Here’s a great opportunity for all Pinoy web applications developer to not only win a whooping $100,000 ($50,000 in cold cash) and $50,000 credit toward Amazon Web Service. Amazon Web Service is conducting the AWS Start-Up Challenge, open to all developers, entrepreneurs and existing start-ups.

The AWS Start-Up Challenge promises big opportunities for chosen finalists topped by a free ticket to Amazon.com office where they will present their entries to the AWS contest’ panel of judges. I’m guessing that this is an all expense paid trip. So, you not only get the chance to have a crack on winning the prize pot but you also get an instant trip to Seattle. How’s that for an incentive? (more…)

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Blogging has been good to me since I started two years ago, not in the financial sense but in some other ways that transcended into financial gains. When I started blogging, I never though I would be a tech writer. Moreso, I never thought that I would be paid to write about tech related stuff considering that my educational background is librarianship. Who would have believed in a librarian writing on tech related topics? But then, my interest on technology and web related stuff made me to study and educate myself on my own. With no formal educational background on computer related subjects, I am currently writing about tech related articles on several blog networks with monthly incentives. I may not be earning that much compared to other big time tech bloggers, but the online visibility that those blogging gigs is bringing to my name is enough compensation than getting substantive financial gains from paid blogging gigs.

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Take your computing to a new level and enjoy the convenience of a reliable wireless computing performance with Genius SlimStar 600. Designed to enhanced your working efficiency without compromising your Mac habits, the new Genius SlimStar 600 works perfectly with Mac. Genius SlimStar 600 comes with a wireless keyboard and precision-tracking laser mouse. (more…)

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Wabbadabba is weird sounding name for a search engine. Even “weirder” is the fact that Wabbadabba is giving out cool prizes to lucky users who use their search engine. Sounds cool or sounds scam? The usual answer would of course be the latter and even if the search engine portal has been live since February, there are still doubts as to whether the prizes are for real or not. (more…)

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Technorati started rolling some enhancements to its blog portal, the first of these enhancements is the Technorati topics. Topics gives Technorati fans a new way of reading the millions of blog posts that Technorati collections, by five topical categories, entertainment, technology, Politics, Business and Life. These five topics are obviously the most sought after topics in blog posts. Technorati topics presents the most recent blog posts and updates the listings on a regular and timely basis. Thus ensuring that readers get up-to-date information from these blogs. (more…)

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I accidentally typed in a sub-page in my domain that no longer exist and was redirected by the browser to my 404 Error page. I haven’t really given too much attention to this page and never bothered to modify the default 404 page that comes in with the WordPress themes that I install. Until now, when I noticed that the default 404 page was not only annoyingly simple but pretty much a waste of space and bandwith if somebody chanced upon it. So, I decided to change my 404 error page to something like this one. (more…)

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Genius shows off an extremely versatile digital video camera with the new G-Shot DV1112. It features a wide 2.7″ screen for better viewing pleasure. Now you can enjoy high-quality 640×480 (VGA) and 320×240 (QVGA) video. Save them all in MPEG 4 format to use up less memory so you can take more videos! (more…)

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This announcement was made last Thursday, so this is kind of a delayed post, so please bear with me as this is something that sparked my “librarian roots” and I’m obliged to post about it. So, after getting several libraries and publishers to agree on having their book collection digitized and made available on Google property, Google Book Search now lets us book readers and users to create our own MyLibrary that sits right into Google Book Search portal. (more…)

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Lenovo meets your every demand with the release of the V200 notebook. It is specially built for very mobile professionals seeking an ultra-portable widescreen notebook. These systems offer a 12.1″ widescreen display with a premium silver exterior and start at only 4.0 lb., providing ultimate mobility at a great value. Whether you need a notebook for small business and multimedia, Lenovo 3000 V200 is the right choice for you. (more…)

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Who else would have come up with such an idea and make it happen but none other than Philippine SEO/SEM guru Marc Macalua? The first international search engine marketing conference is happening and it is happening right here in our beloved Philippines. The best of the SEM/SEO experts will gather for two day event to share, discuss, influence, advocate and showcase their wares at the Manila Intercontinental Hotel in Makati. And guess whose coming to speak before thousands of Filipino internet marketeers? Aaron Wall of SEO Book. (more…)

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Yearning to experience hi-fi wood sound with deeper and clearer performance? The new Genius SW-HF2.1 1250 is a 3-piece wood speaker system that delivers 40watts RMS output power designed to bring out clearer and crispier audio quality. Both subwoofer and satellites are made of ultra-rigid MDF board cabinets. It features custom-made speaker drivers – one 4″ woofer for the subwoofer and one 3″ for each satellite. (more…)

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For a social networking site backed by the web’s most powerful company, it is but ironic that Google’s social networking site Orkut has not been given the web limelight as compared to other top social networking sites, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. But Orkut is still alive, and it has been getting some media mileage the past couple of days, thanks to some new features which is long overdue actually. (more…)

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