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Posted by Marie Casas
on January 26, 2010

Calling Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Developers, & Designers

Most of us will be glad to have 2009 behind us with all the economic blunders but 2010 is going to be a fabulous year for startups, developers, and web designers.
Web/Tech-savvy people are at a great place right now — with consumers and businesses growing more comfortable with placing their data on the cloud. So [...]


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Posted by Marie Casas
on December 12, 2009

Drupal Camp Manila 2009

Continuating after Jam Packed Morning Sessions at Drupal Camp Manila, we got to hear about:
Do more with less (effort): Tools that make Drupal deployment extra-efficient by Marcky

openatrium for project management based on drupal
uniform server lightweight local server
extplorer php-based file manager to demo obtaining a copy of open atrium and extract the tar and install [...]


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Posted by Marie Casas
on December 12, 2009

Jam-packed morning sessions at at Drupal Camp Manila

Blogging live at Drupal Camp Manila, glad to see familiar faces at G2iX Techbar in Orient Square, Ortigas Center.
This morning, we had an install fest where Drupal n00bs got a walk-through of installing Drupal on your localhost XAMPP, creating a database in MySQL phpMyAdmin, creating content types. (Personally, I’ve become a fan of installing via [...]




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Posted by Marie Casas
on December 4, 2009

Friendster Revamp to Revive Asia’s social network

Login to Friendster and you’ll get a major surprise. What used to be shades of white and grey (with ads thrown here and there) are now green and yellow. Improvements to the interface are long overdue for this social network that’s still giant in Asia — and now it’s a whole new brand. [...]




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Posted by Marie Casas
on November 12, 2009

Gloo Social Network by Berkadoods Now Online (Globe Labs)

Just when I’m trying to rid myself of Facebook (game) addiction by Pomodoro-ing myself , here comes along a new social network made by “2 dudes” called Berkadoods. Watch out Sandbox!

Gloo is a new way to communicate online. It’s an online collaboration space where you can post Facebook pictures, web images and videos into spaces [...]


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Posted by Marie Casas
on September 25, 2009

What does the DICT mean for us?

Uh-oh will have to rewrite this post as Ecto Mac blog editor lost it when I clicked Publish.


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Posted by Marie Casas
on September 18, 2009

How to Setup Dev Workstations for our Startup Office

Hiatus again?? What is up with Marie and Pinoy Web Startup and it’s on and off postings for the past months?!
I wish I can tell you we’ve been busy with our product… and we did put some time into one baby project along with our new intern Ralph… but the start of this year was [...]




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Posted by Marie Casas
on June 11, 2009

Google and Globe Developer Workshop – June 20

If you’ve been wanting to make your own mobile or web mashup but haven’t gone through all the documentation or you actually don’t know how to hook up to APIs just yet, the guys from Google, Globe Labs, and Ayala Foundation – Ayala TBI, will be hosting a developer event in Manila, Philippines next Saturday [...]




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Posted by Marie Casas
on May 20, 2009

Kickstarting Mobile Ventures: Ayala TBI Innovation Forum

Learn from one of the best. The spotlight for the upcoming Innovation Forum is on Arnel Guiang, CEO of Guiang Corporation. Guiang’s company incubates new technologies in software, mobile, and internet.
When: May 26, 2009 (Tuesday), 4-6pm
Where: Duets Bistro, 5th Floor, AIM Conference Center Manila
Entrance fee is P500, 50% off for students and academe.
To register, email [...]




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Posted by Marie Casas
on May 12, 2009

CoWorking or Office Sharing for Startups in Makati, Metro Manila

We’re back!!!! And I have a great idea (though not original, but long overdue)… that I really want to happen within the next 12 months. I’m seriously considering moving to a bigger office space in an IT building (or maybe an outfitted warehouse) that has redundant internet connection, 100% backup power supply, ample parking space, [...]