Pinay internet celebrity Christine Gambito, known to everyone as the one behind the super popular videos over at HappySlip and Youtube, arrived at Manila yesterday (January 23, 2007) after being invited by the Department of Tourism to experience the Philippines for 2 weeks!
The said visit was part of the Department of Tourism’s Experience Philippines Campaign [...]

Here’s an online event that Pinoy bloggers should be aware of: The 2nd Philippine Blog Awards! Yep, the biggest Pinoy blog awards will be launching soon!

The WidgetBucks Blog has officially announced that they do not credit clicks that are coming from the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Egypt, and Romania. This means that you will not be paid if the clicks come from the countries that are mentioned above.

What are the non-paying countries or regions?
We are finding that [...]

Image courtesy of PinoyMoneyTalk.com
James from PinoyMoneyTalk just recently discovered a new feature being tested on Google AdSense: Scrolling Ads.
As you can see on the image above, there are two little clickable buttons on the lower-left corner of the AdSense unit that let’s you scroll through advertisements. These buttons can also be placed on other sizes [...]

AGLOCO, a pay-to-surf program that was established around November of last year, has now informed their members about the status of their operations. Apparently, the company behind AGLOCO is currently experiencing financial problems and is now seeking for help for them to be able to continue their operations.
The e-mail sent to their members reads:

Sylv3rblade shared this interesting news to me while we were at class this morning, he said that a lot of blogs for the past few months are actually experiencing a dramatic decrease in CTR (Click Through Rate) and has affected their daily earnings. I’m not really a high earner on Adsense but I bet a lot of those big [...]

Just this morning, the administrators of PinoyBlogosphere.com has announced that their widely successful Pinoy Blog ranking system found at Ranking.PinoyBlogosphere.com will be shutting down soon.
The administrators were forced to make the decision of shutting it down after receiving a letter from their webhost that Topsites (and any other similar softwares) are not allowed to be [...]

This week is one of the most tiring days of my student blogging life thanks to the impending arrival of finals week. It’s nice to know the Pinoy blogosphere is still having fun without me. Sniff.Here’s a recap of the latest news and interesting posts in the Pinoy blogosphere throughout the whole week:

The recent verdict [...]

Blogger.com has just released their newest feature yesterday which they call “Blogger Play“. At first I thought it was a game of some sort but I checked out the link and I found something different yet interesting.
Blogger play is a page that features a real-time slide-show of pics automatically taken from blogspot blogs.

Blogger Play [...]

The second chapter in the Malu Fernandez controversy continues to ensue as Malu Fernandez resumes her post as a columnist on Manila Standard Today last September 3 of this year.
As expected, the people who were angered by her comments about OFWs and who called for her resignation were alarmed of Manila Standard’s decision of keeping [...]

The final exams in Mapua is already a few weeks away. Students are now starting to get serious with studies (Oo, ngayon lang kami nagseseryoso) and are forced to leave petix mode.
As much as I don’t want to be too affected with this “re-finals” phenomenon, fate seems to be testing my patience by giving me [...]