We’ll be pushing more features as things progress and from my recent talks with jiggy, he wanted the hardcore gamers and technical people here to come take part and moderate our forum. If you are one of these, hit up jiggy and see if you qualify. I personally will be holding a smaller stick in moderating the forum. My point is, the forum is about targeted fun with less rules and the company of those who share your passion for gaming and the internet lifestyle. No political discussion here, we can leave that for the fools on Political forum.

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Multiply has been growing rather quietly internationally. The social media aggregator now has 7 million registered users and 10.5 million monthly unique visitors according to their internal numbers, nearly triple their 2006 traffic. Comscore’s most recent numbers show 12.5 million uniques for September.

The service acts like a meta social network where users can collect and share content from multiple social sites (photos, video, blogs). See our earlier comparison with Vox. Users post 1.25 million photos, 16,000 videos and 55,000 blog entries daily. However, while the U.S. is home to the largest share of their registered users, most of their traffic is international.

The Philippines is one of the most pronounced examples of their large international following. Alexa ranks Multiply as the 5th largest site in the Philippines – with more than 2 million unique monthly visitors. We had earlier reported that 39% of the site’s traffic comes from the Philippines. Therefore it’s no surprise that they’ve managed to land a multi-year ad deal with one of the Philippine’s largest networks, ABS-CBN. ABS-CBN has 67 televisions stations, 19 radio stations, 30 websites and reaches 97% of the Filipinos with televisions. Under terms of the agreement, ABS-CBN interactive will sell advertising and mobile services for Multiply’s Filipino users, with the two companies sharing revenues. – TechCrunch

So there is a big hubbub at iSTORYA about a recent Desperate Housewives show which had a scene that many consider … racist. Wow. Just wow. First of all, it was a joke. Lighten up! You aren’t as offended as you think. It is not cool to be offended. You are not patriotic if you are offended. You are a shallow, shallow person if you are offended by such little things. Filipino Americans aren’t as pissed off as the media says. Hey I’m not and a lot of people feel the same. I laughed watching the clip on Youtube. You know what is embarrassing? … the clip doesn’t embarrass me, Filipinos hooting and tooting about the grave injustice done unto them embarrasses me. The fact that people even give this a second look embarrasses the Filipino in me. “oh look at me, I deserve better”. Why can’t people just let their actions and achievements speak for themselves? We make fun of Mexicans, we make fun of Canadians, we make fun of the French, the Chinese, the Europeans. We have the right to make fun of everyone in the world because we as Americans are made of people from around the world. I love the Philippines, but all this fucking whining is recrunkulus … it never ends.

I can’t remember how many times I stood around with other Pinoys in Cebu and made fun of anything that wasn’t Pinoy. Let he who has no sin cast the first stone.

Apparently this has been circulating around the net for some time … the best part is this was done in one of Cebu’s prisons. Cebu, how I miss thee.

That sounded a bit like a commercial didn’t it?

Once a year the city of Cebu shows it’s colors and bursts into celebration known as the Sinulog. Participants gather from all corners of the country to celebrate the baby Jesus. The whole city is stops for one day to join and watch the parade as it snakes through the city. Sinulog was one of my favorite events while I lived in Cebu and seeing pictures of it still reminds me of what I’m missing.

The party goes on into the nights with street dances, drinking, and drinking, and amm, more drinking. Pit Senor!

Links:

• Sinulog Street Scene Pictures at iSTORYA
• Official Sinulog Website
• City of Cebu Official Website

• iSTORYA – This is a Cebu based general forum. Posts range from general chit-chat to technology to music to politics. iSTORYA also has a very active and very effective online marketplace forum where members can post classified ads, products, and services. Members can also create albums in the included Photo Gallery.
• The Free Network Group (Philippines) – free.net.ph for short is a community for open source enthusiasts in the Philippines. Most interaction among members is done via mailing lists.
• The Philippine Webdesigner’s Network – PhilWeavers is the premier community for web design professionals. The site features an open forum, design/designer showcases, and many more. PhilWeavers is a must for anyone with Filipino roots and serious about web programming/designing. A word of caution: Prepare to be humbled.
• Microsoft Philippines Community Site – This is the official forum of Microsoft Philippines. The forums are very active and deal with all things Microsoft. The forums are filled with professional Microsoft Philippines developers and users.
• PinoyExchange – PinoyExchange is the largest Filipino forum on the internet with close to 150,000 registered users. Topics range from sports to business to computer gaming.
• Atenista.Net – The unofficial community for Ateneans all over the country and around the world.
• PinoyPC Network – PinoyPC is a site catering to the Filipino computer hardware enthusiast. The site not only offers forums, but a black market and articles with reviews and how-tos. I seem to remember PinoyPC having a lot more content in the past though. I could be wrong.
• Grabeh.com! – More than just a portal, Grabeh.com! has articles, polls, chat and searh for all their services.
• Praning.Com – Basically just a forum with a quite active community.
• linux-ph – linux-ph is an Open-Source forum. It started out as an offshoot of Linux discussion on iSTORYA and has since grown slowly but steadily over time. It is Philippine based, but everyone is welcome especially those new to Linux and open source
• Prendster – Taking advantage of the Friendster craze, Prendster borrows the name and manages to create a lively community.
• PhilMusic.com – PhilMusic is a great resource for any aspiring Filipino musician or for anyone who loves music. The front page is in the form of a blog where people can comment on the articles written as well as hop into the forum and create their own controversy. Other nice features include a Photo Gallery and free e-mail.
• Ilocano.org – Ilocano.org best describes themselves:
  

  This is the place on the web where Ilocanos from around the world can participate in discussions about the Ilocano culture, language, its people and other related and non-related topics.

  I love the Ilocano dictionary. It is not very complete, but the idea is great nonetheless. Users can also request an e-mail address with access via web mail. The site also features a photo gallery, articles, and a directory in addition to the rice and adobe of it all, the forums.

• candymag.com – Home of the Filipino magazine for teens, Candy, the forum(teentalk) caters to the teen and preteen demographics. If that describes you, then you can go crazy in the forums with other like-minded teens.

Did I not include your community or community you visit? Did I wrong you? Was your mother insulted? Feel free to comment.

I am inviting those who are interested in Linux and Open Source in general to visit a http://linux.ribbed.us. Everyone is welcome even if you are not from Cebu or the Philippines. The goal here is to educate those new to Linux and share our knowledge with each other. If you know nothing of Linux, do not worry, all you need is the drive and the interest. We have been around a few months and although it isn’t the busiest forum, it is newbie friendly and as easy to use as any other forum. With everyone’s help we can all learn from each other.

Link:
Linux Cebu

I am loving this site. It reminds me of the beautiful places and people of Cebu, the city I lived in for ten long, fun years. The site has great pictures of Cebu, it’s landmarks, and it’s people. Also check out another great photoblog with a more personal touch to the city.

Links:
Cebu Pictures
Paintings.Photographs