With the advent of internet, social networking sites become the focal point of attention of a myriad of people around the world. Diverse entities are being connected through their communal areas of interest, relationships, mutual ideas, values and many more. Means of communication among individuals become faster and easier. It serves as the latest arena of finding new friends, gaining information and a sort of entertainment to a lot of people.

Social networking sites are web based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bound system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site (Boyd and Ellison, 2007).

Social networking sites are frequently researched in terms of their impact on people’s privacy, ways of communicating and managing relationships with others. Social networking sites do more than enable socializing; they are impression management tools which allow us to manage the way others perceive us. The photos user’s post, the personal data they share and what they emphasize through updates and blogs are all elements that paint an image of how a person is aiming to portray themselves to others. Users craft their identity and guide perceptions by deliberately revealing particular information and presenting it in a particular way. Users provide certain information about themselves in order to guide how others perceive them. The photos, thoughts, events, and personal data people choose to share and not share with others is important as it helps us understand how a person is portraying themselves and their lives to others (Harrison & Thomas, 2009).

Jonathan Abrams is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Founders Den, and co-owner of the San Francisco nightclub Slide. Previously, Jonathan was the founder & CEO of the pioneering social networking service Friendster, the online event service Socializr, and the social bookmarking startup HotLinks.

Jonathan was born in a frozen land north of America, and began his career as a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan holds an Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science from McMaster University, which he received after flunking out of engineering school.

Jonathan is a member of the advisory board of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, a top-rated mentor at The Founder Institute, a mentor in Steve Blank’s LeanLaunchPad entrepreneurship classes at Stanford and Berkeley/Columbia, an investor in the business that launched Venture Hacks and AngelList, and has been extensively involved in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community for over ten years, including past roles such as co-chair of the SDForum Venture Finance SIG, moderator of the SVASE CTO Forum, and a judge for the Stanford Entrepreneur’s Challenge business plan contest, the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators’ Challenge, the Intel Challenge, and Start-Up Chile.

History of Friendster

Friendster was founded by computer programmer Jonathan Abrams in 2002 before the creation, launch and adoption of MySpace (2003), Facebook (2004), and others.The name Friendster is a portmanteau of “friend” and Napster. Napster at the time was a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that was launched in 1999; by 2000, “Napster” was practically a household word, thanks to several high-profile lawsuits filed against it that year. The old Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California by Jonathan Abrams in 2002 and was privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends (social network) technique for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. Friendster was considered the top online social network service until around April 2004 when it was overtaken by MySpace in terms of page views, according to Nielsen NetRatings.

Friendster.com went live in 2002 and was quickly adopted by three million users within the first few months. Publications including Time, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, US Weekly and Spin wrote about Friendster’s success and the founder appeared on magazine covers and late-night talk shows. Friendster’s rapid success inspired a generation of niche social networking websites including Dogster and Elfster. Friendster had also received competition from all-in-one sites such as Windows Live Spaces, Yahoo! 360, and Facebook. Google offered $30,000,000 to buy out Friendster in 2003, but the offer was turned down.

Friendster was then funded by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital in October 2003 with a reported valuation of $53 million. Friendster’s decision to stay private instead of selling to Google in 2003 is considered one of the biggest blunders of Silicon Valley, the Associated Press claims. In April 2004, John Abrams was removed as CEO and Tim Koogle took over as interim CEO. Koogle previously served as President and CEO at Yahoo!. Koogle was later replaced by Scott Sassa in June 2004. Sassa left in May 2005 and was replaced by Taek Kwon. Taek Kwon was then succeeded by Kent Lindstrom, following a recapitalization by Kleiner and Benchmark that valued Friendster at less than one-twentieth its 2003 valuation.

As of 2008 Friendster had a membership base of more than 115 million registered users and continued to grow in Asia. According to Alexa, the site has suffered an exponential decline in traffic in America since 2009. From a peak 40 ranking it reached 800 in November 2010. Most people have since attributed this decline to the rise of Facebook, a rival social networking site. In August 2008, Friendster hired ex-Google executive Richard Kimber as the CEO. Kimber focused on Friendster’s expansion in Asia.

