Weekly Poll 3 Result: Do You Like New Friendster?

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The question was asked to survey whether will the new Friendster be accepted and regain their its member? And the answer is obvious... Most of them doubt and answered MAYBE.. 4 out of 14 respondents answered NO while only 1 out of 14 respondents gave positive feedback which is YES! I guess there are several reasons why New Friendster couldn't once again gain its popularity..

Look at Facebook and MySpace.. their members had exceeded Friendster million miles away. This might due to the members being loyalty and not willing to even take a look at the New Friendster.

Since it took off in 2001, Friendster has been outshined by Facebook and Myspace over the years. But now... I guess its a No! No! Nine years down the road with its new looks, Friendster has developed many new features.

Friendster has definitely changed its looks; (1) the interface is much more structured with an Activity Stream that allows updates, comments and adding friends, (2) a redesigned About Me section showing a larger version of the primary photo, (3) Shoutout Stream has been added, (4) users are able to change their primary color of their home page by clicking a colored box on a user panel on the top right side.


But there's still hope because most respondents answered MAYBE?? Why not you, take a look and explore the New Frienster @ http://www.friendster.com/ and tell me why?

Just a simple report,

Justin =)

Where is your tweets?

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Have you seen a bird with blue color whichever sites you surfing? I'm sure you can remember the "Follow Me" widget along with the blue bird.

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Sites like Facebook and Myspace provide the users to build their profiles, integrate useful programs in their homepage. But Twitter makes a difference! One web company with a simple service is rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about social networking site.

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So what does Twitter do? It allows the users to broadcast messages to a network of contacts. Instead of sending an e-mails or text messages, one Tweet provides everything! Users send quick update to let their "followers" to know what is going on in real-time. Once users have an account in Twitter, they can invite other users to receive their Tweets. On the other hand, Tweets have limitations as it allows you to send a short messages limited to just 140 characters to avoid heavy traffic. Well, people update their status so frequently that is unnecessary to send a long message.

The most interesting feature in Twitter is users are able to "follow" whoever they want to receive the first hand news! Even top celebrities are using Twitter every second to keep in touch with their fans. Don't you think we are so lucky to have Twitter in this century?

Well, I personally love Twitter! Guess what? Even Obama & Bill Gates are using Twitter! Get yourself a Tweet before you are out of touch from the world!

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LiHui is tweeting. What about you? Next, I'll talk about Twitter's applications! Stay tune! Follow us now.

(Source of reference: What is Twitter-Features?, Retrieved on 1st February 2010, URL- http://www.thepicky.com/internet/what-is-twitter-features/)

Weekly Poll 2 ; Which element is the most important in considering a S.N.S ?

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For Week 2, we came up with a poll question that focused on the importance of an element in a Social Networking Site, and we gave several choices to choose from. Here are the results that we have collected from our readers. Thank you for your participation. Much appreciated.

Design, Community, Media, Application and Ease of use were given as an answer of choice to our readers. With 30% of the votes, Ease of use was stated as the most important element that our readers would like to have on a social networking site. 25% was given to the Application element, where as 20% went to the Design element as voted by our readers. For the remaining 25%, the Community element receives 15% and the Media element as the lowest with 10% of the votes.

Frequent social networking users, clearly would prefer the advantage of an easy to use site. Personally, I am an avid Facebook user, I would most definitely want an easy to use S.N.S that would allow me to save time as I browse through either writing wall messages to my friends or playing the Interactive games that are provided by Zynga games. The Application element is quite important, from my point of view as it would allow us to be aware of all the application that are already in our social networking site compared to just adding and deleting upon usage.

The Design element works with every individual user to the social networking site but it focuses on the liking of a big group of users. The Community and Media element are a vast topic to discuss on as they are both quite important to a Social Networking Site, I believe so. They conjure up the daily working operation of the S.N.S. The users are the Community element, where as the Media element is to up hold the interactivity of the site.

At the end of the day, each of these elements have an important role in a social networking site and it is up to us as users to make use of it, the right way and of course, the ethical way. As my co-editor wrote previously, technology is moving rapidly, mostly the Internet world. So best keep your head in the game, before you get left behind.