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The title says it all. See you all there! Also a big congratulations to everyone who joined and made this event a little bit more controversial and fun.

Let's just hope and pray that typhoon Milenyo will end soon.

As the second half of this month starts, the end for "isulong seoph" contest draws near. I'm lucky, I managed to stay on the first page of the search result. But anything can still happen and it ain't over 'til it's over. So what happens after this SEO contest ends? If you are into web development sort of stuff and have any e-business idea that you've been wanting to share, this e-commerce contest might be the answer. Mozcom Payeasy has teamed up with Unionbank of the Philippines and recently launched the "First Entrepreneurial E-Commerce Excellence (E3) Award". It's open to all college or post-graduate students only though.

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It looks like Google is catching up with Yahoo!'s Flickr and has come up with a fairly simple way to improve image search results through image labeling. Google recently launched Google Image Labeler, an image labeling game which is based on ESP Game by Luis von Ahn, that picks two random players who will label or tag an image. The idea is for both players to input as many labels as possible describing a given image pulled from the web. If you see a picture of a bird and both label it as bird, the next image will be shown automatically and you can continue until your time has run out. Players can earn points with every matched labels. I just dont know what those earned points for though. If you're not doing anything, you might want to play the game for a while and help google improve its image search result which in turn will help searchers like us.