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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
OLX: A New Philippine Classified Ads Online
I first ventured into online selling with a Philippine based Korean-run auction site a few years ago. A friend and I had a good start and I still sell from time to time. I also do purchase some items. In those experiences, I could say that pre-paid cellphone loads are among the hottest items.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Skybroadband Trivia Overload Rides Facebook App Craze
After the successful Mafia Wars, Restaurant City, and Farm Town, the newest Facebook application - Skybroadband Trivia Overload - will test your brain power and stretch those neural muscles!
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Spy Next Door Movie Brings Back Jackie Chan Comic-Action
For some, it can actually be the problem - the usual Jackie Chan funny-action movie. However, if you do enjoy Jackie's funny antics, and your children also does, it could be worth your, and your family's, while.
Spy next Door's action-comedy theme and simplistic plot is bound to give people a number of laughs. Chan's return to Hollywood after the groundbreaking Forbidden Kingdom where he starred in with fellow Asian Jet Li, is surely welcomed. This time around, Jackie is an inactive spy who suddenly finds himself reluctantly in for another mission challenging his espionage skills while on the way to becoming his girlfriends' kids' new dad.
Lions Gate Films selected Chan as he sensibly fits the role of Bob Ho, the undercover CIA spy who chooses to settle down with next-door girlfriend Gillian (Amber Valletta).
He suddenly turns from being a spy by night into a babysitter by day. Things gets even more complicated with the three reluctant kids and some nasty Russian villains with a biological arsenal that feeds on oil threatening its supply.
Other stars joining Jackie Chan include George Lopez, Lucas Till, and celebrity dad Billy Ray Cyrus. Released locally by Viva International Pictures and directed by Brian Levant, Spy Next Door movie opens nationwide on January 15, 2010.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Fitness First Taps Facebook Game for Slimming
Fitness First, a global fitness company, recently launched its very own "Cut the Fat Challenge" Facebook Application, an interactive game about achieving one’s ideal weight through working out and eating the proper diet.
Everyone wants to begin the New Year by shedding pounds gained from the holiday feasting. Fitness First tries to offer just that with its new application on social networking site Facebook. Just like any interactive application on Facebook, the goal is to enjoy the game with your Facebook friends and thereby strengthening the bond of your network.“Dedicated to motivating people to improve their overall health, Fitness First’s Facebook application draws attention to fitness and incorporates actual physical exercise in the digital interaction challenge,” mentions Mark Ellis (Fitness First Philippines Country Manager).
The Cut the Fat Facebook Challenge provides an interactive perspective on the relationship of food intake and its equivalent calories to the overall body mass index and weight. Fitness First continues to merge innovation and fun with their fitness routines to adapt healthy and fit lifestyles, while extending it to the interactive game for the online community.
Just don't get too much addicted to it or you'll be stuck in front of the PC the whole day and end up with less actual exercise. :)
Check out the Facebook app at http://apps.facebook.com/cutthefat/index to start cutting the fat.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
2010 Philippine Holidays
As the new year breaks, people start to plan for the rest of the year with their list of Philippine 2010 holidays. Either checking out the holy week or the long-weekend holidays as a guide for their 'leave' plans. May 10 is a national election day and is a special non-working holiday. Holidays for Eid’l Fitr and Eid’l Adha are yet to be declared All are regular holidays are marked appropriately So there you go, planning ahead have it's benefits! Let us maximize the Philippine holidays this 2010 with efficient planning resulting to more quality time with our families and loved ones. God bless the Philippines this 2010.
