Tag Archives: Friendster Philippines

Friendster to delete photos, blogs, testimonials

On May 31, Friendster will wipe out all photos, blogs, shout-outs, and testimonials in everyone’s profiles. This is a radical move which hopes to put them on track to transforming from a generic Social Networking into a site that’s focused more on gaming and music for Asia. While a lot of bloggers and tech analysts [...]

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Friendster changes Home Page

Friendster changes Home Page

Friendster announced several months ago that they would focus on social gaming. I was doing spring cleaning of all of my accounts and I logged in Friendster last night. I was surprised to find that the home page was already changed to focus on the social games that were available on the Friendster platform. The [...]

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[Video] Going Beyond Clicks Talk by Carlo Ople

Last year I gave a talk during the e-Commerce 2009 Summit which was organized by one of my mentors, Janette Toral. I was still working for Friendster then as their Digital Marketing Manager. In my session, I shared my thoughts on how to make self-advertising platforms work. Janette recently uploaded the video of the talk [...]

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Friendster to transform to a Social Gaming Portal

Friendster had a press briefing recently with the CEO of their parent company, MOL, discussing the future of the pioneer social networking site in the Philippines. Ganesh Kumar Bangah said that Friendster will evolve into a social gaming website which will have hundreds of online games. Users can purchase credits to buy items or play [...]

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Reader Question: Have you ever tried applying to Yahoo or other big software companies?

I logged in Formspring today and found over 30 unanswered questions. I’ll try to clear them out before the weekend. Anyway, one of the more interesting questions there was if I ever tried applying to Yahoo or other big software companies. I’ve never really “applied” for work other than my first job. All my job [...]

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Friendster is hiring!

Friendster is hiring for the Philippines office. Yes, if you get accepted you’ll be my officemate. Hahaha! Anyway, there several positions open but most of them are with our IT department. There’s nothing right now for marketing or sales professionals. I won’t bother listing every single job opportunity here since all of them are already [...]

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Slower Youtube and Low Quality Pics on Facebook for the Philippines?

Mike Abundo plurked a very interesting article from the New York Times website. The gist of the article is that global web companies are thinking of restricting access or lowering service standards for people who access their websites in developing countries. The problem is that the cost of operating and delivering the services is not [...]

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