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Beta testers say that this site is… overwhelming!
“Overwhelming” daw ang whatsikat. tsssss.
I suspect that ‘information overload’ is more a function of design and perceived purpose rather than content. Because most people whom i’ve showed the site “perceive” that they must read everything, then they think it’s too much. But once I suggest to them that they should skim through it and pick [...]
Where are the Pinoy Web 2.0 innovations?
When I started working on whatsikat.com I started wondering what are the other pinoy versions of those popular “western” websites and here’s what I came up with. Maybe you can add some more…
1. digg.com -> pinoybee.com- konti pa lang yung users but it looks promising. I like the “hukayy.com” name better (but it has significantly [...]
But what is whatsikat?
Literally in Filipino, whatsikat translates to “what is popular?” But what it is really? Not quite a blog, not quite a portal. Maybe you could call it a feed-reader filtered through a Filipino lens. But I’m not really answering the question am I?
Here are my Top Three one-sentence descriptions of whatsikat:
- A dashboard to the [...]
Hello world!
as per tradition, my first post is always… Hello world! (Hat tip to my computer science training.)