Do you own a business or do you know a business? Then you can post it in the SuraSafi business directory, the most robust business directory of our time. We have been analysing the different types of business directories out there and we have come to conclusion that most of them aren’t comprehensive in giving the user needs; users want precision, validity, map-directions and value. And we are giving all that and more, generously. In the past decade alone we saw an upsurge in the way people rely on the internet for information. This may seem cool and fine but it has very many disadvantages. For instance, the information explosion has affected almost everybody who users the internet on a daily basis. Statistics show that 5% of average youth or adults in Kenya alone spend approximately 60 minutes on the internet a day while in the developed countries, it is as high as 5 hours/day for an adult. Now, this is where SuraSafi comes in, we want businesses to benefit the most as they try to minimize advertising costs and reach as many target customers and followers as they can through mass mailing and subsequent news updates for free or at cost if they need more access features from SuraSafi.

In essence, what we are saying is that we are constantly working on reducing information explosion over the internet. With a tight security system on our servers, we have connected to over 48 social platforms and email providers through secure terminals; please check out our Social Unit interface.

Advantages of this directory:
- Connected with Google maps so that people can see the directions to the place
- Easy to use with many options of querying your business location and other details
- Businesses can send mass emails to their followers – although at certain limits
- Upload of documents and articles for the businesses
- Upload of videos, and audio files of different filetypes
- You can send news directly to your business followers
- Settings are available to control your privacy
- Email protection – your posted email for the listing will appear in form of an image
- Facebook like button – increases traffic to the business listings on SuraSafi
- Review system for users to submit comments and testimonials on your business
- Ability to choose a themes for your business listing
- You can claim your business if someone else registered it instead of you
- You can challenge a business of your choice

And much more is coming. This is just a tip of the iceberg.

This a bit of news from SuraSafi.

Since we launched the glamorous Social Unit last month, we  have got huge numbers of SuraSafi members enjoying this platform to post updates to other networks as they use the social stream to see updates from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Yahoo etc. This is truly a revolutionary adventure that will make SuraSafi a better platform for communication. However, not everyone in SuraSafi understands how to use the SuraSafi Social Unit yet because they assume it to be complicated. We understand that and we are going to create a comprehensive tutorial that will help everyone who is stack at any point.

For now we have created a simple video for our members to use and see how it goes through. Don’t forget to share this video with friends. Its the only way to make SuraSafi better. Enjoy

Registering to SuraSafi is fast, easy and secure. Here are some of the benefits.

Accelerated Sign Up Process
Like most websites we ask for extended, repetitive amount of information in order to use our application. SuraSafi accelerates that process by allowing you sign into the website using your login details from other websites registered for the OpenId integration.

Although some web users struggle to remember the multiple username and password combination required to sign in to each of their favorite websites, and the password recovery process can be tedious. But using the same password at each of your favorite websites poses a security risk. With OpenID, you can use a single, existing account (from providers like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, MySpace or your own blog) to sign in to SuraSafi website without ever needing to create another username and password. OpenID is the safer and easier method to joining SuraSafi.

With SuraSafi OpenId login you control how much personal information you choose to share with websites that accept OpenIDs, and multiple OpenIDs can be used for different websites or purposes. If your email (Google, Yahoo, AOL), photo stream (Flickr) or blog (Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal) serves as your primary SuraSafi online presence, the OpenID allows you to use that portable identity across the web.

Minimized Password and Security Risks
Many web users deploy the same password across multiple websites. And since traditional passwords are not centrally administered, if a security compromise occurs at SuraSafi, a hacker could gain access to your password across multiple sites. With the OpenID, passwords are never shared with any websites, and if a compromise does occur, you can simply change the password for your OpenID, thus immediately preventing a hacker from gaining access to your account at SuraSafi.

SuraSafi is more thorough in protecting your online identity let alone securely hosting user identities.

We also welcome all our users, members, fans and third party developers to use and experience this integration.

We are sure that SuraSafi’s future is very bright. We are currently working and developing great and innovative features with our developers and partners. We aspire to acquire the desire that our users admire in ensuring that each portal, interface, feature, application and any other small detail is well taken care of to the users’ comfort.

We wanna make this website the effective communication tool that can serve all age groups, races, gender, equally without any discrimination whatsoever.

Remember earlier what we had told the world, ‘If you like what you are seeing now, you will love what is coming’, well we have been keeping our word all along and we aspire to do more to win your trust on this platform.

Having a safe environment at SuraSafi is our common goal for everyone working at SuraSafi. We have expanded our privacy settings to further enhance safety and control for our members.

Earlier on our Privacy Controls comprised of the Privacy Settings only. In latest release we have added the Social Unit privacy settings which helps you choose what can be shared or published to OpenID sites connected to the Social Unit.

