外国人です。I'm a Foreigner.コミュのNew social network for Expatriates in Japan and Japanese interested in Foreigners.

Hello,

I'd like to point you people in the direction of a new Social Sharing Network called Youshare Japan. It's just started, so it still small and has some rough edges, but I believe it's got great potential.

It has a nice clean, uncluttered interface which I believe will appeal to those who like minimalism and functionality over clutter. It is easy to navigate and has all the expected features, like a full blogging tool, media sharing, groups and forums, media upload/share etc as well as a multilingual interface (currently English, Japanese and Turkish).

I'm directly responsible for the English language development of the site and also various aspects of its user interface design and planning, so as SNS users yourselves, I'd love to hear your feedback on what work steel needs to be done.

So what's new, you might ask? Well, it's called Social Sharing Network for a reason.

The system allows users to generate revenue from advertising (banner) supported activities on Youshare.

This revenue can be kept and cashed in, or more philanthropically, donated in full or in part to charities which are registered with Youshare: Red Cross Japan and other large organisations are our current beneficiaries.
The charities themselves can be chosen and voted for by the users of Youshare.

Youshare keeps a portion (30%) of the banner revenue, the rest is passed on: 10% directly contributed to charity and 60% to the members of Youshare - who can in turn donate some or all of it to charity.

This rate of payback makes Youshare quite unique.

Why don't you give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

I've included a chart which shows the flow of revenue, from the banners into the Youshare pot which is then divied up between the users based on their activities. From there, the users can cash their revenue or pass it on to charity.

Best Regards,
Craig Lloyd.