Here's the list for your convenience based from Proclamation 1841 declaring the list of 2010 Philippine holidays.January 01 - New Year’s Day
February 22 - People Power Revolution Anniversary (Mon nearest Feb 25) **
April 01 - Maundy Thursday (Holy Week)
April 02 - Good Friday
April 09 - Araw ng Kagitingan
May 01 - Labor Day
June 14 - Independence Day (Monday nearest June 12)
July 27 - Iglesia ni Cristo Founding anniversary ***
August 23 - Ninoy Aquino Day *
August 30 - National Heroes Day (last Monday of August)
November 01 - All Saints Day (Monday) *
November 29 - Bonifacio Day (Monday nearest November 30)
December 24 - Special Non-Working Day *
December 25 - Christmas Day (Saturday)
December 27 - Rizal Day (Monday nearest December 30).
December 31 - Special Non-Working Day *
* special non-working days
** a special holiday for all schools
***special national “working holiday”
Friday, January 1, 2010
Digital Manila is 1 Year Old!
Thank you all for supporting Digital Manila in its first 365 days of existence. From the current mix-magazine type of blog, expect a big change at the end of the third quarter of 2010.
If 2008 significantly started the year of blogger events, 2009 witnessed a deluge! It's clearly visible with the number of posts here in Digital Manila how the blogging community have emerged and developed.
And I think, in 2010, the blogosphere will be similarly crowded, if not more.
It will be a big change where Digital Manila will transform to having it's own specific niche while a number of affiliate blogs will be born at the same time to catch the other niches to be left by Digital Manila. All of them will belong to one umbrella of united network of blogs.
Think Digital Manila in a wider scope - all this in 10-10-10 (October 10, 2010).
Manila, get ready!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Two Best Blogger Events for 2009
I would just have to rave about what I consider were the 2 best blogger events for 2009.
First is the 5-Day Nescafe Soundschool Concerts and workshops in Boracay.
Those who know me personally knows that I also maintain a separate travel blog and food blog. This Boracay event just covered it all. The pop culture event and concerts were for Digital Manila while the Boracay travel experience was for Let's Go Sago! We dined in different hubs around the island which just loaded NomNom Club food blog with a long list of blogs-to-write. If my laptop was just not stolen 3 weeks ago, i would still have hundreds of my photos. Sadly, I lost 90% of it and only retained the last day because it was left in my SD card. :(
The other one is my best international blog event (aside from the fact that it is the only one). :) It's Nuffnang's First Asia-Pacific Blog Awards held in Singapore. The three-day event composed of the awards night, a Singapore City blogger's day tour and a free day. It was my first international blog event together with the Philippine contingent interacting with bloggers of other nations including Malaysia, Australia, and of course, Singapore.
Those two were the best local and international blogger events for me in 2009. Thanks to Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Manila and Nuffnang Phillipines.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
You Know You Are A Filipino When...
Allow me to share this WhenInManila.com video on the "Top 10 Ways to know you’re Filipino / from the Philippines." I first saw it in the recent Pinoy Expats-OFW Blog Awards.
Here is the video from When In Manila:
And the top 10 are:
So prom how on, u cn col me "Jonjon", k? :)
10. You reuse gift wrappers the next time
9. Your luggage is a “Balikbayan” box (huge shipping boxes)
8. You wrap everything in plastic!
7. You eat duck embryo or Balut
6. You understand Pn0i Txt msgs Ktnxbye
5. You react whenever you hear… "Psssst"
4. The letters F and P are the same
3. Your nickname is a repetition (Jenjen, Katkat, Tonton etc)
2. You point with your lips
1. You just wanna sing some Kareoke
Check here for PEBA 2009 Results.
PEBA 2009 Results
The 2nd Pinoy Expats-OFW Blog Awards (PEBA) was held at the Philam Life Theater along UN Avenue in Manila last Dec 27, 2009. The program exceeded 2 hours but the wait was all worth it for the Top 10 Best Blog awardees.
The 2009 Top 10 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards are:
There were also special awards given namely:
Congratulations to all the winners and recognized blogs of Pinoy Expats-OFW Blog Awards!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Metro Manila Film Festival 2009 Results
The Ang Panday movie got the major awards from the recent 35th Metro Manila Film Festival - Philippines 2009 awarding ceremonies. This include the Best Picture and Best Actor awards.
