Acqua Bella & Acqua Bene by Penshoppe, A must try perfume for the Geeks!

Last week, November 18, 2012 I attended the biggest blogging event in the Philippines, Blogopolis: ONLIne in the Philippines. The event was a blast and was able to put up the high level of discussions on different principles of blogging including content creation, marketing, monetization and advocacy. I congratulate Nuffnang Philippines for a wonderful job on this event as it gathers all Filipino bloggers from all walks of life to discuss the ever flourishing and quite trendy business in the web.

I am on the final touches of my article about my experience at the Blogopolis and things I've learned from the event but for now, lets talk about something different. Us geeks sometimes have no time for ourselves because we devoted so much time in front of the books and computer! You know what I mean. As sometimes we spend sleepless nights, it is important to take a little effort in making ourselves stay cool, refreshed and fragrant!

Acqua Bella and Acqua Bene by penshoppe in Raspberry, Rock Chick
and Sweetheart scent--just great for a girly geek!

Acque Bella and Acqua Bene perfumes from Penshoppe are just right for girl and guy geeks who want to smell pretty sweet and cool! I gave this to my sister in law and she loves using it all day. By the way, I got this from the Blogopolis event where Penshoppe is one of the sponsors! As you can see from the photos above, those are just Acqua Bella perfumes--unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the one for men (Acqua Bene) so I can't give more comments about it.

While I got the perfume for girls, I can't deny that I have to try it for myself so at least, to give you my personal thoughts about it. Let's start with the I am Sweetheart, a kind of Acqua Bella scent.

 

For a chick geek who wants a simple and sweet scent, I am Sweetheart by Penshoppe is the right flavor for you. It has a chemistry of grapefruit and bergamut combined with vanilla and sheer musk that will give you the right sense to be adorable and attractive.

 

For a fruity and sweet scent, try this Fruity Mist Raspberry Drizzle, another Acqua Bella Scent by Penshoppe. Compared to I am Sweetheart, Raspberry Drizzle has light fragrance giving you more illumuminating aura and sweet scent of sparkling sensation! Not too strong but not too light scent, that's Raspberry Drizzle!

 

Now for a strong type of geek personality, I am Rock Chick, yet another Acqua Bella fragrance by Penshoppe will give you the strong smell geek guys will surely love! From a fruity floral notes of raspberry and Ylang-ylang with hints of white musk and sandalwood, I am Rock Chick has a distinct scent among the perfumes mentioned above.

So there you go geek guys and gals, if you haven't tried any of these perfumes yet, you better do! Get one and see for yourself today! To know more information about Penshoppe fragrances visit their Facebook Pages at Acqua Bene by Penshoppe and Acqua Bella by Penshoppe.

Rocket Internet to Launch PricePanda in Southeast Asia

Rocket Internet seize an opportunity and is on its way to launching an e-commerce service across southeast Asian countries including Philippines in the form of a site called PricePanda.

PricePanda will be a price-comparison platform that will allow customers view products or items and prices from different e-commerce services and compare them- or later on take them to that partner sites to place their orders and make payments. 

Rocket Internet, a company that invests in the development of innovative companies in the internet industry since 2007, has already reserved domain names for Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam. It will also- later on- include other countries that has significant markets such as Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan.

As of today, the company is on force of seeking partners that will provide contents in the site by approaching retailers and companies throughout the region, asking them to join the price comparison site to give it a large inventory of products.

Aside from PricePanda, Rocket Internet is relentless in expanding their services by launching different "clone" platforms for e-commerce. Among services in southeast Asia that they have launched include Zalora, Lazada FoodPanda and PinSpire (a Pinterest rip-off).

Links to Price Panda Sites in Southeast Asia:

• PricePanda Malaysia
• PricePanda Singapore

Source

[INFOGRAPHIC] Social Media Usage in the Philippines

Philippines is one of the countries today that has the most active people in the online world. Each year, the number of Filipinos who are using the internet is continually increasing. From 24 million (or equivalent to 24.5% of Philippines's total population) internet users in 2009, it rose 6% to mark 29.7 million or 29.7% of the total population in 2010. As of 2011, there are approximately 29 million (29.2%) internet users out of 104 million of the total Philippine population, 3.7 million of which are active internet users (Maybe that include me).

Filipinos' online presence primarily involve the use of social media platforms particularly facebook, twitter and youtube, blogging activities and searching information in the web. The  engagement to different social media platforms has continued to shape values and culture of the Filipinos that made them to become known in the world as the social networking capital. Social media sites become an avenue for every Filipinos from different parts of the globe connect one another. Likewise, it has become the primary source of online entertainment and markets for every small and medium business in the Philippines.

The infographic, social media usage in the Philippines below shows recent figures of the Filipino population from top social media platforms today. The infographic also shows the social media highlights which conjecture the challenges every Filipinos in the online community are going to face this year and maybe even in the next coming years.