Manuel Viloria at Posterous

 

PLDT myDSL and Posterous

I wonder what's been going lately with PLDT myDSL. Some sites areĀ  not accessible (even if DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com says those sites are up), and it takes quite a while for other sites to even appear on my browser.

Fortunately, blogs hosted in Posterous.com load pretty quickly.

If you're trying to reach PLDT myDSL subscribers, it makes sense to publish online via Posterous.

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Posterous and Domain Names

I saw Clementine's Posterous site at http://reflectionof.me/ and had forgotten about the ability to use domain names here in Posterous (see Setting Up Custom Domains). For branding purposes, I wonder if it will be better to register a completely new domain name, or to create a subdomain off an existing/old domain name.

In the case of Clementine, that's a full domain name and not a subdomain (i.e., http://posterous.reflectionof.me)

Since I already have manuelviloria.com, should I create posterous.manuelviloria.com or just stick with the existing manuelviloria.posterous.com? Ah, we'll see...

Guy Kawasaki has HolyKaw.com ("For everything that's slightly less than a blog post but slightly more than a tweet.")

It is quite tempting... I'll probably wait for the Premium version, though. It's so hard to invest time in a free blogging service, and then have all that content disappear if something happens to that free service's business model in the future.

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A Gathering Storm

Typhoon Emong has reached northern Philippines, and the rains are being dumped all the way here in Metro Manila. Plus, I heard that Manny Pacquiao will be arriving early tomorrow morning in spite of the DOH's request that he postpone his return to Manila to Tuesday next week.

Apparently, Manny Pacquiao and company went to LA after the Pacquiao-Hatton boxing bout. And given the reports of the first human-to-human transmission of H1N1 (swine flu) case in LA, it would've been more prudent to wait around 5 days.

Anyway, here's hoping everyone stays healthy...

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Twitter and Posterous Wedding

I'm trying the Posterous + Twitter combination. Will this work? Can we place photos in tweets?

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Moleskin Notebook Giveaway 2008

Several Moleskine notebooks will be given away for free to residents of the Philippines in the coming weeks. There will be several blogs which will hold short contests, which means you have several chances to win a free Moleskine notebook (P1,200 value).

The Moleskine notebook is provided courtesy of Avalon.PH
http://www.viloria.com/go/go.php/avalonph

For the Viloria.net contest rules, please refer to
http://www.viloria.net/archives/moleskine-2008/

Have fun!

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Joel Christopher in UST

It was good to see, listen to, and meet Joel "The Master Listbuilder" Christopher. He held a free seminar in the University of Sto. Tomas called "How To Make Money Online During These Desperate Days." He even made a special web site just for it over at http://masterlistbuilder.ph

It was also great meeting Carl Ocab and his dad Alan, and other friendly folks such as Jeff, Noree, Gilbert, Arvin, and Jojy.

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Win A MacBook Pro

Would you like to win a MacBook Pro? Well, if you reside in the Philippines and are willing to produce a not more than 60-second video, you can register online for free.

You will basically make a vid about a product in the Philippines, and if you video gets the most number of votes (from various viewers) plus the judges' nods, then you can win any of the following: MacBook Pro, Canon digital camera, iPod Nano.

No guarantees, but hey, it's worth a try, right?

Get more details now.

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Posterous and Video Embed Errors?

I don't know what changes were made, but when I revisit my old Posterous post which contained an embedded YouTube video, Firefox now tells me I'm missing a plugin. Weird.

When I embed the same code in a WordPress-powered blog, the video appears (viewed using FF).

Anyway, an alternative here in Posterous would be to simply point a link directly to YouTube. :-)

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Embedded Video

Let's see how Posterous handles videos embedded via typed HTML codes in
plain text email:

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Large Photos?

Posterous is using what appears to be a lightbox script, so I'm testing how it handles photos that are larger than 500 pixels wide.

Here are 800 pixel-wide images of a tambourine and some rubber bands. The images below are 500 pixels wide. Please click on them to see the lightbox effect (or greybox), as the larger versions are displayed. Press the [Esc] key to get back to the post.

   

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