New Media Philippines

Adobo Magazine just announced that they’re accepting entries for the Adobo Magazine Design Awards! It’s nice that digital is represented in one major category and in one special award. The major category being WEBSITES and the special award for Best Use of Social Media or Viral Marketing. For work to be eligible they need to [...]

Research In Motion Co-CEO’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis just stepped down and the board has named COO Thorsten Heins as the new CEO and President of the company. Mike also stepped down as Chairman and will serve instead as Vice-Chairman of the Board. Jim will still be director of the company (but in a [...]

Soonr Scribble is an amazing application which lets you annotate any document and send it back to the cloud so that your team can see your comments. The app is optimized for the Samsung Galaxy Note which has the S Pen. This means you can just whip out your Note, check out a PPT/PDF/Image from [...]

First let me just congratulate the Department of Tourism, led by Secretary Mon Jimenez, for deciding to focus on social media for the tourism campaign. As a digital marketing professional I’m truly thrilled about this! The “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” campaign is groundbreaking, daring, innovative, and it will hopefully showcase what digital has [...]

After 3 years and 7 months, Jonas De Los Reyes, one of the paragons of community management in the Philippines is leaving Yahoo to head a start-up social media monitoring and intelligence company called ThoughtBuzz. The company is currently present in Singapore, Malaysia, and India with plans to expand to the Philippines and Indonesia in [...]

Doctor Eric Tayag is known more for being one of the talking heads of the Department of Health here in the Philippines. We usually see him on newscasts giving tips on how to avoid getting hit with Dengue fever or other sorts of ailments and illnesses. However it’s time for Dr. Tayag to show his [...]

It started out as a joke. A group of officemates could not get Siri, the voice command system of the Apple iPhone 4S, to understand their commands. They played around with the idea of a Filipino version called “Vangie” and cracked more jokes about different Pinoy commands and the responses it could deliver. If this [...]

We were able to confirm 100% that Gung Ho Films Manila was indeed the company behind the viral smash hit, Vangie Pinoy Siri. It was fortunate that one of my church mates and friends, Paul Pajo, was able to connect me to two of their executives: Lizanne Padilla-Alcazaren, Managing Director and Paolo Dy, Director/Cinematographer. We [...]

! GUNG HO Films Manila creators of Vangie Pinoy Siri viral video? Vangie, the Pinoy Siri, has turned into a viral smash hit here in the Philippines. The video has already racked up more than 1,000,000 views and they’ll definitely get more as the days go by. They already uploaded a follow-up video as well [...]

Multiply.com has transformed itself from an ailing social network about to be killed by Facebook into a venerable e-commerce powerhouse in the Philippines. They now have over 100,000 merchants and e-commerce related visits to the site have increased by 30% compared to May earlier this year. Jack Madrid, Multiply Country Manager (formerly from Yahoo), is [...]

One good way of doing viral marketing is to take advantage of any video that’s currently making a huge wave on social networks. In order to make the most of this though you have to react pretty fast and put up your follow-up video before the momentum dies down. You’ll also have to consider how [...]

A report came out yesterday talking about the different prices of LTE (4G) in different countries all over the world. This is relevant news for us since SMART is working on rolling out their LTE service in 2012 (or 2013, nobody really knows). We’re currently part of the beta test and to say that this [...]

Following Google Zeitgest 2011, YouTube just uploaded YouTube Rewind 2011 showing the most watched videos in the last year. Our very own Maria Aragorn is part of the top 10. The most watched though is probably the most annoying — Rebecca Black’s Friday MTV (ugh). Anyway, check it out below! YouTube Rewind 2011 I can’t [...]

As a blogger on technology, new media, and trends I always try to explore as many gadget ecosystems as possible. I’ve been immersed in the world of Apple and iOS for the last few years so I decided to get find out what Android had to offer. I’ve tried several Android handsets including the Smart [...]

In the the last 29 years of my life I’ve been to a lot of product launches and events. I’ve been to product launches in and out of the Philippines. However I think I just saw the biggest, wildest, and craziest product launch… ever. Last Thursday Smart Communications shut down Power Plant Mall in Rockwell [...]

It’s amazing how TV5 has grown so much in the last year. I’ve been with the company for 1 year now (joined December 2010) and there’s now better way to cap this year off than by watching the TV5 Christmas Station ID. I think this video shows the aggressive nature of the company as well [...]

The Philippine Blog Awards 2011 was held last week at the Carlos P. Romulo auditorium in RCBC Building, Makati City. I’ve always made in a point to support this activity (even when I was still with Level Up) because I believe that this event is helpful for the Filipino blogging community. Hopefully I’ll still be [...]

So… Bench will donate 1 million pesos to a charity if their endorser, Dingdong Dantes, gets 1 million followers on Twitter. In all honesty I don’t think Dingdong needs a promo to reach 1M given his popularity. All he has to do is to ask help from his other celebrity friends to tweet to their [...]

My Facebook Account Disappeared Yesterday felt like an ordinary day. I woke up in the morning, stood up from bed, and checked Facebook (lol). I was in for a rude awakening though. For some unexplainable reason my personal account was no longer there. I could still access the pages that I was admin for but [...]

As most of you guys know I work for network and that means I have to be always in the know when it comes to the local “chismis” scene. One of the best sites to get this information from is the Philippine Entertainment Portal or more commonly known as PEP.PH. I missed out on a [...]