Pinoy Creates Blogging/Social Networking Site
Posted Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 12:51 am by Miguel Paraz
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Jason Banico launches The Blogging + Social Networking Hybrid from his current base in Silicon Valley.
He shares what’s happening: Funchain behind the scenes. His story:
Jason Banico has just recently announced a limited beta release of Funchain version 2, the new online
community that brings social networking features to blogging, and vice versa. It’s a totally revamped
engine that made use of lessons learned from the original Funchain, launched in 2004.While it’s true that social networks like Friendster, MySpace and Yahoo! 360 offer blogging, Funchain has a
more flexible blogging engine, with 100% Blogger-template compatibility, allowing for prettier looking blogs.
Now he could use something about danah boyd (yes, small letters) latest paper, Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? - about MySpace’s fantastic popularity.
People were hanging out on Friendster before they hung out on MySpace. But hanging out on Friendster is like hanging out in a super clean police state where you can’t chew gum let alone goof around and you’re told exactly how to speak to others. Hanging out on MySpace is more like hanging out in a graffiti park with fellow goofballs while your favorite band is playing. That said, there are plenty of folks who don’t want to be hanging out in a graffiti park and they are not sticking around on MySpace as a result.
Is Web 2.0 the “super clean police state?”
Jason is looking at an international user base - not only Pinoy. One of danah’s observations on what could bring down MySpace:
International companies will be far better positioned to create new social technologies because they won’t have to abide by American laws even if American citizens use their technology (assuming the servers are hosted outside of the US). Unless, of course, we decide to block sites on a nation-wide basis.”
Jason shares his thoughts on emulating MySpace and Blogger. He even met Orkut Büyükkökten of Orkut.com - a Google product that seems to have been forgotten.
How do you think he can succeed in a crowded market?
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in my humble opinion, anyone that just imitates friendster or myspace, or another wordpress/typepad clone just won’t fly. you have to target a niche.
for example, unitedphilippines.com has a great “unity” theme going for them. in the end, only the 2 biggest players and a handful of niche sites will survive.
Just wanted to announce that Blogger import feature is now available in Funchain…
hi. yes part of my to-do’s are SN imports from Friendster, like what Multiply has done, and blog entry imports, like what TypePad has.
Tried it. Looks promising. A suggestion: add a feature to automatically import contacts from the present slew of social networking sites and also email address books, to make things easier.
If you’re looking for other Pinoy Web 2.0 offerings, dotPH is about to launch version 2 of i.PH/Calliope (within 2nd quarter this year), which will feature social networking along with its current blogging offerings. They’re basically getting onto the Web 2.0 craze as is 99.5% of the industry.
I’m not overly cool about it (I already have Web 2.0 overload!), but it might be worth a try if you’re looking for friensdter/myspace alternatives. Mostly Pinoy developed of course, save for the use of some foreign open-source software such as WordPress.
Monsolo, yup Web 2.0 is interesting. I made a page on it for schools. http://www.rssrssrss.com.
Social networks now are evolving, they are bringing the battle on desktop level to make sure users don’t even need to open a browser and potentially discover a better service.
Examples: Friendster Grouper and Imeem.com
Imeems is really good and it may even take the pie away from Flickr since it allows photo uploading and tagging. So far it allowed me to upload more than 200 pictures for free without loosing the links (compared to Flickr’s 200 picture limit). The Privacy settings are also handled per info field which is patterned to orkut.com
Grouper: Works like Imeems and i wont be surprised if its actually a re-branded Imeem.
Funchain,
Check out the link in my page on Web 2.0 for some ideas you may use. There may be hope for social networking sites (SNS)only if there will be use of the data outside the SNS.
if thats on your line up, then my salute to you..
you might want to invest on a good PR, public relation that is..
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