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Saywall

Saywall, Inc. ( /'sey:woll/) is a social networking website launched in 2010. Users receive a personal profile page where they can post blogs, photographs, music, videos and questionnaires which other users may answer. Additionally, users may add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Saywall is very similar to other social networking sites.

Website

Each Saywall User receives a profile, which must include two specific modules: a comment section where other users can leave a message, and a list of the user's friends. Users can select from many more modules to add. By default, when an account is created the profile is private, which limits access to friends specifically added. The user may select the "Public Profile" option so the profile will still be visible to any other members of a school they may have joined.

Profiles may be personalized by a design template that is the background of the user's profile, known as a skin. Profiles may include quizzes which offer multiple choice, polls for their friends to vote in and comment on, photo albums which allows the user to upload an unlimited number of images with a maximum limit of 96 per album, blogs with a comments section, a list of bands of which the user is a fan, a list of groups that the user is a member of. A "Video Box" may be added, either hot-linked from YouTube, uploaded directly to Saywall's servers via Motionbox or copied from a Saywall Media Content Provider's page.

Lifestream

Users can view the recent changes friends have made to their homepage from the "Home" menu. These changes can include uploaded photos, updated flashboxes, and newly added videos and friends. A friend's updates to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other services can also be viewed, if those friends have linked those accounts to their Saywall profile. The site has a number of privacy settings, where users can control which items from their profile appear on their and their friends' lifestream pages (e.g. photos, their "sayings", applications, comments, etc.)

Saywall Mobile

Saywall launched the mobile version of the site in early 2011, making users access Saywall from a mobile device.In 2011- 2012 the mobile site was updated to match the design and features of the full site.

In the mid 2011 Saywall released a free application, letting users visit Saywall on their iPhones and iPod Touch's. In April 2011, the Saywall app was removed from the App Store and is currently in the stage of being redesigned and updated. The new version is scheduled for re-launch in late 2012. Saywall finally scheduled a release date for the application being as December, 24. However, in almost a week later.

It is reported that Saywall is looking into a BlackBerry application and on other smartphones

Saywall Authors

On February 22, 2012, Saywall Authors, also known as Saywall Books, was launched. On this section of the site, authors can upload chapters of their books and also get them reviewed with a certain module. Currently,[when?] there is no module to display books on a profile page as there is for Bands and Groups.

Saywall Groups

On July 10, 2011, the "Group" module was added to pages. This enabled people to view groups which were previously joined to a school and were also viewable only to school members. Saywall also gave an option to convert existing Authors or Bands to Groups. This conversion takes up to 24 hours as the profile must be manually changed by a member of Saywall staff. Group pages give users an option to join things they find interesting.

Wall Chat

Saywall is known to run on servers running the Resin Operating System whilst making use of the Oracle Database system. It is estimated that Saywall has somewhere between 5000 and 8000 Phantom4 servers provided by theb co-founders Malwa Jesaya, Haikukutu Titus and Kankono Germanus and has over 100TB of disk space across all of their servers.

References

1. The American Journal of Sociology, vol. 10, 1905, no. 5, p. 569-688 David Östlund, “
A knower and friend of human beings, not machines: The business career of the terminology of social engineering, 1894-1910”, Ideas in History, 2007:2[1].
http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=a-knower-and-friend-of-human-beings

External links

• Official website