Friendster, yes Friendster
Jan/100
I’ve rekindled something very special tonight.. after a hiatus stretching a few months or more I’ve finally revisited and actually updated my.. yes, my Friendster profile.
I miss getting testimonials.
Friendster boomed early into Web 2.0 and it was great. You know the drill: make a profile, upload pictures, update information about yourself ..and more importantly.. leave notes of appreciation or…dissatisfaction on other people’s pages.
There’s a big difference between comments and testimonials. A comment is like a bottle of beer; great for the moment until you put it down, let some minutes fly by and it goes flat. A testimonial on the other hand is like fine wine; take little sips, let time age you both and when you finally come back for more, it tastes even better. Sincerity is that ingredient that can sharpen a sword or soften a cushion.
These days comments are your random sparks of opinion on current matters –which, against the nature of sites like Facebook, doesn’t last very long to be seen or heard from again. More importantly they are less desired to be reviewed at a later time, as opposed to testimonials which give you a good lapse back.
I’ll always remember…
I don’t question why Friendster still exists, it still works for a lot of people after all. In the end, it’s the best time capsule I’ve ever had.
Facebook to Outlook synchronization
Aug/090
Today while I was browsing Facebook mobile I remembered that it had a Phonebook feature which lists numbers of my friends who filled that detail out in their profile. Additionally, whenever I would browse on the phone I would occassionally get a top story of <someone> changed his/her phone number, it has been added to your phonebook., so immediately I thought to myself if there existed software that could synchronize my Facebook contacts’ phone numbers to Outlook. This is extreme handy as nearly everyone in the Philippines is on a prepaid number so people tend to change numbers often and I’m assuming that when they do, they also update their Facebook contact information.
I was… not exactly in luck.. there’s an application called Fonebook – http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2442338999&b&ref=pd that lets you transfer photos, web addresses and birthdays, but due to Facebook “privacy restrictions”, I don’t think they support phone numbers in the developer API. Further research told me there existed programs that used to export phone numbers (unfortunately not sync them to Outlook) and were eventually blocked by Facebook.
Sad, but I wasn’t left empty handed. Fonebook still came in very handy, I have a Nokia phone that syncs with Outlook which downloaded the pictures and other information Fonebook retrieved.
Fonebook is about 5MB in size, there’s another program called OutSync that only synchronizes photos, you can download it at http://www.melsam.com/outsync/default.aspx.
If you know any program that does my original intention, please leave a comment!