Philippines' Top Websites

As part of our compilation of ranking (based on Alexa.com) the most popular destinations on the Net, here are the top 25 Filipino websites well-known in the technology, academe, media and government sectors (list is by ranking, domain, Alexa.com rank, location):

1. levelupgames.ph - 1,806. Makati City
2. e-games.com.ph - 2,613. Makati City
3. inquirer.net - 2,619. Makati City
4. tipidpc.com - 2,701. Pasig City
5. sulit.com.ph - 3,203.
6. gmanews.tv - 4,432. Quezon City
7. philstar.com - 5,335. Mandaluyong City
8. yehey.com - 6,688. Pasig City
9. pinoypsp.com - 8,210.
10. abs-cbn.com - 8,416. Quezon City
11. mb.com.ph - 16,419. Manila
12. dlsu.edu.ph - 16,457. Manila
13. sunstar.com.ph - 16,585. Cebu City
14. chikka.com - 17,326. Pasig City
15. smart.com.ph - 22,333. Makati City
16. philmusic.com - 26,769. Pasig City
17. up.edu.ph - 27,294. Quezon City
18. dost.gov.ph - 44,955. Taguig City
19. globe.com.ph - 48,092. Mandaluyong City
20. mapua.edu.ph - 56,632. Manila
21. admu.edu.ph - 76,645. Quezon City
22. villman.com - 80,048. Quezon City
23. pldt.com.ph - 112,974. Makati City
24. tesda.gov.ph - 137,971. Taguig City
25. amaes.edu.ph - 140,901. Quezon City

Out of the 25 websites, schools are 5 or 20%, online sites are 8 or 32%, news/media sites - 6 or 24%, ICT and ITES - 4 or 16%, and government sites are 2 or 8%.

In terms of location, Makati City has 5 or 20%, Quezon City has 6 or 24%, Pasig City has 4 or 16%, Manila has 3 or 12%, Cebu City has 1 or 4%, Taguig City has 2 or 8%, Mandaluyong City has 2 or 8% and the undetermined location has 2 or 8%.

In terms of popularity:

• 10 sites made it at the Global Top 10,000
• 12 sites made it from 10,001 to 99,000 rank
• 3 sites made it from 100,000 to 150,000 rank

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Goog + Virg = Mars

In 2004, Pres. Bush announced that man will go back to the moon and beyond in the coming decades. Within that year, NASA was successful in landing robots in Mars.

As I can recall, it was also in that year when SpaceShipOne was able to travel in space and won in a competition. For its breakthrough, I later learned that Virgin Group had invested in it and had that ambitious plan of creating space tourism in the near future.

And now, Sir Richard Branson (of Virgin Group), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (of Google) had joined together in a joint-venture, with a mission: "the establishment of a permanent human settlement on Mars".

The newly launched Virgle Inc. believes that...

"contemporary technology is sufficiently advanced to make such an effort both successful and economical, and that it's high time that humanity moved beyond Earth and began our great, long journey to explore the stars and establish our first lasting foothold on another world."

Timeline

2010. The Virgle team will plan to use the Lunae planum area of the north side of Kasei Valles as the Plymouth Rock of the new New World.

2014. The 550-million-mile journey to Mars will begin with 550,000 1/500th-of-a-mile steps, as the LSE3, a multi-stage heavy lifter now under construction using the World War II-era Liberty Ship philosophy and launches the staging components into low earth orbit.

2015. When the Virgle 1 lands, teams of autonomous rovers and assembly platforms will leap into action, building the facilities such as nuclear reactors, Martian Positioning System, Earth return vehicles, Hab modules, production plants, assembly platforms, robotic vehicles, and greenhouses.

2016. The program will begin a synchronized semiannual schedule with human crews. In the five-month voyage to Mars, Virgle Pioneers will experience the same way they enjoy on Earth.

2108. Building the Virgle City.

"We feel that ensuring the survival of the human race by helping it colonize a new planet is both a moral good in and of itself and also the most likely method of ensuring the survival of our best... So, you know, it's, like, win-win." says Google co-founder Larry Page.

This is indeed an exciting milestone in our lifetime. Investments will really be huge, but of course, the founders have already considered the risks involved in this project.

And if one will consider the potential benefits, I don't see any limitations for this project not to push through.

reference: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-project-virgle.html

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"Go For It"

“Go for it - astronomy and astrophysics are rich and exciting fields that offer plenty of opportunities for young scientists to contribute. Master the basics, keep up with the latest discoveries, don't stop asking questions - and finding answers."

