Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008

Get up to two (2) free delegate passes to the Social Networking and eBusiness Conference Philippines 2008. This will be held at Hotel Intercontinental, Ayala Avenue, Makati City on May 20 and 21, 2008.

The conference organizers will be inviting more companies to contribute and increase the number of delegate passes to be given out in the weeks to come. Parties interested can e-mail me at digitalfilipino (at) gmail (dot) com. Those who’ll be giving passes, shall be properly recognized here and be cited in one of our weekly updates.

.ASIA Land Rush

Consider registering your site under the soon to be launched .asia domain name. There is .asia sunrise time period now. 

The Sunrise refers to the period of time prior to the launch of the new .asia top-level domain during which owners of trademarks are eligible to register a .asia domain name containing the owned mark, for example: nike.asia, sony.asia

The Landrush refers to the initial period of public availability of the new .asia top-level domain. Interested registrants who qualify for the CER can submit their entries now for the .asia Landrush priority registration. 


When does .asia become available to the public?
General availability of .asia is March 2008

Updates on Microsoft Launch of New Webdev tools

Mr Jay Joson, DPE director at Microsoft Philippines and Bitstop Inc are going to be jointly promoting Microsoft’s Web development tools. Microsoft is planning to launch a series of workshop sessions which will be archived and hosted by Bitstop Inc for online access.

All web developers are urged to send in their contact details to team[at]bnshosting.net. The list of web developers that we compile here will get an invitation from Microsoft for their tutorials on webdevelopment focusing on Silverlight and Expression Design and Expression Blend

Check out http://silverlight.net/Learn/ – teaches you how to use Expression.  Good material for web developers !

Try out Myportal StartPage Solution

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With BNS startpage system you get to check out all your favorite sites inside one address. Try it out by registering and using it! Recommend this to your iends! Check out http://home.myportal.ph