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At our recent PTB meet-up last Saturday, we discussed about the direction we are going…

Last September 1-4, FOSSAP 2005 was held in Cambodia to discuss the various concerns regarding the free and open source movement in the various countries in the Asia-Pacific region. FOSSAP was organized by the International Open Source Network.

Marvin Pascual, the incumbent president of the Philippine Linux Users’ Group has been invited by Sunil Abraham to join the conference. He was able to interact with free and open source software (F/OSS) advocates in the region. He discussed the current situation of F/OSS in the Philippines.

The second Pinoy.tech.blog meetup is set for tomorrow, October 8, 2005. We will hold a secret meeting in an undisclosed place in a far away land at lunchtime, and then move to a public venue at 2:30 p.m. to meet and greet with our beloved readers.

Locally-developed hosted blogging service i.PH is now free. Bandwidth and disc space allocation have also been increased across all accounts. Read on.

It looks like the pay-per-pixel business is growing. The trend was started by the million dollar homepage, and now there are a lot of million-whatever homepages around!

Online Document Collaboration seems to be growing vastly. Here’s an update with this three sweet…

New developments, view the entire post for the update! All signs point to Google announcing to the world tomorrow that it is indeed doing a collab with Sun Microsystem’s StarOffice to bring you….Google Office (or something close to it).

I can almost hear a certain Steve B crying in the shadows..

I am back with yet another social bookmarking service:) This time it’s Simpy. Similar to del.icio.us, it has a user interface that is easy to use because you simply input tags and separate them with the use of commas. Also you could add your notes and mark the link as private (just for you) or public (which everyone can check out). The notes are searchable too so that is really nifty in case you forgot the tags you have used or there’s something distinct that you wrote about the link you have saved.

If your 2.6GB (and increasing) of Gmail account is not enough, try 30Gigs.com: 30Gigs.com started…

via Makezine: What is Yahoo! Site Explorer? The Yahoo! search database contains detailed information about…

The Stockholm Challenge is what they term the “œglobal arena for ICT projects.” This is a challenge that focuses on the creative ways of using IT to empower people. There are five projects from the Philippines.

After the popularity of Shortstat, Shaun Inman created another excellent web application called Mint, a…