A Diary of a Tech Fan: February 2011

2/07/2011

Cebu's Startup Community Getting Hotter

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Before the 3rd meetup will happen, I just have to do a quick post about the first of the meet-up series this year 2011 in Cebu, Business of Software Startup and Challenges of Building One Locally. This first meet-up of 2011 was headed by Mark, who is my husband, so I'm not going to talk much about that part.

Instead, I'll talk and show you a few of the interesting people I met on that event, who, I bet, will have a big role in shaping up the Startup community culture here in Cebu. I missed on a lot of the other people who were there -- will make up on the next meet-ups.

Ms. Pauline Wade
She heads the newly opened incubator (co-working space) facility here in Cebu, UP Cebu DOST-TBI. The incubator facility in UP Cebu is all set-up, the only piece missing is you -- the rockstars, your idea, and your passion.

Jun Saa
He is the Executive Director of Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology.

Marvis Sanchez
There's a long personal story behind that, but I will not bore you with that. But he and Mark had been working for different software projects before -- Cleverlearn/Bigfoot, LearningToGo, and there were more I can no longer recall the names.

Marvis, Mark, Harm

Carebears - the instant crow

Paolo, Engwan, Jean, Poy (half)

Harm Rietjens

Harm shared his view about Cebu / Philippines, how he came here, and founded Caresharing here in Cebu.

Jesslee Cuizon
The fresh-from-Japan programmer I met via twitter. Thank you for coming.

Albert Padin & Spelldial Team
Spelldial is a new way of dialing a call. It's a Cebu-based start-up team.

Albert Padin

Me & Albert

Spelldial girl, Nicole, Albert, Me, Honee (of Etroduce)

Ademar Tutor & Odina Abellana

The hunk and chick hackers of Etroduce. I'm part of this team. I will invite you soon, you know who you are. =)

Dave Overton & Kevin Leversee

They are the people behind Sym.ph -- solutions provider built on trust. Dave is also involve with Glory Reborn Organization -- an NGO that provides maternity care.

Dave and Kevin gave a talk

Dave

Kevin

Paolo Lim & Jimbo Cortes

Paolo and Jimbo founded codecampr. And, wheedly is their first web application built.

with Jimbo

Paolo's presentation

Ian Bert Tusil & Stephen Paul Suarez

Both founded Next Sparks Studios, Co. They're currently working on iTropa (formerly GroupsMe) -- a web and SMS-based group-collaboration tool.

Ian

Ian and Paul

Ian Zafra

We all probably know him best with his band, Sheila and the Insects. But little did I know that he also create music for mobile apps.

Lia Doria

The wedding coordinator turned start-up meetup organizer.

Ademar and Leah

You can check few more pictures here. There were a lot of people I totally missed out on documenting. I totally felt bad about it. But anyhoo, I will try to do my best of documenting each one for the upcoming meet-ups. This series of meetups was started by Tina Amper, who is remotely organizing meet-ups here in Cebu.

To be updated with Cebu start-up meetups, you can check Tech Talks from Cebu and Beyond meetup group. I'd love to see you in one of the meetups.

2/05/2011

Crowdder -- realtime crowdsourcing via SMS

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Crowdder is a real-time crowdsourcing via SMS. From my own understanding, it's something like doing a market research survey. Crowdder has a pool of crowd / panel, then businesses can use Crowdder to do survey for products and such. The results are more immediate since the survey will be conducted via SMS.

To get a feel of this service, check the following video and slide.

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