On December 9, 2009, it was announced that Friendster was acquired for $26.4 million US by MOL Global, one of Asia’s biggest Internet companies. MOL Global is funded by one of Malaysia’s successful businessmen, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, Chairman and Chief Executive of Berjaya Corporation Berhad. In June 2011, the company repositioned itself into a social gaming site and discontinued user social network accounts. But Friendster accounts will not be deleted and users can still log in using their existing e-mail login and password. They also stated that contact list (or friendlist) will be preserved along with user’s basic information.

Friendster said that in the new and improved website, the focus will be on pure “entertainment and fun”, and aims not to compete with, but rather to complement Facebook. Financial history The company was originally founded in 2002 with a $12 million investment by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Benchmark Capital, and private investors.

In 2003, Friendster management received a $30 million buyout offer from Google, which they declined. Friendster received another $3 million in funding in February 2006 from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Benchmark Capital. In August 2006, Friendster also received $10 million in funding in a round led by DAG Ventures, and Friendster announced in August 2008 that it had raised an additional $20 million in funding in a round led by IDG Ventures. Prior to its acquisition by MOL Global, Friendster was backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, IDG Ventures, and individual investors.

Friendster still enjoys great popularity, but of a more regional nature (it has translation capability into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and other languages), but its glory days have long passed and lessons have been learnt, however in 2006 it was awarded a patent for its “Web of Friends” facility, allowing users to visualise their friends as nodes in a web. Friendster still has its loyal following, and lots of people find themselves creating an account on the site just to add to their network of networks, but it’s no longer a real player in the industry.

In November 2009, Friendster announced a global partnership with MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL), a leading payments provider leveraging a network of over 600,000 physical and virtual payment channels worldwide, to power the Friendster Wallet and a payments platform enabling micro-spending for over 115 million registered users on Friendster.

The Friendster Wallet was designed to support a variety of payment methods including pre-paid cards, mobile payments, online payments and credit card payments. Friendster also partners in with content partners such as game developers and publishers which provides monetization solutions on the Friendster platform leveraging on MOL’s payment channels and Friendster’s large userbase.

Development of Friendster through the years…

Friendster has been an open site since August 2006 when it first began allowing widgets and content to be embedded in user profile pages through its developer program.Roughly 39 percent of Friendster’s users have widgets on their profile. Friendster gives software developer’s access to APIs that utilize content and data within the Friendster network to build and deploy customizable applications on and off Friendster.

Friendster’s Developer Program is an open, non-proprietary platform with an open revenue model. Friendster was the first social network to support both the OpenSocial and the Facebook Platform.

In December 2009, Friendster relaunched its website with a new interface.

Friendster, a leading online community site with more than 27.5 million users, has seen significant business gains as a result of implementing Akamai’s global content delivery and high-availability managed storage services. Improved site performance, specifically faster page download times, translated into immediate business value for Friendster, measured by increased site usage and revenue.

Since implementing Akamai’s solution in March, Friendster, which ranks as one of the top 100 sites on the Internet*, has offloaded a significant percentage of its total traffic from origin servers, avoiding the need to buy additional costly infrastructure. With Akamai handling global content delivery using Akamai’s proprietary EdgePlatform™, Friendster has increased site usage and enabled more advertising to be consumed on the site. The result is an increase in revenue due to improved performance. Friendster will also use Akamai’s streaming solution to offer users the ability to add streaming audio and video to their online profiles.

The Story of Friendster Philippines

Friendster Philippines has been in the news a number of times. Despite their problems in the US, and shopping around for a buyer, it still seems to be making waves locally as The social network. According to some commentators, they shifted their user base to the Philippines and other places when the early US adopters left due to performance problems.

Unfortunately, the number of local users – 5 million has not translated into financial success for them. One early move was to go mobile with a SMS version in partnership with local mobile operators and the Entertainment Gateway Group, a content provider.

