Over dinner last week, we finally got the full story on how Rajo Laurel and friends got to hook up with Sarah Jessica Parker when the style icon visited Manila a month ago for the SM Aura Premier opening and to do the SM Love to Shop campaign.
The tasseled caps have been tossed, diplomas handed out and graduation parties thrown here and there. Now what? Do you search for a job with the rest of the new graduates, or take a few months off to recharge and savor liberation from the academe? There’s no right or wrong choice. It all boils down [...]
Tuesday night at Hai Chix & Steaks in Ortigas. The waiter placed the huge porterhouse in the middle of our table, the beef fat glistening under the restaurant light.
“Para mangtakam ng friends, bwahaha!”—Sol Villamayor, founder, Digital Traincase “I’ve always been a food lover and I used to take pics of my food before I started Instagramming. However, I posted them on Facebook or kept them in my hard drive as a reminder of that delicious meal. Instagram is now sort of like an extension of that desire to document. But this time, I have the pleasure of sharing my food finds with my fellow food-loving friends. After all, what’s the point of experiencing an amazingly delicious meal if you can’t share it with someone, right?”—Marco, DJ
Eric, 17, was texting furiously while we waited in line to watch an action flick in the mall. His new girlfriend was angry with him; he had not yet updated his relationship status on Facebook.
When Canada’s ambassador to China posted photos of his car on the embassy’s Twitter-like weibo page, the instant, mass response boosted his country’s image in a way that surely stunned many diplomats.
Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionized how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French Impressionist Edouard Manet.
Margaret (@derpinya) A lot of people worked hard and even risked their lives just for us to get the freedom we deserve. And now this happens. Zahra Bianca Saldua (@balinguyngoy) Dear Mr. *****, congratulations! You have been awarded the most hated person in the Philippines… How does it feel?? EL Buenaflor (@buenamazing) Isa [...]
App developer JP Loh (@jploh) and social media strategists Ros Juan (@juanxi) and Tonyo Cruz (@tonyocruz) know the power of Twitter.
We use social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and blogs to virtually “connect” with people, updating each other with regular status reports and giving (and receiving) feedback about them. Social networking sites readily provide us with what we personally, professionally and socially need—and everything for free.
I am horrible when it comes to technology. So I guess it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that I’m not a techie parent. However, last week, I heard a short talk about parenting in the digital age and felt like everything the speaker was saying was aimed directly at me! “This is your children’s time, not yours” and “Be open or get left behind” were some of the zingers I felt hitting me. I still have my own ideas and beliefs about parenting and technology, but I thought I would ask some parents how they feel about it. Since June is the month of the fathers, let’s hear what the men have to say.
