All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace. –HAL 9000

It’s been a while since we’ve posted and I know that we should really make it a habit of blogging more often. I guess the end of the year is the perfect time to blog about Proudcloud’s future path going into the 2nd decade of the 21st century.

Convoflow

We’re rolling out some awesome upgrades to CONVOFLOW, our real time social media search tool. Social sharing functions are much better now and we’re continuously tweaking the UX.

What’s really exciting us though is the ability to search through more social networks/sources, and personal bookmarking which should be particularly useful for those using Convoflow for brand and news tracking.

Convoflow has been gaining some pretty good (and diverse) global traction and we’re hoping that these upcoming features would make it the real time search tool of choice for more users.

Rumblefish

We’re in the final development stages of a firmware + cloud service combo that we’re rolling out in January. We’d rather not say what it does just yet but we know that it’s going to rock.

Fundspace

We’ve also been working on a social lending platform that just might go into beta in Q1 of 2010. The platform facilitates peer-to-peer lending within a network in contrast to the aggregate style of lending being done by Prosper, Kiva, and Lending Club.

So that’s our last post for the year. We at Proudcloud are pretty pumped up for 2010 and we are confident that this brave optimism is shared by our clients and partners as well.

So a prosperous new year to all!

The votes have been tallied for the 1st SMART Mobile Developer Competition featuring Android and we have the top 2 winners!

DisasterAlert! from GeoSpatial Solutions Inc. comprised of Diane Kristine Campos and Gabriel S. Ricalde

RemoteDroid from Blue Chip Designs Inc. comprised of Noel Patron, Nikka Baterina, and Jovilyn Fajardo

Both teams will represent the Philippines at the CONEXUS Android Showcase at the 3GSM Mobile Conference on November 17, 2009.

Although both applications effectively exploited Android’s capabilities, I personally was impressed by DisasterAlert!. The GeoMob team clearly threaded together an inspired technology and use-case framework made more relevant by events of recent times.

Here’s a video of the app in action. A slideshare preso is available here too.

Roofcamp #4 started with a good discussion about the local startup experience with regard to the availability of skilled people, a clueless VC community, and the difficulties of setting up a local startup business.

Franklin Naval of Quadraforte giving a sneak peek of Project Hawaii

Terence Pua, formerly the country manager of Friendster PH and now the founder and CEO of XACKUP, explained that US based VCs are often off-put by locally incorporated companies. This is due to their (the VCs) lack of awareness of local business practices, intellectual property matters, and local political dynamics which fails to to provide a comfort level conducive to investments.

However, Jojo Flores, VP Operations for startup accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center, has a self imposed mission to bring deserving filipino startups to the attention of US VCs. Being well entrenched in the community, Jojo is in a good position to allay any kind of apprehensions VCs may have about getting in bed with philippine startups.

Terence and former Google engineer Franklin Naval of Quadraforte are two of a growing stream of filipino-american valley veterans that have found a strong desire to pursue their startup efforts in the Philippines instead of the US. They cite giving back to their filipino roots and the surprising high level of competencies that pinoy tech professionals posses.

The night was capped by demos of (previously) under-the-radar startup apps by Terence, Franklin, and Jay Fajardo of Proudcloud.

Codename Hawaii, Quadraforte (Franklin Naval)
A cloud based application that manages online advertising assets and propagates them throughout multiple ad networks while providing consolidated performance analytics.

Insync, Xackup (Terence Pua)
A file sharing and collaboration application with key features of value to enterprise users such as access permission control and automatic syncing to local folders. The app includes desktop clients for major operating systems including Windows, OS X, and Linux. check it out

Convoflow, Proudcloud (Jay Fajardo)
A real-time search engine that harvests social media content such as micro-blogs, blogs, video, and photos. Users can immediately view video and photos without leaving the site while social sharing options allow immediate re-tweets and Facebook posting of interesting content. check it out

We hope to see you at Roofcamp #5!