When I recently learned about this whiz kid, I became truly amazed with her achievements as a student and as a young scientist.

She was a consistent honors student since elementary, a Valedictorian at the Philippine Science High School in 2001 and a Summa Cum Laude, Physics major at the Ateneo De Manila University in 2005.

Immediately after graduating in college, she took up the High Energy Physics masters-level course at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and graduated in 2006.

And presently, she is taking up her doctorate course in Astrophysics at the prestigious Princeton University in New Jersey.

As for her accomplishments as a scholar, she has the following:

• Honorable Mention, Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, American Astronomical Society (January 2008)
• Centennial Fellowship, Princeton University Graduate School (2006-2010)
• Merit Prize Fellowship Grant, Princeton University Graduate School (2006-2010)
• Martin Schwarschild Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University (2006-2007)
• Academic Scholarship, Ateneo de Manila University (2001-2005)
• Merit Science Scholarship, Department of Science and Technology (2001-2005)

Another interesting work of her is the culmination of a 5-year long campaign to find particular types of black holes and I quote,

"This is like searching for a "needle in a haystack" since the objects we are targeting are very rare and are not immensely bright. We searched through a million objects and found 900 of these ones. My work is focused on figuring out how rare these objects really are. This is not as simple as it sounds because one has to carefully figure out the difference between *how many objects we have found* versus *how many objects there really are.* For example, the telescopes will miss those objects that are too faint to be detected, so those have to be taken into account."

This whiz kid is no other than 24-year old Reinabelle Co Reyes, a second year PhD student at the Princeton University.

You can also visit her site at http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rreyes/ to know more about her.

May her story become an inspiration to all of us!

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Asia's Power Bloc

As we continue to feature the best of the best in the field of technology, this time we will feature the biggest names around Asia, Japan and India.

This is ranked according to company name, market value ($bil), sales ($bil) and country:

I. Semiconductor

• MediaTek. 17.2. 1.7. Taiwan.
• Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. 48.4. 9.7. Taiwan.

II. Software and Services

• Infosys Technologies. 27.4. 3.2. India.
• Satyam Computer Services. 7.9. 3.2. India.
• Tata Consultancy Services. 27.6. 4.3. India.
• Wipro. 17.2. 3.5. India.
• Yahoo Japan. 20.5. 1.8. Japan.

III. Technology Hardware and Equipment

• Lenovo Group. 5.1. 14.5. China.
• Ibiden. 12.4. 3.4. Japan.
• Nintendo. 63.0. 8.2. Japan.
• Chi Mei Optoelectronics. 7.5. 5.9. Taiwan.
• Compal Electronics. 4.0. 11.7. Taiwan.
• Delta Electronics. 7.6. 3.2. Taiwan.
• Acer. 4.6. 11.3. Taiwan.
• Wistron. 2.4. 6.8. Taiwan.
• Hon Hai Precision Ind. 42.1. 40.5. Taiwan.

IV. Telecommunications Services

• China Mobile. 216.5. 37.1. China.
• Bharti Airtel. 39.2. 4.3. India.
• Telkomunikasi Indonesia. 23.5. 5.7. Indonesia.

V. Conglomerate

• LG Group. 9.6. 70.9. South Korea.

Out of the 20 technology players, it is interesting to note of the following:

• 40% of the companies came from Taiwan while India has 25%
• 45% are in the technology hardware and equipment sector
• 50% has more than US $ 10-49 billion in market value
• 10% has more than US $ 50 billion in market value
• 30% generated more than US $ 10 billion in sales last year

Other interesting developments are:

• Lenovo is now one of the biggest names in the computer sector with its acquisition of the IBM Personal Computer unit
• Infosys, Satyam and Tata are some of the biggest names in the global BPO sector

reference: Forbes.com. "The Asian Fab 50", Deborah Orr and Scott DeCarlo, Sep. 06, 2007.

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In Support for a Partner

As our way of supporting one of our Institutional Partners, the Philippine-Sino Center for Agricultural Technology (PhilSCAT) in particular, we would like to share with you that they will be having their 5th Anniversary tomorrow, March 25.

At their headquarters in CLSU campus, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, this year's celebration shall be graced by Agriculture Asst. Secretary Dr. Josyline Chio-Javelosa as the Guest of Honor.

This year's program highlights the awarding of Plaque of Recognition to PhilSCAT Director Dr. Romeo B. Gavino and his Chinese counterpart co-Director Mr. Cheng Liangji for their excellent and continuous services rendered to PhilSCAT and their contributions in alleviating the condition of Filipino farmers through research, development and extension activities on hybrid rice and agricultural mechanization technologies.

