Planbus! The next explosively growing network service?
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Tipping Point
Planbus! is a social aggregation and sharing platform that aggregates and shares information about friends' latest online activity behaviors (feeds). The website's functions mainly consist of three parts:
Discovery: On Planbus!, add the friends you are interested in, and you can see in real-time the latest online activities your friends are willing to share. For example, if your friend "Ziluo" uploads 8 photos on Q-zone, you can promptly discover their activity on Planbus!.
Discussion: On the Planbus! platform, you can comment on and bookmark your friends' content. At the bottom of each piece of information, there is a dynamic "comment" box that allows you to discuss with your friends or even Everyone.
Sharing: On the Planbus! platform, you can aggregate and share information from other websites simultaneously. Currently, Planbus! already supports various network platforms such as news, RSS, chat tools, videos, blogs, pictures, music, etc. On Planbus!, you can aggregate information from major social networking sites (for instance: Xiaonei, Facebook, Chinaren, etc.), blog sites (for instance: Sina Blog, Q-zone, Fanfou, Jiwai, Blogchina, etc.), and content sites that support Media RSS format (for instance: Youku Video, YouTube, Tudou.com, etc.) by simply adding URLs or usernames like an RSS reader.
Currently, Planbus! has pre-installed over 10 common services for users to easily add content. According to the official blog, more services will be supported in the future. By analyzing user data on comments and bookmarks, Planbus! also provides some interesting features. The statistical function of Planbus! can help users find out which friends are interested in their content and which friends' content they are interested in; it can also show which services users and their friends use more frequently. Planbus! uses this data to "draw" a user trend chart for users and recommend "precision strike" type friends and content that users are interested in.
Path of Synchronous Aggregation
Planbus! has very distinct characteristics: immediacy, third-party, and social.
On the Planbus! platform, various types of user information are aggregated in real-time, tracking and discovering the online traces of users and their friends. Planbus! has a "major event" alert feature that allows users to immediately view their friends' latest dynamics upon logging in. This also serves as a "diversion" and "navigation" function.
Planbus! currently aggregates information from multiple common network services, all from a third-party perspective to provide users with services. On the Planbus! platform, you don't need to log into other websites to obtain the corresponding information.
Planbus! is also building a social network of friends. Its difference from Facebook and Myspace lies in its third-party stance.
Planbus! vs Facebook
Comparing Planbus! with another star, Facebook, we can see that Planbus! extracts Facebook's News Feed function, expands it, and makes it third-party.
Facebook's Newsfeed provides users with the latest site-based activity information of their friends, including logs. This is precisely the information many users want and are willing to receive from their friends, where friends are not just for chatting. As a platform for sharing the latest online activities of friends, Planbus! clearly shares similarities with Facebook and, to some extent, satisfies the psychology of certain "peeping" individuals.