Local Tech Community Gears Up for Startup Weekend Cebu

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by Fleire Castro on January 19, 2012

A local tech community in Cebu, TechTalks.ph, officially announced its plans for a Startup Weekend Cebu. Startup Weekend Cebu is set for June 1-3, 2012 (tentative date) with its venue at UP Cebu INIT (tentative venue). The event is open for developers, designers, marketers, product managers, business and startup enthusiasts. The participants will be immersed [...]

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Creativity is an often misunderstood concept, particularly in the realm of business. Some business owners and managers think that as long as all their employees do their job, they can organize a few FGDs every now and then, and someone comes up with a good idea every now and then, that’s enough creativity to be [...]

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On Choosing To Be Platform Agnostic

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by plsburydoughboy on January 7, 2012

I recently got into a short conversation with this blog’s webmaster, Fleire Castro, about different Twitter clients in between sharing information on how to help Sendong victims in Iligan and Cagayan De Oro. With the more recent changes occurring between the most popular 3rd party clients, user experiences have been changing and we can’t rely [...]

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Iliganons Track Flood News via Social Media

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by Fleire Castro on December 17, 2011

TO DONATE TO THE VICTIMS OF SENDONG IN ILIGAN, PLEASE VISIT THIS PAGE FOR DETAILS: One For Iligan Iliganons from other parts of the world stay transfixed on social media as prime source of information as Iligan City lose others means of communication due to floods. Typhoon Sendong has hit Iligan City last night causing [...]

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The misinformation in using Facebook to promote and campaign for votes can get individuals into trouble. Take for example this incident of “Facebook Like” assignment of a grade school computer teacher. She was criticized for requiring a Facebook account and generating likes in an assignment for Grade 3 students. It became the hot topic in [...]

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Hey, You Just Sinned on Facebook!

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by Fleire Castro on November 18, 2011

Living in a digital age where information is of abundance can be quite a challenge. A challenge because every time we turn on our laptops or smartphones, we are faced with chances to sin. To sin is to deliberately violate a religious or moral law, to put it. Maslow and his hierarchy of needs already informed you [...]

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Bilibid.com: Penny Auction Site Review

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by Fleire Castro on November 8, 2011

As stated on their site, Bilibid.com is a penny auction site wherein users can bid for a specific item using bid points. Just like the usual bidding process, whoever bids the highest price for the item, wins the auction. Instead of bidding for free though and cashing out only when you win a bid, these [...]

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Iligan Bloggers Society is hosting the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011 with the theme “One Green Mindanao” on October 29 – 30, 2011 in Iligan City. With this, I am off to travel mode next week to visit my hometown. Let’s get on immediately with my list because the second portion is more important – why [...]

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