Apple iPad Intrudes on Amazon Kindle e-Reader Space 167.0
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 [...]
Igniting and Deepening Conversations at SYNTHESiST 166.0
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 [...]
Real Time Market Feedback through the Cloud 163.0
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 [...]
Shareability Also Increases Website Value 161.0
I-Marketing Guru Regnard Requedan shares the insight To increase a website’s value, it is not enough to just build in SEO or search engine optimization techniques. In this era of social media, easing a website’s shareability ought to contribute a lot to its value. From the beginning, I have designed SYNTHESiST with SEO in mind [...]
Philippines As Emerging Market 157.0
Let us stop flagellating ourselves with negative news From 2005, Goldman Sachs identified the Philippines as one of eleven countries “that could potentially have a BRIC-like impact in rivalling the G7.” More recently, in September 2009, the FTSE Global Equity Index Series classified the Philippines as one of seventeen secondary emerging countries with regards to [...]
Technology Innovation Strategy for Emerging Markets 156.0
Catching up and leapfrogging is hard; Improving winner industries in captured growth markets with enabler technologies easier Each country, because of its level of development, will have its own bounded innovation ecosystem that is intertwined with that of the rest of the world. The Philippines, as typical of emerging markets, does not lead in any [...]
SYNTHESiST will Tweet
Success in microblogging will ask for childlike wonder To enable microblogging, I installed the widget, Twitter for WordPress, on the Sidebar at right just before departing for London today. This needs for me to be aware of my passions – innovation, books and political economy – and of change every minute of my waking day. [...]
Web2Mobile Innovation is Alive in the Philippines 138.0
Oh to be Young and Able – the Web2Mobile Story! Globe Telecom Philippines is fortunate to have young techies develop potentially lucrative mobile applications for free – well, almost free having obtained true intellectual property in exchange for OJT-time pay. J. Allen Q. Santos and Oliver Ruth A. Dag – yes! these are there names [...]
Mozilla Firefox Turns Five 137.0
The Philippine Firefox Community Celebrates Regnard Raquedan, leader of the Philippine Mozilla community, welcomed fervent members of the community at a small party yesterday to celebrate Firefox’s fifth birthday on November 9. Globe Telecom through its innovation center GlobeLabs paid for the food and handed out some giveaways – flash drives and jackets. The enthusiasm [...]
Search Engine Optimization Captures Blogs Potential Value 131.0
SYNTHESiST returns to PageRank 3/10 on Month Eight PageRank is the gold standard in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is Google’s view of a page’s importance on the Net. On its February launch, I built in ‘white hat’ SEO for SYNTHESiST – with key words stuffed in posts, right domain name choice, and static links. [...]
Makati Streets Get Technology Hope Pasay Gets It 126.7
My hat’s off to the Makati Parking Authortity (MAPA) for investing in such innovative IT-enabled instruments. The photo at left shows the M-Pad used by a traffic warden at Legazpi Village to collect parking fees and print receipts. It has a large potential for cost savings in delivering parking service as remittance and accounting are [...]
A Nook for Books 124.0
I may have found a version of e-book reader I am ready to buy, Barnes & Noble’s Nook. Click the links at the bottom for a post and a video of its nice features. I have only two concerns that are typical with leading edge products.
