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What Will 2008 Hold for the Philippine Blogosphere?
Visited 23123 Times Published by Rico January 1st, 2008 in Blogging, Internet and What. 6 Comments2008’s been great so far. At the very least, no more trouble with the roman candle.
What will the new year hold for the Philippine blogosphere? Will our audience grow, as more people go online? Or will some other form of new media overtake the blog’s current prominence? Only time will tell, dear readers, but feel […]
What Will Happen to TxtFlix.Com?
Visited 4239 Times Published by Rico December 31st, 2007 in Internet, Rico's Ramblings and What. 0 CommentsRemember what happened to Mark Verzo of BoyBastos.com? How long will TxtFlix.com last then?
Tom Pestano, will you be Loren Legarda’s next target? Your collection of local “amateur” porn will surely offend a lot of sensibilities. Even if the content is freely supplied by random users, you’ll probably shoulder most (if not all) of the liability […]
What are the Benefits of a Personal Web Portal?
Visited 572 Times Published by Rico November 23rd, 2007 in Internet and What. 8 CommentsA while back, I decided to put up rico.mossesgeld.com. Aside from securing the “mossesgeld” domain for my own family (it helped that my last name isn’t as ubiquitous as say, Chua, Smith, or Alvarez), I wanted to create a personal web portal to help people make sense of my various online commitments. You probably know […]
Why is Being a Futurist Hard?
Visited 878 Times Published by Rico November 9th, 2007 in Computers, Tech, Tidbits and Why. 2 CommentsOh, it’s easy to think that future technologies will be much much better than what we have now. Getting the specifics down is another thing though…
“Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a ‘home computer’ could look like in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically […]
Why Should You Never Reveal Your Complete Birthday to Strangers?
Visited 5446 Times Published by Rico November 8th, 2007 in Rico's Ramblings, Tech and Why. 2 CommentsIt may not be as unique as fingerprints or DNA, but more websites are starting to use your complete birthday (month, date, and year) as proof of your identity.
For instance, when I want to get funds from one of my online payment portals, the site asks for my complete to confirm the action. Many ecommerce […]
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