Let’s talk about socializing! Lets talk about SuraSafi’s Social Unit SuraSafi users connect with their friends in other networks, see their updates, interact and communicate … all on SuraSafi. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Yahoo, Last.fm, Youtube, Flickr …

This feature includes full Facebook Connect functionality and extends it beyond imaginable at your disposal.

Publish SuraSafi activities and update SuraSafi status to all the networks with one-click and smart interface.

Any network, Any time, right on SuraSafi - users can easily connect to any other network even after signing up, and allow autopublishing of the SuraSafi status and activities (such as creating new blog, uploading photos, creating a quiz, etc)

You can use the power of this SuraSafi application to virally market your profile, business or service via SuraSafi social graph – friends, friends of the friends. Together with the Perfect Social Marketing Platform and social interaction, this will make your profile’s traffic explode and users will flock to your urgent calls for immediate offers you are giving.

Huge list of social / openid services (32 and counting) will allow you a frictionless signup and sign in experience. SuraSafi lets you bring your friends along, easily communicate with them and you will feel instantly at home.

Features – This is what makes the site great

• Quickly communicate with your friends – you can send an instant message notification and see what they are up to
• Supports subscriptions during signup so that you won’t have to waste time registering
• Import social profile data, full name, location, timezone, gender, birthday, movies, … from any network that you use
• Automatic Facebook Logout button (As required by Facebook TOS)
• Single Sign On / Instant Login with credentials from your other accounts
• Invite Facebook Friends directly from your SuraSafi account
• See which of your facebook friends are still not here – great invitation teaser!
• Connect Facebook to exising SuraSafi account with one click
• Import facebook profile photo
• Signup and import all available profile data and user picture from many OpenID Providers connected with SuraSafi
• Fully Customizable signup process – require TOS, show gender, birthday, etc
• Import Extended profile data – interests, movies, hobbies, education, etc
• Publish your activities – dialog box shown to preview / approve before publishing (As required by Facebook TOS)
• Publishing activities back to all the connected networks – facebook, myspace, twitter, yahoo …

• Creating new Group
• Creating new Event
• Posting a new Blog Entry
• Posting a new Video
• Uploading new photos
• Uploading new photos to album
• Creating forum thread
• Posting forum reply
• Creating a new Poll
• Creating a new Quiz
• Uploading new music songs
• Creating a new Marketplace Listing
• Posting a new Bulletin
• Signing Up
• Uploading a user photo
• Note: You can change the publishing sttings on the Social Unit Privacy to determine which activities can be published through SuraSafi.

• Smart Delayed publishing to help you select the choices you want
• User can select which stories can/not be published to Facebook
• Automatic user status update SuraSafi -> Facebook
• User can disconnect his account from SuraSafi website (As required by Facebook TOS)
• Huge list of Supported OpenID / Social Service providers

SuraSafi – My Social Updates using the Social Unit

See all the updates from your friends across all networks in one site – Updates from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn network updates, Myspace updates, see what your friends are up to on Last.fm music, interact … all without leaving SuraSafi.
More social services coming!

Features

• See all your friends’ updates – Facebook news, Myspace updates, Twitter updates, LinkedIn updates … everything without leaving SuraSafi!

• See what pictures your friends upload to flickr, what Youtube videos they like, what Last.fm songs they like, what they are up to on LinkedIn…
• Send Direct Message to your Twitter friends instantly in the newsfeed
• In-place Instant ReTweet!
• In-place Instant Twitter reply!
• Send Direct Message to your Faceobook friends instantly in the newsfeed (*)
• Send Direct Message to your LinkedIn friends instantly in the newsfeed
• Play / Stream Last.fm songs instantly in the newsfeed
• Play Youtube videos instantly in the newsfeed

Let’s talk about socializing! Lets talk about SuraSafi’s Social Unit SuraSafi users connect with their friends in other networks, see their updates, interact and communicate … all on SuraSafi. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Yahoo, Last.fm, Youtube, Flickr …

This feature includes full Facebook Connect functionality and extends it beyond imaginable at your disposal.

Publish SuraSafi activities and update SuraSafi status to all the networks with one-click and smart interface.

Any network, Any time, right on SuraSafi - users can easily connect to any other network even after signing up, and allow autopublishing of the SuraSafi status and activities (such as creating new blog, uploading photos, creating a quiz, etc)

You can use the power of this SuraSafi application to virally market your profile, business or service via SuraSafi social graph – friends, friends of the friends. Together with the Perfect Social Marketing Platform and social interaction, this will make your profile’s traffic explode and users will flock to your urgent calls for immediate offers you are giving.

Huge list of social / openid services (32 and counting) will allow you a frictionless signup and sign in experience. SuraSafi lets you bring your friends along, easily communicate with them and you will feel instantly at home.

