Scott Yang's Playground

It has been a month and half since the beginning of this new year, but just in case you have not had your new year resolution planned, this social networking site allows you to put in up to 43 things that you want to do, blog about them, keep track of your progress, and share [...]

Yes, I am on another stupid social network, and this time it is called “Multiply“. However, it gives you more room to sell yourself, by integrating blogs, personal calendar, etc into social network, so that your friends (and friends of friends) can easily find out what you are up to. Doesn’t a decentralised web of [...]

Quite a few strangers have either emailed me, or left comments on my blog to try to get Orkut invites. For those who I do not personally know, sorry mate, you won’t get a chance. Orkut is Google’s social network where friends’ friends can get connected, but I don’t social well with complete strangers. However, [...]

I was planned to prepare the seminar that I am supposed to lead next Friday with MBF, but not surprisingly I got slack, procrastinated and played around with Orkut for the last hour or two, while trying to listening to PDJ’s talks on CD. I wrote about Orkut a few months ago, but just decided [...]

First of all, thanks to JZ for inviting to the network, so this morning I have a brief chance to register an account and play around the system a bit. Here’s a list of initial impressions. Apparently it is written in C# and ASP.NET. What?! I thought it is done in the spare time from [...]

I first read it on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, “Watch out Friendster, here comes Google’s Orkut“, that a new service has been set up by Google to compete against ever-so-popular Friendster. From this The Register story, Orkut is set up by a Google employee, with “in affiliation with Google” on every page, even though Google has [...]

I am a bit slow on taking up this technology, but I’ve done it anyway. Here is my Friend of a Friend file, just in case that you want to include me into your community. Download Scott’s foaf.rdf FoaF provides an open standard mechanism to build social networks in the same fashion as Friendster. In [...]

A friend of mine has convinced me to join that ever-so-popular Friendster, which is a network to allow you to link up with your friend’s friend’s friend’s friend. I don’t think it is going to be useful to me as I don’t even have time to keep up with my own friends. Interestingly, under your [...]