http://www.makemychoice.com/

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Do you need to make a new decision? or simply want to see how other people answer your questions. I just stumbled upon an amazing website, its called makemychoice.com, the website allows you to make easy and free feedbacks on choices for your questions. You can also make feedback to the choices of other people making this site a very social way of providing you feedback in some of the decisions that you need to make.

The results for the choices are shown immediately together with the comments, and if your profile has picture, it will show them as well. I think there is a lot of potential in this website to be one of the next great social websites since, users are allowed to make feedback to other users as well as send messages and create your own profile. It might also be possible to link makemychoice.com in the future to other social websites, which would allow the website to reach to a wider audience, as well as to allow other people experience what makemychoice.com has to offer.

We will always have questions that needs to be answered and,  makemychoice.com is a great venue if you have something you just cant get off your head and at same time, get feedback from people, who may provide a good reason for a certain option. The best thing about the website is that, feedbacks are no longer bound by text alone, now you can send a feedback in a form of mp3, pictures and even documents.

OSIST

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

OSIST stands for "One Stop Information Shop of Technologies in the Philippines". The web site is a project of the Philippine Council for Industry and Energy Research and Development (PCIERD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) from the Philippines. The website is basically a way for PCIERD to present to the public the number of technololgies available from the Department, whats interesting to note is that these technologies are products of researches and is now ready to be presented and be used by the public, also the website has been nominated as a finalist in the WSA Global Contest and the 11th Philippine Web Awards (PWA) e-Government Category.

The general appearance of the website is very neat, with a very clean look, there is not much clutter and shows only the information relevant to its purpose in a very clear manner. The main options are very visible at the left panel of the site which offers the available technologies, guest book, related links, and a web forum. The left panel also contains the search option of the website, which is very useful since the site contains a lot of technologies making searches easy for any user who wishes to visit the site.

The site shows at the front page the News & Updates and Success Stories, which allows visitors to read the things that are happening about the technologies being presented at the website. This adds credibility to the website and a good source of information especially to first time visitors. The right panel contains the "Most Visited Technology" section, this is a great section for showing all those topics and technologies that are usually being asked by the public, this gives visitors an idea of the content as well as a tool to help visitors look for the technologies that they need. Aside from the basic options, another feature of the site that is really helpful is the option to increase the font size of the content, allowing users to see the content at a font size of their liking.

Access to the website is easy the url si http://www.osist.dost.gov.ph or you can click here to visit the site. I tried to access the site from home and at the office, using different browsers and connection was a breeze, provded of course you have good internet connection and a decent computer.

In all, the site is very well built, Its nice to visit a website that does very good on what its supposed to do, and the OSIST website a very good example. Though not the most fancy of websites with minimal graphic designs that is pretty much acceptable as it removes weight in browsing and showing only the things that you need to see. A very functional website I recommend this website to be a sure winner.

You can vote through the url http://www.philippinewebawards.com/pages/register.asp.

Acobay

Friday, January 30, 2009

I found a very interesting networking site, its acobay.com, this isn't your typical networking site since it actually allows you to share your stuff but this is not a review site, It shows the stuff that you use everyday. Another point that I like is that this site offers registration without using your email address, pretty neat. Its a new way to experience social networking, and at the same time, a sharing site that is very useful when it comes to what you need.

Items are sorted by category making browsing for stuff easier, and with a lot of stuff to choose from you will certainly see the things you need, even things you still havn't thought about. The site also is very simple and easy to use, from registration to the actual posting of your stuff, it wont take a sweat.

The sharing site allows you to show your stuff and see people with the same stuff as well, this creates opportunities to meet people similar to yourself and learn from them as well. You can click here to see and experience the sharing site.