Morfism

The Greening of PH Namespace

2008-06-05T16:49:00.001+08:00

this post under development.

Chikka

2007-12-04T12:36:00.000+08:00

Chikka has proven itself to be a very useful and successful online service. More features can be added to make it a web2.0:

1. embeddable code to a blog or website to send pc/mobile message
2. pemanent chikka number tied to a mobile phone number. chikka becomes a permanent contact number.
3. single or unified telco access code
4. call for pay(offer OFW prepaid card) via VOIP
5. bulk SMS

Philippines Online Depot

2007-11-07T11:24:00.000+08:00

I submitted this in 2004 in an online entrepreneurship contest. Seems still relevant and remain an open opportunity.
VALUE PROPOSITION

This can be a product, a service or something that could create value or income, increase sales, or reduce costs. It may consist of entirely new things or it could be a new way to do old things. The Internet in the Philipines is almost more than a decade old, yet user and awareness penetration level is very dismal. It is misleading to think that all of Metro Manila and major cities are catching-up, thanks to Internet Cafes, when all of the Philippines and its majority of "Small and Medium Enterprise" are nowhere to be found on the Internet topology. One major problem for e-commerce is poor credit card penetration, add to that the notorious hacking incidents. Second, the setting-up of an online presence is costly, aggravated by the complication of different allied service that cause more headache than solutions to a busy businessman. His bottomline is not attune with IT. The proposed service will converge all and make e-commerce a one-step process for entrepreneurs.

THE PRODUCT

Convergence. There has to be a website or a SERVICE that offers convergence of all the allied services for start-up or SMEs easily put-up their own e-commerce site. Online presence often involves - web design and development, hosting, site maintenance, online support for email replies, domain name registration, online marketing, etc. A typical businessman is faced with different companies in setting-up all the above services. Web design companies' core competency is simply designing a site without consideration of the branding, the domain registrar with domain name only, ISP with Internet service only and hosting companies is concern only of hosting. A bigger company has to employ a department in order to the above which can otherwise be outsourced.

Payment Gateway. Two main reason that e-commerce could not take off are, (1) poor credit card penetration and (2) lack of trust in the system due to hacking. The proposed SERVICE in this paper envision offering a service in cooperation with [provider name] payment gateway (PG). PG as is does not adress the second issue. Sure, there is now more available methods of online payment using one's ATM card but does not remove FEAR out of threats. By ONLINE DEPOT offering a co-branding with all the banks enrolled in PG and with PORTAL, this service aims to create a BRAND for a payment facility decicated to Internet use (separate and distinct from their ATM account). One is not likely to transact on the Internet using his ATM account where he leaves his unspent money as savings. Psychologically, he would think that that may be open to hacking. By subscribing to ONLINE DEPOT E-CARD, one is assured that only the amount he wish to spend online is available on the facilities' database!

One unique and differentiating service to be offered by ONLINE DEPOT is the empowerment of the user in all his online purchases, privacy issue considered... There is a 1:1 marketing transaction, yet the ONLINE DEPOT will beat "brick and mortar" because it will leverage on technology or database and e-commerce. Imagine having a Yahoo Account, but instead of email, you open a store account. Imagine the user, visiting many sites and have to transact with one or two merchant. This time, he still purchase the same product, the same service in each of the two different store but has to keep one online transaction through ONLINE DEPOT. Imagine buying construction materials for your house, but instead of going to different hardwares, you proceed to one depot that houses it all and yet there is only one check-out as well. It's not only the user but the merchant that is empowered, where it can avail of the integrated service and bundle its services with other vendors.

web3.0

2007-08-08T15:55:00.000+08:00

web3.0

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/eric_schmidt_defines_web_30.php

Web3.0 is something that is only a term to refer to a future breakthrough. Its form, structure hasn't been imagined and product that will showcase this futuristic service is yet to be invented. All we have is a sketch, trying to scratch the surface by looking in the past and thinking what it could be like in ten years.

I have been thinking of the same and decided to blog more detail upon stumbling Eric's definition.

New Paradigm: Web3.0 will reinvent the Internet. Where the Internet is like a universe where we and all applications surfs, web3.0 will make internet a lot smaller and information more localized.

Forward Link: Google search became credible with its backlink technology, and other web2.0 on referral, 1-to-1 social neworking. web3.0 will put more weight on forward link and pushing rather than pulling information. Presently, you will not get to the information without asking the right questions or keywords, or find people without the bridge or link, whereas web3.0 will intuitively unearth information without these present limitations or borders.

Value Driven: Today, advertisement fuel the world. Choices are fear driven based on what works. web3.0 will free us. No longer will be given and get information based on ads but on value.

Tag is King: Tagging will become the heart and soul of web3.0, not platforms, not links, not referrals, not portal, not applications. Regardless of devices or application service, there will become a new language that will either redefine html where tag becomes the web3.0 language. IT will become the new protocol that can cut across, the browser, mobile phone, TV, VOIP phone, ipod, etc.

Virtual People: we passed the age of enterprise to desktop to browser to web2.0. web3.0 will put the virtual enmeshed with the real world. It is present in all electronic gadgets from stores to dispensers. we are all connected. Time and Space are its characters.

(to be continued)

Email + Blog

2006-10-09T14:01:00.001+08:00

Update: May 29, 2009:
upcoming Google Wave is similar to the product development idea of Gmail+Blog proposed in this post:

as of May 12, 2005, Gmail integration with Blogger was already being talked about but is 'a bit fuzzy' at that time.

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Gmail integration. This would be a natural. However, everyone is a bit fuzzy at
this point as to what integration would entail and exactly what benefits this
would bring to Blogger and Gmail users.
http://www.bloggerforum.com/blog/

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On February 5, 2006, I wrote Google a proposal, along with my application to a job opening, to create a GMail+Blog service which will offer:

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publish his personal correspondence in blog format viewable by the recipients of
that email post. If Gmail user A writes to Gmail user B, the thread of that
email post is both viewable to A and B in a blog format. The file resides in the
account of the sender, where he has full discretion to edit or delete his own
email posts.

- he can view his blog posts 'By Contact' or 'By Mailist'.
He will have access too to the email post sent to him by another Gmail user.

- aside from one blogger writing about his thoughts to a faceless
generic reader, with Gmail-Blog he is writing to a particular person he knows
and that person also keep tracks and read it because it is also an email.
Imagine a relationship history between two people recorded through mail-blog,
and Google to be that instrument.

- through 'Picasa' Gmail-Blog can be
enhanced by a photo-blog of family pictures, office events, etc.

- with
GMail-Blog, it is not only easier to search mails but worth archiving them,
where instead or aside from labeling their mails, they write to blog.

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Lately, Blogger offers private blogging through email permissions.

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For each address entered, the Google Account associated with that address will
be given access to view your blog. If an address is not associated with an
account, that person will be sent an invitation email. In this email will be a
link which will let them do one of three things:

Sign in to an existing
account.
Create a new account.
View your blog as a guest (no account
required).
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42673&topic=9084
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I am happy that Gmail and Blogger teams have finally offered integration of the two Google products, however, I will even be happier to see the other above features I proposed. (BTW, I also emailed this to Yahoo, after some time).

Whereas with present day blogging, you blog to an audience (one to many) whether public or those you permitted viewing access. With GmailBLog (or 360Y!Mail), an email user can blog one to one (personal email thread) or one to many (to an email distribution list). While this may be partly satisfied by yahoo 360 where only friends or friends of friends can view a 360Blog, there is none yet that offers a one to one blogging platform as proposed above.

2002-09-05T12:50:00.000+08:00

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