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Saturday, May 16, 2015

TalentBin by Monster Allows Social Media-Fuelled Job Matches

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I was reading an article early this morning about an online recruitment company and their newest feature which allows them to scan relevant sites such as GitHub, Twitter, StackOverflow, Meetup, Google+ and other forums where candidates are active online. The information they get from these sites helps them find candidates that are more likely inactive job seekers that do not regularly upload their resume.

The region-wide launch of TalentBin by Monster, which provides recruiters access to previously ‘unfindable’ candidate profiles through aggregated social sources across the Web, aims to use a storehouse of actionable information and web-based recruiting tools to help locate hard-to-find talent. By aggregating public candidate social activity into a rich professional profile, recruiters now can find many previously undiscoverable candidates.

These is the same premise on how one of the lead characters of a sci-fi movie is able to "mold" the traits and looks of his AI (Artificial Intelligence) robot. The story relates how the inventor and master developer/programmer was able to gather information from the Internet based on the activities of the user (one of his employees he wanted to use as a test subject), even his private porn-viewing activities were not spared, and thus able to "craft" a robot that the user will definitely like.

This ability to harvest information from social media or forums where we interact with other online users could be very useful as well for recruiters who can categorize us based on what sites we often go to, what movies we watch, what items we order, and a lot of other information vital to identifying which job we are most likely be qualified for.

Pinoy Life Hacks: Real Life Inspirational Stories From Real People

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I believe that the best lessons we can learn are those come from and have actually been experienced by real people. Story-telling becomes really natural and effortless, and likewise believable, when it really came from real-life experiences of the actual book authors.

Life becomes so appealing when we have the courage to share our stories, admit our mistakes, and realize the life lessons from the favorable or disappointing experience. Usually we encounter a lot of tragedies during our younger years because we are at a stage in our lives when we are prone to several mistakes brought about by hasty decisions.

We therefore welcome all kinds of support and encouragement to motivate us to move on despite the challenges. Reading about inspirational stories lifts our spirits and becomes sort of wind beneath our wings.

I recently got invited to a gathering where we were able to listen to four authors from Kerygma publications as they share their life experiences and answer inquiries for the benefit of the members of the media so we could also share to our readers the values we can learn from their motivational books.

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HotelQuickly, Asia Pacific’s leading last-minute hotel booking app, has reached a remarkable milestone by recording more than 1,000,000 downloads of its last-minute app since its launch two years ago. The app delivers superior user experience by providing a curated selection of top hotels in 200+ destinations across Asia Pacific and making them available at lower prices than online. To date, more than 6,000 three to five star hotels have teamed up with the start-up, making the app the by far largest provider of last-minute rooms also in terms of bookable hotel inventory.

The 1,000,000 downloads milestone will be celebrated with double reward value of a friend-redeemed voucher. Meanwhile, the top 50 inviters all win a free night in HotelQuickly’s partner hotels. The grand prize, including a spontaneous weekend trip for two, including flight and lodging will be awarded to the number one inviter.

“Over the past few years we’ve witnessed a drastic shift from online to mobile, the vast majority of smartphone users wouldn’t go out of home leaving their devices behind, which was one of the key reasons why we’ve decided to focus on mobile. We strive to make travelling easier, more convenient and life more spontaneous,” said Tomas Laboutka, HotelQuickly’s Singapore based Co-Founder and CEO. “We are in a massive ramp-up mode. We have recently launched an app for Apple Watch and we are working on a number of exciting new product features, which we will be able to announce soon,” he continued.

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WD, a Western Digital company, and a world leader in storage solutions, today revealed its enhanced myWD Partner Program, an award-winning loyalty channel program for MSPs, VARs, and system integrators with new features such as product solution centers, industry-focused marketing assets and on-demand product training.

As a result of more than a year of survey and ongoing feedback from WD’s valued myWD partners, the new and improved site offers new features that lead to a seamless user experience for myWD partners providing relevant and easy-to-access information at their fingertips. The new features include[1]:

Solution selling centers on growing markets such as Surveillance, NAS, and Datacenter; industry focused marketing assets; on-demand online product training through WD University, and
a points system, where members earn rewards based on purchases of WD products from authorized distributors.

