Flash floods had seriously taken its effects on the communities in the Sigatoka, Nadi, [...]]]> In the plight of the recent flooding that occurred at the Western division of Fiji islands, we would like to pass our sympathy to all our beloved people who have lost everything and are struggling to move on with their lives.

Flash floods had seriously taken its effects on the communities in the Sigatoka, Nadi, Ba and Lautoka corridor leaving thousands of people homeless and hundreds of businesses underwater. These communities were greatly affected by the raging flood waters that tore through houses and businesses leaving families stranded atop of the roofs of their houses and many taking shelter in the evacuation centers around the communities.

Unfortunately, five people lost their lives and leaving four others missing and causing approximately 12000 people to move in temporary shelters with no power supply, no clean water and worse come to worse lack of food supply as well. It is very heartrending to see small children and their parents watching helplessly as everything they own get ruined.

Road were damaged and were closed leaving people unable to go in and out of Nadi, thus making it difficult for relief supplies to reach the victims. Flights were also cancelled as the weather got worse leaving tourists stranded in their resorts and the airport. Many visitors were moved from low lying areas to safe and better areas for their safety. Police and army kept a watch for stranded families and also for unwanted events such as looting etc. People were told to stay indoors.

Now after weeks of devastating cleaning up and restoring things back to normal, people and businesses are now counting their loss and getting back to business. Roads are being repaired, bridges that were damaged are also being repaired. People are now back to their houses and are still cleaning up and businesses have resumed business with not much of their stock. With the help of the Fiji government, the NGO’s and all the people here in Fiji and abroad, disaster stricken families and businesses have slowly recovered from what was once called the most devastating floods experienced in Fiji after so many years. We are Fiji and we all will be together to help each other through thick times and more.

We the management and staff of Webmedia Fiji would like to pass our support and sympathies to all the families and businesses especially to those companies who are our clients. We empathize on what your losses were and pray that one never faces such grief and loss again.

God Bless!

This website allows you to get up dated with the [...]]]> Bula Bollywood, Fiji’s Bollywood celebrity show has now gone online for all the viewers from Fiji and abroad to learn and share thoughts about all things Bollywood, Bula and Bhai Amrit… Ajay that is.  This was one of our projects that were accomplished last month.

This website allows you to get up dated with the latest news, interviews and stories of celebrities lives in Bollywood.  It hosts contests,podcasts,polls and lots of juicy Bollywood tidbits that will get you informed on all the past, present and future for the celebs of the Indian cinema.

This show has approximately 400,000 viewers from Fiji and around the world. Originating in the year 2009, and hosted by Ajay Bhai Amrit, Bula Bollywood has seen and conversed with the very best of all the famous faces of the Indian cinema world. From the revolutionary to the royalty of Bollywood, from the gorgeous face of Kajol to the tall towering epic-ness of Amitabh Bachchan a.k.a Big B, Bula Bollywood brings big-time, boundless bliss.

Here is the link to the website.

http://www.bulabollywood.com

So enjoy!!!

She is the current director of platform and mobile marketing at Facebook and will now become the twelfth member of eBay’s board of directors. Mitic [...]]]> Facebook and eBay are silently building up stronger ties with each other with a secret partnership and the latest inclusion of Facebook’s executive Katie Mitic to eBay’s board of directors.

She is the current director of platform and mobile marketing at Facebook and will now become the twelfth member of eBay’s board of directors. Mitic joins a board of directors that include founder Pierre Omidyar, Marc Andreessen (Netscape, Andreessen- Horowitz), Scott Cook (Intuit) and William Ford, Jr. (Ford Motor Company). Her previous status included being the Senior Vice President at Palm and a Vice President at Yahoo.

This appointment comes at an interesting moment for eBay since in less then two weeks time; the company will host its X.commerce Innovate Conference. It is an event where the company will reveal its vision for the future of ecommerce under the PayPal, eBay, Magento and GSI commerce brands. Katie Mitic has already been chosen to be one of the keynote speaker’s in the conference. The two companies are expected to make the big announcement of their joint venture during this conference.

