Posted by admin on July 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Innovation is done by people and for people. When young people innovate and compete in the newest technology for mobile phone applications where the Philippines is at the leading edge in the world, I can only feel optimistic that technical progress is alive and well in the country. The souvenir photo above shows the contesting [...]
Filed under Information and Communication, Rapid Prototyping - Incubators, Proof-of-Concept, Accelerators · Tagged with Ayala Foundation, e-Games, Globe Telecoms, innovation, IPVG, Megamobile, Mobile apps, Philippines, prototyping, TBI, Technology Business Incubator
Posted by admin on March 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Alexa rank is 494,714. SYNTHESiST is #2 on Page 1 in Google Search. Today, for the first time, SYNTHESiST broke above the 500,000 rank on Alexa from 8,600,000 when I enlisted ninety days ago. Google PageRank stays at 3/10 after thirteen months, 192 substantial posts and 6 pages on the Internet. Content still King. Blog [...]
Posted by admin on March 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The best marketing response for Amazon against Apple iPad Amazon has done today exactly as I said in my January 29 post, Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space, one day after Apple launched its iPAd the best marketing response to Apple. Today, at 4:08 pm Manila time, I received an email for the [...]
Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Observing elections is a vocation and profession. Vignettes. IFES and NDI. Vignette 1. I first met Butch Abad of the Liberal Party when he saw us off to Danao, then dangerous Ramon Durano country, for the snap elections in 1985. Then, we were all observers with NAMFREL. So lately, I found his transformation to traditional [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with automated elections, change management, emerging markets, IFES, innovation, NDI, Philippines, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on March 4, 2010 · 4 Comments
Difficult hurdles for tech-enabled social innovation in the Philippines Still, the benefits in making wholesale cheating difficult – the main purpose for automating counting and canvassing in this election – and getting the results quicker for the national officials may be well worth the hard work. For me, the most emblematic story on the management [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with automated elections, change management, emerging markets, innovation, Philippines, process innovation, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on February 19, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tells a lot about Filipinos preferences online
Posted by admin on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
To enhance shareability and improve searchability As you can see, I just installed a Google Buzz This button at the top of each SYNTHESiST post. The button installs such “-abilities” on the blog that is so necessary to compete robustly for attention in the blogosphere. Again, I thank my internet marketing guru and friend, Raque [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, Facebook, Google Buzz, innovation, product development, product innovation, Social Media, Twitter
Posted by admin on February 10, 2010 · 1 Comment
Today Gmail gets the Buzz. The roll out is ongoing. Social media overtook email by volume of use within the past two years. Similarly, more and more people are asking their friends than searching on Google to learn about things that people ought know better. Two days ago, five out of the top twenty hottest [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, News and Stories, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with innovation, product development, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on February 7, 2010 · 7 Comments
Filipinos are engaged but Tech usability issues can disenfranchise. We have always been enthusiastic about elections with past participation around the 80% range. And Juan voter was well engaged at the Maharlika Elementary School in Taguig as voter, as BEI member, as monitor, as media and, as typical, kibitzer in mock elections to further test [...]
Filed under 2010 Automated Elections, Changes in Regulation and Policy with Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Enterprise and Innovations, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with change management, innovation, intensive learning, Philippines, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Posted by admin on January 30, 2010 · 2 Comments
Market leader Amazon hits back with Free! Yesterday at 0947 GMT (5:47pm Friday Manila), Amazon sent me the email at left offering a free download of Kindle for PC. Quickly, Amazon shots back across Apple’s bow. I would have taken the offer. I do buy a lot of books (like two a week). At the [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Convergence of Technologies - Technolgy x Business Model, Information and Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Amazon, Apple, Clayton Christensen, disruptive innovation, iPad, Joseph Schumpeter, Kindle, Steve Jobs
Posted by admin on January 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Pages and Potpourri. IntenseDebate for a community. Our first year anniversary is on February 25, 2010. I am furiously preparing the ground for a better new year, with two more improvements – adding pages to deepen content by indenting and threading and comment collaboration. I may have found my domain of choice after almost a [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Learning and Teaching, Mashups - Technology-enabled, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship · Tagged with Facebook, IntenseDebate, Joseph Schumpeter, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Twitter, WordPress
Posted by admin on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A Keyword cloud to tell the true story behind SYNTHESiST searches I have installed the Keyword cloud plugin designed by RomeLoft on the Sidebar at right. The plugin will accumulate and print in real time the specific keywords used by visitors from search engines in finding a post in SYNTHESiST. In effect it is a [...]
Filed under Brand and Product Development, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Information and Communication, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with brand development, change management, intensive learning, product development, product innovation
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