In early 2005, Friendster made the deal with pusit.com to put up Friendster Classifieds based on the Pusit platform. They then announced an ad product, but didn’t have a test product for months. It didn’t perform very well and was apparently pulled out.

The Friendster Mobs chat service was announced was available for a while and then added to the Friendster links without much fanfare.

Then the word spread that something was amiss. The original Friendster Philippines office closing down. Some of the pusit.com projects like Xackup and Eskwela moved to PiKitchen. So this seems to be – no more Friendster Philippines?

Then this article explained that Friendster Philippines was still running, “under the auspices of the Entertainment Gateway Group Co. (EGG) but report directly to Friendster’s key officials.” The local team head used to be with Pusit.com and he apparently took some people with him.

So where is Friendster Philippines going? Based on the article, is Friendster development now offshored to the Philippines? There were efforts to get official comment from either side but because of NDAs, nobody can get any statement from anyone.

Friendster’s Jonathan Abrams: Failure Is A Matter Of Perspective Jonathan Abrams, the founder and former CEO of the social networking website Friendster, was asked by MBA students how to survive the torrential waters of entrepreneurship. His response: “I don’t know.”

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —MBA students crowded into a Stanford Graduate School of Business classroom to listen to Jonathan Abrams, the founder and former CEO of the social networking website Friendster, answer the question of how to survive the torrential waters of entrepreneurship. His response: “I don’t know.”

In addition to Friendster, the self-described serial entrepreneur founded the social bookmarking website Hotlinks and the online event management service Socializr. However, his career in startups has been a roller coaster ride. Hotlinks went down in the dot-com crash in the early 2000s, and Friendster, which was left behind years ago by juggernaut social networking site Facebook, is now used as a business school case study of what not to do. Despite the ups and downs, Abrams doesn’t know exactly what compelled him to move forward.

“Most people don’t cross the fear chasm, and with good reason because most startups fail,” he explained. “But to an entrepreneur the ups and downs sound cool rather than scary.”

To Abrams, the life of an entrepreneur is not as glamorous as many seem to believe it is. The media often portray the startup as a get-rich-quick scheme when the reality is that most entrepreneurs don’t stay in business. The average new venture bellies up within five years, and the most successful bosses still earn 35% less in 10 years than they would if they were working for someone else, he said. Even when Abrams experienced the lowest valleys of his career, he said it helped to remember that “It’s not just you.”

Back in 2002, Abrams found himself wondering if his career had already peaked at age 29. He had been laid off as a software engineer at Netscape. His startup, Hotlinks, was not going well. Silicon Valley was dead due to the dot-com crash. With free time on his hands, he began to think about a new company that would change the way people viewed online interaction.

At the time, most people who interacted online used handles, like CompGuy254, instead of their real names. Instead, Abrams wanted to abolish the pseudonyms and make a website that would allow its users to connect to their friends and build an online social network. The network became known as Friendster.

“Half my friends loved it, and half my friends thought it was the stupidest thing they ever heard of,” he remembered.

At the time, Abrams had no idea how big Friendster would become. Venture capitalists invested in Friendster early on and raised millions to expand the social network. Publications like Entertainment Weekly and Vanity Fair deemed Abrams a “Breakout Star of 2003” and “The Social Pioneer.”

However, as with most startups, the ups didn’t last. The website experienced several performance issues, such as long loading times. Many of the investors wanted to partner with other companies instead of focusing on the basic problems of the website. Competition from other companies, even before Facebook came onto the scene, began to overwhelm. Eventually, Abrams lost control of his company and was replaced as CEO.

When looking over his own entrepreneurial rollercoaster ride during the talk organized by the student Entrepreneur Club, Abrams told the MBAs that it was probably smarter to not be an entrepreneur in the first place. His newest company, Socializr, is not growing as he hoped, and he is currently in the process of selling it. “Am I Charlie Brown? Always running for the football?” He chuckled.

