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Hivepub: Philippine New Media Website

December 13, 2008 · Comments 

I am inviting you all to join www.hivepub.com one of the Philippine’s newest blog that talks about anything that has to do with NEW MEDIA. Hivepub.com It is a blog that is worth contributing to and would surely benefit a lot of people in time.

Hivepub.com is the online address of HIVE Magazine, by hivepublishing, that is set to be release on January 2009. This print copy project together with IMMAP (Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines) hopes to invite more people to be a part of the community to grow the internet scene here in our country.

SUPPORT HIVE!

www.hivepub.com

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Wordpress Acquires Polldaddy

October 16, 2008 · Comments 

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, bought the Irish startup Polldaddy (which is my poll service of choice and used in this blog). This is to further push and make WordPress better more than other things, similar to the recent acquisition of IntenseDebate. However, the acquisition, just like IntenseDebate and Gravatar, will not lead to exclusivity of the service to WordPress users.

Polldaddy’s stiff competitor in the Poll service space is Vizu, which provide features that daddy’s poll doesn’t provide. However, the same can be said for Vizu, and thus I created a test post displaying the two top poll services side-by-side: POLL: Where are you from?

Congratulations and good luck to Polldaddy and Automattic!

Originally Posted at: Technology Playground™.

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Written by JC John SESE Cuneta (Shixi XIE) · JC John SESE Cuneta (aka Laibcoms/Laibeus Lord) or GM/CM-Yukino Xue as he is known in the Philippine Online Gaming Industry (“POGI”) is a pioneer of the online gaming space in the country. He has been involved in the growth and shaping of the POGI since 2002, and has been actively and continuously doing so to this day. In 2003, JC founded the Holy Order of the Light™, one of the largest gaming organizations in the country today. He also blogs at gameshogun™.ws, which is the evolution of the corporate-gaming blog he started in 2004, and today an unaffiliated collaboration blog. His experience can be summarized to “BEE Communities” – Building, Engaging, and Empowering Communities.

Software Freedom Day Philippines 2008: One Nation, Unity for Software Freedom

September 18, 2008 · Comments 

Brought to you by Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) in partnership with Hubnob and in cooperation with University of Makati (UMAK) – IT Society together with TXTpower, PHP User Group Philippines (PHPUGPH), Joomla! Users Group Philippines (JUG-PH), Philippine Ruby Users Group (PhRUG), Drupal User Group Philippines, Adobe User Group Philippines, Mindanao Bloggers, Angeles City Linux Users Group (ACGLUG), Internet Cafe Association of Imus (ICAII), University of the Philippines – Linux Users Group (UnPLUG), Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) – Taguig, Mindanao State University (MSU) – Marawi City, Bayan Muna and Office of Rep. Teddy Casino

SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY PHILIPPINES 2008: One Nation, Unity for Software Freedom – Live via Wi-cast

Date: September 20, 2008
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Main Event Venue: University of Makati (UMAK), J.P. Rizal Ext. West Rembo, Makati City

With satellite events at Holy Angel University (HAU) – Pampanga, University of Santo Tomas (UST), Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) – Taguig and Mindanao State University (MSU) – Marawi City

Sponsored by Globe, Hubnob, Scenovia, Web.com.ph, Stratpoint Technologies and Sysandsoft

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Written by Cherrie Ann Domingo · Chean is a soft-hearted techie who has found passion in her organizations and has been active with both online communities ever since she fell in love with them. She is currently working as an Education Consultant for Oracle University and she still dreams to be a DBA or Network Admin someday. This certified computer geek blogs everything about techie stuff at Mnemosyne is Blue

Sen. Bong Revilla Indirectly Promotes Piracy and Splogs

September 3, 2008 · Comments 

I just finished reviewing my sensor logs GameOPS‘ recent comments when I stumbled upon a comment from Mobisop. His (her?) comment was posted on an article announcing the release of HighStreet 5 in the Philippines. Mobisop said that the game would be a great game. Curious, I clicked his name which brought me to his website.

The website turns out to be a subdomain of Resiklo.com, the official website of the movie Resiklo. To those who don’t know, Resiklo was the 2007 Metro Manila Film Fest’s Best Picture and a movie by Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. MOBISOP claims to be a movie and software review blog.


Click image for more detailed info

Well this blog doesn’t seem to be a “review blog” at all. All it offers are links to warez and cracked applications and ways for you to watch movies online. But clicking deeper into this, you won’t see any cracked applications or ways to watch movies online.

