{"id":161,"date":"2006-08-25T02:28:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T09:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/25\/wablet-and-filipinos-crunched\/"},"modified":"2006-08-25T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T17:13:20","slug":"wablet-and-filipinos-crunched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/25\/wablet-and-filipinos-crunched\/","title":{"rendered":"Wablet and Filipinos Crunched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/08\/23\/wablets-going-to-rock-web-im\/\">Wablet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to rock web IM<\/a>, according to Marshall Kirkpatrick, after he road-tests Wablet.  His review was nothing short of an endorsement which makes me feel good because it is for the most part a product of Filipino innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if you course through the article you&#8217;ll see how some of the commenters shrug it off as a third-rate app from a third-world country.  It&#8217;s discrimination at the most hi-tech form.  I understand how one should be concerned about how their personal data is treated, but really, just because Wablet is developed by Filipinos, does it mean that your privacy won&#8217;t be any less respected if it were made somewhere else, say, in the USA?  Funny that with the recent AOL episode, people tend to forget so easily (Marquee: AOL data now searchable!).  That and the fact that the country&#8217;s best hackers troop freely to Vegas every year like it&#8217;s an OK thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Are the geeks educated in Stanford, Yale or MIT the only ones who deserve Kirkpatrick&#8217;s attention or anyone&#8217;s for that matter?  Like the dirty world of politics, the tech sector has its own brand of nepotism.  It&#8217;s despicable.  Honestly, I have seen a lot of overhyped Web 2.0 apps that are either utterly pretentious or a copycat of another.  I could only name a few that I really like, and I think Wablet will make it to that shortlist once I try it.  Asians are the smartest people in the world, IMO.  Maybe it&#8217;s because of arrogance, discrimination or indifference, Westerners should suck it up and accept that fact sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wablet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to rock web IM, according to Marshall Kirkpatrick, after he road-tests Wablet. His review was nothing short of an endorsement which makes me feel good because it is for the most part a product of Filipino innovation. Yet if you course through the article you&#8217;ll see how some of the commenters shrug it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/25\/wablet-and-filipinos-crunched\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wablet and Filipinos Crunched<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,24,23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-opinion","category-tech-news","category-web-apps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}