So the aliens are now using firefox as their browser. Huh. Another one of those crop circle hoax. But it’s nice don’t you think?

Whoever made this firefox crop circle really made it to google maps.

So what’s next after this firefox crop circle? The linux penguin crop circle perhaps?

Another milestone for Pete Weber. With a total of $3 million in career earnings, its a nice situation to be in. He just won his 33rd career title beating Doug Kent 247 to 196 to win the Etonic Championship.

This is the best start of my career, making the show in two of the first four events and winning today, said Weber (St. Ann, Mo.), who used a Storm Special Agent. “From what I understand Paige (William’s wife) predicted I would be Player of the Year. I’m trying not to let her down.

On Dec 11, Danny Sullivan will launch Search Engine Land. Danny is one of the big names in SEO/SEM industry.

Danny along with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz, will be delivering fresh information about search engine marketing (SEM) and search engines in general. Sullivan and Schwartz will start blogging in on the launching day. Sherman will join them on the first week of January next year.

Check out my post at seo weblog

I had a privilege of being invited to a press conference of Exist yesterday together with Migz, Gail, and Abe. I just learned about Exist on that day and was impressed that it was included in the Top 100 Companies in Asia given out by Red Herring Inc.

This means Red Herring thinks Exist is a rising star. So what do they have that the other startups don’t? A passionate and visionary leader named Winston Damarillo. Just to fill in who Winston Damarillo is, he is a serial entrepreneur who built Gluecode Software (he was the CEO) and later on was bought by IBM. Starting and leading a company is really not new to him.

During the course of the event, I’ve learned that they are active in the development of world class open source software such as Geronimo, Jetspeed, and Pluto. I’m not an avid JAVA fan myself but I know for a fact that people who are active in the development of open source have great skills and passion for their craft.

If you’re into open source, you’ll probably wonder why people who have day jobs doing software development stuff, go home, eat dinner and spend a couple more hours during the night and weekends developing more software and not being paid for it. Now imagine being able to tap into the expertise of these people and have them work for your software project. Would you think you’ll end up with great software? I think so.

Exist’s expertise includes J2EE technologies, platforms, and frameworks, XML, and any cutting edge JAVA technology.

They’ve also been giving back to the academe. It was mentioned that they had talks with De La Salle University, and Ateneo about programs or electives that students can take which enables students to be aware and knowledgeable on current mainstream technologies. Winston mentioned that if they can assist the academe to develop the same skills they teach to their employees, it would be better for the students and also for them as they can tap into these students once they graduate.

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I currently have PLDT Mydsl residential connection. I have a PHP1,995 plan and I’ve been a subscriber for close to 2 years already. During that time, there have been a couple of pldt mydsl promos and some new subscription plans.

One of those plans is the PLDT Mydsl xCITE. The cost is PHP1,995 and the speed is 1.2Mbps. The guys subscribing to this new plan have been paying the same amount as I am but I’m getting a slower connection.

My download speeds before was just around 60kbps. I’m expecing about 100kpbs if my connection was at 1.2Mbps. So I just emailed PLDT customer service to ask about an increase of bandwidth. This was about 2-3 months ago.

I checked my DSL modem today and here’s a snapshot of it.

I also checked checked my DSL speed using PLDT Mydsl speed test and I got a speed of 1004.4kpbs (just now).

I used to get around 600kbps only. I’ld like to assume that my connection now is 1.2Mbps but I’m wondering why the reserved Bandwith downlink shows only 7616 kbps?

Any tech guys out there who can answer this? How can one check the exact bandwidth speed of a DSL connection?

I got an email just a few days ago from Michael of Basang Panaginip informing me about his post on Top Pinoy Probloggers. Wow! I’m surprised I’m there together with some of the most respected people in the Philippine blogging community.

It really is a nice way to meet new people, develop relationships, and build your network. I strongly believe that the larger your network of acquaintances, the bigger your resource pool. You need a contact from media, tap into this pool. Need someone from this or that industry, tap into your network of acquaintances and most probably you’ll find somebody there.

The good news about the problogging industry, is that there will be a lot more Filipinos who will go into Pro-Blogging. The current list is just temporary. Hopefully we’ll see a lot more pinoys in the list over the next couple of months.

So here’s my new google shirt. Got this from Aileen Apolo (Google Country Consultant for Philippines) a few days ago.

For those people who attended the SEO Beercon and got the chocolates, were you able to get your shirt already?

Update:

Some people made a comment about modeling the shirt. So here’s a new pic with Gelo.

So what is the most profitable home based business? If you ask different people about this question, you will surely get different answers. This is mainly because people have different views of the best porfitable home business.

If I might say, in my opinion, the best and most profitable home business are internet related businesses. Usually because of low startup cost and high returns specially on info products.

Outside of the internet world, I tried going into entrepreneur.com and I check the #1 home based franchise. There isn’t any data on its profitability but being #1, I think it is a profitable home business.

Here are some of the most porfitable home business.

Jani-king
Number 1 franchise in
Entrepeneur.com

I’ve written an article about this at searchengine-weblogs.com I am the editor of that SEO blog so please feel free to visit that site and read more about SEO and what it can do for you and your search engine rankings.

As a quick summary of the article, here’s a snippet on what might have caused the drop.

There are numerous reasons why your site dropped in search engine ranking. Reasons include change in search engine ranking algorithm, loss of PageRank or link popularity, bad or broken links, search engine penalty, and the missing www’s syndrome (incorrect url).
Another is that your competitors continue doing SEO on their sites which is why your site is going down the SERPs. Sometimes, there isn’t anything wrong with your site. It is just that your competitors are moving ahead, leaving you behind.