Are you a "Social Butterfly"?

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Recently, news reported that Malaysian spent at least an hour on social networking sites and 50 percent of the population in Malaysia owns a Facebook account. The government takes it as a good sign as it makes Malaysian an ICT savvy and it brings and unites the nation. The question today is that are you a social butterfly? I will tell you more...

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The term “social butterfly” has historically referred to someone who flits from party to party. Today, it is the era of the online social butterflies; people who hop from one social networking site to another to keep up with the latest across all their diverse social circles. You can consider yourself an online social butterfly if you meet the below criteria.

1. Accounts!

Have hundreds of friends and contacts across several social networking groups such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Windows Live and Friendster. -Spend more than two hours a day flitting across different social networks to keep track of friends’ updates; share your updates with the community; download applications; upload photos; take a stab at quizzes; customise your page and much more.

2. Log In!

Can’t resist logging on to a social network via your PC, laptop or mobile phone any time you have a few minutes to spare. -Often log on to your social networks for a “quick peek” while you are at work (or when you’re supposed to be doing work!).

3. Disconnected!

Feel disconnected if you haven’t logged on to your different social networks for a day. A study on online behaviour called Digital World, Digital Life by research firm TNS found that Asians lead the way when it comes to spending time online. Chinese respondents aged under 25 were found to spend 50 per cent of their leisure time online, while students in general spent 39 per cent of their leisure time online, a higher percentage compared to any other group.

So, do you meet the above requirements? And proud to call yourself a SOCIAL BUTTERFLY?

Signing off,
Justin

Creating your very own social networking site?

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Many internet users of the Web 2.0 generation have become very in touched with the coding and processing of a website. Some have even learnt how to create their very own websites. With the hype revolving around the social networking topic, users have been upgraded to creating their very own social networking site.

Is it possible? Most definitely.

Let me introduce to you : NING.

It is the only website that allows users to a social network within seconds. This website is the key of creating a new social networking site to the user's personal tastes and needs. Wouldn't it be fun having a social networking site just for your family tree or even better, for your course mates; for example; Mass Communication students creating a social networking site just for all the students under this course. A golden move of creating the SNS through this particular website is the step-by-step walk through on how to use it.

1st step
Name your social network site and submit a web address of your choice.

2nd step
Users would be asked to enter their basic information on the NING website. Compulsory information that includes privacy settings, tagline, headlines and etc.

3rd step
Users have a choice of modifying the layout of the social networking site. It's an easy drag and drop process.

4th step
And of course, who wouldn't like to choose their very own themes to complete the look of the masterpiece. In this step, they are able to choose a selection of themes and color schemes.

5th step
Users are then given the choice to select a customize profile on the website and on the user's profile.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Users have completed the set up process and is ready to go with the launching of their very own social networking site.

Tumblr

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Have you ever thought of having your personal blog, but it does not work out because.. "You do not have time to keep update?" or "You do not have any writing inspiration?" Well..If you almost quit blogging, right now here is a new site for you to blog blissfully easy!

Tumblr is a free blogging platform that aimed at making effortless to share text, photos, links, music, and videos. It is quick and easy. With having a feature of Tumblelog (micro-blogging), users are able to "follow" people like Twitter, they can "like" someones' post like Facebook, and they can even "reblog" posts on the site. Everything Tumblr provides are emphasizing on ease of use & simplicity.

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Users just need to takes about 35 seconds to sign up Tumblr account. Hit the site http://www.tumblr.com/ , sign up with your e-email address and a name for your blog. Then, you can proceed your journey in Tumblr. There are six type of posting category; Text is mainly same as blogging, you can post one sentence or one paragraph. It's all up to you. Photo is for user to share pictures with adding some interesting caption to tell the story from the picture. This feature is similar with Flickr-photo blog. Next is quote, users are open to share any interesting quotes they found. Then, link and chat, a chat session is an instant conversation post with your friends. Last but not least, audio & video which is a "must-have' feature in every social networking site.