The blog tricks you to click and click links until your reach a site where it will only describe that certain movie or warez you’re looking for. The sites you’ll encounter will also warn you that watching a movie online or using cracks/warez is illegal. In other words, the sites you’ve been through are all SPLOGS. PERIOD.

Okay guys, what’s wrong with this?

I don’t know what you guys think but being the star and producer of the movie Resiklo, Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. is indirectly promoting illegal movies, warez and cracked applications online just by the use of his domain. Though he’s actually not the one doing it, it’s still his responsibility to check his websites now and then. Right?

We’re just fresh from the news that Anino Games Inc. got caught by the NBI for using illegal and pirated copies of Autodesk softwares. Now another big wig is joining them and unfortunately, he’s an official of the Republic of the Philippines.

What would Chairman Edu Manzano think off if he learns about this? Another word war? :~)

For more related local piracy news, please visit GameOPS’ Pirates ‘R Us

(This article is cross posted on GameOPS and Captain’s Log)

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Written by John Phillips Bengero · Jepoy is one of the founders of the Philippines' first website dedicated video games, GameOPS. Blogs about technology on his pseudo-personal blog Captain's Log. President and CEO of BengerOrozco Enterprises Inc. which operates myPapaNi Online Store. Super-Hero and Ninja on his idle time. A Star Trek addict.

Delicious, MyBlogLog get redesigned

August 1, 2008 · Comments 

Delicious and MyBlogLog have something more in common than being Web 2.0 services and being under the Yahoo! flagship: they both launched a redesign of their websites within the same week. Both keep to the original look and feel, but adding several enhancements and user experience improvements.

MyBlogLog redesigned last July 28, adding “shiny shadows and rounded edges”, but also improving on the user interface, like on the user’s profile page, they “have moved the most recent visitors module, up on top, not down below the fold” so that users can see who’s been visiting their profile quickly.

Now, Delicious 2.0 was launched on July 31, a long-awaited release, which includes a lot of changes, such as the move to delicious.com (due to “a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years”), new infrastructure to make the website faster, a search engine overhaul, and user interface improvements like “selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks”.

Previously, I haven’t used either service for long or with any regularity, owing to my general perception about their clunkiness (not a good scientific basis, I know). But with their redesigns, I’m reevaluating my stance and might even stick around. Visit their respective blog posts (linked above) and let them know what you think in the comments!

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Written by Angela Sabas · Angela, a web enthusiast and seasonal writer, has been into websites since 1998, when she was first introduced to the Internet. She prefers to be known as a hobbyist, because even though she works in the industry as a frontend engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as a hobby. She runs a tech blog and scripts archive with her linkware scripts, a writing/reading blog where she blogs about books and creative writing, a fan domain, and various other odds and ends.

Google Adsense Website Went Down

July 20, 2008 · Comments 

That’s right, you read it right. Internet web servers from the world’s most leading and most successful internet search engine giant could also go down. As I am posting this entry, Google Adsense website is currently down.

A long time ago, written from internet’s history, AOL and Yahoo websites went unavailable for a certain period of time. There were rumors that their websites were intruded by web hackers, which was restored immediately as their sites were being actively monitored on 24/7 time basis with redundant backup availability.

Let me tell you right now that Google Adsense websites are always being implemented with rock-solid high industry standard and well distributed web server setup and configurations. They do multipoint and geographical site clustering and server load balancing technology, mostly on their publicly available internet web servers. This approach makes sure that all our billion requests to browse and query their sites comes blazingly fast while not making their webservers loaded up and crumpled down due to multimillion user requests. Amazing it is.

So, why the issue of Google Adsense web site going down?

Uptime and monitoring are the key factors. If a person deals with his thousand-earning website monetized by Google Adsense technology, and not being able to login and monitor your earnings at that particular point of downtime by Google Adsense webserver could be personally alarming. Maybe to some, and could be to others. This is no different case of monitoring your stock trades online that could earns thousand bucks a few seconds time and could lose the same amount after a few minute of stock trading online. It is the personal inconvenience, that is where it goes down.

Shown below is temporary site unavailability of Google Adsense URL.

Google Adsense Site is Down

Google Adsense Site is Down

For the record, I am keeping this as my internet souvenir of a very rare instance of Google Adsense web server being down temporarily, ‘coz it doesn’t happen all the time.

So, take a real look at it, it is like a snow fall from a tropical country like Philippines.

All done.

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Written by VeRTiTo · VeRTiTO likes Beer and Linux very much. The three of them dwell along like a good marriage relationship components. When Linux does some shortcomings, Beer spice him up and relax him down a little, when Beer relaxes him down too much, Linux inspires and hacks him up so he goes back on his feet. When the other one is missing, it's alienating and boring. When you combine the three of them, now that is a human thing. Are you? Oh, ilovetux.com is only one of his newest craziness.

