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March 02, 2009

Top IT Companies based on Employee Salaries

GigaOm ran a quick report on the top tech companies is the US based on the average salaries they gave their engineers/developers and Google came out on top. I wonder which tech companies in the Philippines would be on the top 10 if we had the same salary information.

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Careers
January 02, 2008

The Great Firewall of Australia

Looks like Australia will be following China’s footsteps and build its own mandatory state-wide firewall. Aussies will bid goodbye to
smut and say hello to “clean feeds”.

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The Internet
October 11, 2006

Hosting & Terrorism on the Internet

Just read this article in the email about the issues on hosting terrorism-related sites and there has been growing concerns about it in the west. The Feds are actually already on top of it:

In August, the US government approached one of the largest domain registrars in the industry, eNom, to deal with the issue that domains can very easily be repointed at a moments notice. eNom, like other large registrars, maintain a set of DNS servers for the purpose of providing a quick and convenient mechanism from moving domains from ip address to ip address very quickly and conveniently. Changes on these DNS servers happen instantly instead of taking as much as 72 hours to propagate. This is great for consumers but a bit of an issue in fighting terroristic organizations.

In the eNom case, the domains in question were for the primary Hezbollah group in Lebanon and their sympathetic counterparts. The organization was able to maintain uptime on the domain by utilizing multiple providers and cycling through them as providers took content down. These end providers had no part in the sale of the domain but could be guilty of hosting the content. In this case, the authorities decided not to pursue the server providers but that did not mean that laws were not broken.

Now that’s something to look out for. I checked their SDN List (Special Designated Nationals) here (PDF) and found several names listed under Cotabato, Jolo Sulu, Basilan, Tawi-tawi, Zamboanga and even Manila, Philippines. There are at least 20 people listed there.

I am sure these laws covers us as our servers are located in the US. The consequences of non-compliance are serious. There are both criminal fines and jail time possible for those who do not comply with the law. Fines can reach $500,000 per offense and individuals can receive up to 20 years for failure to observe these laws.

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The Internet
March 10, 2006

Best Offices in the Philippines

We had a little sharing in the SEO Philippines mailing list about perks and benefits with everyone’s respective offices.

Back in the dot com boom, a lot of these companies are all over Metro Manila. Some of the notable ones are Asia Online, IBM, P&G and Great Plains (MBS) which provided almost any imaginable mouth-watering perks for their employees.

On my part, before I left Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions because of the consolidation it had to do after buying off all its competitors (i.e. Navision, et al), I had a blast and never thought of ever leaving the organization. The comfort and benefits came in various ways — 24/7 flexi time, work-in-you-pajamas policy, sleeping quarters, free drinks/meals, amusement, and mixture of social activities in-office and out-of-town.

Now that I’m just a lowly professional blogger, I have nothing to brag about except the comfort of my sala or bedroom, the absence of time cards and weekly activity reports, freedom from traffic and poorly cooked meals from a cafeteria consessionaire, and immunity from corporate restructuring.

Yes, I know the risks are there but hey, the higher the risks the bigger the gains.

I digress.

Anyway, what was/is your office like?

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