1 Malaysia Social Network

With little fanfare, 1Malaysia.com – the first made-in-Malaysia social networking service – was launched to the masses on January 12. Despite the closeness of its domain name to 1Malaysia.com.my – which leads to the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s official site – the social network has no direct ties to the Malaysian government, quashing ideas of “Najib is My Friend” t-shirts popping up on Threadless.

Besides pointing out the rather lax domain-name buying policy of the Prime Minister’s department, 1Malaysia.com has little information about who developed the site – not helped by the fact that there isn’t an About Us page. It took us a few Google searches to find out that 1Malaysia.com is an initiative by Malaysian company Caso Sdn Bhd, which is led by its 27-year-old CEO Ezran Baharum.

According to an interview with mStar, the Malay-language section of Malaysian newspaper The Star, Baharum said that he created 1Malaysia.com as an alternative to Facebook, should it ever close down. “Rumours that Facebook would close down have been going on forever and that is not an impossibility,” he said, adding that businesses and musicians that depend solely on Facebook would then have to find alternatives to attract customers and fans.

Though it launched officially in January 2011, work on the social networking site has started since 2008, said Caso’s technical chief Tan Yew Hong.

“We’ve been working on the website since 2008 but that has nothing to do with rumours of Facebook closing down. We didn’t know about those rumours. It was purely coincidental,” Tan said in the same story.

“We employed a ‘feel like home’ concept for the website and I’m confident it will be well received by the Malaysian public and even the world,” Tan said, adding that the site runs on eight servers based in Malaysia.

Currently there are more than 12,000 members signed up to the social networking site. A brief look through the site reveals a rudimentary Facebook-like interface mixed with user-posted listings of blogs, groups, and videos.


Caso CEO Ezran Baharum. 
Photo taken from mStar Online. 

1 Malaysia Facebook  

1 Malaysia Facebook is set up in order to provide a forum for the free and open to enable all segments of society to discuss and say powerful in the hearts of 1Malaysia. This room also provides opportunities for all Malaysians to interact, exchange views and their views openly in an effort to realize the various aspects 1Malaysia.
Hope you can join up  1Malaysia facebook and play a role  in the hearts of 1Malaysia to realize our future better. Your participation in the up 1Malaysia facebook greatly appreciated.



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