Sulit News:Sulit is Now OLX

Freelancers like us oftenly visit classified ads sites like Sulit and OLX to post services and find clients. Now, you should not be surprised that when you browse Sulit, you will be redirected to OLX. Sulit  has completely folded with OLX and this is something we should not worry about. Base on search engine rankings, Sulit and OLX are one of the most visited classified ads sites here in the Philippines. With this merger, we hope that OLX will continue the kind of service Sulit has provided to us.

Sulit has grown big  and this site has been a home for freelancers and online entrepreneurs for many years. We will always salute Sulit for it's contribution to the success of many Filipinos who used this online classified ads site. Aside from Sulit, we can also visit other local classified ads sites like TipidPC.com, AyosDito.com, AtHomeKa.com and many others.

Mochi Media is Closing on March 31,2014

It is a little bit surprising that Mochi Media is shutting down. After many years that it has been providing services for distributing flash based games on many sites, it is now saying good bye. Now, commercial and indie Flash developers will be forced to look for another games ad serving sites in order to manage and monetize games.

There could be a lot of reasons why the site is closing down. Flash critics could be eyeing on Flash as the main culprit on this. They may assume that the declining popularity of Flash may have not generated outstanding revenues for Mochi Media which forced Shanda, Mochi Media's parent company to make a move to deal with this problem by shutting down the site. Others are looking at it in a different angle which questions profitability issues. There are rumors that before the announcement, some staff of Mochi Media including some of it's founders arranged to make an offer to buy Mochi from Shanda. Sad to say, Shanda turned down the offer and finalized their decision to cease Mochi Media's operation.

Now, questions arise as to whether Flash gaming portals will also befall the same fate. Aside from Mochi Media, flash users and freelance game developers uses portals like NewGrounds, Kongregate and MindJolt to distribute and monetize flash games. If Flash is really a dying technology, then the fate of these sites could be hanging in the balance too but who would know.

For AS 3 lovers like me, it will be more helpful if we started learning new technologies aside from Flash. I would not say that we will stop developing flash games. It'll be better if we learn how to develop games in other platforms like Html5, Unity3d and other game development technologies. Action Script 3 is the first language I know since I started as a freelance game developer but I do not fear learning other languages as well. In freelancing, we should accept the challenges to become more equipped in facing situations like this.