Last September, a few bloggers were buzzing about a certain job opening at Yahoo. Specifically, they were looking for an Online Community Manager for the Philippines, whose chores include:

• Online Community Management
• User Engagement
• Product Marketing
• Product Maintenance and Development

Yes, it’s safe to say they’re looking for an Aileen Apolo who likes to yodel.

Mike questioned why the position was based in Singapore and not here. A perfectly valid point, but Abe says it’s because they don’t have an office here yet. But now that it’s confirmed that they are setting up a Philippine hub, odds are that person will be assigned locally.

Word is it won’t be till next year that Yahoo will start building their office but are in the process of forming strategic alliances with local content providers. More importantly, some lucky guy or gal might have already been hired as our Online Community Manager. Question is, who is he/she?

Ya, WHO?

I got bored tonight and decided to tinker with my Photoshop skills. I’ve always wanted to create a hedcut for Boss Sergey Brin ang Boss Larry Page. I have a popular tutorial for creating hedcuts, but for this one I took it a bit further by applying different textures to the skin, hair, clothing and background.

Ok? Not Ok? What can you say?

This afternoon, I was thinking of a cool way to compose a business card suited for the up and coming Davao Food Appreciation Tour. How do I connect it to food without looking desperate? Add some “bite” to it, that’s what! With some folder cardboard stock, a pair of craft scissors this is what I came up with:

Here’s a logo I made in 30 minutes for a guy who saw my photoshop tutorial on Youtube:

He wanted a logo for his bowling team and said that they would be printing it on a black t-shirt. He also wanted some gold colors, so I made the bowling ball gold c”,). I dunno, maybe I should’ve spent more time on it. What do you think?

If your Gmail inbox is getting a tad confusing, try organizing it using filters and variants of your email address. You can branch out your Gmail address to a variation of email addresses and hook them with filters when you receive emails. Say that your email address is starwarsfreak@gmail.com. Adding a plus sign (+) after your user nick and any letter-number combination will still result in you receiving an email. Try setting your Friendster account email to starwarsfreak+friendster@gmail.com. By doing this, all your Friendster notifications (if active) will go to starwarsfreak@gmail.com but the difference is now you can easily filter them based on the recipient address. In Gmail, go to Settings > Filters and type in your Friendster address in the To: field.

Then, specify what action to do if an email matches the criteria. Apply a new label to it called “Friendster”. Voila. From now on, all emails from Friendster will be labeled accordingly. Another neat trick you can do is create a variant to handle potential spam, like starwarsfreak+spam@gmail.com. Use this email when registering for “iffy” sites that you’ll never want to be bothered by or never come back to. Simply setup a filter to delete messages going to this email.

Adding periods (.) anywhere in your username produces the same result. Gmail ignores these dots, so star.wars.freak@gmail.com and s.t.a.r.w.a.r.s.f.r.e.a.k@gmail.com and starwarsfreak@gmail.com are one and the same, of course except when applying filters, the dots do matter.

If you’re wondering if this works for Gmail for domains, yes it sure does.