In the end, he said, it’s how you perceive failure. Although Friendster is often called an “iconic failure,” it is still in business today, which is better than most startups. It has millions of users in Asia, and it inspired an entire industry of online communication.

As for the future, “You never know what can happen next,” Abrams said.

Site Transformation

In June 2011, Friendster shifted from social networking site to a social entertainment site which focus on gaming and entertainment. The accounts are unchanged and still existing. However, all the photos, messages, comments, testimonials, shoutouts, blogs, forums and groups that the users may have had in the past may no longer be part of their Friendster account. An exporting tool is provided to back up the information of the user account. This tool has an ability to export photos to Flickr and Multiply.

Deadline given to users to export their photos was extended to 27 June 2011. Photos which are not exported by the deadline have been removed and not retrievable. This has enraged many users who posted hate messages on the official support communityhttp://getsatisfaction.com/friendster.

In 2 months after the new Friendster has relaunched, Friendster has attracted more than half a million new users and now includes over 40 premium games. Some of the result of the Frienster relaunch: Daily and Monthly Active Users have increased by 50 percent. More than 90 percent of new users came from Asia. There are 40 premium games and hundreds of free-games-and-applications with nearly half of the new users play between 1 to 5 games in a month. 30 percent of them spend more than 45 minutes a day. 10 percent of them have bought virtual credits in Friendster.

The reasons behind Jonathan Abrams losing control of Friendster:

A great explanation of what happened can be found in the excellent paper “Common Shareholder Vulnerability in Venture-Backed Startups”, by Jesse M. Fried, Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley, and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy:

“Most academics studying venture-backed startups have failed to understand the frequency with which VCs end up in control of boards. VCs formally take a majority of the board seats in only about 25% of startups. In about 15% of startups, common shareholders maintain a majority of board seats through successive financings. In the remaining 60% or so neither common nor VCs end up with a majority of the seats; instead, the “swing votes” are held by so-called “independent directors” – industry experts agreed to by both the common stockholders and the VCs. However, these outside directors are usually acquaintances of and recommended by the VCs. Entrepreneurs rarely have sufficient contacts to fill these positions, and tend to acquiesce to the VCs’ recommendations. Most of these outside directors have – or can expect to have – long-term professional and business ties with the VCs, who are repeat players. Cooperative outside directors can expect to be recommended for other board seats, or even to be invited to join VC fund as a “venture partner.” Thus, the outside directors are not truly independent. Should a conflict between the VCs and other investors arise, they can be expected to side with the VCs. As a result, the percentage of start-up boards effectively controlled by VCs is closer to 80-90%.”

In the words of VentureHacks (an amazing resource for entrepreneurs, which I am an investor in), “Valuation is temporary, control is forever”.

Awards and recognitions

In July 2006, Friendster was awarded Key Social Networking Technology Patent. In 2007, Friendster was selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner. In April 2008, Friendster became a Webware 100 winner. In 2009, the site was the subject of a satirical portrayal by The Onion News Network of the site’s discovery as an archaeological relic, untouched since 2005. In May 2010, Friendster was recognized as one of the “Hottest Silicon Valley Companies” by Lead411.

Sources:

http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/the-story-of-friendster-philippineshttp://www.jabrams.com/bio/http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/featured_site3.htmlhttp://www.quora.com/Friendster/What-were-the-reasons-behind-Jonathan-Abrams-losing-control-of-Friendsterhttp://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/friendster_11_10.html

DEAR JOHN by Nicholas Sparks

THE STORY:

“Two young lovers have to part a few weeks after they’ve fallen in love and a very hard time for both of them begins. Most relationships don’t last long after months of separation, but John and Savannah believe in their love and want to fight for what they have.  The more the two young lovers turned away from each other, the more my interest aroused.

John enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life, until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. The two spend a lot of time together and grow to understand and like each other. They spend time on fun activities like surfing, and also just talking to each other. In the short span of only two weeks, she also meets his father and helps the two achieve a better mutual understanding. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. “Dear John,” the letter read…and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love—and face the hardest decision of his life.”

