Always happy to discover Filipino-made web applications with global appeal, here are some in beta mode, in no particular order. Please try them and give constructive feedback to the developers.
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PinoyLancer.com (PL) is now open for you to post your freelance projects and gigs. It is free and it is 100% made by pinoy for pinoys!
Send your comments, suggestions, bug reports to ajbatac [at] pinoylancer.com.
The site’s looking good in beta mode. Post and view job ads quite easily. - EggHub - Collect, organize, and share your discs. Egghub is your Shelfari for discs. Currently in alpha. Follow their Twitter.
- Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory. Sign up for a free account and earn Qassia dollars (currently by invitation only, so you’ll have to use my profile page) that’ll help drive traffic to your site and build your credibility. Great start by Nick Oba from Cebu.
- Travel booking engine and a whole suite of travel web applications built on ROR by Travel + Strategy Business 2.0. Lead by Elmer Alinsog, this group has industry-leading XML software for yacht charter, jets. TSB 2.0 is your NASDAQ for travel.
- Pinoy.FM is your social OPM music station - growing popular through its Friendster widget. Sign up for a account - promised to be free for life!Thanks for the tip Joel
Okay, fine, only half of them are “social”. Have a great week ahead.
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aj batac
May 19, 2008 1:43 pm
Very cool new sites! Also, thanks for the mention for PinoyLancer.com and Egghub.com!
More power.
//aj
aj batac
May 19, 2008 1:47 pm
one question before i signup with Pinoy.FM, does it have the blessing of the recording industry for playing songs for free?
very cool site by the way.
Marie Casas
May 19, 2008 6:30 pm
@AJ Why do you like “egg” so much? You have eggnyte.com too right? I’ll try to find out about pinoy.fm… there’s also musiklokal.com
Marie Casas
May 19, 2008 10:01 pm
Happy to report that Pinoy.FM is licensed by FILSCAP to stream OPM hits.
Pinoy.Fm
May 19, 2008 10:02 pm
Thanks Marie for featuring us.
@aj batac:
We are licensed by FILSCAP to stream OPM music. We hold the same license as any radio station in the Philippines.
However, even so, any artist or music label can ask us to remove their songs from our site and we will respond promptly. If you will read from the posts on our site, most of our kababayans outside and even in the Philippines are discovering new songs for the first time and are asking where to buy those tracks. So we believe we are achieving our goal of promoting OPM hits and contributing to growth of the industry.
aj batac
May 19, 2008 10:49 pm
@marie - re: egg: just a coincidence.
@pinoy.fm - very cool! thanks for the info. let’s think of mashing up egghub and pinoy.fm. more traffic, more fun!
Pinoy.Fm
May 19, 2008 10:56 pm
@aj: not a bad idea at all. send me info on anything you can think of : allan@pinoy.fm..
aj batac
May 19, 2008 11:20 pm
@pinoy.fm - sent you an email.
Kevin
May 20, 2008 12:14 pm
@qassia: The industry is moving towards semantics such as the latest to come out of a company and university effort called Powerset. They use a complex set of smart algorithms to extract meaning from text in Wikipedia. They are also expanding to other data silos after they finish with Wikipedia. The “intelligence” Qassia claims is only tagging and it’s just similar to del.icio.us. Develop something that is truly intelligent and it will be more “future proof”.
aj batac
May 21, 2008 11:35 am
@kevin: im sure they’re already planning that.
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Marie Casas
May 26, 2008 7:23 pm
@kevin: I can’t say for sure whichever technology is more sophisticated but it’s pretty cool how qassia has been gaining momentum since it launched only this 2008. Web apps don’t always have to be rocket science… like Ta-Da List. Are you working on something similar to qassia (or other)? Would be quite interested to hear about it.
Dennison Uy
May 28, 2008 11:07 pm
Hey Pinoy.FM looks cool! I won’t be second guessing where it drew its inspiration from (I’m a last.FM user
Marie Casas
June 26, 2008 11:03 pm
@Dennison Yeah, I’ve recently gotten addicted to last.fm myself LOL still, interesting how the files on pinoy.fm are named .opm
AJ Batac
June 26, 2008 11:07 pm
@marie, you have to see my addiction.
http://lastgraph3.aeracode.org/user/ajbatac/timeline/
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