October 2007 Archives
Hi5 is pleased to add Turkish (Türkçe) to our growing set of supported languages. Turkish is spoken by 65–73 million people worldwide. The absence of gender and the latin script made this one of our easier translations.This is our tenth language with many more to come. Please visit the Hi5 Language Forum for more information about our translations and localization.
hi5 PARTNERS WITH TOPSPACE FOR ADVERTISING REPRESENTATION IN THAILAND
October 19, 2007 – Bangkok, Thailand – hi5, the third largest social network in the world, today announced its partnership with Topspace, a subsidiary of Sanook Online Ltd, to serve as its exclusive advertising sales representative in Thailand. The partnership combines Sanook’s local expertise and knowledge of the region’s online advertising marketplace with hi5’s growing global presence, offering advertisers more effective and targeted reach.
“Our collaboration with Topspace will help connect businesses with our rapidly growing online community,” said Brett Finkelstein, Sales Director of hi5. "Topspace has a successful track record representing some of the top web properties in the country, and we're confident our partnership will help continue our tremendous growth in Thailand and the rest of Asia.”
By partnering with Topspace, hi5 now has strong local advertising representation within the Thai market. This partnership combines the established, localized presence and knowledgeable media representation of Topspace with hi5’s global audience, offering advertisers more effective and highly targeted reach within this growing market.
“Advertiser interest in online advertising has increased as more people are spending time online,” said Kasamart Neerapattama, Topspace Vice President of Marketing and online media. “We are pleased to be appointed as the exclusive representative for hi5 in Thailand. We look forward to helping them achieve their goals through this collaboration.”
hi5’s partnership with Topspace represents the importance of local expertise in international social networks. With its large advertising and media presence in Thailand, Topspace will help hi5 advertisers reach over 60 percent of Internet users in the country. hi5’s 800,000 active Thai members make it one of the top Web sites in the country for reach, usage and advertising impressions.
About hi5
Launched in 2003, hi5 is the third largest social network in the World and a top 10 site globally with over 65 million registered members. People use hi5 to stay connected with friends, to share photos of their friends and experiences, and to find out what’s happening around them. Members use hi5 by signing up for a free online account, and they meet people that they know in a fun and safe environment. Each day, millions of people come back to hi5 from around the globe.
About Topspace
Topspace is a subsidiary of Sanook Online Ltd. With its complete understanding of the business and experience in the service, it provides solutions for online advertising based on the clients’ and advertising agencies’ precise requirements and objectives. The company is now managing online advertising for Hi5, Sanook!, Sanook!QQ and HipKingdom.com, using the most advanced technology to provide real-time service to clients. By ensuring effective access to target groups, good feedback and reliable results, Topspace has the ability to strengthen every client’s brand.
October 19, 2007 – Bangkok, Thailand – hi5, the third largest social network in the world, today announced its partnership with Topspace, a subsidiary of Sanook Online Ltd, to serve as its exclusive advertising sales representative in Thailand. The partnership combines Sanook’s local expertise and knowledge of the region’s online advertising marketplace with hi5’s growing global presence, offering advertisers more effective and targeted reach.
“Our collaboration with Topspace will help connect businesses with our rapidly growing online community,” said Brett Finkelstein, Sales Director of hi5. "Topspace has a successful track record representing some of the top web properties in the country, and we're confident our partnership will help continue our tremendous growth in Thailand and the rest of Asia.”
By partnering with Topspace, hi5 now has strong local advertising representation within the Thai market. This partnership combines the established, localized presence and knowledgeable media representation of Topspace with hi5’s global audience, offering advertisers more effective and highly targeted reach within this growing market.
“Advertiser interest in online advertising has increased as more people are spending time online,” said Kasamart Neerapattama, Topspace Vice President of Marketing and online media. “We are pleased to be appointed as the exclusive representative for hi5 in Thailand. We look forward to helping them achieve their goals through this collaboration.”
hi5’s partnership with Topspace represents the importance of local expertise in international social networks. With its large advertising and media presence in Thailand, Topspace will help hi5 advertisers reach over 60 percent of Internet users in the country. hi5’s 800,000 active Thai members make it one of the top Web sites in the country for reach, usage and advertising impressions.
About hi5
Launched in 2003, hi5 is the third largest social network in the World and a top 10 site globally with over 65 million registered members. People use hi5 to stay connected with friends, to share photos of their friends and experiences, and to find out what’s happening around them. Members use hi5 by signing up for a free online account, and they meet people that they know in a fun and safe environment. Each day, millions of people come back to hi5 from around the globe.
About Topspace
Topspace is a subsidiary of Sanook Online Ltd. With its complete understanding of the business and experience in the service, it provides solutions for online advertising based on the clients’ and advertising agencies’ precise requirements and objectives. The company is now managing online advertising for Hi5, Sanook!, Sanook!QQ and HipKingdom.com, using the most advanced technology to provide real-time service to clients. By ensuring effective access to target groups, good feedback and reliable results, Topspace has the ability to strengthen every client’s brand.
We've been busy releasing new features and fixes. Here's a roundup of some of the latest changes on hi5:- You'll find a new design for friend updates on your home page and profile pages. Updates are more concise and organized.
- There's a new 'What's New' system that keeps accurate, real-time counts of your photo comments, profile comments and friend requests.
- The Groups Home Page now highlights your friends groups, so you can find more interesting groups.
- Multi-message delete is now available to anyone with 100+ friends, eventually everyone will get this feature.
- As mentioned already, Hi5 is now localized in Polish.
Hi5 is pleased to add Polish to its growing set of languages. Polish is spoken by 38 million people in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, plus 3-10 million emigrants, making it second to Russian among Slavic nations. The Polish language presents unique challenges to localization as nouns have five potential gender classes and verbs have specific inflections based on gender, person and number.¡Oy vey!
My colleague Christophe has started a new moderated Hi5 Group named the hi5 Language Forum. He describes it as:hi5 Language Group is a discussion forum for people who have suggestions or want to talk about hi5 internationalization, localization, translation and language issues. Please join and invite others in a lively discussion. hi5 staff regularly participate in the discussion to answer your questions and listen to product suggestions.
We'll do our best to answer all questions but English, French, Russian, and Spanish are preferred. Thanks.
So far we've had interest in user supported Albanian and Greek translations along with fixes to some of the existing languages.
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