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Earn from Airtime Load – Load Mo Sarili Mo (LMSM)

This opportunity is for people who would like to make money by selling airtime load and other similar services.
This is also for people who consume a lot of load and would like to economize through discounts.

There’s a business opportunity called Load Mo Sarili Mo or “LMSM”. From the information I gather from different interviews and flyers I’ve seen, LMSM is basically a different way of distributing airtime load across the Philippines.

LMSM - Load Mo Sarili Mo

LMSM uses a “member-gets-member” concept. The member becomes a load fund reseller and enjoys 3-5% discount.

After the jump, take a look at the LMSM slide presentation, earning opportunities, advantages, membership types and more. Also see details of the Grand Launch of LMSM.
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Mobile Millionaire Manifesto – Make Money with Mobile

Dear friends, 

When I began Technobiography in 2004, I just wanted to write about technology and how it affects my life. 

So much has changed since 2004. And it’s time for me to make a change and take this blog to the next level. I have decided to tighten the theme of my blog around the niche of How to Make Money with Mobile. 

Mobile Millionaire - Make Money with Mobile

I reached this decision at the Maven Secrets Program by Anton Diaz, especially with the inspiration of Kid blogger Carl Ocab (Make Money Online with a 13 year old kid blogger). When I met Carl, I half kidding when I declared “When I grow up, I want to become like Carl Ocab”.  :-) 

Thus, begins my transition from Technobiography to www.MobileMillionaire.Net . 

Mobile Millionaire – Make Money with Mobile 

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Wi-Tribe: Wi’ve got 4G WiMax via Liberty

Looks like Liberty is in town. Saw this at the Petron station in Buendia cor. Makati Ave. They call it Wi-Tribe (Pronounced “wye tribe”). And they call it a 4G (4th generation) broadband technology.

Wi-Tribe is in Town: WiMax wireless broadband via Liberty

Wi-Tribe WiMax Modem - nomadic (fixed mobile)

Some quick bullets:

• I remember my friends at Intel being part of the WiMax testing back in circa 2005/2006 . Glad to know it’s now reaching the masses … slowly but surely.
• I hear they’re offering trial accounts in selected areas
• I hear (again) that they’re giving a guarantee of internet speeds of 2Mbps at P999 . That’s fast and cheap.
• The modem is rather big. It’s nomadic — meaning it can be transferred from one place to another, but it will not work *while* it’s being moved.

Related links:
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Wordpress error: “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.”

I’ve been updating my wordpress blogs the past weeks.

On www.edwinsoriano.com, I was trying to update one of my widgets. But when I click “save” on the widget, I kept getting this error:

Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again.

After many attempts and getting the same result, I did a Google search for “Wordpress error are you sure you want to do this“. Most of the results had to do with Wordpress MU which I wasn’t using.

I was able to fix the error on my own. I found that if I deactivate one of my plugins, I no longer get the error.

Here’s how I did it:
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How Pinoys Use Mobile and Online Apps

I got this information via email on how Pinoys use mobile apps and online apps. I made sure from the source whether I could share the information. Glad to pass on the information to help readers understand where the Mobile Apps market is like and where it’s headed. There are two studies in the files below. 

The first is how Pinoys use Mobile Apps. The second is What Pinoys do Online. 

How Pinoys use mobile Apps 

Among the top usage of Mobile Apps are m-commerce, MMS, ringtones, gaming and infotainment. Of course Txt Messaging is used by many more subscribers, it’s included in the table further below just for comparison. Other items in the list are Graphics, Music, Email Msg, Mobile TV/ video, Mobile IM, 3G Sub (just for comparison). 

Philippine Mobile Apps Users 2009 (click to see full image)

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Pay Philhealth Insurance Premiums via Mobile

I have previously written about mobile and online services of Phihealth.

There was the Philhealth mobile service that let’s you access your Philhealth number and other details. Read my Philhealth article on Pinoytechblog. And I also wrote on eOFW.net about healthcare through Philhealth online .

Thus, it’s a pleasant addition to Philhealth’s e-government services to see that Philhealth individually-paying members can now make Philhealth payments using their mobile phone and their airtime load.

Philhealth Remittance-by-Air

Dubbed “Remittance-by-Air”, members can send their P100 monthly contribution from the convenience of their own home.

To complete a transaction,
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Surf Unlimited

Here’s a very welcome service to the mobile interenet scene: Surf Unlimited data plans .

The typical charging is P10/ 30 mins.

By subscribing to data plans, you get a “wholesale” discount for subscribing to a data plan for many hours. You will no longer need to count the minutes you’re using the Internet on your phone.

The new data plans give you more hours at a more affordable rate:

• Unli Surf Daily  P50 / day 
• Unli Surf Weekly  P300 / Week 
• Unli Surf Monthly  P1,200 / month 

This works well for me because I access the internet from my phone many times a day, at various hours of the day.

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Facebook Mobile SMS service – A Quick Guide

Spring cleaning and I find this draft post. It’s time to publish (though many months delayed). Publishing as is … activate! ….

We’re up!

Until 2008, Facebook’s SMS service was available only within US and Canada.
This year, Facebook opened up the service to other countries.
The Philippines can now avail of Facebook’s Mobile SMS service.

I’ve been testing the service since last week. I find it highly streamlined and intelligent. The available commands, the follow-up replies and the control of how much/little you want are very well thought out. I like how the service makes the next logical transaction easily available for the user.

Facebook Mobile SMS

In this article, I’ll give you a quick guide on Facebook Mobile SMS:

• how to register for Facebook Mobile SMS
• Facebook Mobile SMS commands and online demo by Facebook

Register for Facebook Mobile SMS

While logged-in at Facebook, go to:
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Technology in the time of typhoons

Kumusta na? Ayos pa ba?

It’s been an awesome past many months for me. Although I haven’t been blogging about all that’s been happening in my life, specifically my technology life or “Technobiography”, I’ve been happy being involved in many awesome activities that have been truly life changing.

The typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng crashed through the Philippines. We saw how Filipinos can band together if we choose to do so. I took a few trips to Baguio and I was there right smack between Ondoy and Pepeng. Took another trip to Baguio after Pepeng to document some of the relief activities.

And through all these, I’ve been steadily keeping up-to-date with the goings on through the help of technology. Here’s how technology has helped me help others in the past months.

Keeping posted

When the typhoon hit Manila on September 26, Saturday, I made my way from Quezon City to Makati. I wasn’t expecting the typhoon to cause so much havoc. And as we took one route and then another and then another because we were hitting flooded roads, I finally reached the MRT which was working well. I kept up-to-date via Twitter @ka_edong with the disaster that was unfolding. I access Twitter via a Nokia N82 loaded with TweetS60 . It was good for getting news of the floods around the metro.

Citizen Reportage

As I was making my way through EDSA on the MRT, I started taking photos of the traffing and uploaded them via MMS to ping.fm . I had a photo of what was later re-labelled as “the world’s biggest parking lot” (thanks @jimayson).

As I was tweeting from the MRT, I saw a half submerged bus on the Northbound lane of EDSA in front of Camp Aguinaldo. I circled back because I wanted to share to the world what was happening in the Philippines. I got ready with a mobile video through qik.com.

And now I have my most widely viewed qik video: Half submerged bus .

Half Submerged Bus

Search for missing people through Google Docs
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Google Android Phone Demo: HTC Magic

Here’s a quick (Qik!) video of the HTC Magic, the first Android phone in the Philippines.

The Google Android Phone by HTC features a barcode scanner, compass, 3D road-level view of places among other things. See how it works by clicking the image below:

Google Android Demo by HTC

ka edong
(in monotone) “I am a robot”

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