Mark September 6th 2008 on your calendar.

WordCamp 2008 Philipppines just happened and it just happened to be the first ever WordCamp organized in Southeast Asia and in the Philippines.

For liveblogging, check it out here.

Here’s some news about it in Inquirer.

What’s significant about WordCamp and ecommerce?

You need 3 things to come up with an ecommerce sit: a website, a payment gateway and a shopping cart.

AsiaPay takes care of your payment gateway and your shopping cart.

WordPress (or any other CMS or blogging platform) can easily take care of your website needs.

Yes. You don’t need to wait 6-8 months for your diva website designer to come up with a site.

Yes. You can be a Fortune 500 company and have your company site on Wordpress.

Example? Check out the Ford Motor Company Global Autocars Show and Concept Cars site.

Yes. It runs on WordPress! This site runs also on Wordpress and so does www.ebiziseasy.com

Something to get excited about: Matt Mullenweg for the first time EVAR, demoed the upcoming version 2.7 of Wordpress to the oohs and aahs of the WordCampers - he showed of the drag-and-drop features which all augurs one thing - easier website development for would be e-commerce adopters!

posted by Paul “The Pageman” Pajo

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