SYNTHESiST Refines for Better Focus – Content – Experience – Reach 294.0
Fast changes in Google search and Facebook social graph technologies dictate continuous learning of new skills and techniques for SYNTHESiST. On top of these internal changes, I have put in place changes to refine its focus, content, experience and reach to better serve her community – a relentless challenge indeed. I am sharing on a [...]
Smart Phone and Social Media Advances Make SYNTHESiST Adapt 284.0
The second year anniversary for SYNTHESiST is coming up on February 25, 2011. The need to improve content and advances in technology are driving me to innovate. SYNTHESiST has progressed some ways. Still, a lot more work needs to be done in the coming twelve months to improve itself in content and technology to improve [...]
SYNTHESiST Stirs Some Client-Initiated Advertising Interest 252.0
For what it’s worth, SYNTHESiST has generated its first real advertising interest from the Web. SYNTHESiST already accommodates AdSense; Google’s program to install context-related ads on spaces allocated to them by blog publishers. These first expressions of interests validates two hypotheses: Firstly, SYNTHESiST already has some traffic to justify the interest; and, Secondly, the traffic [...]
Mobile Apps Innovation is Alive and Well in the Philippines 232.0
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 [...]
SYNTHESiST Continues to Improve Internet Visibility 192.0
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 [...]
Kindle for Mac is now FREE to Download 189.0
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 [...]
Being an Automated Elections Observer is Hard Work 185.0
Observing elections is a vocation and profession. Vignettes. IFES and NDI. Vignette 1. I first met Butch Abad, now of the Liberal Party, when he saw a group of us of the Cebu NAMFREL off to Danao City, then dangerous Ramon Durano country, for the snap elections in 1985. Then, we were all observers with [...]
Implementing Automated Elections in a Context of Cheating and Mistrust 181.0
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 [...]
SYNTHESiST gets Google Buzz Button 176.0
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 [...]
Google Gmail gets Social 173.0
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 [...]
2010 Automated Elections Managing the Change 171.0
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 [...]
