What Young Entrepreneurs Can Get From Playing StarCraft 2

When StarCraft was launched 12 years ago, it was a big hit among PC gamers and became one of the most played LAN games in the following years. Last July 27, 2010, the long awaited StarCraft 2 was release and numerous fans, like me, swarmed tech stores to buy the game. Nostalgia at its finest.

If you haven’t played the first release, you will never understand why we are going crazy about StarCraft 2. But this is not about the good old days when we sleep around 5AM, this about what business value we can get from playing the game. continue reading →

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Honda CR-Z Sneaking Around Car Town

by Rob Angeles on August 26, 2010

Honda CR-Z Sneaking Around Car Town

One of the best things about my job is I get to play Facebook games. Not just to entertain myself but to see different executions from different game developers. I love games and been playing since the days of Atari and Commodore 64.

I love cars too especially Japanese breeds and put cars in a game, viola! I will definitely try it out. A new Facebook game was launched a few weeks ago and it’s called Car Town. continue reading →

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Away From The Keyboard

by Rob Angeles on August 25, 2010

Away From The Keyboard

There are times when writers or bloggers hit a cul-de-sac in finding inspiration of interesting stuff to write about. If you’re experiencing this, don’t worry you are not alone. Even veteran bloggers experience this. Sometimes, you see their articles seem a little bit off compared with their previous.

This is an indication that our brain needs to do some recharging or needs to retreat for a while. And what’s the best way to do this? Get away from the keyboard, get some fresh air or visit a mall. continue reading →

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3 Online Launch Pads You Can Use For Your Business

August 24, 2010
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There are still many businesses out there that are skeptic in using social media. Some are still observing the social web and some are just confused on where to start. From a conservative entrepreneur’s perspective, adapting social media will open their business to negative elements that may ruin their business. This, my friend, is totally [...]

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Creating Advocates For Your Brand

August 18, 2010
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I was listening to Tweets a while ago regarding Jeremiah Owyang’s talk this morning here in Manila. For your information, Jeremiah will be the keynote speaker in the 4th IMMAP Summit 2010 tomorrow. And if you want to attend the event, you can still register HERE or buy your tickets HERE. One of the Tweets [...]

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Blogging Out Of The Box

August 16, 2010
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Many of us started blogging during the time when blogs were called journals and during the past years, blog platforms evolve rapidly to what they are today. People nowadays can setup their own blogs without having to hire a tech guy just to go through all the mumbo jumbo of the technical stuff one needs [...]

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The Bubble Effect In Digital Marketing

August 11, 2010
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Digital Marketing is the IN thing to do right now. A lot brands and companies started embracing digital after their competitors started embracing it. It’s a little bit ironic since digital is the IN thing to do yet everybody waits for results from competitors. But that’s not my focus. The thing is, though there are [...]

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Dear Philippine Government Websites – You Suck

August 4, 2010
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A friend of mine from the United States will be coming over this September and he’s looking into investing here in the Philippines. Since I was the one encouraging him to do such, I became his point-person with some of his transactions and became an adviser. Yesterday, he was asking me technicalities of setting up [...]

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15 Reasons Why Your Boss Should Attend The 4th IMMAP Summit 2010

August 2, 2010
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A few more weeks and we’ll be seeing each other at the 4th IMMAP Summit 2010. I believe that events like this are something that we should look forward to since it only happen once a year. This year’s event is packed with awesome speakers and power users from different social media channels. Questions is, [...]

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2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report From SME

July 30, 2010
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One of the things business owners are afraid of in using social media is measurement. Of course, we do not do things that we cannot measure. But as years pass by, a lot of analytics and measurements have been set in place to guide social media marketers in monitoring online efforts. Michael Steizner of Social [...]

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Your Corner Office In The Web

July 27, 2010
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As professionals working in the corporate world, we often think of having a corner office in our company. Yeah, corner offices are for super stars, executives and for people who contributed so much. It actually tells people what you are. Are you in those groups of people? But did you know that the web too [...]

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What Your Clients Need To Know About Digital Marketing and Social Media

July 23, 2010
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One of the most asked question by clients is what digital marketing is. Lucky you if they ask about social media. Some think of these 2 as hype and requires knowledge about rocket science especially those who are in the big corporate space who tends to make things much complicated. Why complicated? Well, they want [...]

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Facebook Is The Best Launch Pad For A Digital Campaign

July 19, 2010
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You may have heard of this over and over again but let me say it once more. If Facebook is a country, it is the 4th largest country in terms of population. With 400 million active users around the world, no wonder why global brands created their presence thru fan pages and groups the moment [...]

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Driving Social Media Traffic Is Like Buying Discount Chicken

July 14, 2010
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I was in the super market the other day on a search for toilet paper. Toilet paper seems to be the one essential item that I consistently manage to keep off my shopping list when I am in desperate need. While I was there walking down the Isle I noticed that Chicken for only $10.99 [...]

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Asian Bloggers and Social Media Conference 2010

July 12, 2010
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With the advent of social media in the world today it is not surprising that individuals and businesses are looking for ways to fully take advantage of them, and keeping in mind that their capabilities are not entirely tapped yet and still posses huge potentials for future development. Consider the fact, researches are shown that [...]

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There Are No Secrets In Social Media

July 7, 2010
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Many of my friends were asking me why I keep on giving tips regarding social media, how to use the tools and draft simple strategies. They’re concern is that I should charge money for giving away my content. Yes? No? You see internet marketers sending you crappy email telling you that if you enroll in [...]

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The 4th IMMAP Summit 2010 – The Digital Ripple

July 5, 2010
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Gone are the days when we have to stick with print ads, posters, banners and all sort of traditional advertising.  Digital marketing created a new culture that lets marketers bring their campaign over the Internet allowing them to reach a new breed of consumers. With the advent of new media and fusion of technology, marketers [...]

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A Sneak Peak of Geotoko

July 1, 2010
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Geotoko is a platform for businesses to run location-based contests and sweepstakes. They leverage existing location based apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Loopt, Google Latitude, Twitter etc to provide businesses increased loyalty and conversions with customers checking-in. They’re currently in closed beta getting feedback from their launch partners as they continue to refine Geotoko. If [...]

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Google DevFest 2010

June 30, 2010
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DevFest events are a great opportunity to learn more about Google technologies and developer products. The events also give you a chance to meet developer advocates and engineers who work on those products and ask them any questions you might have. Best of all, DevFest events are free to developers worldwide! Seats at the events [...]

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