Since yesterday hi5 has been experiencing all kinds of problems, that peaked late last night with a total failure to respond.

Most of the times it just displays a sign acknowledging the problem but stating that they are improving their services. Could this be the a tighter integration to Google’s OpenSocial?

With 70 million users hi5 has been raising some money to expand and gain leverage in Asia. Despite being San Francisco based, Hi5 doesn’t figure in the top 10 major Social Networks in the US, which may explain why this downtime hasn’t been reported in any major US news feed.

I’m not a big Social Network user, but I do have an account in hi5, and I was unable to login yesterday. This morning I’m able to login but I’m experiencing weird behavior, like all links pointing to non existing pages and other oddities.

Maybe it’s time to check out Bebo or some other network.

Update: I was able to get a screenshot of hi5’s error message.