THE AUTHOR:

Nicholas Charles Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska on December 31, 1965. As a child, he lived in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally settling in Fair Oaks, California at the age of eight. He lived in Fair Oaks through high school, graduated valedictorian in 1984, and received a full track scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.

After breaking the Notre Dame school record as part of a relay team in 1985 as a freshman (a record which still stands), he was injured and spent the summer recovering. During that summer, he wrote his first novel, though it was never published. He majored in Business Finance and graduated with high honors in 1988.He and his wife Catherine, who met on spring break in 1988, were married in July, 1989. While living in Sacramento, he wrote his second novel that same year, though again, it wasn’t published. In 1990, he collaborated on a book with Billy Mills, the Olympic Gold Medalist and it was published by Feather Publishing before later being picked up by Random House. (It was recently re-issued by Hay House Books.) Though it received scant publicity, sales topped 50,000 copies in the first year of release.

He began selling pharmaceuticals and moved from Sacramento, California to North Carolina in 1992. In 1994, at the age of 28, he wrote The Notebook over a period of six months. In October, 1995, rights to The Notebook were sold to Warner Books. It was published in October, 1996, and he followed that with Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), and Nights in Rodent (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), Three Weeks with my Brother (2004), True Believer (2005), At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), and The Choice (2007). All were domestic and international best sellers and were translated into more than 40 languages. His newest book, THE LUCKY ONE — about a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life — will be released in September 2008.

The movie version of Message in a Bottle was released in 1999, A Walk to Remember was released in 2002, and The Notebook was released in 2004. The average domestic box office gross per film was $56 million — with another $100 million in DVD sales—making the novels by Nicholas Sparks one of the most successful franchises in Hollywood. The film version of Nights in Rodent will be released in the fall of 2008 and will star Diane Lane and Richard Gere. 

Nichols Sparks is an avid athlete who runs daily, lifts weights regularly, and competes in Tae Kwon Do. He attends church regularly and reads approximately 125 books a year. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and children. (Readers’ Store)

OTHER WORKS:

Published 

The Notebook (October 1996)

Message in a Bottle (April 1998)

A Walk to Remember (October 1999)

 The Rescue(September 2000)

A Bend in the Road (September 2001)

Nights in Rodanthe (September 2002)

The Guardian (April 2003)

The Wedding (September 2003)

Three Weeks With My Brother (April 2004) - A non-fiction account of traveling with his brother after the men lost both parents and their sister in quick succession.

True Believer (April 2005)

At First Sight (novel) (October 2006)

Dear John (October 2006)

The Choice (September 2007)

The Lucky One (October 2008)

The Last Song (September 2009)

Safe Haven (September 2010)

The Best Of Me (October 11, 2011)

Film adaptations

Message in a Bottle (February 12, 1999)

A Walk to Remember (January 25, 2002)

The Notebook (June 25, 2004)

Nights in Rodanthe (September 26, 2008)

Dear John (February 5, 2010)

The Last Song (March 31, 2010)

The Lucky One (April 20, 2012)

Safe Haven (film) Set to be released in 2012

The Best of Me (film) Warner Brothers bought copyright July 17, 2011 (en.wikipidia.org)

This book is a light reading that is not all about the love story of Savannah and John but also a very compelling story that makes you love and respect your father more. The story has a very good lesson. It was a great book because the story was real. It was so romantic and it truly tells you what love means. It talks about true love.

SOURCES:

http://www.nicholassparks.com/books

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#Published_works

(Manila Bulletin, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star)

The original purpose of the broadsheet, or broadside, was for the purpose of posting royal proclamations, acts, and official notices. Eventually the people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches, ballads or narrative songs originally performed by bards. With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increase in production of printed materials including the broadside as well as the competing penny dreadful. In this period newspapers all over Europe began to print their issues on broadsheets. However, in Great Britain, the main competition for the broadside was the gradual reduction of the newspaper tax, beginning in the 1830s, and eventually its dismissal in 1855. (www.absoluteastronomy.com)

With the increased production of newspapers and literacy, the demand for visual reporting and journalists led to the blending of broadsides and newspapers, creating the modern broadsheet newspaper.

