Matt Mullenweg Highlights from WordCamp Philippines 2008
Matt Mullenweg presented WordPress 2.7 in its world premiere during WordCamp Philippines 2008, which is the first WordCamp in Southeast Asia.
During WordCamp Philippines 2008, it was announced that Friendster is converting to WordPress.
When a camper asked if Google Adsense ads were going to be integrated into WordPress.com in the future, Matt Mullenweg answered, “Possibly.”
When asked who he was going to vote for [in the US presidential elections], Matt Mullenweg replied with a famous Barack Obama salvo, “I believe in change.”
When Matt Mullenweg was asked if Filipinos can be hired for his virtual company, he assured the campers that he firmly believes in the law of hiring people irregardless of race, age, and sex, and then provided the necessary info. Go to automatic.com-jobs
Matt Mullenweg shared that WordPress can be converted to Filipino and that WordPress in Bahasa Indonesian is very popular in Indonesia.
Matt Mullenweg displayed some of the more popular WordPress tags in Filipino. Interestingly enough, the most popular one was mamon, which sent the whole auditorium laughing, at which point, Matt related that, in Italy, the top one was the Italian word for blowjob.
Matt Mullenweg thought that the WordCamp Philippines 2008 shirt has the coolest shirt design.
Matt Mullenweg is originally from Texas USA and never imagined the success that WordPress is currently attaining.
Matt Mullenweg is the creator of WordPress and he gave a talk then answered campers’ questions during the Q & A.
WordCamp Philippines 2008 was organized by the Mindanao Bloggers. WordCamp Philippines 2008 was held on 06 September 2008 at the Augusto-Rosario Gonzalez Theater of the College of St. Benilde.
Aside from the organizers to thank for putting this together, I would also like to thank the sponsors who have provided their support for this event:
- Chowking
- i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
- Free Online Flash Games
- Wazzup Manila Philippines
- Real Estate CRM
- Real Estate Website Designers
- Orange County Real Estate
- Auto Insurance Quotes
- Lane Systems Inc.
- RedMedia
- Orange County Business Lawyer
- Cebu Pacific Air
- Buddy Gancenia Reality TV
- SmartBro Wireless Broadband
- SPOT.ph
- Make Money with Performancing Ads
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Thanks for joining us at Wordcamp! :p
It is great to see that lots of Filipino Bloggers are now using wordpress
You’re very welcome. And thank you for dropping by.
Thank you for coming! Was interested in chatting with you but was busy. Hope to introduce myself to you really soon.
Hi Ria. Thanks for the thought. Hopefully, next time…
Nice story about WordCamp Philippines, I’m Kevin from Pinoy Teens
Care to link exchange? I added you already^^,)
Hope you could visit back.
Wow!!! that was so nice to hear that the wordpress manila was done perfectly. By the way im danzrev from davao. I also meet Matt here in davao when he visit davao for short gathering and we call it miniwordcamp Davao, Hope you can visit my site for link exchange and so on.
Mullenweg seemed very concise and knowledgable about everything that was going on and he’s right the shirt design is definitely cool.