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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

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Google also doesn’t know it

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Pretty cool huh?

Converse has a new website OutOfYourLeagueGirl.com. It’s some sort of hotness tips from some hot girl.

Not sure how this video is related to Converse.

Dear PHPUGPHer, Is your name here? If it is here, then congratulations! You are one of the most active members of PHPUGPH. If your name is not here, then I urge you to be active.

Update: The above was truncated to 150 users only. Below is the 500 users.

Create your own like this at Wordle.

Will be rebooting this theme sometime soon. It has been quite sometime now since I changed a WP theme. I’m currently looking for a very minimalist, simple and clean 3 column theme that will fit my blogging need.

Please throw me a comment if you’ve found something for me.

Thanks.

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Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

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

At the height of WWDC, Twitter is down (11:00AM Central). You know why? Look at the birds. They are moving from different directions. And you don’t have to be a genius to figure out that 8 birds can’t probably carry a 90-ton whale? Err…

So what do you do now? Either go to Plurk, send your sentiments at Twiddict or just go back to real work.

–aj

UPDATE: 11:26AM (CT) They’re back up but real slow.

FireNes is a new Firefox plugin you can use to play all those NES game goodies without downloading a NES emulator or those game packages. You simply download FireNes, restart your Firefox, open up FireNes over at Tools >> FireNes. That opens up over 100 NES games. Games you played when you were a kid (at least for me), now right on your Firefox sidebar.

Double-click a game you want and it opens up automatically without even downloading anything after!

To save you time on the controls, it’s the X & Z. You can view the controls by right-clicking any game on the sidebar.

By the way, FireNes runs on Java (if that means anything to you at all). Also, here’s the English translation if you can’t understand anything on the site.

Enjoy your favorite games and have a good weekend.

–aj