In an online article in Philippine Daily Newspaper, Broadsheets in the Philippines are mostly published in the English language. Their readership consists mainly of the middle and upper classes and cost between fifteen to twenty five pesos per issue. A Sunday issue usually has more pages and cost slightly higher than the regular issues.

Manila Bulletin- was said to be the nation’s leading newspaper, while the Philippine Daily Inquirer was undeniably the country’s most widely read and circulated newspaper. With over 2.7 million nationwide readers daily, it enjoys a market share of over 50% and tops the readership surveys according to the Philippine Daily Newspaper website. The Philippine Star on the other hand was founded on July 28, 1986 by veteran journalists Max Soliven, Betty Go-Belmonte and Art Borjal, It has lived up to its mission of informing and inspiring the Filipino people by upholding truth and fairness at all times. On the other hand, Manila Bulletin was founded in 1900 as a shipping journal and is the second oldest Philippine newspaper. It was originally called Manila Daily Bulletin and is certainly one of the leading newspapers in the Philippines. It is the flagship newspaper of Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation that also publishes Tempo, Balita, as well as nine magazines.

Philippine Daily Inquirer- is the most widely read newspaper in the Philippines, with over 2.7 million daily circulations. It was established in 1985 (during the last days of Philippine dictator - Ferdinand Marcos) and is currently part of the Asia News Network. It surpassed Manila Bulletin in 1990, as the largest circulating private newspaper.

Moreover, Philippine Star is one of the leading English broadsheet newspapers in the Philippines. It is owned and published by PhilSTAR Daily, Inc. It was founded on July 28, 1986. It is not only circulated in the Philippines, but also has an established circulation in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. .Philstar.com which is the online portal of the flagship newspaper was established in 1997 and has grown in content and readership over the years.

These three broadsheets are the most popular circulating newspaper in the country. The Impeachment Trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona seems to be the hottest issue in the country since it was published as the common headline of Manila Bulletin, The Philippine Star and The Philippine Daily Inquirer. But each publishing house has their own peculiar angle of the story. The Manila Bulletin focuses on the issue about Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile warned the prosecution panel that they are treading on dangerous ground regarding the issue of the prosecution’s request to a bank subpoena. While in The Philippine Daily Inquirer, the discrepancies in Chief Justice Corona’s asset was the published story, and in the Philippine Star, the issue about the defense panel moves to inhibit Senator Franklin Drilon as one of the senator judges because he has lost”cold neutrality” of a judge, thus undermining due process is the main story about the Impeachment Trial.

Comparison- aside from the Impeachment Trial issue, Manila Bulletin, The Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star has their own Hot topic. The Story about Congresman Iggy Arroyo’s death in London has been published as one of the headlines of The Philippine Star, next was the issue about Pnoy’s alleged dating partner Grace Lee and the news about Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago’s scolding the prosecution. Meanwhile, The Philippine Daily Inquirer has published a story about the bigger US military role in the Philippines and the Death of Congressman Iggy Arroyo in London. Manila Bulletin on the other hand feature a story about Over fishing, Pacquiao fight with Mayweather and the debunking of the resignation rumors of the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice.

On the matter of their physical arrangements, Manila Bulletin is divided mainly into six sections, namely the news section, the business bulletin section, the lifestyle section, the students and campuses section, the entertainment section, and the drive section. The Philippine Daily Inquirer on the other hand has only five main sections that compose of the news section, lifestyle section, metro section, entertainment section and lastly, the business section. While The Philippine Star consist eighty pages with 12 different sections for this day, January 27, 2012, Friday.