“Since the launch of myWD in 2012, the program has grown to over 25,000 partners worldwide spanning across 190 countries and 17 languages,” said Jamie Vo, vice president of WD’s worldwide marketing. “With the re-launch of myWD, WD is proving its commitment to invest in the channel by presenting our valued partners opportunities to build their business in the growing storage applications of NAS, surveillance and datacenters.”

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Digital imaging leader Epson Philippines is offering a free 21.5-inch Apple iMac for every purchase of an Epson SureColor F7170 textile printer from May 15 to June 30, 2015.

Epson’s F7170 is designed for the roll-to-roll digital textile market and integrates true roll-to-roll support for unprecedented levels of performance, reliability, and image quality for printing on fabrics and soft signage.

The printer leverages Epson’s PrecisionCore thin film piezo (TFP) print head, and uses Epson’s UltraChrome DS ink system to provide high-quality printing, superior dot control, precise and reliable performance, and excellent longevity for a range of dye-sublimation applications.

In addition, the Epson F7170 has a highly accurate take-up reel and substrate system to deliver winding accuracy between 0 and 0.19″ on transfer paper rolls for digital textile applications, including soft-signage products such as decorative table tops and runners, as well as point-of-purchase (POP) banners and exhibit displays. Other roll-to-roll fabric applications that customers can create include home furnishings, fabric patterns, apparel manufacturing, and more. Built for increased productivity, Epson’s textile printer also features a high-capacity ink tank system with refillable tanks to allow continuous printing through a full roll of media, as well as a new post-platen heater for faster drying times.

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The National Association of Independent Travel Agencies Inc. (NAITAS), one of the country's biggest travel and tourism association with more than 400 members and 15 chapters nationwide, in partnership with the Tourism Promotions Board-Philippines will surely rock the metro when it holds its "NAITAS Travel and Trade Show" at the SMX Convention Center of the Mall of Asia in Pasay City on May 29, 30 & 31, 2015. NAITAS envisions this event to be the country's biggest travel & business fair promoting outbound and inbound destinations, products and services.

Aside from the "Mega Sale on Travel Packages" where visitors can avail of big discount on bookings and purchases onsite, the event has a " B2B Travel Networking" exclusively for travel agency buyers to expand and intensify linkages and partnerships.

And here's another feature of the event, it is collocated with the country's only tech event that highlights ICT products and solutions for the travel and tourism sector as well as related business, the Travel & Tech Forum.

It is co-presented by Cebu Pacific and Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority(TIEZA), Philippine Airlines, PLDT SME, City of Pasay and Tourizz Global DMC as Event Partners, Airasia, Davao City, PAGCOR, Resorts World Philippines, Edsa Shangri-la as Major Sponsors, Uratex, Province of Albay as Minor Sponsors and powered by Abacus, Amadeus and Kyocera.

For overseas and domestic tour operators and local travel agencies who wish to join the B2B, you can reach us at naitas.tts@gmail.com or call us at (63) 917-5581942.

DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Coming Soon on CW

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Sometimes the good guys aren't enough. Heroes and Villains come together on DC's Legends of Tomorrow, coming soon to The CW.

My balls just fell off cause I screamed like a little girl. OMG!! You had me a Vandal Savage! I have such a huge nerd boner right now!!!! This is epic to a whole new level!

Looks awesome!!! Glad to see Sara back while intros for Hawkgirl and Rip Hunter intriguing. The returned Arrow and Flash were nice to see while Cold and Heatwave are definite surprises. Ray and Professor are interesting to watch too. Atom basically looks like Iron Man plus Ant Man.

As a avid comic book nerd (seriously look at my shelf), this is as close as we'll get to a live-action Justice League series, with a great use of characters both old and new, both hero and villain, all legends in their own right, guess that means Oliver and Barry will have some role as well, but does that mean Mr. Queen is gonna change his name to Green Arrow finally? And how did Ray Palmer survive the blast at the end of last night's Arrow finale, will we get to know about Hawkgirl in this series, and will Captain Cold and Heatwave be able to work with heroes? There's only one thing to do, I'LL GET THE POPCORN BECAUSE THIS IS AWESOME, also the main villain for the first season, and maybe the whole series is Vandal Savage, finally a villain I know from the Justice League cartoon, Aside from Gorilla Grodd.

