Posted: July 29th, 2004 | Author: arnoldgamboa | Filed under: Day today, Webby | View Comments
We are relaunching IBuildPro as an international service. Two years ago, we launched it as a Philippine based low-cost web development alternative. While we received great reviews and established a client base, marketing locally has been a pain. Probably, due to the fact that the local web industry isn’t ready yet.
We’re hoping for the best this time. While there are competitions — in fact, a lot of them — I believe we’re at par. And the price is competitive, too! Check it out, if you will.
Posted: June 25th, 2004 | Author: arnoldgamboa | Filed under: Webby | View Comments
First, Google shocks the world — 1 GB of email space. Seems incredible? Not quite! Then Yahoo! Mail increased their previously 4 MB of spare to 100 MB and 1 GB for paid subscribers — enough to hold the current subscribers for a while. Now comes the closest competitor, Microsoft’s Hotmail, who will offer 250 MB for regular users and 2GB for paid. All because of Google. ;)
Corrections: Thanks to Fernando. I was notified that Yahoo paid service actually gives out 2 GB not 1 GB.
Posted: June 25th, 2004 | Author: arnoldgamboa | Filed under: Webby | View Comments
I’m leaving Movable Type for WordPress. There are several reasons why I have to move:
1. Movable Type is moving towards paid service. While there is still a cut down version, the new release is being licensed, which of course isn’t a good future for updates.
2. Since I’m more of a PHP programer than a Perl guru, there is very little flexibility under MT (which, as MT the users know, is written in Perl). And since WordPress is written in PHP, I can do pretty much whatever I want. I can even contribute to the community thru plug-ins.
3. The “rebuilding…” system on MT is really annoying. Especially when you change a look — it simply gives the blogger a real hard time in doing things. Not with WordPress. It’s dynamic.
So, here’s my new site, powered by WordPress. There has been some tweeks applied to the code so I’m stil on the beta version. I also changed the tagline from “…everything under the SON” to “Better than life!” You’ll know later why the change :)
Posted: June 20th, 2004 | Author: arnold | Filed under: Webby | View Comments
Finally, I got my Gmail invite courtesy of Jennifer Barnes. God bless your heart, Jen.
GMail, I heard, is going to open it’s doors to public soon. But getting an invite this early is something else since you’ve got to choose a better account name. So, I guess, I’m going to start making this gmail account as my secondary email. So if you are sending me emails to
arnoldgamboadotcom [at] yahoo [dot] com, or
php4us [at] yahoo [dot] com,
you can now send me emails to
arnold.gamboa [at] gmail [dot] com instead.
Astig!
Incidentally, I received 2 more invites from Gabby Viscara and Jaden Man. I have opened an account for Joy. Her new email is
joyce.gamboa [at] gmail [dot] com
Thank you, guys. I still have 1 invite here. I’m giving this out. Will post later how you’ll get it.
Last note, I think Yahoo is playing a bad trick on GMail. I received these Gmail invites via my Yahoo accounts. And you know where I found them? In the bulk email folder where people normally do not check and simply delete right away. Be a sport, Yahoo!
Posted: June 16th, 2004 | Author: arnold | Filed under: Webby | View Comments
I’m starting to like this “free email” war. The much anticipated release of GMail, which will give out a whooping 1 GB for each account, is still in its beta, invitiation only stage. The wait is becoming too long, I wonder if GMail will remain invitation only for the rest of our lives :-)
I logged in a while ago to my Yahoo Mail. And guess what! My previously 4 MB only account is now 100MB! With a new, easy to load, easy to use interface at that!
Now that’s what you call healthy competition. Keep on competing, guys! :-)