Virtually no campaign, but only within a year of online communities can build a successful and interesting nine million members. Dream? No. Friendster.com has proved, without gegap gempita ads, rely on network members, the Internet phenomenon to be able to this year so that the capitalist class incaran kakap.
Come, though still in beta version, Friendster has meraup funds of U.S. $ 13 million, or approximately Rp 130 billion from the capital Ventura and Internet players such as former heavyweight CEO of Yahoo! Team Koogle, the former Paypal CEO Peter Thiel, and former VP Amzon.com Ram Shriram.
Why the new Friendster introduced years ago can be so phenomenal? The answer is simple: because it offers a new communication architecture that may not be done in the real world. When we met a friend, for example, we only see him figure only. We virtually never imagined, not even know who our friends are friends. We also impossible to map a friend of a friend who is our friend is. Friendster able to open the curtain between the extremely complicated in the real world into simple but interesting in the virtual world.
Friendster users understand how things really are virtually impossible that there can be realized. When first register to become members of Friendster, you are welcome to create a personal web page, fill in with personal data with the images themselves. In addition to the name, information that can be filled is the origin of the school, workplace, favorite books and movies. By filling in the correct info, you will easily find friends who have the same hobby, was working in the same place, or from the same school. I, for example, enter as the author Karl May idol, with very easy to find lovers Winnetou is the author of the book. How kagetnya when I get older friend that I was a bit as loyal readers serial adventure Winnetou and Old Shutterhand. Easy entry, so I have a friend discussions adventure of two friends in the United States and the Balkans.
Goal you participate Friendster also required, whether looking for a friend dating, simply help other people, or simply are friends (partner activity). Status should also be declared (or have a partner in the search partner). Other information that can fill in personal data is "surely you who (according to your own description)" and "want to meet people like that." With two read this column you should immediately understand whether you can become someone's friend or not. If you find a male and female members of Friendster with the "information Cowo limits, do not add as a friend, would not be", and his colleagues in the list contains only fellow folk Eve, you must mahfum.
Invite others in the network of friends is the most unique facilities Friendster. Once you invite people as friends agree, photos and their names will appear in your personal page. Come, you also directly connected to the friends of your friends are. Likewise, the new friends you directly connected to your friends. Danah Boyd, observers Friendster, which is now recognized as teachers' social network "by the programmer and Ventura capitalist world, Friendster heard exactly:" Friendster is a vehicle that explicitly states who your friends are, how their profile, and take them to each other see through you. "
Just imagine, you have only 18 friends on Friendster, can be connected to a network of friends from 18 of your friends, and without conscious you connect to more than 15 thousand people in a network of friends in a jiffy. It is still equipped with various other interesting features to communicate. There is a personal message that can only be sent by a friend in the network. There is a bulletin board that contains messages that can be read by all friends in the network. There are also facilities testimonials, where your friends can fill effects on you. Friendster is a truly remarkable synthesis between email, bulletin board, personal web and "social networking".
Enchantment of the new virtual world that this is the part conjure early users of Friendster subside in front of the computer, spend more time in the virtual world. They browse the network preoccupation friends, find new shock-shock from new friends, invite new friends, check the testimonials sent old friends, checking for new messages, and so on. I wonder if Friendster, which is designed for the online dating arena, is now growing far more widespread and intense. In a jiffy members over 9 million. Not only young people who are interested in becoming members. If we search members of the age above 40, a few names that do not appear. With features that are easy to use Internet users beginners, Friendster did not prevent anyone between the ages of 10 to 60 years to join.
There is one member who said, "Friendster is like opium, once wearing white!" Comments written by men aged 34 years, and have one child. He admitted Friendster open every day to see old friends there (and new) who find it, and whether friends who have joined his call to respond to email and in lingkarannya friends. Another member of Friendster tell if he was amazed to know that i appear pious, taciturn and often preached, it appeared fans Linkin 'Park. "This can only know through my Friendster," commenting, laughing.
Of course, there are still many weaknesses Friendster. One is the emergence Fakester, the term for those who make false profile in Friendster and create a network of false friends. Another weakness, anyone can create an account on Friendster, so there is the account in the name of the institution, including the University of Gadjah Mada and Mailing List, the most active lovers marketing in Indonesia, the Marketing Club. Where there is the University Mailing List, or have a friend?
But weakness will not reduce the appeal of Friendster. For members, Friendster is interesting vehicle. For the inventor, this is a business vehicle that truly tantalize. Potential income is very big. Online ad in Friendster when it is not because many still in beta. However, many prospective advertisers are more interested in advertising on a community that the profile members such as Friendster clear. Moreover, if the ads can be personalized, sent to the target audiences that match the ads.
The second is the income from membership. While this is still free. However, there is kasak kusuk for reducing the cost of special services for the final version of Friendster with the cost of U.S. $ 9.95, or Rp 99.5 thousand per month. Assume that only 10% of the members are now willing fish koceknya, Friendster, the annual income of around U.S. $ 107.46 million.
Arouse indeed. I wonder if other names appear to offer similar services, Friendster, such as Orkut and Multiply. Orkut made by one person close to Google's shape is similar Friendster, Multiply, while providing a mini-website for each member of the fiturnya more than just a member of the page. Multiply members get a page with the URL address of the individual that can be accessed directly without having to enter it from the page as you need to do at Friendster.
Now the birth Spoke and LinkedIn, which is more oriented to the business community. Just like Friendster, the second new vehicle this successfully persuade investors. Spoke receive capital injection of U.S. $ 20 million, while LinkedIn U.S. $ 4.7 million. Dotcom world that was submerged, now rise again owing to Friendster.
