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Its not yet Thursday, but Filipinos went on twitter yesterdayto remember what what was their to-gosocial networking site years ago: Friendster.

While Facebook is undoubtedly now the number one social networking site in the world with billions of users, theres no doubt that Filipinos were hooked to one social media site before everyone jumped ship to the one at Menlo Park.

Surge of Popularity in the Philippines

Friendster began its popularity with the masses in 2004 when it has been decreasing its activity in North America. Carmen Leilani De Jesus, amarketing consultant based in San Francisco, was thefirst to link to what was the sites surge of web traffic coming from many parts of Southeast Asia.

One year after, it managed to grab over five million active users, and figures from the Internet World Stats pegged the amount of Filipino Friendster users at 7.2 Million.It was the first mover in social networking in the country, and before that, nothing came close to it except for forums or message boards,our very own Abe Olandres mentioned to American broadcasting network PBS back in 2007.Friendster also went on to be a centerpiece of local politics and see one of the first online social political campaigns, led by then-Senatorial candidate Chiz Escudero in the 2007 National Elections.

Friendster proved to be very popular that the company decided toset up an office in the country to manage its growing userbase, paving way for local Friendster events such as the Pinoy Friendster Day. Since then, millions of Pinoys who want to socialize went on to post updates, customize their profiles with GIF wallpapers, and send out testimonials to their friends with alternating letter cases, punctuation, and numbers replacing a few letters. We all learned to make our own little codes to format our testimonials in whatever color, font face, or style we want them to, and make our own custom profile layouts with sparkles, goth designs, or bizarre arrays of color combinations. One can never deny that this sitehas brought out the inner jejemon in us.

We got a few twitter users who were using the Friendster Memories 101 keyword, which is trending in the country yestedayby the way, reminiscing their own experiences with the site:

Facebook and Twitter, Decline, and Revamp

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Brocade rolled out new and enhanced campus switches to better support mobility, social networking and cloud data traffic.

Brocade this week rolled out new and enhanced campus switches designed to better support mobility, social networking and cloud data traffic in the enterprise.

Brocade enhanced its existing ICX 7750 switch, unveiled the new ICX 7450 device, and added OpenFlow 1.3 support to all members of the ICX line. Brocade also released new and enhanced campus networking products under its joint development agreement with wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks.

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The ICX 7750 is a 1U fixed configuration 10/40G Ethernet switch for campus LAN aggregation and core. Upgrades to it include distributed chassis capabilities for scale, the ability to stack 12 switches for increased core and aggregation density, and automated network configuration through consolidated management and software-defined networking extensions.

The 7750 supports up to 32 40G ports or 104 10G ports in a single device. In a 960Gbps stack, the switch provides up to 3,000 10G or 800 40G ports in a single distributed chassis.

The new ICX 7450 is a 1U switch with three expansion slots for 1, 10, or 40G Ethernet uplinks. Up to 12 7450s can be stacked, with 160Gbps of stacking bandwidth, for densities up to 576 Gigabit Ethernet and 48 10G Ethernet ports. The 7450 also offers Power over HDBaseT to power video surveillance and video conferencing equipment, VDI terminals, and HD displays, Brocade says.

To aid and abet the migration to SDNs among the ICX customer base, Brocade has made OpenFlow 1.3 universally supported on the switches, be they deployed individually, in mixed stacks, or in distributed stacks. OpenFlow operates in Brocade Hybrid Port Mode to support both OpenFlow forwarding and normal routing traffic forwarding.

Lastly, Brocade and Aruba have achieved some milestones from their joint development agreement reached earlier this year. They include new product releases of Brocade Network Advisor 12.3, Aruba Airwave 8.0, and Brocade FastIron 8.0.20 with Aruba ClearPass CoA support for unified wired and wireless policy enforcement, as well as single-pane-of-glass network management

List pricing for the Brocade ICX 7450 Switch starts at $3,095 with general availability starting this month.

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Ask.fm, founded by Ilja and Mark Terebin in 2010, has 180m monthly users and is popular with teenagers

Ask. fm, the social networking site beloved of teenagers who post anonymous questions and answers, is moving from Latvia to Ireland.

US media billionaire Barry Dillers IAC Group acquired the company through its vehicle Ask.com in August for an undisclosed sum. On Monday, the company said Ask.fm would be joining Ask.coms existing headquarters in Dublin.

Ask.fm, founded by Ilja and Mark Terebin in 2010, has 180m monthly users and is popular with teenagers. But the site has been heavily criticised, including by Britishprime minister David Cameron, for not doing more to prevent cyber bullying after it was linked with teenage suicides in Britain and elsewhere.

Doug Leeds, chief executive, said that Ask.fm had also updated its policies and terms of service:

In an effort to provide new and enhanced information to our users in important areas, such as how to block and report users or problematic content, how to disable the anonymous feature or block anonymous questions, and to provide more explanation of our safety controls and website rules, he said.

There will be no changes to the fundamental aspects of the service such as charging for it or removing the ability to ask questions anonymously. Rather, these changes are designed to empower our user base with more information about how to control their experience on Ask.fm.

The company is also appointing a law enforcement affairs officer based in Ireland, which it said would materially improve the safety of the site.

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