?) and you’ll save a lot on grubs. Of course, since you’re already in Japan, I’d suggest you spend a bit on a night at a sushi bar.
Happy travels to everyone who’s planning their trip as I type! I’m certainly green with envy

Apparently, though, my excitement was doused when I realized that all the questions and answers were already programmed into the phone and there weren’t any real call center agents handling it. Of course, this made total sense on their end because PLDT successfully eliminates prank callers (one of which could have potentially been me haha) and increase their cost efficiency. It takes out a lot of the fun in it though.

Objectively speaking, minus my sudden prank-calling tendency, the facility is somewhat useful and fun. You can get the latest news articles, the weather forecast, currently showing movies, the day’s horoscope, etc. I say somewhat because:

1. You can get all these info on the net anyway.
2. Some of the questions and answers are half-baked. For instance, you get the list of movies showing today but you don’t know the time schedules for a particular cinema. Or you can get a suggested menu for the day, but not the recipe per se (the programmed voice just tells you you could cook pork binagoongan but if you haven’t cooked that dish before, then you still need to do number 1 above).
3. You can also get some of these info on TV, served to you in a more entertaining way.

So, most likely, this service will be helpful to people with no access to the net (or no knowledge on surfing) and no access to a boob tube. Probably someone on the road, without a 3G phone. And this will just be a prerequisite to other things you need to do. Ex. You find out the the movies showing through Ask PLDT, now you have to actually go to a nearby cinema to see what the available time slots are (or use a certain SMS service).

Before I forget, you only have 30 free questions per month so don’t go on a question and answer spree.

One last suggestion I would give to make this service more user-friendly is to provide users with an accurate card that lists
the codes for each question. (ex. to get the weather forecast, press 1 then 2). That way, you don’t have to listen to the programmed voice over and over again, and use up all your time.

My bottomline is: Try the service out. You have some free question credits anyway.

What made Multiply click, amongst 450 other social networking sites? I can only speculate. Being a Multiply user myself, I believe that the media-centric structure of Multiply makes it the easiest way to organize photos, and we know how much we Filipinos love kodakan. For sellers, the structure is also an easy way to catalog their items.

The budding entrepreneurial spirit of the Filipinos and our camera-hungry culture are probably the two major driving factors that have contributed to the incredible traffic Multiply is enjoying from us.

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080622-144061/Filipinos-are-prolific-go-and-Multiply

How could this have possibly passed the producers anyway? People make a big deal about Isaiah Washington’s supposed derogatory remarks against the sexual orientation of his co-star (which, to this day, I am still unsure as to its validity), but this comment – which, clearly, is more obviously discriminatory, is not given enough attention.

If you are insulted by this, please sign: http://www.petitiononline.com/FilABC/

This is clearly a bad move from the producers since a good majority of Filipinos tune into this TV series. Then again, maybe they feel that they don’t need to bother with their ratings in a “backwater country” like us.

TAWAD NA! FREE ALERT! May makakabili na ng yesterday’s <insert shiny object here like a MotorolaRAZR or WEGA flat screen TV> for only <insert ridiculously small price ranging from a mere 5 pesos to 30 pesos>!

Bid for a <insert another shiny object> today! Send TAWAD <amt> to 2350. You may send an amount w/ centavos!

And my fingers start to itch. Who wouldn’t get tempted at the prospect of getting a shiny object for that price?! Of course, when you rethink the odds of winning, it’s ridiculous! Just imagine this: 5 minutes after I receive that text promo, I immediately text my amounts, and they’re already taken!

Sadly though, I don’t learn. I get another TAWAD NA update and I text again. Bravo Globe for this very clever text promo. This is certainly going to garner Globe a hefty amount of texts.