Features – This is what makes the site great

• Quickly communicate with your friends – you can send an instant message notification and see what they are up to
• Supports subscriptions during signup so that you won’t have to waste time registering
• Import social profile data, full name, location, timezone, gender, birthday, movies, … from any network that you use
• Automatic Facebook Logout button (As required by Facebook TOS)
• Single Sign On / Instant Login with credentials from your other accounts
• Invite Facebook Friends directly from your SuraSafi account
• See which of your facebook friends are still not here – great invitation teaser!
• Connect Facebook to exising SuraSafi account with one click
• Import facebook profile photo
• Signup and import all available profile data and user picture from many OpenID Providers connected with SuraSafi
• Fully Customizable signup process – require TOS, show gender, birthday, etc
• Import Extended profile data – interests, movies, hobbies, education, etc
• Publish your activities – dialog box shown to preview / approve before publishing (As required by Facebook TOS)
• Publishing activities back to all the connected networks – facebook, myspace, twitter, yahoo …

• Creating new Group
• Creating new Event
• Posting a new Blog Entry
• Posting a new Video
• Uploading new photos
• Uploading new photos to album
• Creating forum thread
• Posting forum reply
• Creating a new Poll
• Creating a new Quiz
• Uploading new music songs
• Creating a new Marketplace Listing
• Posting a new Bulletin
• Signing Up
• Uploading a user photo
• Note: You can change the publishing sttings on the Social Unit Privacy to determine which activities can be published through SuraSafi.

• Smart Delayed publishing to help you select the choices you want
• User can select which stories can/not be published to Facebook
• Automatic user status update SuraSafi -> Facebook
• User can disconnect his account from SuraSafi website (As required by Facebook TOS)
• Huge list of Supported OpenID / Social Service providers

SuraSafi – My Social Updates using the Social Unit

See all the updates from your friends across all networks in one site – Updates from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn network updates, Myspace updates, see what your friends are up to on Last.fm music, interact … all without leaving SuraSafi.
More social services coming!

Features

• See all your friends’ updates – Facebook news, Myspace updates, Twitter updates, LinkedIn updates … everything without leaving SuraSafi!

Our web log statistics show us that approx. 84% of our users spend 30 minutes or more per login session at SuraSafi and wind up adopting it as a key tool in their socialization arsenal, 100% of the time.

From day one, SuraSafi social platform has been concerned (probably overly so) with being a great solution as a community and e-commerce website. We still are firmly in that camp today.

While am saying it right now with my tongue firmly planted on my cheek, SuraSafi really is 100% buzz word compliant.
Our philosophy is to impose no restrictions on your communication – that is why we developed the SuraSafi Social Unit. It helps you keep your activities up to date on all the websites that you have membership. Easy? Oh Yes!

If you are a web-dynamic user, this is the website for you; and if you like what you are seeing today, you will love what ‘s coming.

SuraSafi mobile version is now available. You can access SuraSafi in your mobile phone when you use your default phone browser. It is SIMPLE to use than the whole site while accessing your account through your mobile phone.

It has a quick access to your Dashboard, Profile, Messages, Friends and connections as well as logout and Full Site links.

Try it today and experience this innovative feature.

If you are having trouble accessing this feature, try contacting our support team so that you can receive immediate assistance.

Enjoy.

Have you ever considered dating?… easier?! whereby you just upload a nice photo of you and then write a simple and precise profile for other date finders to see. And also be able to search for people you would like to date by age, location, gender and zip code preferences. SuraSafi has that covered. We have developed an application to enable our members to share with each other more than just connecting for friendship. We are working as hard to put great features into SuraSafi so that we can meet our objective to create a portal for successful bonding for our members.

SuraSafi’s Date Me is easy to use. Here’s how. Click the Explore link on the navigation bar and then click Date Me. On the Date Me page, upload a photo of yourself, a good one for that matter, and then write a brief description of yourself on the Date Me profile text box. Make sure you set up all the details of yourself. This increases the chance on people clicking YES on you.

This feature is integrated to SuraSafi credit system so that our members can earn points whenever they have a match. This is supposed to increase the importance and value of SuraSafi connections.

We still cannot stop. We are bringing you the best features to enhance your enjoyment as you use SuraSafi. Through our constant consultations to what our users would want to see and use, we have responded with great applications to improve our service deliverability.We have brought you SuraSafi Radio.

Now you can listen to over 100,000 radio stations and talk shows from over 200 countries worldwide. Click here to see. With an advanced system, you can find a radio station by searching using keywords, categories, genre, podcasts, geographical location, music, talk show, language and sports. Its that simple.

On the other hand we have integrated the radio feature such that you can just add a radio station of your choice to your favorites. This helps you save time while trying find a station that you love. To view your favorite radio station, click on the favorites button on the footer bar near the chat IM button.

We hope you will find this application interesting as you use SuraSafi. We are open to receive some feedback any time.

Enjoy!