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Tech Boot Camp at University of the Philippines
UP Teams (students, alumni, professors) have the exclusive privilege of joining this years Tech Boot Camp From Upstarts to Startups organized by the Ayala Foundation and sponsored by UP. Whats awesome is UP will grant seed funding to select startups. You can ask Dr. Luis Sison (Vice-Chancellor for R ...
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Doing More with Less: Beat the High Costs of IT
Computerworld IT Executive Briefing JP and I spent the better half of our day last October 28 at the IT Executive Briefing of Computerworld. With all the mass-panicking happening with budget cuts and layoffs, the briefing was a timely eye-opener for businesses who use technology. Winston Damarillo ...
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Philippines 2nd Mini Web Design Conference
<form> .class function() Pinoy Web Startup sponsored the 1st ever Mini Web Design Conference on October 30, 2008 organized by the Philippine Web Designers Organization. JP and I are both active in the group. Amateur and professional web designers are invited to the 2nd Mini Conference to be h ...
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Innovation Forum in Davao on September 29
Yay for the business-minded programmers and ambitious students in Davao City (I wish I can visit Samal again soon)! The kind folks of Ayala Foundation are sending Dr. Greg Tangonan, Director of Ateneo Innovation Center there to talk about R&D developments and how to tie up university R&D to ...
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Interview with Manila Guide: Where To Eat?
Food lovers are (all of) us so weve been looking to forward to what Manila Guide has in store for us since they relaunched at the World Food Expo last August. Starting out as a city guide in 1998, Manila Guide was reborn as the ultimate online dining guide by the CALCMENU Team, led by Sandro Grandj ...
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Awesome Birthday Night at BarCamp Manila - Ready for DemoCamp?
If youd asked me a year ago how I would spend my 24th birthday (2008) I never would have ventured a guess that Id be at Bar Camp Manila! Met some cool freelance and full-time designers, developers, and tech-preneurs all with sponsored fried chicken, pizza, and free-flowing beer! I should probably ...
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Globe Labs Reshaping the Mobile App Market
Globe Labs, the innovation arm of Globe Telecom, recently launched its Globe Labs Challenge 2008 to foster its young developer community in Globe Labs and to release its new API (Application Programming Interface) for SMS and MMS. Globe Labs Challenge - Register until Aug. 21, 2008 (Thursday) Upon s ...
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Friendster: New CEO, New $20 million, Special Focus on Asia
Despite the cool factor of Facebook and its popularly-touted extremely usable interface, Friendster is still the undeniable king of social networks in Asia, especially the Philippines. Even toddlers have Friendster profiles leaving comments for their ninong and ninangs (godparents). With new leaders ...
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Developers Night by Yahoo! Philippines - RSVP Today
Yahoo! Philippines is hosting a Developers Night this Thursday night. Check out the Yahoo! Developer Network activities for the Philippines and global. Send in your registration until today, August 12, via email to sea-ydn@yahoo-inc.com. The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs tha ...
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Web App Hosting on Amazon (Case of Pinoy.FM)
In this guest post, Allan Flores of Pinoy.FM shares his experience in managing high-traffic sites. Should you pay for dedicated hosting or use Amazon AWS or other grid server solutions for your web application? Pinoy.FM, launched in February 2008, is the fastest-growing music web application for Fil ...
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Bank Accounts for Startups
Because I know not all of you will want to deal with banks and I really wish someone had told me all this before, Ive eliminated the guesswork, so head on over to the Pigmata Media blog for how to open your business bank accounts for SEC registration and for startup operations: Bank Accounts for Sta ...
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Youre Invited to Starting an Internet-Based Business Innovation Forum
Another Innovation Forum is set by Ayala TBI on July 2, 2008 (Wed) 4-6 PM at J.V. del Rosario, 4th Floor, ACCM, Benavidez St, Makati City. Registration fee is P500. For clarifications, you can reach Ayala TBI at 928 9344/9451 or email Ayala Foundation. We went to the intellectual property and 2008 V ...
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Interview with Allan Flores of Pinoy.FM
We first featured Pinoy.FM as one of the music web applications to watch out for. Pinoy Web Startup gets the insights of Pinoy.FM founder Allan Flores, who used to work for torrentspy, Fandango, and Myspace. Aspiring tech-entrepreneurs are sure to learn a lot from their product and programming exper ...
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Beat the Challenges of Dating. Do What You Do.
The wedding month is about to end. Single guys arent as lucky as single girls to evade the question of the not-always-meaning-well elders: Why are you still single? or So when will you be the groom/bride? (Read: Napag-iiwanan ka na The trains left the station and its never coming to town again. ...
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How Can Governments Harness the Power of IT
The pastures greener on the other side. Sure feels that way often with ICT. In a keynote address at the ministerial panel on Digital Prosperity, Dr Robert Atkinson said that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is supercharged capital and unlike the technological revolutions of the past ...
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5 Must-Try Social Software Today
Always happy to discover Filipino-made web applications with global appeal, here are some in beta mode, in no particular order. Please try them and give constructive feedback to the developers. PinoyLancer.com (PL) is now open for you to post your freelance projects and gigs. It is free and it is ...
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Startup Camp and Sun Startup Essentials
Who happens to be in San Francisco today? Sun is hosting Startup Camp on May 4-5, 2008. Straight from Sue of Heavy Bag Media for Sun Microsystems: Startup Camp in San Francisco allow startups to participate in an un-conference networking event to hear from some web 2.0 authorities, meet other st ...
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User experience is paramount in designing web applications
User experience and your web application is it really part of your mission and vision? Mark Hurst of Good Experience recognizes companies that do it right through the 2008 Copernican Awards i.e. who takes care of the customer? Popular web applications have made it to the final round, including Fac ...
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Mobile Meets Meebo in Chikka 2.0
Chikka 2.0 Web Messenger Chikka has reinvented its Messenger application and it looks like the mobile applications giant is riding the 2.0 wave. The Chikka application meshes the offerings of competing one-stop instant messaging websites Wablet, Meebo, and e-Buddy with its mobile prowess. Lets dive ...
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Online Bookkeeping Solution for the Philippines
Last March, a private company started developing an online bookkeeping solution to do away with painful BIR forms. The site uses extensive Javascript and PHP. This is 100% online and covers the whole bookkeeping process. That means everything from recording cash in, cash out, paying bills, salaries ...
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