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Startup Weekend Davao

I know this may come a little late but here it goes... Startup Weekend Davao is definitely happening this Friday, November 9th! Startup Weekend is a 3-day event that will showcase the best of the best minds of Davao City. It is a global grassroots event where

IBM Peace Corps Coming to Mindanao, Philippines

Last March 26, 2008, IBM launched a Corporate Service Corps program to help third world countries in various IT-related and socio-economic projects. Over a period of 3 years, the company will be sending about 600 of its employees to do volunteer work. Whether

Globe, Smart or Sun?

Ok, did you know that in 2007 around 1.39 billion text messages were sent in the Philippines alone? Because of that, our country once again (yeah we won last year) gets bragging rights as the world's text messaging capital. The number of mobile subscribers gre

Paypal Now in the Philippines (For Real)

Migs twittered that Filipinos can now receive payments through Paypal. That led me to this blog post on PinoyMoneyTalk . Indeed, after checking it out myself, it's now possible! Talk about killing two birds with one stone. Yesterday, Google allowed Filipino Ad

The Fastest Internet

I wish I can say the same thing for my crappy MyDSL . This lucky 75-year-old lady in Sweden boasts a 40-gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection, so far the fastest residential Internet speed recorded. Sigbritt Lothberg, hardly the web cybergeek, has her son

NCLEX Now in the Philippines

Great news for Filipino would-be nurses! I read that Pearson VUE , a computer-based testing provider for certification and licensure exams, will be opening up a testing center in Manila. This means that nursing graduates who aspire to work in the USA need not

Google Adsense Homepage Makeover

Anyone else seeing a change in the Adsense homepage? This is a BIG improvement from the old one: BTW, there are reports that Google is now offering some Philippine publishers to receive payments via Western Union . That's a welcome development since this can s

Apple iPhone Demo

I think I just had a tech orgasm. Touted as "a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet communications device", the Apple iPhone uses a touchscreen navigation and comes with the Safari browser, integrated Google search and map

Bryanboy, Tsk tsk tsk.

I'm not a practicing Catholic. I don't go to church except when I'm forced to or when it's Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. So really, there's no place for me to give a righteous reaction to the current media/Internet circus surrounding Bryanboy. He's getting

Google Philippines

Marc Macalua recently wrote about Google Setting Up Shop in the Philippines . Like everyone else, I'm excited! This is major. I actually know about this already, thanks to Marc and a certain telling post at the SEO Philippines discussion group (hehe). The lady

Paypal Now Includes the Philippines

It's limited, but hey, it's a start. Looks like J. Angelo's PayPal for the Philippines movement is seeing fruition . Filipinos can now purchase wares on the Internet via PayPal but is limited to only $100 unless a credit card is verified. However, receiving fu

CrazyEgg Errors

I decided to put my blog to the test using CrazyEgg 's heatmap visualization after all the rave reviews it got from the likes of Matt Mullenweg , David Hansson and TechCrunch . Unfortunately, since I inserted the required Javascript code, I'm getting errors fr