Friendster Blog

Faster Photos –We know viewing photos and sharing them with friends is one of your favorite things to do on Friendster, so we’ve improved the entire photo experience. You can now upload 1,000 photos a day and we’ve made photo comments more prominent, so sharing thoughts with friends around photos is easier.

Your new photo module on your Profile Page:

Larger Photo Albums on your Photo Albums Page:

Easier Sharing – Forwarding content to friends and sharing photos with your network is easier. We’ve given you quick ways to share content with friends all across the site, and right on your homepage, in your Network Activity Stream and in your photo albums.

Sharing photo albums with others, including friends and family not on Friendster

The Redesigned Network Activity Stream:

Your New Homepage – Once you log into the new Friendster, the first thing you’ll see is the redesigned homepage.

The Color Theme Selector (at the top):

You can give your homepage and your top navigation bar a color theme by choosing a color at the top.

Your notifications are neatly arranged on the left hand side…

…and your friends’ upcoming birthdays and the latest bulletins from your network are there on the right, helping you find the content you need quickly and easily.

A new, simple look and feel – you’ll notice we’ve given the site a new look and added more color and ways to customize. We’ve organized everything so your favorite features like your friends list, messaging, comments, editing your profile, birthdays and bulletins are right at your fingertips. We know photos and Shoutouts are important to keep you in the know so we’ve enlarged the photos, and the Shoutout message boxes. The top navigation bar has been simplified and we’ve added easy access to Games under the ‘Fun’ menu.

More features of the new Friendster will be revealed daily! Be sure to check back tomorrow.

A new and improved Friendster.com is coming very soon. We’ve taken your thoughts and ideas into account when designing the new site. Over the next few weeks, you’ll start to see big changes on Friendster.

We have talked to hundreds of you across the region about your lives, your needs, your wants and your challenges and this is what you told us:

• You want to be with your friends: you want to be where your friends are, and not where everyone else is, you’re here to socialize with your friends, and not necessarily with your parents, teachers, and co-workers 
• You want to be YOU: uniformity is boring. Style is cool. Creating your own style is cooler- and that’s what Friendster is all about- YOU!
• You’re different in different places: if you’re with your parents, teachers or co-workers, you behave. If you’re with friends, you have fun!
• You want to be entertained: to keep your attention, the site and experience needs to be fresh, with constant new ways to have fun
• You want to explore: you want to meet new people with similar interests and discover content important to you
• You want it to be simple: life can be complex, socializing your friends shouldn’t be. We’ve adapted the site and experience to meet your needs, and to keep it simple and fun.

Friendster is designed to be the best site for youth in Asia. We don’t need to be the biggest web site, the site that everyone in the world uses, we want to be the place you come to have fun. Everything we do should make you smile- Friendster should be where you come to be yourself and with your friends.

That said, we’ll be launching the following soon:

• A Fun and Simple Site – a site that makes it more fun to connect and communicate with friends
• Easier Uploading and Sharing – faster photo uploading, easier ways to find both current and new friends and their stuff
• Enhanced Self Expression and Customization –ways to express yourself and personalize your Friendster profile and site experience
• Entertaining Content – ways to entertain you and your friends- like gifts, games and music

We’ve been working hard to create a site built around your needs and now we think we’re ready to begin sharing the results…so, get ready for the all-new Friendster!

This is only the beginning. We have many more new and exciting product features in the works- so stay tuned for even more in 2010.

Tomorrow we’ll give you a closer look at What’s New…and launching in just a matter of days!