With the theme, "Paving the Way to a Modern Agriculture thru Mechanized Hybrid Rice Farming System", the opening ceremonies shall be composed of a morning Mass, a Motorcade, Field visit and a short program. During the opening program, 16 PhilSCAT staff who rendered 5 years or above of service to the project will also be accorded a Service Award.

In the afternoon, there will be a technical symposium where results of selected recent PhilSCAT R & D studies will be presented. This symposium aims to bring awareness to various PhilSCAT clientele the new undertakings of the Center including technologies developed and research studies completed.

A demonstration of PhilSCAT technologies at the Center's demo-farm such as the actual operation of the PhilSCAT Rice Combine where participants will be encouraged to personally operate the machine.

On the following day (March 26), there will be an Employees Day featuring sports festival among PhilSCAT staff. The celebration shall be capped by a retreat cum workshop which shall be held in San Fernando, La Union.

Overview of the Center

The Philippine-Sino Center for Agricultural Technology (PhilSCAT) is a special R and D agency under the Department of Agriculture. It implements the collaborative program in agriculture and related fields between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China, with Central Luzon State University (CLSU) as the lead implementor and the Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE), Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) as partners.

PhilSCAT's current technology scope under Phase I (2003-2008) is Hybrid Rice and Agri-mechanization.


reference:

Josue S. Falla, Ph.D, CESO V, Director II, BPRE, & Concurrent Chief, TPPD, Philippine-Sino Center for Agricultural Technology (PhilSCAT), Department of Agriculture CLSU, Munoz Science City 3120 Nueva Ecija, Philippines.

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On Global Tech Ranking

After "The Power of 2", I will continue with presenting 15 of the American's richest personalities in the field of technology by Forbes.com last March 5 (by company, global rank, name, age and worth in US $ billion):

• Microsoft. 3 - William Gates III, 52, 58.0
• Microsoft. 41 - Paul Allen, 55, 16.0
• Microsoft. 43 - Steve Ballmer, 52, 15.0
• Oracle. 14 - Larry Ellison, 63, 25.0
• Google. 32 - Sergey Brin, 34, 18.7
• Google. 33 - Larry Page, 35, 18.6
• Google. 142 - Eric Schmidt, 52, 6.6
• Dell. 40 - Michael Dell, 43, 16.4
• Ebay. 120 - Pierre Omidyar, 40, 7.7
• Apple. 189 - Steve Jobs, 53, 5.4
• Intel. 288 - Gordon Moore, 79, 3.7
• Yahoo. 462 - David Filo, 41, 2.5
• Yahoo. 524 - Jerry Yang, 39, 2.3
• Siebel Systems. 652 - Thomas Siebel, 55, 1.9
• Facebook. 785 - Mark Zuckerberg, 23, 1.5

It's worth to note that the youngest in the Billionaire's Club now is the 23-year old Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook.com.

Another interesting fact is that all of them are self-made.

Other things that we can learn from them:

• 7 are more than 50 years of age
• 7 have more than US $ 10 billion in worth
• 7 are in the top 100 richest people
• 3 companies have 2 or more billionaires

How I wish we will have a Filipino company who will make it in the list...

Excerpt from March 5, 2008, "The World's Billionaires" issue of Forbes.com.

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"The Road Ahead"

When we launched this initiative in November, 2007, it was our dream to slowly make it mainstream within the year 2008.

Now, in less than 5 months of the blog's existence, we're happy to share our progress in terms of (as of March 13):

• Ads Impressions has 834 in March while February has 764
• Visitors Per Day in March is 6.58 while February has 1.24
• Pageviews in March is 207 while February has 81
• Pages/Visit in March is 2.62 while February has 2.25
• Bounce Rate in March is 60% while February has 53%
• Ave Time on Site (mins) in March is 7:32 while February has 6:09
• Absolute Unique Visitors in March is 13 while February has 4
• Loyalty of Visitors in March is 10.13% while February has 2.78%
• Visitors from different countries is 6 in March while 3 in February

And out of the hundreds of millions of websites globally, Alexa.com now ranks us at 9.3M in March, compared to 12.4M when we started. That's an increase of almost 25% in just within a month.

These very encouraging developments will give us more motivation to feature more topics for our readers and partners this year.

Especially the big leap that we have experienced with Alexa.com is an indication that the road ahead for an Innovative Collaboration Ecosystem in the Philippines is still wide and open for all of us.

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