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Besides being ease-of-use, Tumblr has layout with a minimalist Web 2.0 look. Users can choose and customize the themes given. You can go with simplicity or creatively in designing a theme for your Tumblr. Since Tumblr handles every contents you've been having trouble, why not hit to Tumblr now and sign up? And remember to invite your friends to join you, let's follow each other!

Cheers,
LiHui :)

SNS for Fashion Gurus.

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As you all know, January is the month for Fashion Galore, it is when all the most elite and rich clients and designers come together for the New York's Autumn-Winter 2010 Fashion Week.

Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Calvin Klein and most of the amazingly talented designers in the whole world are part of the most famous micro-blogging social networking site in the whole world. TWITTER! Imagine, 24/7 updates from designers, models, stage producers and fashion press whilst the fashion show is going on.

A big tweet screen having been installed by American Express in the entrance of the ready-to-wear shows take place. For example ; ["Just arrived at (designer Vera) Wang. White setup," write NARSissist] To many, this is such an exciting feature as not everyone gets to enter the fashion show. This itself could be considered Gold, being able to know what was going in a fashion show at the very moment it is happening.

With this step of communication, the fashion world is going to break through alot more communication boundaries and many other things linked to it. I supposed, we should give it a few months before it blows over in every manner of social networking sites.

SNS as tools for employers.

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Usually, most job applicants will have a general checklist before a job interview such as updating a résumé, ironing a professional outfit, rehearsing an explanation for those two years spent bumming around after college. However, if tidying up the Facebook profile isn’t on that list, maybe it should be.

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According to a new study conducted by Harris Interactive for CareerBuilder.com, 45 percent of employers questioned are using social networks to screen job candidates — more than double from a year earlier, when a similar survey found that just 22 percent of supervisors were researching potential hires on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn.

The study, which questioned 2,667 managers and human resource workers, found that 35 percent of employers decided not to offer a job to a candidate based on the content uncovered on a social networking site. (The survey has no margin of sampling error because it was not drawn from a representative nationwide sample but rather from volunteer participants.)

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The report showed that Facebook was the most popular online destination for employers to do their online sleuthing, followed by LinkedIn and MySpace. In addition, 7 percent followed job candidates on Twitter.

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More than half of the employers who participated in the survey said that provocative photos were the biggest factor contributing to a decision not to hire a potential employee, while 44 percent of employers pinpointed references to drinking and drug use as red flags.

Other warning signs included bad-mouthing of previous employers and colleagues and poor online communication skills. While most of these may seem like obvious stumbling blocks, what constitutes alarming behavior to a particular employer? Would photographs of a trip to the beach be considered inappropriate? What about a racy Halloween costume? As Facebook continues to grow as an essential personal and business networking tool for most of the Web, these issues are only going to get thornier.

To be on the safe side, it’s probably wise to use the new privacy settings offered by Facebook to keep everything but the most innocuous content away from the public eye.

Cheers,

Justin

Weekly Poll 5 ; Do you read through the terms and conditions before signing up ?

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Users of the Internet hardly read up on terms and conditions on any social networking sites unless they have had a habit to do so. Do you read through them, right before you sign up to a social networking site? Are you aware of the policies that the social networking sites carry?


Through our poll of the week, we have encountered the answers for you. It is shown that around 6 persons had answered our poll. Regardless of the number, the knowledge gained from it, would be considered valuable. Out of 6, Only 1 person said they DO (YES) read through the terms and conditions before signing up on a social networking site. And the remaining 5 is divided with 3 persons stating that they SOMETIMES do read through the terms and conditions, where as 2 persons DO NOT (NO) read them at all.

Another weekly poll has helped us garner information on users using social networking sites. There will only be a few more polls up, please help us get more in-detailed information to help use with our cause.

Linked In!

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Do you know there is social networking site that specifically for business? You heard Facebook, Myspace or Twitter, what about LinkedIn? Rather than just making friends, updating your status, and sharing media, LinkedIn is a different social networking site for business professional, for example, looking for a job, discovering sales lead, connecting with potential business partners etc.

With more than 60 millions of members in over 200 countries and territories around the world, LinkedIn is one of the fastest growing online social networking site. According to their latest facts, their new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of their members are outside the U.S.

