Before this, I make a post about Malaysia’s web applications (or much better put as web services) - compiling several websites by its category. Well, maybe I missed out several others out there but never mind.

This time, lets have a look at our neighbour’s web application - Moodmill.com

The first reaction I had when I enter this site was, Wow, a cute header! I stumbled upon this website several months ago but I almost forgot about it. It just happened that I found it again so I guess I want to make a short review about it.

Moodmill is a social mood management website. It’s a personal mood management, a log, a quick ‘n easy website for managing and sharing your short logs with your contacts.

Social mood management? Mood management? yeah! Currently there are five different moods - Excited, Happy, Hmm, Low Spirit and Bad Mood - All represented by 5 different colors, shown by the text you posted. Check out a profile. (I like it when they use the word ‘citizen’ to represent a user )

If you look at the website, you might find it a bit, or let say, very similar to one website we are used to - the Twitter. So, adding to the list of similarities, I mean Twitter & Moodmill & Pownce , is this a good thing to see this kind of trend around our web sphere?

Let have a closer look at this cute little Moodmill. It is developed by Stucel, a web company run by Felix Widjaja. The idea came out in July 2006

Due to the lacking of my spare time, the project was abandoned for nearly 3 months. Just the moment before I decided to launch it, Twitter launched! I was thinking that moodmill really needed more developers, especially a decent designer and a programmer. The condition was: 80% code, 0% design.

So we cannot say that this Moodmill is copying the concept of Twitter. It just they dont lauched it as early as Twitter - if not, they are the pioneer in this type of web app. Now, thats cool!

And oh yeah, if you decided to try this thing out and want to put ‘your mood’ on your wordpress blog, they also have a wordpress plugin for that purpose.Check out.

What I like about Moodmill.

• It is not developed by American.
• The cute header
• The colors that represents the mood

What I dont like about Moodmill.

• It is not developed by Malaysian.LOL
• The weird font type
• The big ass mood bar
• The layout seems crowded as well.

So..?
I am using Twitter and I like it. I tried Pownce and as I expected, its not very practical. I havent tried Moodmill and I doubt if I ever will. Twitter is serving me very well - and among all these three, I believe Twitter is the winner because they allow users to update through phone and IM. That is what we call a good user experience, people.

Well, Moodmill is still under crash test, so maybe we can expect lots more later on.
So Malaysians, where is our ‘original’ web applications?

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1. 

   -fuQaHa- —  

   09 Jul 07 / #

   uhhh.. new design.. yet again!

   gotta have a look around first, comment l8r. hehe..

   first glance, nice job!

   =)
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   eL.fReaKzTeR —  

   09 Jul 07 / #

   ouch sound great.. gonna try moodmill…. agak nya will the mat indon produce something good? eheheheh

3. flisterz —  

   09 Jul 07 / #

   @fuqaha : haha yeah; again. lol thanks

   @el.freakzter : haa try lah ok. then make a review
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   Felix —  

   09 Jul 07 / #

   Thanks for the head up!

5. flisterz —  

   09 Jul 07 / #

   Wow its Felix from Moodmill ur welcome