
The first iteration of PinoyTalk focused on the Philippine market and served as a functional prototype for future highly integrated social networking sites. The Philippines was chosen due to its close proximity to Hong Kong, very low costs of promotion, and maturity in terms of use of social networks. The initial PinoyTalk services included email, chat rooms, forums, distribution lists, basic meeting point, and a place-holder for an online store. Future releases were intended to include Image Galleries, calendaring / scheduling, notepad, mobile synchronization, file storage, and classified ads.
Development was stopped due to funding constraints and the concern that we did not have the resources at that time to handle expected growth. Security mechanisms were also not in place to adequately protect these services.
Since then we have used the domain for live testing from time to time but is not currently being used. We have a new project under consideration which might eventually run under this domain. Our evaluation and initial testing for this we hope to have completed by the end of 2025. After we finish the distributed web services testing and roll-out currently being worked on, the plan is to redirect web traffic to our islandsph.com site until a permanent use for the site is confirmed.