Top Ten Philippines Websites by Alexa Rank as of May 23 2010
From our first compilation of the top ten Philippines websites by Alexa rank three months ago (2/19/10), the 2010 automated elections and looking for jobs have become important search activities this quarter. Buy-and-sell, news, and entertainment remain top search favorites. For the whole list, the major change is the movement of most websites up the [...]
SYNTHESiST Completes Migration to Magazine Theme 214.0
Fifteen months from its first post, SYNTHESiST completed the first phase of its migration to the Magazine theme. The migration supports many purposes. The foremost is to create a rich conversation within a community of like-minded people on the domain of innovation systems and change management for emerging markets. SYNTHESiST becomes a content management system [...]
SYNTHESiST Engages for a Makeover 210.0
To become more engaging, SYNTHESiST will have a makeover into a blog and website/CMS combo using StudioPress’ Magazine theme. (Note: Please be patient if our migration will create some access inconvenience in the next few days.) The Magazine theme is beautiful. It is also powerful. It has two navigation lines. One navigation line is for [...]
Unexplainable downtimes at SYNTHESiST 197.0
We had unexplainable shutdowns on SYNTHESiST on April 9 and yesterday April 10 unlike the downtime free situation in prior months. Our watchdog service recorded four shutdowns on Friday. Yesterday, April10, had 31 incidents that shut down the blog for about eight out of the 24 hours as in the table below. At the same [...]
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 [...]
Embedding Sustainability into New Enterprises 184.0
New Zeitgest, tools and metrics are making CSV for enterprise the new norm Businesses are starting to embed sustainability into their strategy rather than just do it as a separate project under corporate social responsibility (CSR). They are starting to do this because it is beginning to make business sense. The Sagip Pasig Movement (SPM) [...]
On Congestion – Advance Post on Comelec Res 8786 GI for BEI 183.0
Comelec proactively and innovatively designs VAC to help manage congestion The Comelec inserted a new provision – a really creative one – in the updated Res 8786 to create a Voters Assistance Center (VAC) in each school to help manage congestion that is the main consequence of clustering. In this automated election, congestion from clustering [...]
African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development – AJSTID
I am extremely happy to share the news that I have been welcomed as one of 28 associate editors of the AJSTID. The ASJTID is a new peer-reviewed journal focused on science, technology, innovation and development in the emerging nations of Africa. A print of the Table of Contents for the issue pictured above follows.
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 [...]
Highest Alexa Rank Ever Domain Ownership and Survey Updates 175.0
SYNTHESiST rises above #1 million. Surveys describe its readers. As I thought, the mathematical formula behind Alexa’s ranking quickly brought SYNTHESiST above the 1 millionth from the low 8.6 million rank when I enrolled on December 25, 2009. Today, Alexa ranks SYNTHESiST at #983,845, its highest ever. Sulit.com.ph is the highest ranked Filipino site at [...]
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 [...]
