Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

August 12th, 2010

Google Pilipinas Zeitgeist for July 2010

Google published a list of the most popular news searches made by Filipinos last July, 2010. What's different now is alongside this list, a video was produced by Pinoy Googlers to highlight it. Here are the terms that made it to the top of our list: Pacquiao - No surprise ...

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June 11th, 2010

Google Marks Philippine Independence Day with Doodle

For the second time Google gives honor to our Independence Day (Araw ng Kalayaan) with another "doodle" on the homepage of Google.com.ph. Last year's doodle was a little more straightforward and traditional. The golden sun replaced the first "o" while the three stars are pinned to mark their places ...

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April 21st, 2010

Happy Earth Day

Happy Earth Day! Let's try to be more aware of our surroundings and think of what we could do to help protect it. That is the gist of Earth Day. Love our Mother Earth! Google loves our planet, so expect a Google Doodle very soon. :) And ...

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December 6th, 2009

Google USB Stick

Let me show off a cool schwag that I won a few days ago. It's a Google USB Stick in the form of a nerdy looking lego dude. Poor guy. I need to remove its head every time I need to connect it to my laptop. Now it looks like ...

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November 26th, 2009

Google Wave for Domains

Did you know that it's possible to have Google Wave for your own domain? Simply sign up here. This would come in handy if your organization is already on Google Apps and would like to have Google Wave amongst your current suite of apps. I'm not ...

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November 3rd, 2009

Google-STI Business Stimulus Package

Google, in partnership with STI, are offering a unique opportunity for businesses to promote their products and services online through the Philippine Business Stimulus Package. During these trying times, businesses may find it difficult to attract potential clients, be it offline or online. Online, Google takes care of ...

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May 1st, 2009

Get a Free Google Business Card

Google is giving away business card sets to 10,000 users. It's a cool way to show off your Google profile and moreover, it's free! All you need to do is login to your Google profile and make it public if you already haven't done so. Shortly after ...

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December 12th, 2008

Google Auto-Suggest Feature Launched for Southeast Asia

I apologize for the long absence! Busy, busy month! Anyway, I wanted to share with you that an auto-suggest feature has launched for Google Philippines, as well as for Google Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. Go Southeast Asia! Here's a sampling: [photopress:auto_suggest.png,full,centered] Whoa, people are actually searching for my name! ...

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October 28th, 2008

Max’s Restaurant’s 3-Day Online Delivery Service

My friend RJ asked me a while ago if I knew of a restaurant in Manila that delivers and accepts payments through Paypal. He said Max's Restaurant did, but him and his friend didn't feel like eating chicken tonight. I asked my friends on Plurk if they knew ...

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October 21st, 2008

Google Feedproxy: Should You Switch?

Back at Ratified.org, I noticed a handful of blogs whose Feedburner statistics have stopped updating. I looked into it and saw that all of their feeds have switched to a somewhat peculiar URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/xxxxxxx. Because of that, their Awareness API, the place where Ratified.org grabs all the feed ...

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