The announcement is expected to be co-related to Facebook Platform and the new Facebook Open Graph. It is known that Facebook Credits will be given the limelight in a joint effort between the two companies.

Mitic is a prodigy when it comes to mobile. She was the person who helped launch the Palm Pre and the company’s app store before it was grappled up by HP. Her background in building and promoting developer platforms, especially in the mobile arena should be proven very useful as eBay strives to replace the wallet with the phone by 2015.

No detailed information is provided about the redesign, but sources which are familiar with Facebook’s plans have mentioned that [...]]]> There have been rapid changes to Facebook since after the launch of Google+. Thus this week, Facebook plans to launch a major redesign of user profiles at its f8 developer conference as found out by sources.

No detailed information is provided about the redesign, but sources which are familiar with Facebook’s plans have mentioned that the redesigning is supposedly to be a major one and will tend to make Facebook profiles core for consuming content.

This change will be apart of a wider launch, which will contain the initiation of media and music platform. These are the information below about the redesigning of the profile:

Sources have it that the profiles will be more “tenacious”, meaning that one of the goals of the new profiles will be to keep users to stay on them for a much longer period.

The platform which this launch will take place will include music and video from partners sites. This means that it will display the media content a user is watching or listening to on their profiles. This means that your friends can see and get access to what ever you are listening to as well.

These redesigned profiles are part of a bigger move into the social ecommerce. There have been talks that Facebook intends to give Facebook Credits more distinction. It is also known to be that a Facebook app store may emerge at f8 as well.

This push into the ecommerce may be related to that of the project Spartan, an HTML5- based mobile platform rumored to be launching soon.

Facebook is being silent about the changes and have declined to comment on the story. Yet more and more pieces of Facebook’s big launch still continue to leak out as the incitement builds for f8. The company is currently under lockdown and is trying to fix the final bugs before Thursday’s big launch. Now isn’t that insightful for Facebook. Let’s wait and see on Thursday.

Thus Webmedia Fiji has now initiated a new company policy where we save more power and be an environmentally friendly company which benefits everybody. This [...]]]> “Going Green is a phrase referring to individual action that a person can consciously take to curb harmful effects on the environment through consumer habits, behavior and lifestyle.” Source: Google

Thus Webmedia Fiji has now initiated a new company policy where we save more power and be an environmentally friendly company which benefits everybody. This makes a positive impact on the choices of individuals towards the environment and together this can lessen the harmful effects in Fiji.

It is much better if people made minor changes at the beginning of this initiative to make it a habit rather then jumping in a major change where it will be very hard to keep up, thus leading them to quit the whole idea about Going Green.

So our company has decided to get rid of our air conditioning systems and opening all the windows so that we have natural lightening and fresh air, with all unnecessary lights being switched off. We are now recycling all our paper products, plastic bottles and cans. All our computers are turned off when they are not in use.

We should be very lucky to be living in a country with a Tropical Climate but the amount of pollution that is happening here is very sad to see and also is very harmful to us. We all should come hand in hand and protect it, even by just doing petty things like those mentioned above. These things can be very beneficial in a bigger scale if all of us worked harder towards it. Our environment is our fortune and our future. So we should take care of it like a new born child in a mother’s hands!

If you want to get the plastic and papers in your office recycled, you can contact this company:-

Waste Recyclers (Fiji) Ltd

Suva: 3361055

Lautoka: 6668795

These are so many that one would get confused on what are the [...]]]> On Tuesday, Facebook revealed a huge wave of privacy changes. This is one of the biggest privacy renewals in the company’s history and includes more then a dozen or two changes to the profiles, the status updates, the Locations and the Tags.

