[TechnophiliaPH] Almost open

Do you know that technophilia.com is being sold for USD2400? It's a joke and it's hella overpriced. So I went for technophilia.biz. I'm still deciding where to host it.

Technophilia PH

Coming soon for all technophiles in the Philippines, Technophilia PH. ETA of the beta is two weeks from this post's date.

Features:

• Price Comparisons
• Gadget Tracker
• PC Builder
• Shop Directory
• User Reviews/Ratings
• All the other Web2.0 buzzwords

I'm planning to build another box and it's kinda hard to track all those parts from different shops. I gave it some thought and decided to start this. A real domain will be out as soon as all the features are laid out.

A Community Powered Map

I commute to work for almost an hour and a half and sometimes when I try to go around the metro, I have to use my psychic powers. Then during the day, it's always rush hour so finding the best route isn't that easy.

So why not make a community-powered map? When I was in Hong Kong last summer, I reached the destinations that I was planning to go to through their directory. But since we don't have complete and accurate data on the locations (that is official), why not build our own?

Community members can post road congestion, traffic patterns, locations, suggestion to routes and roads. The site could then create some uploadable file for GPS or other navigating device (I don't have one so I don't know how this works).

A WAP version should also available. It would probably work better if community members could send and recieve road traffic conditions via SMS (because, like most people, I don't have money to pay for GPRS).

For validating user-uploaded content, the community will have to rate the quality of a post. There should be a moderating group too (just like in any working organization).

Would this work? Will an overlay map for Google Earth suffice? Trapik.com doesn't work for me. This would help with further localization (read: not just limited to the metro).

Introducing, the Magic Gulong!!

People usually ask why we should reinvent the wheel if there is something that already works. This is usually in a debate with those against the people who are afraid of change. They're right ...sometimes. But I'm the type of person who loves making things, from stories to crafts and even babies. I'm also a very lazy person and a great procrastinator. I'm also one of those people that loves change.

I usually have lots of ideas on just about anything. Most of them related to computers and [information] technology. .01% of those ideas are materialized, 19.99% are started but never completed (most of them never even went out of the premature phases) and 80% of those goes nowhere.

I'm not here to reinvent stuff. I'm here to make new stuff. Usually from a group of stuff that works to make something that works even better. So why reinvent the wheel? Because you can make one that has extra grip, dirt cheap, doesn't worn out and made of human shit. Okay, I messed up on the last one.

From this blog, I'll be posting my ideas. Most of them will be licensed, with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. This way, anyone may feel free to get my ideas and get them materialized (that is, as long as they share it too and give me some credit <winks>).