Looking for chismis on google?
I am proud to say that whatsikat comes up on the top 5 results of google when you search for “pinoy chismis” !
But what does that mean?
Nothing really… According to my logs, nobody has found whatsikat by searching for “pinoy chismis” anyway. hahaha!
Whatsikat Mobile: whatsikat.com/m
I’ve just finished whatsikat mobile edition , a low-bandwidth version perfect for viewing on internet-capable mobile devices like your PDA, PSP, Wii, iPhone or iTouch! Have a look and let me know what you think of http://whatsikat.com/m .
I wonder… is there a directory of Pinoy websites that are mobile-device friendly?
Just Pinoy Celebrities
I made a special page just containing Filipino celebrity bloggers. After observing the traffic for almost a month, I must say that out of the 20+ “artista” blogs I monitor, Chuckie Dreyfus and Sitti Navarro are the hands-down most prolific writers. Minsan, nakakasawa na nga. But oh well… Check it out at http://whatsikat.com/celebs.php
10 visitors per day!
After four days of not visiting, not talking about and not promoting whatsikat, I now have an average of 10 readers per day! (That probably includes my mother and sister).
Been mentioned on Philippine Advertising Gossip, Rickdog’s tumblr and two of my male (!) friends have told me that they’ve bookmarked me for their regular dose [...]
Feedback from a pro
Yesterday I sent a message to Iggy who I found via Cnet Asia’s blogs and within two hours, he responded with a critique of whatsikat. (He wasn’t kidding when his profile said online 24/7)
Most of his comments talk about future enhancements and further functionality which is probably why he is the “business development officer” of [...]
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 [...]
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.)