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yUp! silently opens Beta just before Tet holiday. My impression is that their efforts are spent to organize and provide most relevant information to users.

New features

Chatting

Talks has been added. It works the same way as that of a simple forum. This should allow more interactions between yUppers.

Large publish button

Security options

Security levels for user profile & homepage.

Design

The new layout is nice and neat with a lot of spaces to breath. The design concords perfectly with the mission of organizing information of the website.

Organizing information

Homepage

On its homepage, instead of throwing a lot of options in directories on users, only hottest ones are displayed: yUp’s Picks, Highest Rating.

yUp’s Picks and Highest Rating goes the same for Venues.

Events

Events tab makes it even further: they provide Week view of events. Navigation can be done chiefly through the calendar which is very convenient

Treeview

Categories on the treeview have been simplified to 4, which makes to less confusing for users.

Conclusion

Information organization is what makes success of Google. Can we say the same for yUp!?

Current Solutions

Current solutions to add blogs to Facebook include:

Facebook Notes

“Notes” application allows importing blog from feed. “Notes” automatically imports new entries from the original blog.

“Notes” also provide tagging capability.  You can choose to tag a person in each blog entry.

Add RSS Reader in Facebook profile

Some applications allow adding RSS Readers in Facebook profile. The most attractive of all today is Blog RSS Feed Reader

However, it means you need to rely on another blogging platform.

Blog inside Facebook

Alternatively, you can use a Facebook application named Live Blog created by Kudos Media . With Live Blog application, you can blog insdie Facebook without having to rely on third-party blogging platform.

This application supports basic HTML codes, mood, music embed, YouTube embed, Google Video embed and location where the journal happened.

Till now, no WYSIWYG interface has been provided. Decoration/image embed/URL must be done manually with HTML codes. Hope a more interactive edit pane will be added soon.

Try it out!

What is the fuss about?

It means you now have everything you want on Facebook: terrific social networking functionalities, blogging, podcast, video embed, music, photo sharing, greetings cards and all.

Have you planned to move from other platform to Facebook yet?