I’m happy to announce that I’m currently working at my own start up project slumnote an old social media way back 90’s, and hopefully to bring this back online with the help of my friends and co-founder.

Write now our main goal is to bring back the old social media online and bring different service.

We are also planning to bring back the question and answer especially the question “who is your crush?”

slumnote - Record your social life and moment at Slumnote.com

Here is an article from New Media Philippines which discusses the recent study done by Synovate commissioned by the Cartoon Network on Filipino kids ages 7-14 years old.  The study found out that most Filipino kids are spending more time online compared to playing console games, listening to music, and reading non-school books. Internet usage is second only to watching TV.

Here is the article:

In a study done by Synovate commissioned by the Cartoon Network, Filipino kids 7 – 14 years old are spending more time online compared to playing console games, listening to music, and reading non-school books. Internet usage is second only to watching TV. If you think about it, this was kinda expected due to the increasing number of internet cafes all over the country combined with the aggressive marketing and roll-out of broadband service providers.

The latest Blogging Survey conducted by Videojug reveals that the blogging market is now in saturation and is profitable. Aside from that it also revealed a lot of interesting facts and results. A whooping 54.7% of bloggers had their blog for over 2 years with just 11% who have their blogs only for under a year. Another interesting result is the revalation that of all the blogs, a huge 55% don't have any advertisements in their blog.

Here is the summary of the latest blogging survey...

Below are a few of the popular questions that were posed in the survey, briefly summarised for quick reference.

To those who do not want to use complicated Internet Filtering Software you can set-up the web-boosting, attack-preventing OpenDNS service to work with your router and drill down on specific prevention measures. You can filter by category or content, block specific sites, pop up custom warning messages and keep logs of web activity.

OpenDNS is a perfect solution for people who either lack the time or expertise to set up and administer a full-out content-filtering server. OpenDNS replaces your current DNS server and allows you to filter every connection coming out of your house if you change the DNS settings at the router level. No matter if someone is on your main desktop or connecting into your wireless via laptop, everything will be filtered by OpenDNS. You can set custom filters to white list and black list specific sites and customize the range of filters they provide for you.

(I originally posted this at The Delano Observer blog)

Another hoax is circulating in e-mail nowadays. The email says that whenever someone forces you to withdraw in an Automated Teller Machine or ATM all you have to do is to enter your PIN in reverse order. This will then let you withdraw money however the money will stuck up and it will also alert the police of the anomalous act being made. However, upon search online it was found out that this email is false and the system is not true.

Most of us will literally be led to believe that this is true since it is very practical and our concern for our friends will then led us to forward this to more people. What we do not know is this email may even include a tracking code that will allow people to snoop our emails or even worse.

So how can we determine if an email is true or false?

One rule in email: If it looks to good to be true and beyond the ordinary search for it in your search engine and add the word hoax at the end.

If it is a hoax it will easily be identified since there are people and authorities who are always on the lookout for hoaxes online.

Here are the references to the ATM Reverse PIN Code Alert Hoax:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/reverse-pin-ATM.shtml

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_SafetyPIN_software

Happy birthday, the internet

Internet celebrates 40th birthday: but what date should we be marking?

Matthew Moore is a journalist for The Daily Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk, with a particular interest in the creativity, community and humour of the internet. He has worked at the Telegraph for four years.

Internet's Birth Day

It's just fascinating and also irritating that day after day there are some e-mail scams that would eventually get past your usual e-mail filtering. Today I received an e-mail from a certain Col. Alex Tabara whose email is alextabara2@gmail.com. Perhaps he cannot use alextabara@gmail.com because it was already used. The e-mail talks about a large sum of money discovered by US troops in Iraq which he had stolen. It also has a link to the legitimate news about a real incident like this which is already under investigation.

At first look and if you are really interested with getting rich fast you will reply and communicate with this person in the hope of getting some of the money. But in the end you will ask yourself why you did it.

First if you look at the email address and the text there is a discrepancy in the name. Alex Tabara on the header and Col. Alex Tabarra on the content. It seems the sender is also confused of his real name.

OneWebDay on Sept. 22, 2009 is indeed history in the making for the Philippines and for all the 24 million Filipino internet users, whose interests PIUS represents.

It’s your ‘TYPE’ that’s it.

We therefore call on every Internet user to join us in celebrating the OneWebDay by contributing your share in teaching others how to use a computer and access the Internet.

Be part of history in the making because we are celebrating OneWebDay for the first time in the Philippines. Although there are lofty reasons why we celebrate it, but we are celebrating on the same date as other countries mainly because of what is called QWERTY logic, which means you have no choice but to follow an emerging international convention.

QWERTY represents the first six letters from the left of the top row of letters on a typewriter. It was designed and patented by Christopher Sholes in 1874 and sold to E. Remington & Sons in the same year, when it first appeared in typewriters. Legend has it that QWERTY was designed as you could type the word “Typewriter” with your fingers not ever leaving the top row of letters.

Here's one good story for oldies like us. Happy reading!

The Spokesman-Review  July 23, 2009 In City