Vote for Sofie Garrucho in iTalentStar Philippine Finals
Filipina blogger Sofie Garrucho is one of the Philippine finalists in the iTalentStar Southeast Asian online talent contest. Sofie is already an online star in her own right, but a little extra traffic from some contest doesn’t hurt.
Sofie is a true citizen of the Internet; better a real Netizen win than some Web-wannabe. Vote for Sofie here.
Tags: Asian, Babes, Filipina, iTalentStar, Philippines, Sofie-Garrucho, Southeast-Asia
February 18, 2008 | Filed Under Babes, Philippines | 3 CommentsEx-Mobius Prez Joins Yahoo
In February, Mobius CEO Scott Countryman unsuccessfully tried to sell his company to Yahoo. The price: less than 10% of Mobius for $1.25 million. Considering that my blogs make more money than Mobius’ entire EVE Online Southeast Asia service, I don’t blame Yahoo for passing up Scott’s offer.
Instead of buying the whole company, Yahoo just got one of the best parts. Jojo Anonuevo, who resigned as President of Mobius in June, joins Yahoo as senior director of business development for Southeast Asia. Good for Yahoo — Jojo’s a customer-focused straight-talker with good ideas and great vision. Having served with Oracle before joining Mobius, Jojo’s got experience to boot. Level Up should’ve pirated this guy when they had the chance.
“Having the Philippines as part of my remit is also a great opportunity to address the benefits of the Internet for my fellow Pinoys. Yahoo has adopted a Filipino-centric business approach in my native country and I will look to help Yahoo expand on that vision,” says Jojo on his new job. Yahoo’s in the middle of an enterprise-wide soul-searching; Jojo can definitely them find their soul here in Southeast Asia.
Tags: Jojo-Anonuevo, mobius, Philippines, Scott-Countryman, Search, Southeast-Asia, Yahoo
September 7, 2007 | Filed Under Philippines, Search | 10 CommentsLineage II SEA Music Video
Lineage II Southeast Asia begins its closed beta on July 12 at 1:00pm GMT+8, and publisher AsianMedia has a Filipino music video to go with it. Rock on to Pasan by Calla Lily.
AsianMedia has received the list of winners for my Lineage II SEA closed beta invitation giveaway, so I’ll be seeing some of my readers in-game.
Tags: AsianMedia, Calla-Lily, Gaming, Lineage-II, Music, Pasan, Southeast-Asia
July 11, 2007 | Filed Under Gaming, Music | 2 Comments-
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Mike Abundo serves as Vice-President for Online Services of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society. He also writes for Inside Online Video and Tech Side Up. Email him at mike@mikeabundo.com.
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