The past few months, the Filipino social networking site, GrooveNet, has been buzzing *silently* across the Philippine web. GrooveNet is the exclusive distributor of There in the Philippines, an online 3D chat application that is perhaps second only to Second Life in terms of number of users and popularity. When you register at GrooveNet, you get an avatar for the 3D World and a profile page in the GrooveNet site itself.

You can upload MP3 songs to the music player provided in the profile page. Also, the profile owner can move around the panels. Moreover, the profile owner can add custom panels as he/she pleases. The owner can then add widgets to these custom added panels.

Not too many people know that the lead developers of this site hail from Davao. I developed the Flex and backend applications of this site (from ground up, using Flex, C#, PHP, Mono and MySQL) while Danny skinned the user interface.

Alright now, spare me the insults. I am fully aware of its shortcomings.

The most obvious being which it loads slow. However, that’s a given when you’re using Flex, more so when using Flex for an application this “big”. Also, the feature sets are not that comprehensive yet but this site will always be a work in progress. I won’t be a part of its progress anymore , however, as I just resigned from GrooveNet last February 2008.

It’s not Facebook but, hey, it’s made in the Philippines.

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