Philippines Freelancers Blog November Archive

The Wi-Fi Alliance recently announced the release of a new peer-to-peer protocol that will allow implementors to connect to each other and send and receive data without the need to have a base station.

Read more: WiFi Alliance announces WiFi Direct [click]

It looks like social networking sites are getting more and more attention from the big tech companies out there, with some even opening jobs such as Social Media Experts.

Read more: Yahoo! Southeast Asia is in need of a Social Media Expert [click]

Electronic payment methods outside of the traditional credit card is one area that will be interesting to monitor in the coming years, as demand for such services are increasing due to more traffic coming in from Internet businesses.

Read more: Paypal reports increased revenue, announces release of Adaptive Payments API [click]

Perhaps one reason why Twitter became popular is innovative approach at search. You see, it searches its database of tweets in real-time, which means it does not use the crawler bots that are used by other search engines like Google and Bing to gather page results.

Read more: Google, Bing announce search deal with Twitter [click]

We Filipinos have been fortunate to have two major languages to use. First is the native language (which depends on the province you live in), and most probably English. The English proficiency of Filipinos have made us capable to enter the online freelancing market and take advantage of opportunities not usually available to others.

Read more: Learning a Third Language Can Help Your Freelancing Business [click]

Perhaps one of the more interesting features to come out of the Googleplex is the Google Street View, a feature of Google Earth and Google Maps that allows people to check out the actual streets of certain cities and landmarks. Right now, the countries that have these are the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Western Europe.

Read more: Google introduces Street View Trike [click]

Recently, a law was introduced in Finland which guarantees every Finnish, and perhaps everyone who's living in Finland not necessarily a native, the right to a broadband access. The government wants to make sure that the use of the internet becomes part of the legal rights of man in their land.

Read more: Making Broadband Access A Legal Right [click]

When the Dell Adamo was released many months ago, I thought that that would be the end of those super thin laptops. After all, it was already measured at 0.65 inches, thinner than the MacBook Air's 0.76 inches, which was supposed to be the world's thinnest.

Read more: More Information About the Dell Adamo XPS [click]

Thanks to Facebook, we now have a couple of companies that have raised millions in venture capital due to their popularity and potential to earn even more revenue if the business model is revised.

Read more: What Facebook Games Do You Play? [click]