Actor and senator Bong Revilla received the Best Actor award for Ang Panday earlier tonight. Moreover, veteran actress Sharon Cuneta bagged the Best Actress award for Mano Po 6 which also got a special recognition award. It also received the Best Director award (Joel Lamangan).
Star Cinema's "I Love you , Goodbye," got the 2nd Best Overall Picture followed by "Ang Darling Kong Aswang." World champion boxer Manny Pacquiao's movie "Wapakman" ended at the bottom of MMFF's list in term's of ticket sales.
The Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards went to Phillip Salvador for Panday and Zsa Zsa Padilla & Heart Evangelista for Mano Po 6, respectively.
Other MMFF movies include "Shake, Rattle, and Roll XI" and "Nobody, Nobody, But Juan." Philippine movie goers have until the first week of Januray 2010 to catch the rest of the Metro Manila Film Festival movies in movie theaters nationwide.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
2009 Pinoy Expats-OFW Blog Awards (PEBA) Tonight!
Pinoy Expats-OFW Blog Awards (PEBA) is an organization that intends to honor the outstanding and inspiring expatriates and Overseas Filipino Workers blogs around the world.
Launched mid of last year, it aims to recognize blogging among OFWs and expatriates which covers topics and issues from stories of life challenges, politics, and personal opinion, among others.
Months after the recent Philippine Blog Awards, this year's PEBA held a search for the top 10 pinoy expats/OFW Blog by asking the blogging community to nominate their favorite blogs. The top 10 from various locations around the world were selected and will be honored 6pm tonight in an awarding ceremony at the 2nd International Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards to be held at Philam Life Theater, UN Avenue, Malate, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Some of the people behind PEBA are Jebee Kenji D. Solis (Organizer & Founder), Nereus Jethro G. Abad (President of the PEBA 2009 Project), Jon Guzman (Webmaster & VP for PEBA 2009), Felix Jigs Segre (Program Director and Chairman of PR), and Noemi Lardizabal Dado (Adviser). The event is supported by Friendster, Nokia, Smart, and When in Manila, among others.
Cheftonio wins Bobson Shirt Giveaway
In conclusion to one of our many contests, and four days after our Samsung Phone giveaway, the Bobson Shirt prize goes to Cheftonio who won with his simplistic but sincere answer to "What Christmas means to you?"
Together with guest blogger-judge Flowell Galindez who writes for Ang Sa Wari Ko and Open Road, we choose the winner for the simplicity and essence of his answer. Flowell is also the Entertainment Online Producer for ABS-CBN Interactive, ABS-CBN is the Philippines largest broadcasting network.
Congratulations! Cheftonio willl be contacted through the email he provided in the comment. He will receive the prize through delivery or via courier anywhere in Metro Manila.
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
And the Samsung Mobile Phone Winner is....
Today is the day we announce the Abenson's Paskong Pinoy Online Promo where we will be giving away a Samsung mobile phone to one of the 101 comment participants.
First, thank you all for participating. It took me and my guest blogger more than three hours in total to read through all the comments. Although they are just comments, some entries were as long as a blog post. :)
Second, I would like to reveal my mystery guest blogger judge. She is a known fashion blogger in the online community with Style and Relax. She is a now a new mom blogger and has started her own new mommy blog Mommylace.blogspot.com. Thank you Lace Llanora for helping out co-judge this contest.
Many entries were very creative and convincing on how their chosen Abenson Christmas Package fits the Paskong Pinoy lifestyle. Many cited the Pinoy's love for food and cooking this holiday season, as well as their fondness for music and the television.
We first identified the outstanding ones and ended up with the Top 16. They are: (in no particular order) animetric, shalomsiy, adriancajayon, Heidi Lanzador, ellenjoycastel, heartlocks19, Cheftonio, silverscreensurfer, ellenjoycastel, vivianaguilar, calai618, joysantos, Bryan, Rina Alcantara, mprrortega, philos).
