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Mandaue Business Month Press Conference
July 17, 2008
I mentioned in an earlier post that I got invited by Mr. Wilson Ng to attend the Mandaue Business Month press conference. The invitation was also open to other 15 bloggers but only a few responded because of some conflicts in schedule. Among those who attended the press conference are Aileen (http://sunchoke.net), Wil (http://misswilhelmina.com), Paul (http://cebudirectories.com), Nick (http://in-indie.org), Arnold (http://cebuheritage.com), and Rio (http://ngkhai.net/blog).
Present during the press conference are the people from the business sector, the media, and Hon. Gwen Garcia, the governor of the province of Cebu. The purpose of that press conference is to formally launch the upcoming 17th Visayas Business Area Business Conference and the Mandaue Business Month.
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WordCamp Philippines, MBS2 and a few more
July 16, 2008
A couple of BIG blogging events are coming to town, the most awaited WordCamp Philippines and the come …
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I missed blogging
July 16, 2008
I’ve been away from my blog for a long time. Since I moved here in Cebu, I rarely …
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I want to meet bloggers from Cebu
June 16, 2008
While I was still in Davao, I heard a lot of stories from bloggers coming from the Visayas …
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How to control the world from your computer?
June 9, 2008
Have you seen the movie “So Close”? …
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Barbeque at Larsian’s
May 27, 2008
The first week in Cebu City was very difficult on my part. I’m not used of eating carenderia food. While I was in Davao, I was spoiled with my Lola’s home-cooked meals and food from Davao’s best restaurants. I was not prepared in the sudden change of my lifestyle.
Among those things I miss about Davao are the numerous Inasal restaurants found in the downtown area. Mang Inasal, Penongs, and Banoks among others. Last night, we were able to come across Cebu’s barbeque haven. We didn’t realize that such place lies a few blocks away from our building.
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Google Hoaxes for April Fool’s Day
April 2, 2008 | Author: Winston | Filed under: Blog
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Google might be one of the few companies in the internet who “seriously” participates in the April Fool’s day every year. A lot of GMail users were fooled by Google last year when they launched the hoax GMail Paper. (Google got me on this one)
“The service offered to allow users of Google’s free webmail service to add e-mails to a “Paper Archive,” which Google would print (on “96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum”) and mail via traditional post. The service would be free, supported by bold, red advertisements printed on the back of the printed messages.”
This year, Google rolled out sixteen April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. It was also YouTube’s first year to participate in Google’s first of April tradition.
Among the Google’s hoaxes this year are the following:
- Virgle
Google campaigns for human settlement on Mars. Clever isn’t it?(more info)
- Adsense for Conversations
Start displaying unobtrusive ads on a screen above your head. Google Adsense puts ‘context’ into contextual advertising. Relevant ads are displayed on-screen during conversations. - Yogurt
Orkut’s name was displayed as Yogurt
- Dajare “organizing the world’s laughter” in Japan. Hehehehe
- gDay
a new beta search technology that will search web pages 24 hours before they are created. - Google Dialect Translation
a Google Translate service which translates Korean dialects into standard Korean language.
- Gmail Custom Time Allows users to “pre-date” their messages and choose to have the message appear as “read” or “unread”. “Be on time. Every time.”
- Google Calendar is Feeling Lucky
An “I’m feeling Lucky” option was added to Google Calendar. Google will automatically set you for a scheduled date with the Hollywood Stars.
- Google Talk
Google announced plans to, on April 22, 2008 (Earth Day), shorten all conversations over Google Talk thereby reducing the energy required to transmit chats in an effort to reduce carbon output. - YouTube On April 1, 2008, all featured videos on the Australian and UK homepages, and later, all international homepages, of Google-owned YouTube linked to a video of Rick Astley’s song Never Gonna Give You Up, causing all users of the website who clicked on featured videos to be Rickrolled.
Quoted from Wikipedia.
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