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Alamat is now in myGlobe!

Text ALAMAT to 2355 and you’ll get the latest news about Alamat Comics!

Right now, you’ll just get a text about our titles that are currently in the stores, and you should have bought all of them by now. The program that makes this possible is still being beta-tested, so there will still be some glitches.

Just in case you’re wondering, Alamat did not make some multi-million dollar deal with Globe. This new service is open to everyone with a Globe Handyphone. It’s called Text Site and anyone can make their own T-Site. Just log-on to: www.myglobe.com.ph and click on MyServices. From there, you’ll go to a page where you can select “Text Group and Text Site.” You can then begin to set-up your T-Site.

Note: for some reason, it takes Globe two days to approve the “domain name” of your Text Site.

Fee: you only pay an annual fee of P300.00. (And no, you don’t get one peso for every person that texts your site.)

The myGlobe site is still a bit clunky and difficult to navigate, especially when it comes to setting up your own Text Site, so you might find yourself clicking the HELP button often.

I hope Globe includes more instructions on about Text Sites by the time they launch it.

And when they do launch it... oh, my... can just imagine what weird, crazy, nonsensical Text Sites will populate the ether!

We do, indeed, live in the age of 500 channels and nothing on.

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