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Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Tracking a stolen iPad
A THIEF spoiled the first Sinulog of Smart social media senior supervisor Abbie Real. Real was in Cebu Friday to attend the launching of an electronic guidebook on Cebu and the data tagging of the province’s heritage and tourism sites using QR code. When Smart staff members were preparing for the photo at the Heritage of Cebu Monument, someone called … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Google releases news reading app Currents
LAST week, Google finally released for Android devices, iPad and iPhone its long-awaited mobile news reading application Google Currents. The application, however, is still only available for devices in the US. The decision to allow only US users to test the application has sparked criticisms in some website comments sections. While previous Google products came out first as invitation-only beta … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Disintermediation
TO do well online, close your website department. The website department as we know it today is approaching obsolescence, even anachronism. It’s like a typists’ pool-–convenient but unessential, an extra layer of fat that is fatal in today’s time of lean startups and agile companies. Today, the Internet should be central to everything that you do. It should be the … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Becoming a better blogger
(The following is a condensed version of my talk on how to improve your blogging skills during the Visayas Blogging Summit last Saturday. The summit was well-attended and had several corporate sponsors, an indication that blogging has indeed gone mainstream in Cebu) .prezi-player { width: 500px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } My presentation during the Visayas Blogging Summit on … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » CE-GNU-LUG keeps, spreads the faith
LITTLE John looms large in the Cebu open source community. In installfests, he towers. My first encounter with John Clark “Little John” Naldoza and his merry band of local open source advocates was in an installfest, a gathering hosted by a Linux users’ group (LUG) where people can bring their computers for installation of a Linux operating system (OS), in … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Manage your projects, tasks with Asana
The company started by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and programming genius Justin Rosenstein opened to the public last week its productivity product Asana, a web application that allows users to manage teams and projects. Moskovitz is listed by Forbes as the world’s youngest billionaire, being eight days younger than Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, owing to the success of the social … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Location, location, location
Beware of geeks bearing gifts. A man in New York City has reportedly caught his wife cheating using the Find My Friends app of the iPhone 4S he gave her. Find My Friends uses global positioning system (GPS) to let people share their locations with friends. The locations of people are indicated by a tooltip on a satellite map. And … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » 2 crazy ones
TWO giants of technology died in recent weeks in widely contrasting fashion. Many mourned the passing of the genius who was Steve Jobs, only a few marked the demise of the genius who was Dennis Ritchie. But despite that disparity, in life as in death, there is a thread that binds Jobs and Ritchie – that of greatness, genius and … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Making money in new media
HOW long do you support a losing website? Two years? Three? Five? Failing is okay so long as you fail fast, Inquirer director for mobile JV Rufino said in a forum last Monday held as part of this year’s Press Freedom Week celebration. Speed is even more crucial on the Internet, where one year zips by in just six months. … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Smartphones, Smart’s Netphone
In the US, 89 percent of those with smartphones use it throughout the day, according to a study published last April by Google. The study, based on interviews of 5,013 American adults who identified themselves as users of smartphones, said the device has become a consumer’s “always-on companion” and 93 percent use it at home, 87 percent while commuting or … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Innovation gospel according to Steve Jobs
DEATH is the “single best invention of Life,” Steve Jobs told graduates of Stanford University in 2005. It is life’s change agent, clearing out the old to make way for the new, he said in his commencement speech that regained popularity online with his resignation last week as Apple chief executive officer over medical reasons. “Remembering that I’ll be dead … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » WordPress rides the open source juggernaut
Eight years after it was started by a 19-year-old college freshman as a blogging software, WordPress now powers 14.7 percent of the world’s top one million websites. It is used in 55 million websites. In his annual State of The Word address last week, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg also said the open source content management system (CMS) now runs 22 … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Use QR codes, Google Docs to set up free inventory system
YOU know QR or quick response codes have gone mainstream when they appear in the ample bottoms of Britain’s female beach volleyball champions. The codes, when scanned with mobile phones, direct users to a betting website. The Daily Mail reported that Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin have been paid a “substantial” figure to have the QR codes printed on the … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Forget PowerPoint, wow ‘em with Prezi
DEATH by PowerPoint is illustrated by a slide portraying the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan. “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” the New York Times reported General Stanley McChrystal as saying, sparking laughter in the room. The slide, which went viral last year, “looked more like a bowl of spaghetti,” the paper reported. It sparked … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » CE-GNU-LUG keeps, spreads the faith
LITTLE John looms large in the Cebu open source community. In installfests, he towers. My first encounter with John Clark “Little John” Naldoza and his merry band of local open source advocates was in an installfest, a gathering hosted by a Linux users’ group (LUG) where people can bring their computers for installation of a Linux operating system (OS), in … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Jerry Rapes: Head in the Cloud, feet on Cebu
IF WE do things right, Exist president and chief executive officer Jerry Rapes said, the opportunity is really big. From $9 billion and 500,000 direct jobs in 2010, the information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) sector in the Philippines is targeting $25 billion in revenues and 1.3 million workers by 2016. Exist president and chief executive officer Jerry Rapes speaks during … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Writing, reading and mobile devices
GOOD Web writing is non-linear. It takes advantage of the key technology behind the Internet—the hyperlink—to provide context, additional information and even marginalia. It is “writing for selfish readers,” as usability expert Jakob Nielsen puts it. Web readers have so many sites and services competing for their attention they barely have time to read your article. TABLET READING. The experience … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » News writing: 5Ws, GPS
When fire broke out in Barangay Tejero late Saturday afternoon, I was dragged to the scene by my wife, who wanted to cover it for her news blog and as trial for the system of Yahoo! Philippines’ foray into local news. I can no longer recall the last time I covered a fire for news. But it was definitely before … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Organize your life with QR codes
Productivity blog Lifehacker links to a great service by Boxmeup, a website that allows you to create virtual containers that you can use to track stuff in boxes and other bulk storage systems. It uses for labels QR codes, bar codes that can be scanned by most smartphones today. The service is really useful for pack rats like me who … [Link]
Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments » Copyright? Try copyleft
STOP the “culture of copying” among Filipinos, Intellectual Property Office (IPO) Philippines Director General Ricardo Blancaflor said in his speech during the Cebu Creative Industries Summit on June 21. Blancaflor pressed on the need to respect copyrights, saying creative industries rely on intellectual property. Creative industries, he said, posted a yearly growth of 14 percent from 2002 to 2008. Blancaflor … [Link]