A month ahead schedule, WordPress 2.6 is now available!

July 16, 2008 · Comments 

That’s right! Here’s what Matt announced at the Wordpress blog:

“I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.” -Matt

Watch this brief video tour of WP 2.6:

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Written by Jojo "dYu" Geytz · dYu is an IT Consultant - programmer/developer. He's one of the admins of PBS services (Group Blog, Forum, Mailing List, Blogopedia & Search Engine).

I can see invisible YM! users, can you?

July 10, 2008 · 9 Comments 

Chat messenger software has been around and is continuously growing as a major part of instant online communication medium around the web. Personally, I could not think of anybody who regularly goes to web but doesn’t go online with his chat messenger, I don’t even know anybody who does that.

One intriguing feature that most messenger client programs do offer is being online but invisible. That is, being hidden so nobody gets to see your online status, unless you modify your specific invisibility stealth feature among your chat users. As far as I can recall, as being a yahoo user for almost 15 years now, Yahoo! was one of the first to offer and implement a stealth invisibility feature into its Yahoo messenger client program, and the rest of the world follows.

Now, did you ever stop for a while and think about how would you be able to see those invincible users listed from your YM contact list.

Yes, I am able to see both online and invisible YM users at the same time. The feeling is funny but a little invasive.

Why?

Naturally, you get the chance to see who’s being invisible from their YM status period. For having invisibility brings another curtain shade of privacy and confidentiality status, atleast from Yahoo messenger program. Being hidden and invisible provides a feeling of convenience to some and comfort to others, its a mixed cases though.

But hey, this Gyache program makes YM user to see and pass through that invisibility curtain! How’s that scaring you? Million and million YM users will now get the chance see your invisible YM status and your invisible SMS status too. In fact, YM stealth feature is not even more 100% effective on hiding online YM privacy status.

Can you imagine that?

Well, all these has been possible using GyachE, a GPL’ed yahoo-like client chat messenger that supports most YM protocols and features a YM can offer. As of this time, it is not available on windows platform.

Lucky me, I can see you guys. :)

If you wish to install it on rpm-based linux distros like Centos or Fedora, hit my web. Alternatively, there are some windows-based external program that supports this feature. The thing is, you need to install YM plus that external program at the same time, not like how Gyache does the job.

Quicky post, have fun!

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Written by VeRTiTo · VeRTiTO likes Beer and Linux very much. The three of them dwell along like a good marriage relationship components. When Linux does some shortcomings, Beer spice him up and relax him down a little, when Beer relaxes him down too much, Linux inspires and hacks him up so he goes back on his feet. When the other one is missing, it's alienating and boring. When you combine the three of them, now that is a human thing. Are you? Oh, ilovetux.com is only one of his newest craziness.

Do you know what the █████ is this?

July 10, 2008 · 7 Comments 

Dear Geeks,

Do you █████ know what this is?
here’s the bytecode:
%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88

View these too:

Even mighty Google doesn’t know:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=
%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88&btnG=Google+Search

Now, do you know what the █████ is this? Let us know, ok? :)

Fellow Geek

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Written by AJ Batac · AJ Batac has 13+ years of experience in IT/Web Development. He blogs at http://allanjosephbatac.com/blog

Woopra – Advanced and Elegant Site Tracking and Monitoring

July 2, 2008 · 5 Comments 

For the past blogging years, bloggers and website owners have been so familiarized with various site analytical tools on monitoring site statistics and visitors behavioral activity. They get to choose from wide array of site monitoring selections such as Google Analytics, Sitemeter, Wordpress stats plugins, some customized site scripts and more. Yes, they are all great, they all share one thing in common – you get to monitor your site on fixed regular basis.

But hey, let’s pause. Have you ever wonder how to monitor your sites on real-time basis ? As in see and watch your site visitors’ geographical location as soon as they enter your site? Or even chat with them LIVE from your desktop screen while they are off browsing your site’s content. Yes that is right, I am talking about proactive site monitoring – that is monitoring LIVE on real-time basis.

Introducing Woopra.

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Written by VeRTiTo · VeRTiTO likes Beer and Linux very much. The three of them dwell along like a good marriage relationship components. When Linux does some shortcomings, Beer spice him up and relax him down a little, when Beer relaxes him down too much, Linux inspires and hacks him up so he goes back on his feet. When the other one is missing, it's alienating and boring. When you combine the three of them, now that is a human thing. Are you? Oh, ilovetux.com is only one of his newest craziness.

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