Anyways, I have lots to blog. Like last time at band camp… ROFL. My wife and I had a American Pie marathon from the first movie to Beta House, Watched the latest mummy movie and went to the wide screen to watch BatMan Dark Knight and watched.

I also wanna blog about our trip to bora [Boracay] before coming home and such but there ain’t much time since I still have lots to do and little time. So till next post.

Naming names?
Grouperz [Group Peers(z)] was a name suggested by the codedspirit community after the owner of the said community decided to creat a socialnetworking site much like Friendster and MySpace today. Of course the first thing in mind was to create the site for but not limited to pinoys. Most may not know that I am from the original development team of grouperz [Core Dev's]. But due to certian events, something annoyed me and so decided to leave.

So what does grouperz have to offer?
Grouperz was initially created to be a site where friendster users who are tired of the constant patches can create, customize and present a profile with their wildest imagination. Of course with it comes great risks of diffrent scales. With grouperz, users can embed videos from larger networks like YouTube, Google Vids, etc.. they can Blog, create polls for other users to answer, upload pictures and chat/interact with the other users.

Grouperz today?
Not much has happened with grouperz since I left, there may be developments. But most are pretty much useless [The Grouperz Team Forum]. Possible reason for one to choose grouperz would be, cause their friends are using it

Why Grouperz?
I myself would not really want to recomend the site as it is [not that I have a grudge on it or anything]. The features are still too common and there is even a security flaw on the site that puts the users at great risk. One of it would be users may have their profile details changed w/o owner permission, leading to presentation of false information, the possibility of inflitrators using grouperz as a phishing site and the list goes on.

So what did you have in mind?
I wanted grouperz to stand out, there are already pinoy based socialnetworking sites that tend to imitate friendster as it is, but they lacked features and ideas. Grouperz on my own was supposed to be diffrent. Something that offers great user interaction, less lags, rich features that may rival Friendster or even FaceBook and supposedly, security and privacy for users. But sadly, the owner didnt have the same thing in mind.

Well that’s it for my review, Not that I intend this to have a negative effect on the site. But I just want the Current Dev’s [If there's still any] to put in mind that you may never offer a site good enough for users to keep noted on if you won’t try and look at things from the users point of view.

What the faq is gpGen?
gpGen – Short for Grouperz Overlay Generator [Ubberlay] is a tool that encodes your HTML/CSS/JavaScript source using Base64 to be placed into your Grouperz Profile. It is a tool for you to create a very detailed/customized profile to your own liking. Of course by using the generator, you would need to have knowledge in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

And what the faq is Grouperz?
Grouperz is a new Social Networking site (much like most flaoting around nowadays) that supports full Profile Customization, to suit the users Style, Fasion and Taste by means of Custom CSS or via Overlaying [Ubberlay].

More info by visiting:
http://www.grouperz.com

Who the faq got the Overlaying Idea?
The overlay idea was first thought of by Mr. Marky Lorreto [markyctrigger] to customize Friendster Profiles through the use of JavaScripts and XSS holes. Much like the gpGen’s concept, it allows friendster users to customize their profiles to their wildest imaginations.

For more info about the Friendster Overlay Generator, please visit:
http://markyctrigger.com

The site also supports Overlaying for Multiply, Xanga and Downelink.

What about faqing user privacy and security?
Of course with the use of Overlaying, since it enables JavaScripts it would pose great risks to the users. But with it, rest assure that we are thinking of ways on how to solve the case. Candidates for solutions are: Disable Internal/External JavaScripts/JavaScript Events and the CSS expression function.

What the faq is with the word Ubberlay? and how the faq is it diffrent from Overlay?
Actually there isn’t any. Ubberlay is just a term I use for the Overlaying of Grouperz Profile so don’t confuse yourself

Please use the TagBox on the Contacts Page for more questions. 

Also, someone asked if gpGen is working. It’s not fully working for now and has lots of bugs in it so don’t expect something from it yet. I’m also gonna collaborate with tweakersplace.com to place the gpGen generator and support there.

gpGen or Grouperz Ubberlay Generator will be enabled and active with in a month or two, depending on life activities and stuff.

Edit:
Brought down the Generator till I can fix everything up since it was causing strange problems with my site. Will bring it back up again after the full renovation of tweakersplace.com and a few edits on Grouperz.