ajb{log}: learn something new each day

I Am Rich iPhone App silently (or loudly) made it into the iPhone App Store. What is it? It’s nothing. It’s just an image that allows you to brag to everyone that you can afford such an app that does nothing.

It’s priced at $999.99. Wow, I think, is an understatement.

Here’s the direct link to iTunes (until they pull it out). Don’t Apple check each and every single App that goes into the App Store? Makes you think they don’t.

Spreading the news

Date: August 7, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: Isla Ballroom, Tower Wing, EDSA Shangrila

Globe Labs is a new organization within Globe Telecom whose mission is to help bring in the newest future technology services at the earliest market-relevant time. We explore new and future technologies, and partner with developers to create new Internet, wired and wireless applications.

What Globe have in store for you: Learn, Build, Compete and Succeed

• Discover the different opportunities with Globe Labs
• Learn how to use Telco tools and various development platforms to build innovative applications
• Join the Globe Labs Challenge and compete amongst the best

PHP User Group Philippines, Inc., being one of the institution partners of Globe Labs, has been given 200 SLOTS for this upcoming big event.

We are inviting PHPUGPH members to attend. T-SHIRTS designed for PHPUGPH would be given away as freebies plus exciting raffle prizes awaits you…

***FIRST 300 individual registrants gets a GIFT***

Below are some links of articles regarding the event:
From Businessworld (Entreprenews)
http://entreprenews.com.p…in.php?id=062508.gonzalez
From the Inquirer:
http://technology.inquire…gets-3G-mobile-developers
From the Manila Times:
http://www.manilatimes.ne…htimes/20080627tech5.html
From Manila Bulletin:
http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO20080627128372.html
From PCWorld:
http://www.pcworld.com.ph…5&ID=H,485,PWP,PWP-16
From Yugatech:
http://www.yugatech.com/b…pens-globe-labs-division/
From Globe Labs website:
http://www.globelabs.com…./News/Forms/AllItems.aspx

More information here

Here it is:

“Publishers with websites, creating content
Wondering about their sites
If with their content, they could show some ads
Before the day was done
Something in AdSense, was so inviting
Something about those ads, was so exciting
Something in our Help Center
Told them they must be one
Publishers with websites, yearning for earnings
They were just publishers with websites
Up to the moment
When they placed their first ad code
Little did they know
Revenue was just a click away
A happy-user-generated click away and –
Ever since that day, they’ve been monetizing
Newbies at the start, they’re now optimizing
It turned out so right
For publishers with websites.
Newbie, newbie dooo, da da da daaaa da…”

Originally posted here

There is a new blog in town - Tech Blog Philippines (www.techblog.ph). I’m one of the contributors on the group of popular tech bloggers in the Philippines. There’s just a lot of them to mention here.

Tech Blog Philippines (TBP) just started and still oiling the engines to the blog and will soon be up to speed. We’re promising lots of new stuff on this blog.

TBP is being spearheaded by the same cool guys at PinoyBlogosphere. Watch this space, it’s gonna be fun!

To subscribe to the TBP feed, just click here.

–aj

This is just too good to pass.

PC really hate his stupid newswire…

Remember Star Wars’ Princess Leia’s hologram communication with Obi-wan? Yeah, that was like more than 20 years ago. Now that technology is not science fiction anymore.

Cisco just unveiled their newest product On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing. It’s very cool and it brings out the inner geek in us.

You have to really watch this video to believe it!

Check out the video!

–aj

Sometimes, you got to hire the best hustlers out there to test out your product first before showing your social security number on a van.

Here’s a story of LifeLock’s CEO Todd Davis who got owned by someone.

“Turns out someone stepped up to the plate and won. An attorney found at least 20 instances of people applying for and sometimes receiving driver’s licenses in Davis’s name. In one case, a man from Texas got $500 from a loan company on Davis’s credit line.”

What is LifeLock? According to them LifeLock is the industry leader in the rapidly growing field of Identity Theft Protection.

Really?

–aj

Aside from pushing a Zeitgeist this week for our user’s collective consciousness, we’ve also increased the number of free discs from 500 to 2,000.

This member obviously made us think that some people nowadays takes it to the extreme and have more than 500 discs in their collection.

The last time we pushed the Zeitgeist most users only have an average of 100 discs. That average increased to 230 in just 1 week!

Over at Egghub, we strive to have at least 1 small update each week. We call this mini release. The goal of a mini release is to deliver important bug fixes to the user-base and keep on improving the service with minimal changes/downtime.

Hope you like it and expect more to come.

–aj

Tags: Egghub, Dics Collection, Disc Organization

What is Media Planner? It’s a tool that allows you to rank web properties based on their delivery of audience characteristics that you define and prioritize.

Current Search Variables includes:

* Audience demographics (gender, age, ethnicity, education, household income, children in household)
* Site or category affinity (how closely property audiences align to that of a marker site or category)
* Site or category restriction (results are tied to domain/sub-domain criteria or a specific content category)
* Minimum audience composition indices
* Minimum total U.S. unique reach
* Sites that accept advertising (estimated)
* Sites that are a “Quantified Publisher”
* Adult content categorization
* Either domain level, or domain and sub-domain level results

Check it out here.

–aj

Brought to you by PHP User Group Philippines, Inc. (PHPUGPH)
In cooperation with US Auto Parts Network (Philippines) Corp.

Event Details

Date: May 24, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: US Auto Parts Network (Philippines) Corp. (formerly MBSTek)
Training Room 6/F RCC Center 104 Shaw Blvd. Pasig City (Near Jade Palace)

Topics

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Riz Sanchez, SEO Manager, US Auto Parts Network (Philippines) Corp.

Model-View-Controller (MVC) 101: A Web Development Architecture
Reynold Lariza, Web Development Supervisor, Glocorp IT Solutions, Inc.

Web Application Security by Example
Richard Peter Ong, Lead Developer, Internal Projects, SysIQ Inc.

Event Fee

PHP 500.00/head (inclusive of lunch and snacks)
PHP 350.00 for early birds paid and with resume.
PHP 450.00 for early birds paid without resume.

* all inclusive of snacks and lunch *

Note:
Limited seats, good only for 35 slots. First come, first serve basis. Registration  is open until May 22, 2008. Your registration expires if no payment is made within 2 days.

Payment Details

All payments must be made within 2 days after online registration through bank deposit.

Bank account details are listed below:

Bank: BPI Family Savings Bank
Account No: 6006-6267-67
Account Name: Cherrie Ann B. Domingo

Scanned deposit slips should be sent to chean_AT_phpugph.com for payment confirmation.

Contact Us

For more details or any other inquiries, kindly contact Cherrie Ann B. Domingo at: +639178652412(Mobile), (632) 7253053(Office), chean_AT_phpugph.com(E-mail).

Registration

While waiting for official PHPUGPH.COM registration page please register on this temporary link

–aj