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Having been away on military duties the past fortnight, coming back to find the Widgeo.us blog launched and Aen’s opening posts is an awesome surprise!

There are many people who have been asking me what this Widgeous thing is about. Some ask me why I do it. Some ask me what it hopes to achieve. If I actually wrote everything out, I think I’d be able to publish a book. So let’s start slowly yeah? I’ll spend this post introducing myself and a tad about Widgeous before we head on towards heavier stuff. Besides, it’s Christmas!

I’m Ridz and like Aen said, I’m the one that’s metaphorically the guy in the suit (Though I hope I won’t have to wear one too often). I’ve spent much of my time trying to create projects that add value to some small pockets of society. I was born in a hospital called “Kandang Kerbau” (translation: Cow Pen) after which I spent the next 20 years growing up learning how to be a true blue Singaporean. In the Widgeous team, I’m handling most of the business development concerns alongside the rest who are focusing on the technical development and design issues. I’m really proud to have such an awesome team with me on this one.

Why Widgeous?

All of us know how important communication is to building healthy relationships. Yet, increasingly, despite the availability of many forms of communication, each channel is rather isolated. This causes things to become rather complicated when we try to contact another person, or a group of them because we’d have to contend with the question of, “How should we communicate with them? Which channel should be best used?”

Humans are social creatures who were born to communicate and because of that I only have one thing to say about the above situation, “Communication should NOT be that complicated.”

And this is where Widgeous comes in. We want to empower people with a platform that allows communication to take place across communication channels (phones, social networks, etc). Beyond that, we’ll also empower users to create and share tools that will harness the platform’s ability.

The philosophy is simple:
You should be able to communicate with your friends easily.
And you should be able to have access to applications that will make that communication effective.
…and if the applications aren’t there yet, we’ll give you tools to build em.

All that said, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a superb

Merry Christmas!