Higher price than a tabloid newspapers, yet higher quality of news writing and advertisement. That is the main comparison that a reader could observe after reading a broadsheet. Each and every publishing house and newspaper company has their own way to encourage the people to read their daily publishes news. And upon my observation between broadsheet and tabloid, a more intellectual way of writing is what a broadsheet could offer to its reader compared with tabloids. A story writer in a broadsheet seems to have a differ background of journalism code of ethics than that of those who writes for tabloids. 

SOURCES:

http://philippine-newspapers.net

www.mondotimes.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadsheet

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Broadsheet

(Abante, People’s Journal, Tempo, Pilipino Star Ngayon, Bandera)

The word “tabloid” comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as “Tabloid” pills in the late 1880s. Prior to compressed tablets, medicine was usually taken in bulkier powder form. While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they were the most successful at marketing them, hence the popularity of the term ‘tabloid’ in popular culture. The connotation of tabloid was soon applied to other small items, such as the Sopwith Tabloid aeroplane, and to the “compressed” journalism that condensed stories into a simplified, easily-absorbed format. The label of “tabloid journalism” (1901) preceded the smaller sheet newspapers that contained it (1918).

A tabloid is defined as “roughly 17 by 11 inches (432 by 279 mm)” and commonly “half the size of a broadsheet”; confusion can arise because “many broadsheets measure roughly 29¹⁄₂ by 23¹⁄₂ inches (749 by 597 mm)”, half of which is roughly 15 × 12 in (381 × 305 mm) not 17 × 11 in (432 × 279 mm).

A tabloid is a newspaper with compact page size smaller than broadsheet, although there is no standard for the precise dimensions of the tabloid newspaper format. The term “tabloid journalism”, which tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, celebrity gossip and TV is commonly associated with tabloid sized newspapers, though some respected newspapers such as The Independent are in tabloid format, and in the United Kingdom the size is used by nearly all local newspapers. In the United States, it is commonly the format employed by alternative newspapers. As the term tabloid has now become linked to stories about crime and scandal, some small-format papers which claim a higher standard of journalism refer to themselves as compact newspapers instead.

Larger newspapers, traditionally associated with higher-quality journalism, are often called broadsheets, and this designation often remains in common usage even if the newspaper moves to printing on smaller pages, as many have in recent years. Thus the terms tabloid and broadsheet are, in non-technical usage, today more descriptive of a newspaper’s market position than its physical size.

FRONT PAGE:

Front-page describes something that is or is worthy of being printed on the cover page of a newspaper or magazine. The articles the editor the newspaper thinks are most important are put on the first (front) page and the subject of the most important among these is in the big title (headline) at the top of the first page. Traditional newspapers (not tabloids) are folded in the middle such that the top half of the first page is on top. The most important articles are on the top half so they will be seen on news stands. Another common phrase is “above the fold,” meaning an article on the top half of the front page. The headline of Abante, Pilipino Star Ngayon and People’s Journal is about the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona. Pilipino Star Ngayon, Abante and People’s Journal focused on the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth of Corona.Tempo’s headline is about internet block out of Wikipedia. While the Bandera is not detailed in giving information about the headline. Bandera’s headline is not catchy.

 

EDITORIAL:

An editorial is written by one/many of the editors on the staff of the newspaper. It is usually on the last page of the front section. Editorials allow editors to pose their opinion (or that of the newspaper) on a news item in the editorial section. It does not qualify as “news.” News articles differ that they must be factual and supported with sources. They must be written by the journalist absent of his/her personal opinion. Objectivity is key. (blurtit.com) People’s Journal’s editorials is today’s most talked about issue which is the Chief Justice’s SALN. Abante has a space for some comments and reactions of the readers about the editor. Only Tempo used more than half of its page for their information. Since this is owned by Manila Bulletin, it also put the company’s profile.

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Advertisement is a poster or a paid announcement in the print, broadcast, or electronic media, designed to attract public attention or patronage. The Pilipino Star Ngayon has advertisements about seeking job here in the Philippines or what we called “job fair”. Since Manila Bulletin owned the Tempo, the advertisements here are about the publication of the newspaper. Moreover, the other newspapers have the same kinds of advertisements.

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