Explosion in Glorietta 3 Mall in Makati , PH

Initial reports says the explosion at 1:30 PM PH time was strong enough to shake the entire building and made the roof collapse. 3 people was instantly killed on what seemed to be caused by an LPG blast, authorities refuse to confirm if this is related to terrorism.

Update:

Glorietta Mall Blast most likely caused by a bomb as victims were killed by snarpnails: http://tinyurl.com/2fqpsh


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Twitter and Jaiku: What RSS has become

RSS is the earliest embodiment of Web 2.0, however since RSS is a read-only medium; it was quickly out grown by social sites and blogs. Now RSS is making a come back thanks to Twitter and Jaiku.

Blogging tends to dictate that there should be a structure; topics, style of presentation, grammar, order and coherence; these perceived requirements for blogs made it difficult for anyone just to sit down and start sharing their thoughts.

On the other hand Twitter and Jaiku has made blogging and syndication easier and its social feature made it fun. Now posts doesn't need to have coherence nor topic, it can just be as short as an "excerpt of thought". Using followers and friends concept borrowed from social sites; Twitter and Jaiku has also made it easier to manage feeds subscriptions.

Finally the availability of APIs made it possible for developers to create applications such as TwitterFox for Twitter and Jaikuroo for Jaiku which is freely available. It also allowed sites to post their updates like RSS but allows them to freely modify the teasers and just link the actual content. This gives it a more personal feel;a less "robotic" sense that normal RSS provides.

In a future, I predict this services will entirely replace RSS while providing more support for privacy options, subscription management such as keyword tracking or relevance, and accessibility to mobile users.

Mobile External USB HDD Enclosures!

I passed by CDR-King yesterday and I couldn't resist buying the sleek aluminum HDD enclosure for only P640! Especially that it has a neon blue led lights that runs on its side and flickers every time there is an HDD activity. ^_^



Now I can have two HDD attached via the USB; the other one using the old USB to IDE cable featured on my last post.

PHP Users Group Philippines 1st Grand Meet-Up Seeks Sponsors

PHP Users Group Philippines is having its 1st Grand Meet-Up on December 1, 2007 and we're looking for sponsors!

* Founded: Jan 2001
* Yahoo Groups started: Jan 29, 2003 (exact date)
* Founder: Allan Joseph Batac
* Current Mailing List Members: 242
* Current Forum Members: 1,136
* Total Posts: 19,265
* Number of topics at the Forum: 2,503
* Generates a monthly hits of 460,000++
* Domain name was created: Jan 4, 2005


In order to make this event joyous and successful, we are seeking for valued partners like you to sponsor our event through the following packages:


PLATINUM Speaker/Presentor – Php 15,000.00 (Lock-out per industry is Php 25,000.00)

Speaker/Presentor company logo on the official website (big)
Company logo on event t-shirt (big)
Company logo on event posters (big)
Five (5) Event T-Shirt
1 streamer (up to 6 yards wide) on the venue (or 2 streamers 3 yards wide each)
Permission to setup a booth and/or distribute company fliers, brochures, prizes
20 minute talk during the event about your company products and services
Acknowledgment during the event as PLATINUM Speaker/Presentor

GOLD Co-Presentor – Php 10,000.00

Speaker/Presentor company logo on the official website (medium)
Company logo on the event t-shirt (medium)
Company logo on event posters (medium)
Three (3) Event T-Shirt
1 streamer (up to 4 yards wide) on venue
10 minute talk during the event about your company products and services
Acknowledgment during the event as GOLD Co-Presentor

SILVER Sponsor – Php 7,000.00

Company logo placement on the official website (small)
Company logo on the event t-shirt (small)
Company logo on event posters (small)
Two (2) Event T-Shirt
Acknowledgment during the event as SILVER Sponsor

BRONZE Sponsor – Php 5,000.00

Company link placement on the official website
Company brand name on the event t-shirt
Company name on event posters
One (1) Event T-Shirt
Acknowledgment during the event as BRONZE Sponsor

Additional benefits:

1) Inclusion of Logo and Link to PHPUGPH.com home (from Dec 2007 – to Dec 2008)
2) Monthly email blast (advertisement) to all PHPUGPH members for 1 year (from Dec 2007 – to Dec 2008)
3) Company logo to be included in the member’s tshirt (at the back)

Please leave me a comment if you're interested to sponsor or e-mail me at

Cribz on final development stage.

I'm very excited now; Cribz -- a mobile social site I was working on for the longest time is on it's final development stage. It promises a lot to integrate Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 by introducing community contents to mobile and mashing up with existing Web 2.0 providers such as Gmail, Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, Twitter, Digg, Del.icio.us, Google Maps, 30boxes, MyBlogLog and Flickr.

Here are some teaser-shots :D




Notice we blocked out the URL of the demo site and were using a stock theme (oh yes, we built it using Drupal!) On the far right column is the login box with option to authenticate using Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, or Facebook. What this does is cut down the registration process for validating users -- say bye bye to authentication mails that never gets into you mailbox for some weird reason.




This one shows the user profile, which is you home where it list all your recent and top rated contents and the messenger.



Now this is the interesting part but we don't want to disclose at the moment -- try figuring it out and leave comments :D