Alodia Event Confirmed

Alodia at ToyCon 2008

When Filipina gamer-blogger-cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao was mobbed by fans at ToyCon 2008, vastly overshadowing Filipina TV actress Marian Rivera at the event, I speculated that an AlodiaCon was not far off. It’s not impossible for bloggers to get whole conventions centered around themselves and their interests. Geek blogger Chris “Lockergnome” Pirillo, for instance, has produced the Gnomedex tech conference annually since 2001. Click here to continue reading “Alodia Event Confirmed”…

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Google Pwns Microsoft on Chrome and Hotmail

Chrome on HotmailYou have got to love how brutally competing developers slam each other. When Google released a patch to make Chrome work with Microsoft Hotmail, Googler Matt Cutts chided Microsoft on being slow to fix the incompatibility. “Normally you think of Web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter,” goes Cutts’ cutting remark. Click here to continue reading “Google Pwns Microsoft on Chrome and Hotmail”…

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