Hazman Aziz

I am across an article on Business Time via Factiva on social network. The west, they have Google and Yahoo. Or even the giant, Mircosoft and Apply. Now, the east, wants to introduce VelcetPuffin.

Maybe Hazman will introduce this in next year plan ….

Check out the video what VelvetPuffin can do in an academic library environment …

Connecting people with Velvet Puffin
14 August 2007
Business Times Singapore

IN the beginning, there was Myspace. Then Friendster and Facebook were created. Now social-networking application Velvet Puffin is going global, and parent company Radixs’ CEO R Chandrasekar claims it will revolutionise the networking-service landscape.

Instead of a webpage, the Velvet Puffin service is cleverly disguised as a sleek instant-messaging application similar to Trillian or Gaim.

Besides messaging friends on the Velvet Puffin and other networks like MSN or AIM, users can blog, upload photos and video, and poll their friends, all through the instant-messaging interface…

Mr Chandrasekar said, ‘You have YouTube for videos or Flickr for photos, but we bring all of this into a unified single environment. . . And no one has used an instant messaging interface to do social networking like we do.’

… And after Mr Chandrasekar attended San Francisco’s Mashup conference on youth, technology and marketing last month, new users have signed up at the rate of over 120 a day, up from 20 a day before the conference.

Several influential technology blogs, including TechCrunch and WebWare, have reviewed the Velvet Puffin application, and WebWare mentions that the application hogs computer resources and memory. However, Mr Chandrasekar says the resource-hog issue will be fixed in upcoming releases within the next few weeks ….

In future, the developers of Velvet Puffin are looking beyond basic social-networking functions like blogging, video- and photo-sharing and polling.

‘Imagine running a Powerpoint application over the network and sharing and collaborating in real-time with your friends,’ Mr Chandrasekar said.

‘We truly believe that we have the technology and innovation to be the next YouTube or the next Google,’ he added.