My www.nikkotaytay.com domain name have expired last May, since then it has been parked at godaddy.com until it gets renewed.

Now I was planning to renew the registration this week until I found out that somebody already bought it. To my surprise this person still used my name as the title to the new website – Nikko Taytay Reviews – an SEO Article website, wherein this person posts his articles under the name of Nikki! (sheesh!)

How could someone use some other person’s site and name and claim it as his??!!!

This guy may be even be profiting over the use of my sites domain name and most likely my name, I’ve just learned that my name registers a lot of hits when you search it at google and other search engines.

Now my problem is every time one would google out my name – www.nikkotaytay.com always comes first over my other personal/photography sites! Now my prospective clients would be confused when they search for me and stumble upon this site with write-ups about losing weight, video games, acne treatment, vacations, diet pills, and a whole arsenal more!
And he even has his archived dated since 2007 which is totally bogus because my original photography website was up and running last year.

Baka may kilala kayong nagtataka at nagtatanong kung iniwan ko na ang photography at naging SEO writer na po ako – naku po! please refer them to my alternative sites:

www.nikkotaytay.tk
http://nixtaytay.multiply.com

Hay buhay!

Sigh!

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From EVERYBODY SHOULD VISIT MANILA

http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5700017915

Manila
Then we stopped in Manila. It was a different world. I’ve never seen fans like that in my life. These pictures can’t even do justice to what was going on out there. I had a reception at a small, little venue to welcome me to the city and there were 200 people there.

One thing I want to say about Filipinos: they’re very warm people, very good-hearted people. Like, everybody was nice. You know, you meet nice people, but a whole country of nice, genuine, warm-hearted people was unbelievable. These are diehard fans.

I really didn’t know if I was in Game 7 of a playoff series, I couldn’t tell the difference. Everywhere I went it was just bananas.

I also want to give a shout out to my man from Maryland who flew from MD to the Philippines and told me the reason he flew all the way out there was to get autographs from me because he knew I was going to be there at that date and time.

I did a couple mall tours. I also helped a kid with his wish. It was in one of the poverty areas in Manila and there’s a group called GK that builds homes for people all over the world. They helped this community out by putting people in homes. I guess a couple weeks before we got there, a hurricane hit and destroyed their community and GK helped build it back up.

One little kid who lived there wanted a basketball court for his community so all the kids could play so I donated – with the help of GK and adidas – a basketball court to that community and the kid was very happy.

You have to look at the Agent Zero posters they had out there. They put me in a cape at one of my last events in Manila. It was at one of their biggest malls and they were predicting it was going to be crowded. I mean, crowded to me is a Saturday afternoon at the mall where you have to wait in line for 10 minutes to pay for your jeans. Their crowded was probably four or five thousand people in the mall. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before, and I’ve seen crazy fans all over the world. It was like Golden State against the Dallas Mavericks with Game 3 back in Oakland. It was that type of atmosphere in the mall.

I was stunned.

They made me feel like an NBA star.

Any NBA players out there: If you’re having a bad day, or you’re having a bad career, go to Manila. They’ll bring your spirits up, trust me.

I felt like I just won the NBA championship, to be for real.

After we left the mall we were looking at pictures from the event a couple days later and we were telling ourselves, “Man, that was unreal!”

Plus, with the security I had, I felt like I was the President. I felt like I was Obama. I really felt like I was running in the presidential election, especially when I got to meet the U.S. ambassador out in the Philippines. We had a great time talking to each other.

We actually went to a college basketball game together. Their college game would be like if it was Duke and Maryland playing each other and you split the crowd in half, 50-50. One side of their gym was blue and one side of their gym was green and everybody was just yelling.

Backstage I met Manny Pacquiao, he’s the town hero. I have to be honest, they made me feel even bigger than him at the moment. I talked to him and he invited me to his November fight, so if I have time and depending on if we have a day off, I might go see that. Oh, I also met Jet Li in Shanghai, can’t leave him out.

On top of everything else in Manila, I stayed at the best hotel I’ve ever stayed at – The Peninsula. I was in the mack daddy “El Presidente” suite and was like the Fresh Prince with Geoffrey – I had a live-in butler.

