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By Tai, July 21, 2008 4:37 pm

Facebook launched their new design. You can access with this URL: www.new.facebook.com

2 things I like best about this new design

1. Tabbed Profile

One profile is now broken into different tabs like that of iGoogle.

Wall, the major communication channel of Facebookers, is displayed right in the profile. Other applications are moved away so load time is saved.

Info and Photos deserve their own tabs. This makes it easier for users to track follow the information of their friends.

2. Full-width expansion

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Relevance of Content and Time Saving are the 2 keys to success in the social media industry. Facebook is well on-track with their new design.

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By Tai, November 2, 2007 1:24 pm

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By Tai, October 29, 2007 11:08 pm

Facebook

73.5 million users and growing fastest

What I like about it

1. Mini-Feed is useful in seeing a quick snapshot on the latest happenings within your network without going to several sites to check.
2. The ability to supply how you know a person.
3. Nice applications. Approximately 10% of Facebook applications I’ve tried are interesting and useful while others are not as good.

I think these can be improved

1. Fixed 600 width and non-resizable
2. Non-customizable design
3. No built-in blogging functionality. Blogging can be done with applications such as Live Blog, but we don’t normally depend on addons for such important values like blogs.
4. Tight security: profile only viewable by friends. How do you determine if a profile is your friend or not just by looking at the screen name which can be different from the real name?
5. One account can only join no more than 200 groups. Unlimited is preferred.

Orkut

24.6 million users

What I like about it

1. Simple design, Google philosophy after all
2. Extensible width
3. Ad-free

I think these can be improved

1. Name. Honestly speaking, the Turkish name “Orkut” is very unfamiliar. Just a remark, as the brand name is not supposed to change
2. Very few, if any, extensions

Yahoo! Mash

What I like about it

1. Wider width
2. Larger font
3. Allows profiles to be updated by friends
4. Mini-feed is also supplied

I think these can be improved

1. Check boxes to select friends to add should be provided
2. More group levels
3. Informal language. I am especially not easy with the word “fugly”
4. Profile with non-removable fields such as “What’s most likely playing on my iPod”… Excuse me, can I NOT have an iPod?

MySpace

107 million users. The currently largest site

What I like about it

1. Integrated all-in-one solution that includes social networking, blogging, mail, favorites, forum, movies, events, media

I think these can be improved

1. Inconsistent design
2. Music landing page
3. Spam, including spam invitations, protection
4. Tons of ads

Other notable networking sites

Read more

Wikipedia, List of social networking websites

Mashable, Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features

Techcrunch, Facebook platform

American Class Divisions

Nerdlifestyle, Media restrictions

My choice

Facebook to keep in touch with international friends and English-speaking communities

Yahoo! Mash. Many young Vietnamese users rely on Yahoo! services

for socially musical networking

How about you?

Share your experience here…

Which site do you like best? What you wish your site had offered?

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By Tai, October 20, 2007 2:24 am

I’m going to Safari on Mac looking for what Firefox 2.0 doesn’t offer.

Good

Safari is even simpler and cleaner than Firefox. It give much space to the webpage.

Bold font display is good for the eyes.

It is more stable and less frequently crashes on heavy sites.

Easy popup-blocker switch: Command+K

Not so good

Apple advertises that Safari’s performance is 1.5 as much as that of Firefox. Unfortunately, on my PC Safari is about 15% faster.

There aren’t many extensions, which make Firefox famous, for Safari yet.

Security settings of Safari are so basic: no password control, certificate authentication, encryption.

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By Tai, October 14, 2007 7:30 pm

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Going out to a workplace where they don’t have Microsoft Office installed?

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