Last week, SEO Philippines launched a t-shirt design contest. The contest prize will be a Reseller hosting package for 1 year courtesy of Edward plus $30 courtesy of Mann3r. First runner up will score Reseller hosting package for 1 year with 5 ip’s and the second runner up will will receive $20 which will be send via paypal. If your design wins, you’ll get a free shirt too.

Here are my entires:

I recently joined Flickr community and uploaded photos taken by my Canon EOS 400D. For your information, Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed. Today, it’s hosting over two billion images and being a popular Web site for users because of personal photographs sharing. Their service is widely used by photographers and bloggers. For those who would like to see my shots, please visit my Flickr account and leave your comment there. Thanks!

Love is an overflowing joy, an immeasurable quality. It is the fragrance of a silent, peaceful, mediative heart. It is the highest religion; Love is God. It’s Valentine Day and love is in the air. Today is the date for exchanging love notes, flowers, candies and gifts between loved ones, and donating to charity, all in the name of Saint Valentine. February 14 is the day where air is peppered with romantic getaways, candle-lit dinners, gift offers and more.

Reading news online is my habit every morning before going to eat breakfast. After reading, I checked my Pinoy Money Talk entry in Google Search and amazed because I’m in the first page now. Last Monday, I joined the PMT Mini SEO Contest and got indexed after a few minutes. You can see the print screen preview below or visit this link.

Three months had already passed since I last redesigned my blog. I’ve categorized my entries into Anime, Entertainment, Gadgets, SEO and Photography. I’ve posted some photos in photography category but I forgot to mention which camera I’ve used for each. It’s Canon EOS 400D Rebel XTI, yes that’s my 10 mega pixel DSLR camera. My friends bought it for me in Duty Free Dubai on September 2007 when they were shopping at the same time waiting for their connecting flight to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. For those who are interested to know how much this camera costs, I got it for $971 then.

Here are the features of my camera (you can also see the full specs here):

- 10.1 Mega pixel CMOS sensor
- Canon’s EOS Integrated Cleaning System
- 2.5 LCD screen with 230K pixels and 160º viewing angle
- High-precision 9 point AF system
- Picture Style image processing parameters
- DIGIC II image processor with 0.2 sec start up
- Digital Photo Professional RAW processing software
- Compact and Lightweight body
- Fully compatible with all Canon EF and EF-S lenses and EX-series Speedlites

I’ve been learning some tips and techniques in photography from Digital Photography School owned by Darren Rowse, a professional blogger. I became more interested in shooting and enhancing my photos thru this. Accordingly, I’ve posted some of my digital photos in Flickr.

Pinoy Money Talk: The Philippines’ Online Resource on Money Matters, is celebrating it’s 3rd year anniversary this coming March 1. They’re launching a contest which is divided  into three categories with a total prize of 6,000 php / $150USD.

Pinoy Money Talk Contest #1: Valentine’s Day Message Contest
Create the most sweetest and romantic Valentine’s Day message and win 1,000 php or $25 thru Paypal. Contest runs from February 4 until February 13. Post your entry here.

Pinoy Money Talk Contest #2: PMT Stock Price Prediction Game
Predict the closing price of a PMT-related Nasdaq stock (huh? what is Nasdaq stock?) and win 2,000 php or $50. Contest runs from February 18 until March 5.

Pinoy Money Talk Contest #3: Google my PMT
PMT $75 mini SEO Contest with “pinoy money talk” keyword. Contest runs from February 4 until March 21.

This is my entry for the “Google my PMT” contest. For more information about the contest, visit the pinoy money talk blog.

What advertising technique should I use that will drive my company to huge sales? This is the most common question that many advertisers ask themselves when looking for excellent method on selling their products. Most of the advertisers are spending big bucks for TV commercials, radio jingles, outdoor and indoor advertising just to promote their products and / or services, but some still have low profit. Others, simply make use of blog advertising but they earn more.

Blog advertising is a fast growing scheme for online advertisement and Smorty is one of the good examples of that. Smorty acts as a middleman between advertisers and bloggers. It is a service in which a registered Smorty advertiser requests for reviews about their products from them.

Accordingly, the recognized bloggers of Smorty who can meet the requirements of the advertiser will be chosen and notified to create a blog post. Each review must have the keywords that will be supplied by Smorty and must be linked to the advertiser’s website. The blogs will undergo further evaluations and once approved, the bloggers will be paid for it.

So, if you are a blogger and want to get paid for blogging, be a member of Smorty now.

I saw many blogs in blogosphere using Entrecard. I’m wondering what is this for? Is it like a Friendster, Myspace or Facebook social bookmarking or a money making website? Because of my curiosity I signed up yesterday and wow there’s a lot of bloggers out there. Some of them add me and others exchanging links with my blog (that’s cool).

For additional information: Entrecard is your business card 2.0. It’s a 125×125 image which represents you and your blog. Its part advertisement, part business card. It comes with a widget you place on your blog, so that others can leave their Entrecard for you. You can also use Entrecard to promote your blog and launch free advertising campaigns.

For those who have Entrecard please drop your blogs here: