Contributors


Aileen Estoquia
Aileen is an artist, traveler, pseudo-intellectual, and geek convert. She worships Steve Jobs. In real life, she is a technical writer at Lexmark International. She blogs at Quest for the True North.

AJ Batac
AJ has 13+ years of experience in IT, and has skills in PHP, XHTML, XML, JS, AJAX, CSS, CFM, ASP, and MSSQL and MySQL. AJ had the chance to manage technology products such as SonicWall, NEC, Packard Bell, Lexmark, Gateway, Lenovo, and HDS. His blog can be found at http://allanjosephbatac.com/blog

Alfonso Varon
Alfonso started blogging during the infancy stage of blogs. I used to blog using NewsPro (that became Coranto), Greymatter, b2 (which gave birth to Wordpress), and even MovableType. Now I blog at my personal site which caters my observations of the world. I first started server-side programming doing mod-hacks on CGI scripts like forums (I witnessed the creation of iKonboard & Invision Board) and news generators (that became blogging softwares).

Amelia Belocura
Amelia is a simple woman living here on earth. She’s working as a Search Engine Marketing assistant and a Link Builder Assistant and also does Freelance Link Building. She has a blog entitled Time Line and also has a tech blog entitled Technology and Blogging which is focusing on what’s the latest news and information and trends on our technology today.

Amy Oliveros
Amy is connected with one of the world’s top IT companies, and has been in the IT industry for a couple years specializing in Oracle Back end programming and administration. Other Languages and Experiences involves working with Powerbuilder, PHP, SQL Server, C language and MySQL. You can check her blog at http://www.techiegirl.info and http://www.easylifeguide.net

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.

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 a Project Specialist at a premiere turnkey ICT Solutions provider and she still dreams to be a DBA or Network Admin someday. This certified computer geek blogs everything about techie stuff at http://thinkingmnemosyne.blogspot.com

Dexter Panganiban
Dexter blogs at Tech at Hand Dot Net – his main blog. He has been blogging for about 1 year now and he writes mostly about his Blogging Experience, SEO and Tech Related Stuff that he thinks will be useful to his readers. Aside from his main blog, he also maintains other blogs such as Philippine News and Current Events, a Praise and Worship Song Lyrics site and many others. We can say that he is also a Pro Blogger since he is earning from those mentioned blogs. He blogs at Saudi Arabia while working as a Mechanical Engineer.

Eloisa Sergio
Eloisa aka Bratyfly or simply “B” is the founder of PinoyBlogoSphere.com. She’s a freelance web developer, frustrated digital artist, wannabe photographer and a trying hard Quality Assurance Specialist in a Call Center in Makati City, Philippines. She owns Bratyfly.com and some monetized sites.

Gemma Baltazar
Gemma is currently making out as a full-time freelance web designer and programmer. Prior to this, she worked as a maintenance engineer in a Japanese company. Much of her experience in Information Technology was gained from working as an IT specialist and instructor in a military training institution and an international computer school. One of her blogs, The Lady Programmer talks about her freelance life, experience and tips. She puts in bits of news about technology, gadgets and other computer-related stuff.

Hanne Rebollos
Ennah is currently taking up B.S. Computer Science and Information Technology Major in Systems and Software Engineering at Asia Pacific College. Her life as a comsci student is really tough. Nevertheless, she makes it fun and exciting. =D

Javi Durado · Javi, a.k.a. the Third World Geek, is a bored corporate guy who considers his night job(no, he doesn’t work in a call center) as a hobby. His real work happens during the day when he blogs like a guy whose fingers are about to be chopped off. He is the guy behind, you guessed right, thirdworldgeek.com

JC John SESE Cuneta (Shixi XIE)
JC John (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.

Jeric Peña
Jeric is a 17 year old blogger and podcaster from Manila, Philippines. He currently blogs at My Boring Life… Now A Blog! about entertainment, technology, music and his personal life. He started blogging since 2003 and currently maintains a couple of blogs discussing different topics. Aside from blogging and podcasting, he is also a freelance web designer.

Jerome “Jam” Ancheta
Jam, 14 years old who is currently a 3rd year Student Of De La Salle Lipa and also an online gamer and also loves gadgets. His blog can be found at http://jeromeancheta.wordpress.com

John Phillips Bengero
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.

Jonas de los Reyes
Jonas has been involved in the Philippine internet scene since year 2000. He is into all things tech, primarily community and social media, internet marketing, and e-commerce. He sees himself as a tech evangelist now and hopes to be a presenation guru someday. He has worked for Yehey.com, Eyp.ph and Chikka and is now with Yahoo! Southeast Asia as Community Manager for the Philippines. He blogs for work at www.yanswersblogph.com and he shares his thoughts and ideas and tries to spread the good news of tech in his personal blog at www.jonasdelosreyes.com.

Maria Odea Ching
Deng
is a Lead developer at Exist Global. PMC member of various projects in Apache Software Foundation and is currently the PMC Chair of the Apache Archiva project. Aside from open source, her interests include photography, movies, food, music, coffee, books and the beach.

Marie Casas
Marie Casas is co-founder/CMO/CFO of Pigmata Media Inc.. She’s involved in financial education, entrepreneurship, and internet marketing. She encourages young business-minded individuals and programmers to venture into internet startups at Pinoy Web Startup.

Mark Parreñas
Mark is a 25 year-old blogger in Metro Manila. He’s been blogging at winterheim|hdd since 2006, writing about Japan’s otaku culture, specifically mecha-related topics. He also occasionally writes about gadgets and whatnot happening in the metro.

Migs Hipolito
Is an analyst and head of a loss control group by day and blogger by night. He maintains several blogs of which 4 are very active: · Migs Mobile Network · Buddy Blogs · Manilenyo in Davao · What I See Is What I Blog
A self proclaimed techie guy who likes everything about mobile gadgets – more specifically mobile phones which he blogs about news, views and his reviews. He is also a contributor for other blogs and a local business newspaper.

Mike Lopez
Mike is a Filipino website developer, internet marketer and SEO. He currently maintains a few forums and a few blogs related to his expertise such as: – Coders Cult Website Development Forum; – Mike’s Technology Blog; and – In Search of Optimization – an SEO blog He also teaches website development, internet marketing and search engine optimization upon request.

Mon Macutay
Mon Macutay, better known as GM Tristan in the local online gaming scene is a pioneer of the industry. He is currently the marketing manager of Level Up, the country’s first and biggest online game publisher. Mon is also the owner of http://gmtristan.com, his own blog about tech, girls, games, and gadgets.

Noel Feria
· Tech Evangelist · Java Programmer · F/OSS Advocate · Apple/Linux User

Randie Francis Tulop
Randie is a Robotic Trainer / Integration Coordinator / Training Coordinator / Game Coordinator of Pinoy Robot Games Foundation.

Regnard Raquedan
Regnard is a blogger who focuses on The Web, Usability, Web Standards and his blogging experience. He also loves to watch films and write movie reviews and he always finds time to write in his MBA blog.

Rmil Chua
Rmil is a Computer Science student at AMACC. He maintains babyface.name as his main blog. He’s also an online gamer.

Siege Malvar
Siege is a copywriter by profession, a poet by passion, a novelist by possession, and dead drunk by night. He keeps too many blogs for his own good. He needs to pay back the sleep debt he owes before the Sandman comes to repo his consciousness. He hates making reports, and believes MS Excel will cause the fall of mankind. Siegemalvar.net is his blog site. Nag-Siege Ka Na Ba? Mag-SIEGE Ka Muna!

Tonyo Cruz
Tonyo is a writer, blogger, journalist and activist. He is a founder of the consumer group TXTPower in 2001 and the global network MobileActive in 2005. He closely follows developments in mobile technology from the consumer and activist point of views. He is currently working as a reporter for Japan’s leading newspaper and previously wrote for the Malaya daily broadsheet. He blogs at http://tonyocruz.com and may be reached at tonyocruz at gmail dot com.

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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