Mark and Paolo Lim, a member of the CareSharing team, shared their plans, which are still hush-hush for now, for a local web service for runners that involves grabbing data from such devices as a Garmin global positioning system (GPS) watch and Nike+ sensors. The geek meter pointed to full during the event-a few said they were at the event because they were so fed up facing a computer monitor and going over code that they wanted to be in front of humans for a change.Īmong those present last Thursday was hotshot web developer Mark Buenconsejo of CareSharing and Tweetitow fame. Members of local startups meet in the Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (CEDF-IT) office at the Asiatown IT Park in Cebu City.
Those present last Thursday-web developers, hardcore programmers, site managers, service founders-were excitedly talking about projects they were doing or planning during the meet and in the after-event meal and drinks. Su said during his guesting that unlike Silicon Valley or other areas where startups have succeeded, the Philippines is a “harsh environment” for startups. The group previously had as speaker Eric Su, the founder of photo-sharing service PicLyf.
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Previous meetups covered such topics as Google applications, business of software startups and challenges of building one, and how to set up a company. Last Thursday’s event was the eighth meetup of the group. Members of the TechTalks.ph community, which is hosted in an account with, gathered to meet other members with the arrival in Cebu of organizer Tina (she requested that we identify her only by her first name). The excitement was palpable in last Thursday night’s meetup among Cebu startups at the office of the Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-it).
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