May 09

Hi Everyone,I want to share with you some news from Vietnam. Yahoo! unveiled several Vietnam-centric initiatives as part of our Southeast Asia business strategy. One of these initiatives is called 360plus - A new Vietnamese blogging application.This offering provides Yahoo! users in Vietnam with more ways to customize their blogs, connect to friends and share their experiences with their social connections.
Just to be clear, the 360plus product is specific to the Vietnamese market and it is not the new universal profile that we have mentioned previously in this blog. So, while 360 is transitioning to the new profile for users worldwide, the 360 name will live on in a different product in Vietnam.
On a related note, many of you have asked for an update on the new profile. We are working on an update and will post it to this blog this week.
So, goodbye for now — or as they say in Vietnam, tạm biệt!
Matt Warburton
Yahoo! Community Manager
Source: Yahoo! 360 Product Blog
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Comment: Yahoo! has supported Open ID. It is reasonable to predict that the new product namely Yahoo! Profile to replace 360 will employ Open ID.
Tags of this article: 360,360plus,asia,blog,openid,profile,social-network,strategy,vietnam,vietnamese,web-2.0,yahoo!.
Last update May 9, 2008
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Nov 29

CyVee cares about security of information by providing security options and regularly reminding its users of setting security issues. This is what I applaud.
However, this concern of security conflicts with its Account levels.
Currently CyVee offers 3 levels of account: Personal, PersonalPlus and Premium. Details can be viewed here
To upgrade to PersonalPlus for free, user needs to complete 100% profile. I have filled in most information about my portfolio and career, and I am very cautious about these fields:
- Birthday in Personal Information
- Email in Contact Information
- Cellphone in Contact Information
I eventually decided to fill in Email field with a little tweak so as only human can get it correctly, and left the other 2 blank. Since I leave 2 fields out, my profile is 60% complete, which means I am not able to upgrade my account to PersonalPlus.
So in order to upgrade the account, one has to violate basic security practice by revealing his/her crucial information.
My suggestions
- Provide built-in email image-generator like that of Facebook
- Make these 3 fields non-required
Thanks,
Tai Tran
Tags of this article: account,cyvee,email,facebook,information,profile,security,web-2.0.
Last update November 29, 2007
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Oct 29

Facebook

73.5 million users and growing fastest
What I like about it
- Mini-Feed is useful in seeing a quick snapshot on the latest happenings within your network without going to several sites to check.
- The ability to supply how you know a person.
- 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
- Fixed 600 width and non-resizable
- Non-customizable design
- 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.
- 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?
- One account can only join no more than 200 groups. Unlimited is preferred.
Orkut

24.6 million users
What I like about it
- Simple design, Google philosophy after all
- Extensible width
- Ad-free
I think these can be improved
- Name. Honestly speaking, the Turkish name “Orkut” is very unfamiliar. Just a remark, as the brand name is not supposed to change
- Very few, if any, extensions
Yahoo! Mash

What I like about it
- Wider width
- Larger font
- Allows profiles to be updated by friends
- Mini-feed is also supplied
I think these can be improved
- Check boxes to select friends to add should be provided
- More group levels
- Informal language. I am especially not easy with the word “fugly”
- 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
- Integrated all-in-one solution that includes social networking, blogging, mail, favorites, forum, movies, events, media
I think these can be improved
- Inconsistent design
- Music landing page
- Spam, including spam invitations, protection
- Tons of ads
Other notable networking sites
| Name |
Focus |
Number of users (in million) |
Comments |
| Windows Live Spaces |
Blogging |
120 |
Really eye-catching glossy design. Powerful blogging support. Try new Microsoft experience! |
| hi5 |
General |
50 |
An issue: the letter ‘5′ creates this word “hị” in Vietnamese. hi5 is still nice anyway |
| bebo |
Schools & alumni |
34 |
Nice and neat |
| friendster |
General |
50 |
Friendster is getting old. It needs more innovation. |
| imeem |
Media: Music, Video |
16 |
Possibly the best media site currently. Nice design and convenient upload process. Support tagging |
| LinkedIn |
Business |
15 |
Very professional for business networking purpose |
| Last.fm |
Music |
15 |
Attractive design, especially the logo. However, radio alone is not that fascinating. They could use more of music sharing |
| Xanga |
Blogging |
40 |
The ad on top is a huge barrier to this site’s design. Usability is a little messy |
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?
Tags of this article: addon,application,bebo,blog,blogging,community,comparison,consistency,extension,facebook,feed,friendster,functionality,hi5,How Business is done,How Products benefit users,imeem,last.fm,linkedin,live,mash,media,music,myspace,navigation,network,networking,orkut,product,profile,security,sharing,social,usability,video,web-2.0,width,windows,xanga,yahoo!.
Last update October 29, 2007
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