One more note on Manila, just so you guys can get a picture of what kind of people they are and how much they adore and love entertainers and the NBA. Think about this: If you’ve ever been to a Beyoncé concert, or anybody’s concert in the states really, if they sell out an arena it will be 20,000 fans. Last year in Beyoncé’s hometown, Houston, she pulled in 12,000 people to her show. D.C. was her biggest sell, she put 18,000 people in the seats. Meanwhile, she was in Manila for two days to do two concerts and she had 85,000 people, two nights straight.

She couldn’t even do it in the arena, she had to do it on the lawn. Like, “Everybody, y’all just get in the grass, I’m going to perform.”

That’s how the people are out there.

I was invited to be the photography lecturer for the I AM talent workshops happening in Lighthouse Christian Community in Alabang.

The workshop is open to all students, so calling all students, if you’d be interested in joining my class or in other subjects such as singing, acting, dancing, and other medias (video and audio), and playing instruments, then contact the organizers above.

General assembly (orientation) will be on Saturday, July 5.

I have several Image Bank catalogue books that i’m clearing off my shelf.

These are collector item books, and i normally use them for inspiration for my creative, corporate and advertising projects.

All items are on sale for only P500 each.

IMAGE BANK 16 PEOPLE

IMAGE BANK 17 IDEAS

IMAGE BANK 18 ANNUAL

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Items can be picked up at my studio in Calamba.

Or I can have them delivered, just add for shipping and pay via bank.

Please PM me for more info, or text 09283682678

Fuji Xerox Photo Paper

230gsm – Premium Glossy – Resin Coated

1 Pack – 20 sheets A4

Selling for only P120 per pack.

Order basis only.

Selling some stuff that I don’t use anymore.

BOGEN (Manfrotto) 3046 Tripod Body (No Head) – P5,000.00

A-P View Box Set – P300.00

Luna Portable Slide Viewer – P200.00

Toshiba SL-1A Filter (55mm) – P250.00

SKYLITE P.L (Polarizing Filter) 55mm – P400.00

Precision Accessories Lens Hood (58mm) – P300.00

FANTASY NUDES: Digital Techniques In Photography by Jim Zuckerman – P500.00

DIGITAL EFFECTS by Jim Zuckerman – P700.00

BEYOND BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY: A Technical Manual by Henry Horenstein – P300.00

Kinyo Two-Way VHS Rewinder and Cleaner – P200.00

You can check out the stuff at my studio.

Add P150 for shipping. Payment via bank deposit.

For faster transactions contact me at 0928-3682678 or email nixtaytay@gmail.com
ThaNKS!

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1001774.htm

Philippine Photographer Anton Sheker sues Major Philippine Daily Manila Bulletin for Copyright Infringement.

June 9, 2008 — Philippine Photographer Anton Sheker has filed a landmark case against one of the Philippines media giants and oldest newspaper, Manila Bulletin for allegedly infringing on his copyright by downloading photos from his personal blog, which were allegedly used for a travel feature without his permission.

The landmark case was filed today June 5, 2008, Anton Sheker versus Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, Ivy Liza Mendoza, Rachel C. Barawid and Editor-in-chief Cris Icban, Civil Case no. 08-436
received by the clerk of court.

This will be the first time that a case on copyright infringement and the Internet as a medium is in question. It will also be the first time that camera EXIF data will be used as evidence in the Philippines.

Original Story of infringement on Anton’s Blog

Same story picked up by ABS-CBN Interactive

This will be a test for the Philippine copyright law and protection of works by local artists. Will Anton Sheker Triumph in his quest for justice? Will your photos ever be safe online?

From: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_flight_prayer

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field — coming to rest right next to a sign reading, “Jesus is Lord.”
Grant Stubbs and Owen Wilson, both from the town of Blenheim on the country’s South Island, were flying up the sloping valley of Pelorus Sound when the engine spluttered, coughed and died.

“My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life-threatening situation was to ask for God’s help,” Stubbs told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

He said he prayed during the ill-fated flight Sunday that the tiny craft would get over the top of a ridge and that they would find a landing site that was not too steep — or in the nearby sea.

Wilson said that the pair would have been in deep trouble if the fuel had run out five minutes earlier.

“If it had to run out, that was the place to be,” he said. “There was an instantaneous answer to prayer as we crossed the ridge and there was an airfield — I didn’t know it existed till then.”

After Wilson glided the powerless craft to a landing on the grassy strip, the pair noticed they were beside a 20-foot-tall sign that read, “Jesus is Lord — The Bible.”

“When we saw that, we started laughing,” Stubbs said.

Nearby residents provided them with gas to fly the home-built plane back to base.