These are so many that one would get confused on what are the changes that Facebook is making and will they have any sort of impact to our pages, since the amount of hacking on profiles are increasing day by day. Facebook will make every single one of its 750+ million users go through a tutorial about the updated privacy setting as this news was updated.

Below are the changes that Facebook has implemented:

Privacy Controls: Profile Editing

Facebook now allows you to edit the visibility of individual parts of your profile which is done right from the actual profile page. This was done in the past by going to the Privacy Settings Page.

Tag Approvals

Facebook now allows you to approve tags of you on photos and locations before they appear on your Facebook profile. This is also a new policy that they have implemented. So when you are tagged on a picture that you don’t want to be tagged in, you can just disapprove the tag. This feature can also be turned off.

View Profile As

The “View Profile As” feature lets you see your Facebook Profile page as one of your friends and this is now prominently placed on your profile page.

Greater Control of Status Updates

It is now made easier by Facebook to understand who sees your published contents. There are icons which indicate whether a status update will be public, appear only to your friends or has been customized for a friend.

Adding Locations to Status Updates

There are places which have been integrated into Facebook’s Published Bar. This is so that the location is more prominent in Facebook. The mobile Apps will now have a “Nearby” icon which replaces the “Places” icon that was there previously.

More Control over Photo Privacy

When you are removing a Tag of you from a photo you will also be given an option where you can request that photo to be taken down or you can just block that person entirely.

These are the summarized version for better understanding of the Privacy Changes to Facebook

Major Privacy Changes in the Profiles Page

• Greater profile control: there is now a greater Profile Visibility control which appears to be directly next to content when you edit your profile. For example, if you want your close friends to see which music you like, you can change it directly from the profile editing page.
• In-line cues: Facebook will now display a globe, friend or gear icon to indicate whether a piece of content is only seen by friends, is public or customized for a friend group or list.
• “View Profile As”: this feature has been moved to the top- right hand corner of then user profile make it more accessible to people.
• Renewal of the Privacy Page: the renewal will result in a much cleaner and simpler Privacy Page, since most of the privacy settings are now integrated at the profile page level.

Major Privacy Changes to Tags

• Tag Reviews: users are now able to approve or disapprove photo, status or location tags before they actually appear on their profiles.
• Photo tagging changes: users are now allowed to tag anybody in a photo, regardless of whether they are friends. This makes it simpler to tag people in a group shot. But the users must approve these tags before they appear on a user’s profile.
• Tags in the Publishers Box: it is now easy to see who has been tagged in a status update.
• New untagging features: there is a feature whereby a user can untag themselves from photos and will also be able to request the person who uploaded the photo to remove it or they can just block the person entirely.

Major Privacy Changes on Status Updates and Location

• Public Updates: the “Everyone” option in the status has been changed to “Public” for greater clarity.
• No more lock icon: this icon has been changed and now displays the globe, friend or gear icon based on whether the update is public, for friends or custom
• Facebook Places integration: the “Places” icon has been integrated into the publisher box and users are now able to tag locations into any status update. This also applies to photos and photo albums.
• No more GPS restriction: the users can now tag any locations in a status update or photo. This means that the user can tag a location or photo album after the user has returned home.
• Mobile Changes: a change from “Places” to “Nearby” icon is now going to take place. This now show that the users have tagged their location nearby.

Our company policy has always been that if the NGO is legitimate, no matter what [...]]]> We here at Webmedia would love to give away more free websites… our inside joke is that we give away so much in reduced costs to dozens of NGO’s every year that we should perhaps change our name to Webmedia.org.

Our company policy has always been that if the NGO is legitimate, no matter what their purpose, we try to provide at least a 33% discount or more (if we can utilise past development efforts to build a new website with less effort and resource commitment). The more that we can reuse from other efforts in the private sector, the more we can discount new work for any/all NGO.

We feel it’s our obligation to pass on better rates to NGO and to charitable efforts. While we can’t give everyone free sites, we can certainly find ways to be charitable to those organisations that are doing their best to help those in need.