Where are we from down below....

Last week, I shared SharedReader to the world. This was not my first time showing my websites to the net. However, this time this is different. A day after I launched it, this was noticed so quickly in the blogosphere. Now, I realized this is how it is in the business of the internet information.

SharedReader followed ReadBurner. But ReadBurner is way ahead for SharedReader for everything.

Realizing to this fact, I started to think where are we from here in the Philippines when it comes to information, specifically Davao City.

SharedReader has gone it's way to the foreign countries, but you know what, there was not even a buzz here in our area. Only I can count it through my fingers and to some closest friends that knew about this SharedReader. The fact is, nobody really is using much of FEEDS, or the Google Reader. I don't know what they used for feed aggregations but just so silence in here.

If we have to look to other technologies, say, Del.icio.us, Facebook and the most popular websites that costs billion and has millions of users, only some of us really used those services here. I have facebook account because I like to see that Website. I don't have much of collections inside facebook. I do use Del.icio.us for my bookmarks. At least wherever I go, i can get intouch with my bookmarks.

It's not a sad fact. That's makes us geographically different. If they have Facebook, most of us here have friendster. Not much of us or not much of the Friendster users uses Del.icio.us. Most of us has Yahoo!mail account. I always tell people that it's very good to use Gmail, but they ended up always with Yahoo!. And there are some that do sponsored reviews, its another way of earning much from here.

When it comes to development, you can't see a lot of us PHP users, but there are hungry students eager to learn about it. That's why I initiated the Amigoas Youth Development Program(AYDP) so we can tutor students about Web development. That excludes the availability of legitimate softwares where most of softwares used are cracked. That doesn't exclude me from that. But with AYDP, we teach web development using Free and Open Source softwares.

As a developer, this always not easy to be with the flow. First is the availability of information and learning. The availability of people that you can look up when you're really in a mess and third are the finances.

The only source for information that we have is the internet. And I always look up that i wish I'm a part of it.

This is the reality of where I belong.