Philippines Freelancers Blog September Archive

Perhaps, this kind of problem is something that only university students are having. For students, studying inside the home can be a difficult task, given the distractions that increase in number every minute. Personally, I find it difficult to study when there's little space around and when there is too much familiar noise. Productivity is greatly damaged, tasks long overdue are still not started, while I still have to wait until late midnight just to be able to get myself into the mood.

Read more: Free 24-Hour Wifi Connectivity in the Metro [click]

Google has always been vocal with their stand against paid posts and link selling. The controversial topic, although had quieted for the past couple of months, is likely to be revived as Google broke their silence and frowned at the blogging practice during the 2009 Search Engine Strategies in San Jose.

Read more: Google Will Act On Link Selling and Paid Posts [click]

The previous months have been a little frustrating for die-hard Flickr members who owns an iPhone. Although there are quite a number of apps, e.g. Mobile Fotos, wherein you can upload photos to your Flickr account via iPhone, Flickr itself has not. Until now.

Read more: Yahoo! Flickr Finally Owned Its Own iPhone App [click]

Yesterday we went to the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City to visit our Lola Trining's grave because it was her birthday. But before going there we had to fetch our other relatives in Novaliches, Quezon City first. So we took the long Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) and headed north.

Read more: Hooray! Free Public Wi-Fi in SM North EDSA [click]

I met this girl at a book launch months ago. She participated in the discussion with the author and mentioned she read the author's 3 previous books. Aside from being pretty, she talked finely, with conviction and wit. I got interested in her, and I know I just have to have her name and contact details.

Read more: My Google Map Love Story. Literally. [click]

As a freelance web writer, there are only a few things that I can complain about. The work is doing well, the compensation is enough, and yet I still have control over my own time. It seems that this is the kind of job that a lot of people would want to have.

Read more: Beating Writer's Block [click]

When I logged on my Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 last night, a notice popped in my screen with an invitation to download and try Yahoo! Messenger's newest updates, version 10. The new YM! v.10 is still in beta mode and most probably Yahoo! is still in testing phase and checking public reaction.

Read more: Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta [click]

The annual Search Engine Marketing Conference 2009 has once again arrived for its 3rd year. The event will be held on October 1 and 2 at  The Grand Ballroom, Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City, Philippines. The 2 day conference will be attended by the industry's top internet marketing experts.

Read more: 3rd Search Engine Marketing Conference 2009 [click]

"When 140 characters isn't early enough" - is the tag-line of the newest parody website to the popular microblogging site Twitter. Called Woofer, it totally 'dwarfs' Twitter's 140 characters with its massive 1,400 character post, as "minimum".

Read more: When 140 Characters Isn't Nearly Enough. [click]