When you join LinkedIn, your profile is display like a professional resume. Instead of fill in your hobbies and interest, the focus is on employment history and education level. Then, you can connect with people by inviting trusting contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.

What makes LinkedIn so different with others? As mentioned, it is solely for professional users only. User cannot post photos(other than your primary photo), user cannot blog like Twitter, user cannot "poke" your friends like Facebook. The profile page is design with clean and professional to emphasize the professionalism even it is an online social networking.

LinkedIn carry their slogan which is "Relationships Matter". Their mission is to connect the world's professional network to make them more productive and successful. They believe that in a global connected economy, your success and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust.

Remember, relationship does matter!


Cheers,
LiHui

Fuzzster.com- Social Networking Sites for Pets.

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Wonder if anyone ever want to have a social networking site for their pets? Or to have a designed homepage and online profile for pets? In this post today, I will introduce you to a social networking site for pets- Fuzzster.com!

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Fuzzster.com started with Mr. Monir whom owns two pet cats named Fenton and McGuirk. He created few online social networking sites for his two beloved pets but almost all of them got deleted. Apparently, friends cant have fur!!? So, he decided to make his own social networking site for people like him who think pet is also a good friend for anybody else. It then slowly evolve to a site where owners make profile pages for pets then for owner to meet.

So, what are the features of Fuzzster.com?

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Owners can create a profile for their pets. The can include details such as about the pets, what is the breed or even age. Then owner can snap a nice picture of the pet and upload it to enable others to know how their pets look like. Onwer can also inlude their own photos.

Besides setting up a profile, owners can help their pets to make friends. They can create a list of friends for their pets or a family list for them. Owner can even add the owner and categorize them as Non-Furry friends. Once you are a friend of a pet, u can leave testimony for the pets too.

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Moreover, owner can creates blog for his or her pets to keep other owners updated on their beloved pets. Normally owner will choose to blog about the special behaviour of their pets.

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Other than posting blogs about pets, owners can upload more pictures for their pets and start commenting on other people's pets photos.

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Last but not least, owners can check whether there is new 'pet' started a new profile by checking the recent activity in Fuzzster.com, to keep themselves updated with the current status of others account.

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Amazed aren't you? Social networking site for pets? The are even more sites such as Vivopets.com or Mydogspace.com. Heard from my lecturer that there will be another social networking site coming this March for OBJECTS??? CHAIRS? TABLE? FAN? That is for you to explore! Why not start a Fuzzster.com for your pets today? I want to start one for my Bubu!

Ciao,

Justin

Plurk.com vs Twitter.com

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They may be the TWO (2) most popular micro-blogging social networking site of the 21st century, but ONE of them certainly knocks the other out.

VERSUS

Both very interesting piece of work for updating status and post, yet there can only be ONE that stands out. Plurk, in my opinion clearly stands out at the range of components that are offered.

1. Timeline

There is a Timeline effect that was introduced by Plurk to look a lot more interactive and interesting, where as Twitter's Timeline is not as effective and captivating as Plurk's. On Plurk, it is a whole lot more attractive as it is placed in a horizontal manner such as the picture above compared to the vertical position that Twitter offers. It was a bold move but a very productive one, as many can see. One of the many successes of Plurk. Although both Plurk and Twitter users are opened to design their background with their own interest and creativity.

2. Chat Conversations

Despite the fact that Plurk is a micro blogging social networking site, on the status updates that a person puts up, his / her peers are allowed to give their response in a form of conversation. Twitter, however, isn't quite the 'in detailed' with the feedback from other followers of a person. It is a lot more confusing compared to Plurk's form of instant feedback.

3. One-Line Messages & Emoticons

This clearly is the 'IT' factor for both Plurk and Twitter, as well as doing justice to their popularity. Both sites have one-line messages that could not exceed more than 140 words, BUT Twitter fails to have emoticons as part of the update compared to Plurk, whom allows members to be very creative with their message update and emoticons *expressions*. Bravo, don't you think?

