The gloves are now off between the country’s telco rivals as dominant carrier PLDT branded Globe Telecom a sore loser after the Ayala-owned operator filed a letter to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) urging the regulatory agency to nullify PLDT’s acquisition of top 3 player Digitel.

Salalima: The public good is at risk

“Globe is criticizing PLDT for a deal that Globe itself had sought, but failed to get. It is now pressing government for concessions to make up for a bid it lost,” said PLDT and Smart Communications spokesperson Ramon Isberto on Wednesday.

Isberto’s statement revealed a previously unknown piece of information — that Globe also attempted to buy the Gokongwei-owned operator but was apparently rebuffed or beaten to the punch by PLDT.

If I were Globe, I won't bother filing a complaint. I'd go hunt for talents instead who can build me better stuff.

Wooz.in

So what do Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook Place have in common? They have an Achilles heel, internet connection. Without any internet connection, users of these check-in services will be left stranded. In comes Wooz.in with a low-tech solution, RFID. The Social Media extension integrates with radio-frequency, allowing users to create automatic status updates on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla by only tapping the RFID chip. The physical check-in method of Wooz.in’s product provides merchants with greater marketing powers.

The Indonesian list is more exciting than their SG list. The only stand-out in the SG list is Piclyf (love our own).

Wooz.in interest me most of the list for trying to make check-ins easier. But on the other side, you first need to have their RFID device. But I guess that gives them the extra point for taking an extra effort of providing RFID devices.

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks.

Call me hyprocrite but one of the things that's taking me back to monetize on our 'great' low-tech twitter app is it's going to be all about ads and clicks and superficial hoopla. We can do better than that. But then, we can be Mr. Crab.

The reason mediocrity sucks more than failure is very simple:  Failure lets you move on, mediocrity stalls you and keeps you from reaching your potential. 

The disruption that has happened has occurred on a category-by-category bases, as this graphic by Andrew Parker (http://thegongshow.tumblr.com/po...) shows:
Stubhub, Airbnb, Etsy have built big businesses in some of these categories, and floods of new startups try to pry off pieces (Taskrabbit, many others).