However, just like in any contest, there is only one emerging grand winner. The total scores actually ended up with a tie between two entries. It would be impractical to give them half phones each so I had to break the tie and choose one winner.
And the Abenson Paskong Pinoy winner whose Christmas and New Year will be merry and bright with a new Samsung mobile phone is mprrortega whose entry came in 10 minutes before the end of the contest. :) And her entry is:WOW ET14000 ang ABENSON PACKAGE na swak na swak
Congratulations!
Dahil ang mga Pinoy ay mahilig kumanta ng sangkatutak
WOW FIESTA 2009 EDITION ang magpapaligaya
Sa Paskong Pinoy na malaking parte ang pagkanta
Pagdiriwang ng Pasko ay hindi masasabing kumpleto
Kung walang mga taong hahawak ng mikropono
Kahit ano pang kanta ay ibibirit ng mga Pinoy
Maging si lolo o lola man, si neneng o totoy
"Boom Tarat Tarat" man o "Ikaw na Nga"
Kahit anong kanta ay papalakpakan ng madla
Ganda ng boses ay hindi sing-halaga
Ng aliw na naidudulot ng mismong kanta
Higit pa sa talento, damdamin ay sinasalamin
Kung kaya't sa kanta, Pinoy ay laging bitin
Hiritin mo ng "More!", mapapakanta ulit si Juan
Hindi na kailangan ng madibdibang kantyawan
WOW FIESTA 2009 EDITION ang kukumpleto sa Pasko
Talagang sa videoke ay sobrang adik ang mga Pilipino
Mga kapamilya at kapuso ay nagsasama
Kapag ang songbook nakahain na sa mesa
Maligaya at "ma-kantang" Pasko, mga katoto
Sige na't humablot ng WOW ET one-four-oh-oh-oh
Nang lahat tayo ay tuluyan nang mag-saya
Dahil sa Birthday ni Bro, buong sambayanan ay kasama!
Friend mo na ba ang Abenson sa Facebook? Ako, friend ko na!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Abenson-Paskong-Pinoy/100000463566769
You would be contacted by Digital Manila through your email on how to claim your prize and the model they would be giving. Honestly speaking, I think you would be able to claim this sometime January of 2010. This is because we have to process your prize in cooperation with Abenson itself and PR company Geiser Maclang after the holiday frenzy. But look at the brighter side, you'd have a brand new spanking Samsung mobile phone with the entry of the new year! :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all Digital Manila readers and subscribers!
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You might also want to participate in other ongoing contests:
Win a Starbucks 2010 Planner (end Dec 31)
Win a Starbucks USB flashdrive (end Jan 04)
Win a Yummy 2010 Planner (starts Dec 26, ends Jan3)
Bobson Shirt Sereis 2 Giveaway (ends Dec 25)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Learn to Build iPhone Web Apps Webinars
Early next month of the new year, CreativeTechs, together with O’Reilly Media is hosting a free online seminar (webinar) about building iPhone web apps.
Having virtually attended quite a number of webinars this year, this is my first with CreativeTechs. It's actually a series of 5 Tuesdays (Wednesday for Philippines) covering the whole month of January until the first week of February.
Sadly enough, the webinar time in the Philippines is odd at 3am. Nonetheless in my case, I can be up during those times :)
They are the following (US Time):
Philippine Dates:
Schedule and Details (US):Dates: Tuesdays, January 5 – February 2, 2009
Schedule and Details (Philippines):
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE class is FREE for all to attend!Dates: Wednesdays, January 6 – February 3, 2009
Check more about it and sign up here:
Time: 3am [Manila, Philippines Time Zones - GMT +8]
The course is intended for iPhone entusiasts with very basic programming background.So if you're ineterested in taking a peek at developing iPhone applications through web apps, this "Learn to Build iPhone Web Apps"webinar is for you!
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