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What is Pinoybuilt.com?

Pinoybuilt is a website built on "off-the-shelf" Google technology. I initially conceived of this site prior to the birth of Facebook, back when Friendster was a thing. Then life and Facebook happened.

In 2011, while on vacation with family in Hawaii, I found out that they didn't sell "Filipino Strength" t-shirts as they did in Honolulu. My buddy Tony referred me to the local Maui Built apparel. I thought of a Filipino Built brand along the same line. My tita said that it was too long and suggested Pinoy Built. I bought the domain pinoybuilt.com.

I worked with a couple of graphic designers in creating a logo, apparel ideas, but nothing really took hold.

Eventually, I turned this back to the original concept of a community site.

Marketing Tool

Currently, all blog entries auto-posts to the Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/pinoybuilt and posts a tweet to https://x.com/PinoyBuilt (formerly Twitter). The @Pinoybuilt Twitter account has 2,565 followers. (My @JFPerseveranda Twitter account has 11.1 K followers but I stopped the auto-tweets there). So there's built-in marketing for any individual with a business -- say a real estate agent.

I've had blog authors post lengthy essays (i.e. What do you want to be when you grow up?), and I welcome that. But I understand that the simplest 'blog post' is a photo blog -- as in an Instagram post.

I can set it up so that one can simply email a photo from his/her smartphone to a 'secret' email address, with a five word title -- and voila - a Pinoybuilt blog post. The corresponding Facebook and Twitter (X) posts have a thumbnail if a photo was included. 

Hot or Not

OG techies will remember the site hotornot.com, which inspired Facebook and everyone else. A photo of a beautiful, sexy lady (or gentleman) will of course attract visitors to the site -- so I welcome those too.

Photo Limits

Photos should be no longer than 2048px (pixels) on the longest edge. So the biggest photo one can post is 2048px x 2048px. You can resize the photo on your phone before posting. Or, if you have a Facebook account, all downloaded Facebook photos are acceptable since Facebook resizes all photos to 2048px.

I'll cut it here for now. Questions?

Nicanor Putong: Celebration of Life

Joy and Ronick with his Benicia High School friends.

Benicia Veterans Memorial Hall. November 26, 2024. Benicia, CA. This is the first photo I've edited and posted from Uncle Nick's memorial services. 

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