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The WordCamp Philippines website officially announced that the date is set for this year’s WordCamp on September 19, 2009 (Saturday).

Well, I guess I’ll see you there!

Should there be no bug reports, WordPress 2.8 will be available for official release on the 10th of June 2009. You can check out the changes made from beta 2 release by checking the changelog.

For those who are renewing their domains, you can use EATATCHANS and get $0.90 less from your renewal fee.

For new .com domain registrations, just use SupaSauce or PIRIGUETE and pay only $7.49 for a .com domain. Thanks to DotSauce for these codes.

The date of the event is yet to be finalized, they are also considering the Asian Institute of Management to be the venue for this year’s WordCamp.

Last year’s WordPress WordCamp Philippines was a blast! Looking forward to attending this year’s event. Check the latest news about this on the new WordCamp Philippines blog.

Got an e-mail from name.com about a contest/raffle entitle Flip for Name.com! The rule is simple, just register an .tv (Tuvalu country code) from today until May 30, 2009 and get a chance to win a Flip UltraHD Video Camera worth $199.99.

Each domain (.tv) registered is equals to 1 entry.

To know more about this raffle, please check this entry from Name.com and maybe you wanna know more about Flip Ultra HD video camera, check it out here.

I’m back because of the latest buzz on the web the Tnomeralc web design toys, what about it? Honestly, I don’t know, what I do know is that it is being sponsored by Claremont Design and LA Toy Store.

Let’s discover Tnomeralc web design toys together, keep posted on this blog.

After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.

When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one of the fastest growing free services in the history of the Web. During the first year of the service it successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines and the BlogRush widget could be found on blogs all over the world; even up until the moment we closed down the service.

BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems — from security issues to abusive users trying to ‘game’ the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service’s full potential.

Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn’t work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)

I want to say “Thank You” to all of the great bloggers that at least gave BlogRush a test to see if it would work for them. We sincerely appreciate you giving the service a try.

We have received several offers & inquiries about acquiring BlogRush, but we are choosing not to go that route. While many might think this is crazy, we truly feel it’s the ‘right’ thing to do for our users. Believe it or not, it’s not always about the money. In fact, BlogRush will have lost a small fortune when it’s all said and done, and it was by choice. There were many things we could have done to monetize the service but we wanted to make sure it was going to benefit our users first.

Last but not least I want to say that I hope the failure of this service doesn’t in any way discourage other entrepreneurs from coming up with crazy ideas at 4AM (like I did with this one) and from “going for it” to just try and see if something will work. Without trying there can be no success. And as we all know, ideas are worthless without action. The Web wouldn’t be what it is today without entrepreneurs trying all sorts of crazy ideas.

On behalf of the entire BlogRush team, we wish the best of luck to everyone with their own blogs, ideas, and crazy ventures.

Sincerely,

John Reese

As the saying goes, some good things never lasts.

Session 1 SEO Basics and Reporting (November 11 – 12, 2008) will tackle Search Tracking and Reporting:Basic Search Optimization, Webstats and Ranking Report Analysis, Tracking and Reporting, Pay-Per-Click Basics while the 2nd session In Depth and Optimization (November 19 – 21, 2008) will discuss In Depth Search Optimization: Link Building, Internal Link Structures, Pay-Per-Click, Advanced Optimization.

Fess will be P10,000.00 for the first sessions (November 11 – 12, 2008) and P15,000.00 for the November 19 to 21, 2008 sessions. Course instructors will be Hans A. Koch & Benj Ariola.

Training fees are inclusive of snacks, lunch, workshop materials, and certificate, attendees are required to bring with them Laptop, Google Account (Gmail), Google Analytics & a site to optimize.

For more details, you can call Fiera de Manila, Inc. at telephone numbers: +632-8960639,
8960637, fax: 8902101, 8960637, email: fiera@info.com.ph, visit web site: http://www.fmi.com.ph

The theme design contest grand winner will receive $2,000 and a 6 months develop license while the runner up will win $1,000 and 3 months develop license. The contest rules are as follows:

• The design must be created in Photoshop, Fireworks or Illustrator format.
• The website container must have a width of between 940 and 980 pixels, catering for the average 1024 X 768 user.
• The entries must be submitted to the WooThemes Flickr pool in jpeg or png format and tagged “Woocontest”.

Your submission on Flickr must include:

• Your name and any URL you would like linked to in case you win.
• Any stock or source images you have used including URLs. Be sure to only use stock images that have Extended Usage licenses that allow for distributing the theme design once coded, otherwise avoid use of stock images.

In addition to the contest rules, the Terms & Conditions governing the contest are as follows:

• The theme concept submitted must be entirely your own work. As mentioned above if stock imagery is used it must have an exttended usage license.
• By entering this competition you consent to your theme concept possibly being used by WooThemes and avaliable for purchase on our site. First and second prize will, as already stated, be awarded a cash prize for their work. If any other theme concepts are used by WooThemes the designer will be informed and awarded a set fee for the concept. Sales generated will be kept by the company.
• The winning theme concept and the runner up may be required to mock up an inner page before payment is made, determined by an inspection of the design source file. A clearly noted grid structure is highly recommended.

This a great opportunity for upcoming web designers and/or graphic artist to show their talents in creating a unique WordPress template.