Archive for January, 2008

Withdraw Your PayPal Funds to Your Philippine Bank Account

This just came in the mail and it’s good news for the growing e-commerce industry here in the Philippines. PayPal just announced its new withdrawal feature which now allows its Pinoy members to conveniently withdraw funds from their PayPal accounts to their local bank accounts. According to the announcement in Ebay.ph, all local banks can [...]

Pownce Now Public

I got this good news straight from the blog of Kevin Rose. Kevin, who is well known as the founder of Digg (add me as friend, my username is: jonas) launched in beta last June 2007 a service called Pownce which, in their words, “is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind [...]

Meet and Greet Happy Slip!

It’s not news anymore about the recent trip home of Internet celebrity Christine Gambito or more popularly known as “Happy Slip” here in Manila, Philippines. We have the Department of Tourism to thank for this and it’s really good news to see the government venturing into online marketing to target Fil-Ams to visit the Philippines. [...]

Flat-out Fabulous Shoe Sale!

I have always mentioned in my talks that bringing your business online now one can literally be cost-free and can be setup in minutes. What I meant here is anyone can actually use platforms like Blogger, WordPress or even Multiply to market and sell online. And this is what we’re seeing now. A growing number [...]

Food Trip Field Trip at the Trinoma Food Tour for Bloggers!

More than a hundred bloggers of all shapes and sizes flocked at the cinema lobby of Trinoma yesterday afternoon and experienced a one-of-a-kind treat that left us full to the brim and likewise wanting for more. Everyone who came got a baller ID for identification, a colored sticker for grouping purposes and a good bag [...]