Today, Friendster unveiled its new look — simpler, cleaner and loads way faster. Friendster Philippines is doing the launch at the Boni High Street this noon.
But if you log back in to your Friendster account now, you will see the new design.
Here’s a video they’ve uploaded explaining the new features with the cleaner activity stream reminding me of Facebook Status. And I have to admit, it loads faster and looks cleaner than Facebook too.
Now, all they need is to Zynga to come on board and offer FarmVille on the site.
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Im still not convinced…
In the first place, what actually was the reason why Friendster lost its appeal? It was too boxed in, just stagnated in its features. Soon people got tired of it, and worse – it was later considered too pedestrian with every Tom, Dick and Harry on it. Then came the innovative ones – and then came history.
Ho-hummn!
nice, pero FB pa din
Twitter: simplynice93
replied on Dec 4th, 2009 at 11:16 am (4)
Friendster is not history yet. It’s a good upgrade to make it at par with Facebook. Without Friendster, Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t look so good. Respeto lang sir! Mabuhay ang Friendster!
yeah friendster may have upgraded their look, but it takes more than that… it takes a wholistic approach to surpass facebook. it goes to the company and the people developing this social community site. kahit na improve nila yang friendster, facebook will still be ahead as far as innovation is concerned because of their technology, culture and the leadership. mahuhuli rin ang friendster sa design, and service. as facebook will be launching several innovations by next year check out their innovation milestones at facebook wiki.
I used friendster before, then one day, my friends and pictures disappeared. Up to now, i really don’t know what happened. So i shifted to FB from then on. Friendster needs to earn my trust….. but maintaining 2 social networks is kind of a hassle for me. Lucky for you Mark Zuckerberg
nagmumukha na lang gaya gaya ang friendster.
Twitter: kzapkzap
replied on Dec 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm (8)
no one bought them, now theyre trying to copy the others… Too slow IMO, theyve had years to make improvements. Good job on waiting for Facebook to reach 350 Million Users!
Google offered to by Friendster but the latter’s owners declined the purchase.
Should I hazard to say “sayang?”
imo, too little too late..
my pinoy master JP told me everyone seems using FB now, LOL
FACETER
poche, you’re right. everything that friendster will do from this point on will just be an imitation of facebook. they’re too late. facebook has reached critical mass and the tipping point.
@jpeb: yeah, i was thinking of those same lines.. sayang talaga.. it would have elevated Friendster into a whole new level.. imagine faster load time (since Google use Ajax if i’m not mistaken). Google may also think of ways to integrate some of the services we already love like gmail, youtube, groups, even orkut… pero hanggang ilusyon na lang yun kasi di nman nagpabili ang Friendster sa Google.
Twitter: surforeo
replied on Dec 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pm (15)
Even if they have added some features or upgraded their site, it is not enough, they should have exceeded the FB features.
Gawa na lang kayo sarili ninyong social network… Try Ning. Here’s a sample – http://pinoyapostolic.ning.com
ummm, all of my friends are in Facebook.. and no one’s coming back to Friendster… what for? LOL
@poche; @chris:
Precisely. I mean, they have us first and they should have spruced up their services through the years. But they squandered it instead. The new dressing might be fine, but it still tastes flat.
http://erniepac.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-friendster-launches-today.html
Twitter: wharen06
replied on Dec 4th, 2009 at 4:27 pm (20)
wow… overhauled ng freindster for thet holiday season..
base sa alexa, friendster graph is trending down….
Sayang. Sila pa naman ang orig. Sila na ngayon ang nangongopya. Pero oks din ang graphics sa Home ha, parang inksurge ang istilo.
Twitter: donttwit
replied on Dec 4th, 2009 at 6:34 pm (23)
Friendster. Ano yun?