As much as I'm excited for this show, the continuity issues kind of bug me, the biggest being the return of Sara. Kind of negates the entire last season (which by the way in my opinion was the worst one) and makes it kind of pointless. Others being captain cold and heat wave being heroes on the show but when they're back in the flash they become villains again?

Avengers ripoff in every sense of the word. I see the Atom and I think Iron-man + Ant-man. Ripoff! And anyone who thinks DC is killing it on TV clearly hasn't watch Gotham and Constantine which were dull. And I'm not some pretentious Marvel fan boy. I love me some good DC stuff like The DK trilogy, Donner Supes, Burton Batman etc. but DC is desperately trying to play catch up with Marvel at this point and I have been completely unimpressed with what I've seen so far with Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman.

But still, it's excellent work. It's strange how the CW seems to already be doing a better job at setting up it's own DC universe and superhero team than Warner bros are with the DC cinematic universe despite the fact the CW has a much lower budget

El Gamma Penumbra Wins at Asia's Got Talent as Seen on AXN Special Viewing Party

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Congratulations to El Gamma Penumbra for winning the very first Asia's Got Talent grand prize. The top winners based on Asia's vote were slowly revealed as the hosts announced while everyone was in suspense. Our three other Filipino finalists that were part of the 9 finalists also made us proud by hanging on until the second to the last elimination where Gerphil Flores made it to top three, followed by Junior New System who got eliminated early on, while Gwyneth Dorado was not part of the initial cut to top 6.

However, news about a leaked result reached me while the Grand Finals Results show was just starting. We were invited by AXN to a special viewing at Hyve located at the 8th floor of W Global Center building in Bonifacio Global City. I thought I would be thrilled to find out who won, but the excitement quickly faded after I learned of the winner from the leak.

Though I am happy that El Gamma Penumbra, being my fellow Filipinos, I lost the thrill of finding out who will win. Imagine finding out the winner ahead of all the elimination as they slowly reached the final top two.

Whoever spread the leak should be reprimanded since they took away our excitement.

Below is the official release from AXN.

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Ever wondered if there were more ways to enjoy your favorite KFC Original Recipe chicken and gravy? With the Kentucky Specials, now there are more meal combinations for you to try! It’s only fitting that the best fixins go with the world-famous fried chicken!

You can choose from three different kinds of pies that are equally satisfying and bursting with flavor.
There’s Pecan Pie, a crisp pastry crust filled with a symphony of sweet pecan nuts.

Ham and Cheese Pie, savory ham, egg, bacon bits, and cheese tossed together in a delicious pastry.
And Chicken Pie, a mixture of meaty chicken stuffed in a light butter pastry.

Served with Spiced Rice, and a refreshing drink of Wild berry Iced Tea, the Kentucky Specials are the perfect complement to your classic KFC meal!

Visit your nearest KFC branch or dial 887-8888 to try these new So Good! combinations today!

Find out more by following KFC online: Facebook: facebook.com/kfcphilippines Twitter: @KFCPhilippines Instagram: @kfcphilippines

UPJMA's West Palm Pool Party Post-Event Write-Up

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It’s that time of the year again; it’s the peak of summer, and everyone’s out and about… or at the very least, wants to be. Usually what comes to mind around this time are scorching hot sunrays, white sand, blue bikinis, and red convertibles getting set up for spontaneous roadtrips, just like the commercials. Pastels aren’t the usual summer motif but they seemed to work for West Palm, UP JMA’s publicity event for this semester.

West Palm took place in New World Hotel by Manila Bay last May 9. The event gave guests an afternoon to sit back, relax and be pampered by the JMA event planners. At around 1:00pm, guests started trickling in in sandals, colorful outfits and floppy hats and/or shades. Upon entry, one would be met with a wooden photo wall where guests could have their photo taken either by a photographer, with their own phone, or by the JMAer that was going around taking Instaxes. After having their photo taken, the guests could enter the rooftop poolside proper.

The venue was quaintly decorated. The poolside was filled with baby pink hot air balloons hanging on tables, along with DIY centerpieces decorated with photos from past JMA events – a bit of a getting-to-know-you display for the organization, if you will. A small stage was set up for the musical performance that kickstarted the event.