4. Karma

This feature basically wins Plurk the crown. The Karma feature are rewards that are given to members as they update regularly and as their popularity raises. The higher your Karma is, the more popular and socialize you are. Fascinating, don't you think? It is also shown that as the Karma levels grows, more exclusive emoticons would be available for the members to use as part of their message update. Twitter clearly hasn't reach a point where they reward their members for being consistent and popular. Although Twitter is a lot more talked about, compared to Plurk.

For me, the winner would be PLURK

So what are you, Team Twitter or Team Plurk ?

Regards,

Jillian.

1. Twitter versus Plurk: The UI Advantage. [Online], Retrieved 14th February 2010. URL:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_versus_plurk.php

2. 6 Reasons Why Plurk Beat Twitter. [Online] 15th February 2010. URL:http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-reasons-why-plurk-beats-twitter/

3. Why 'Plurking' is more FUN than 'Tweeting'? [Online] 13th February 2010. URL:http://www.techpluto.com/plurk-over-twitter/

Privacy Issues of Social Networking Sites

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Have you ever wonder there are so many people signing up to Bebo, Facebook, Flickr, Friends Reunited, LinkedIn, MySpace, Windows Live Spaces and YouTube, BUT.. Since then, privacy issues have incurred from all these social networking sites. It cant be denied that there are many security issues surrounding websites in general and specifically social networking sites – For this time, I have only highlighted the issues that I found relating to privacy and data security.

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Many social networking sites are commercial enterprises owned by large, multinational organisations such as Yahoo! or Google. Many people believe ‘Tom’ to have started MySpace, but it was actually created by a company called eUniverse.

Google famously bought YouTube in October year 2006, paying a staggering US Dollar $1.65bn – but why? Have you ever wonder? And YEAh! It’s all about data and it seems like Google have tonnes of it on its users, but Google never deletes data collected on its users and some day in the future, the day may come when it could make billions and billions from flogging it.

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Sites such as Facebook and MySpace say that they find it reasonable to collect and store personal information about users such as occupation, gender and personal interests in order to ‘maximise your enjoyment’ of their sites. Facebook quite eerily states that it may also search for information about you on blogs, newspapers and instant messaging services. Why on earth should they feel that this is appropriate? So that you can enjoy a more personalised service, apparently. Personally, I think that’s a bit much and would not in any way agree to this – but millions of people have done, by signing up to use Facebook, as this privacy encroachment forms part of the privacy policy that all users have to agree to having read and abide by when signing up.

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Accepting Google’s privacy policy forms part of signing up to use YouTube and it’s another one that’s keen to improve your user experience – ‘We may combine personal information collected from you with information from other Google services or third parties to provide a better user experience’.

Yahoo! is another big corporate with social networking interests in the form of Flickr, the popular photo-sharing website. Its privacy terms state that ‘Once you register with Yahoo! and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.’ It also plays the ‘user experience’ card and goes on to say that it uses personal data for three purposes – content customisation, ‘to fulfill your requests for certain products and services’ (whatever that may mean) and to flog you stuff.

So people out there, BEWARE!! As you are signing up for any Social Networking Sites, Please bear in mind to read the policy or terms and conditions. You don't wanna see your pictures to be in some advertisement someday out there without you knowing it! @.@

Signing Off,

Justin

Source of reference: Social Networking by Sarah Tuner, [Online], Retrieved on 12th February 2010. URL: http://www.blogsecurity.net/

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.

Facebook Vs MySpace (2)

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This week brings to the part two of Facebook versus MySpace. Well, I guess most of you wanna know who's the boss right? The part two of Facebook Vs MySpace will discuss about the two key elements which are Usefulness and Ease of Use in social networking sites. After that, you will get to know whos the overall winner of this two popular Social networking sites~!

Let's get the race started!

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Round 4: Usefulness

Finding Old Friends: It can't be denied that one of the major reasons for joining a social network is to reconnect with old friends or classmates. Facebook makes this really easy because the whole site is organized by schools and now by locations too. So unless you forgot your friends name you will probably be able to find them if they have an account. MySpace lets you search for school friends, but doesn’t put the emphasis on real friendships.

