Ms. Aileen Apolo of Google.com will be in Davao City from June 29 to July 2, 2007 for a series of talks and meet-ups. If you’re a businessman, SEO practitioner or blogger residing or just happen to be in the city, check out her schedule of events:

June 29, 2007 (Friday)
Marketing Your Business Online
Presentation by Google and Yehey.com for SME’s
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Department of Trade & Industry-11 Conference Room
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Yahoo! Photos is officially scheduled to close down on September 20, 2007 to give way to their other photo sharing service, Flickr. A sad, sad day for its 30 million plus users. What is more sad though is there is no intelligible way to migrate your pictures to Flickr. They simply tell you to redownload your pictures to your computer or purchase them in a CD and go somewhere else. Curious though that they didn’t recommend Google Picasa. Come to think of it, it does make sense in a way. If you have a thousand pics uploaded on Yahoo! Photos, there is no way it will all fit within Flickr’s 10mb space limit. And Yahoo! Photos is BORING. I think it’s become a big burden on Yahoo! that they just want to get rid of it and focus on making real money from Flickr.
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