Sandbox Mobile Portal from SMART
June 14, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apps
A few months ago I was part of a team that was consulted upon to help launch a Philippines-based service that had “everything in a box” related to a particular telco’s property. Although the focus was with the blogs on my end, the bigger picture was with the actual portal itself. The name of the portal is Sandbox.
Sad that the current product doesn’t use “open technology” to share with the outside world. It doesn’t have RSS feeds and you really can’t permalink much. Not much Javascript either for photo uploading. What it does fulfill though is having all of SMART …read more
Social networking and being more “fluid”
February 25, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apple, Apps, Special Features, The Unwired Life
Arrington from Tech Crunch has some thoughts about an iPhone-only social network. Branding from the elitist persona of Apple fanboys (like me, kidding) allows such things to become quick realities.
I personally think that these niche social networking applications (like that on the iPhone) is highly “liquidated” only when the application is very much integrated into the system, you barely have to do anything. So if the iPhone, for instance gets an update where your iChat friends are automatically tracked, you have an instant community. And you didn’t even have to sign up.
This is partly why FaceBook is going for …read more