Communication: Facebook is definitely a good way to contact people if you don’t know their contact info. You can send an email thru it or even use the Facebook chat to find out whether your friend is online. Besides that, if uyou were to have an events, Facebook makes it easy when you can invite them and put down important info. Hence, someone is more likely to notice a Facebook message than a MySpace Message due to the fact that there is less Facebook spam.

Promoting Yourself: MySpace wins here. Thousands of bands use MySpace to promote their music and their fans use it to show their support. This isn’t nearly as evident on Facebook, although groups allow companies to promote themselves. But Facebook is slowly improving as there are more and more Fans Page.. =) you can even create for your own.. I wonder whether my coursemate helped me to creat a Justin's Fans Page? @.^

Round Winner: Its a TIE!

The fight continues with....

Final Round: Ease of use

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Adding Friends: MySpace wins here because adding new friends and accepting friends requests is usually a one click process. The major advance here over Facebook is the ability to add large amounts of friends at once which for some reason was never added to Facebook.

Search: The winner here is a little bit surprising when you consider Google does the search for the loser. Facebook’s search beats MySpace by a mile. Even though the search engine giant Google is providing MySpace’s search, its results are not nearly as useful as Facebook’s. The big issue here is that MySpace’s search looks in the whole profile, even when just looking for a person, Facebook’s is smart enough to know if you are looking for a user or a movie in someone’s interests.

Navigation: Both MySpace and Facebook have pretty decent navigation, but Facebook beats MySpace when it comes to getting to specific people’s profiles due to its superior search.

Privacy: You can choose who to show your infos and who not to show, Facebook makes it really easy to hide info from certain people and to not show information that you want to be kept private. So, if you only want you close friends to see you contact info, it only takes a second. MySpace has privacy too, but it’s far less granular.

Round Winner: Facebook!

An the Winner is… Facebook!!

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This is just for your entertainment... Enjoy!!


Facebook v. MySpace
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Why not you tell me whether you agree with the comparison above.. =)

Signing off..
Justin. ^.^

(Source of reference: Facebook Hammers MySpace In All Key Elements, Retrieved on 18th January 2020, URL- http://mashable.com)

The Revival of Friendster.

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Welcome back…. Friendster!

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As one of the pioneering social networking sites in the internet to date has been bought over, transformed and remodeled with a completely new agenda and hopes of overpowering the other social networking sites back to the ground to collect back its number 1 spot. According to a website, TechCrunch, it is said that Friendster claims that the redesign of the entire website intends to highlight on 3 pillars; Simple, Fun and Personal.

An online payment-collection firm, MOL Global has successfully bought over 100% of Friendster Inc. As rumor has it, it is to create “Asia’s largest end-to-end content, distribution and commerce network.” In the official press release, the existing Friendster Wallet and Friendster Gift Shop will be looked upon to advance their services for Friendster’s loyal consumers.

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With its major revamp, Friendster has created a new logo; with a tagline (“Connecting Smiles”) and a brand new fresh look.

Since it took off in 2001, Friendster has been outshined by Facebook and Myspace over the years. Although Friendster may no longer be hot in the United States, it most definitely still is a big hit in the Asia/Pacific region. Richard Kimber, Friendster’s newly appointed CEO (previously under Google, as Head Sales and Operations in South East Asia). 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.

Not forgetting its brand new interactivity features and applications; (1) there’s a Gift Shop that allows users to buy and send gifts, (2) a Treasure Chest is where gifts received are displayed, (3) a collection of online pet games and casual games known as Friendster Games, (4) Friendster Chips known as virtual money, stored for games and future purchases through the Friendster Wallet, (5) users can reload their Friendster Wallets at a 7-Eleven by buying a Top-up card.

With it's exciting new features, Friendster is ready to leave its mark back on the World Wide Web for the years to come. Good luck Friendster!

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2. Friendster sports new look, hopes you'll find it more attractive [Online], Retrieved 23rd January 2010. URL: http://www.techie.com.ph/news/friendster-sports-new-look-hopes-youll-find-it-more-attractive

3. Friendster Gets a New Look, On Lookout For Buyers [Online], Retrieved 23rd January 2010. URL: http://www.themoneytimes.com/reviews/20091207/friendster-gets-new-look-lookout-buyers-id-1093368.html