I disagree, Sir Yuga. I think their designers and UI engineers needs to rethink the theme/whole focus of the site. I felt bad for the smiley icon…
facebook ripoff! haha
Twitter: foodrecap
replied on Dec 4th, 2009 at 10:10 pm (26)
kasi naman ang friendster ay masyado madami clutter sa design. Twitter and Facebook are much cleaner and more simple than friendster..
hiNdi xa real time tulad ng facebook. nid mo pang irefresh o reload para sa new feeds. pero go go go fs para makahabol kau sa facebook. at pls don’t copy to facebook. maxadong obvious na.
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so what with friendster, I really don’t like what they are doing, they kept on changing their theme style..
It’s the people who will drive the lifeline of social network sites, the more the merrier, I still remember when I used to invite my friends to facebook way back, they will just ignore my invitation, WHY? none of their other friends is using it except me (poor me), suddenly a swift turn around of events everyone has a facebook and completely abandoned friendster TELL ME WHY AGAIN? no ones updating their friendster anymore, people start noticing its getting quiter day after day then they realized tadah they been loggin into facebook and doing farm and mafia…
The farmville made all the difference.. kahit saan ka pumunta (even TV celebs) are talking about harvesting and planting.
Kaya ayun, the rest is history.. the networking comes naturally.. kase maglalaro ng farmville para socially updated sila.
FB is still way better, we must admit. Pero i still owe Friendster BIG TIME! You know why? It’s where I met my awesome and loving wife. Can you blame me? It still serves it’s purpose anyway.
Jologs na rin FB mas nauna lang maging jologs ang Friendster.
Nice to see Friendster shaking things up a little bit. Not sure though if it’ll make even a small dent on Facebook’s popularity these days.
I’ve tried to login to Friendster yesterday, but may be due to heavy traffic, I’m not even able to login to the site. Anyway, I managed to login today and was able to go through the site.
Here’s what I observed:
> The new site is definitely faster than the old one
> Most of the site’s navigation tabs are still the same
> The default theme is colored green. I haven’t had a chance to checkout other sites who have customized their profile pages before. Perhaps now, they’re colored green too?
I’m not sure if Friendster can ever come back into the game especially that Facebook has already reached 350M users and still growing leaps in bounds especially in the Philippines.
I actually wrote an article way back why Facebook is becoming more popular than Frienster @ http://www.akosiallan.com/is-facebook-now-more-popular-than-friendster-in-the-philippines/.
Twitter: surforeo
replied on Dec 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pm (34)
topographical error Sir Yuga. “unveiedl”
Twitter: donttwit
replied on Dec 5th, 2009 at 2:25 pm (35)
@Chris– you mean TYPOgraphical error..
Twitter: surforeo
replied on Dec 5th, 2009 at 3:54 pm (36)
@Jes hahaha..sori
Malalaos rin ang Facebook tulad ng Friendster.
simplicity and functionality absorbs traffic. so i guess it all boils down to that.
does friendster alreday has a feature to re-activate long-forgotten(dormant) accounts?
nice 2 m8 u?
Fb pdn… with apps way cooler than friendster (friendsters apps way too much like a bug need to be squashed!) Fb is way way way better…
Fs huli na sila kailan kilala na ang fb sa ka sila nagbago ng anyo,tuloy ang nangyari marami ang nagsabi na nanggaya sila.
Twitter: archondigital
replied on Dec 12th, 2009 at 6:43 pm (42)
I prefer the old logo.
Sana they just improved it instead of replacing it with that doodle, the grunge artwork and cleaner look is fine but still the new logo sucks.
@Lance tama ka I also feel bad about the old smiley
i like the old ono way better,, faster.. now too slow.. like dial up..
well…. the logo is so feminine… boys don’t like it… pramiz..
meeh comeback? No way. They imitated facebook user interface. Halos lahat ginaya. Ung search box, ung feeds, pati ung mga notifications buti nga ung chat sa baba di nila sinama lol. Kaya nga nagpalit na interface facebook ngayon ginaya kasi sila ng friendster. Sad friendster.