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enrich his friends 05/05/2004 01:09 AM

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<I>(Editor’s note: Michael Simon is currently taking a (much deserved and long overdue) vacation. Consequently, this will be his last post until Monday, Sept. 13. He thanks everyone for reading and apologizes for not personally responding to any notes.)</I> It seems that there are two kinds of Mac fans — those who buy (or want to buy) simply based on aesthetics, and those who honestly weigh form, function and price, and are content to watch from the sidelines if the specs don’t add up. With Apple, price is, and will likely remain one of the principal drawbacks to true mainstream acceptance. To break it down, it seems that Apple’s latest wonder always seems to be priced just out of reach of <I>really</I> affordable. While it may not seem so from first glance, the G5 iMac may very well be the most affordable professional Mac to date. While it certainly won’t pack the punch of a Power Mac (especially since they’ve gone all dual) but the new iMac is no slouch. Like when it was first introduced, the iMac now shares the same processor as its professional counterpart. It took the iMac more than two years to see a G4 chip, but in 1998, the low-end professional model and the iMac shared speeds. Of course, the line between consumer and pro has become much more defined over the years, and it’s interesting to see Apple put a G5 into its consumer model after just a single Power Mac revision. With IBM’s yield troubles, though, it could be a while before the iMac goes much higher (though a 23-inch, 2GHz version <I>would</A> be nice). Right now, a 1.6GHz G5 Power Mac (which was available through the Apple Store for $1,799) just can be had for a little shy of $1,600. The iMac G5, with a 17-inch widescreen monitor, can be yours for $1,299. There are a few pundits out there who insist on comparing the price of the iMacs — which has not changed from its $1299 base in more than six years. While it’s certainly worth noting that the low-end iMac costs the same as it did in 1998, I fail to see how this is a sticking point. And the 20-inch display still sells for $1,299 by itself and the previous 20-inch iMac sells for $2,199. Now, it’s just $1,899 with a bigger hard drive, better graphics card and more RAM potential. Speaking of RAM… what are they thinking?!! How can they expect any self-respecting consumers to run OS X, iMovie and iTunes — not to mention help power a 20-inch display — without <I>at least</I> 512MB of RAM… And then charge another $75 for a simple upgrade? C’mon guys… And Airport and Bluetooth should definitely be standard. (Though here's something you may have not seen: for just $100, the iMac can be configured with a Bluetooth module and an Apple Bluetooth and Mouse. So we’re really talking $2,000 for a full-featured top-of-the line iMac, still cheaper then last month’s model and the same price as the closest <A HREF="http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Stor e/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=zIyu7-rDpvOu2Kv462Wk5KXTqSu0L1ng FM4=?CategoryName=cpu_VAIODesktopComputers_WSeries&Dept=cpu_VAIODeskto pComputers">alternative</A>. Plus, it comes with iLife, Quicken, World Book and Panther. While Apple is touting its thinness, the iMac may very well be the most affordable professional computer ever made by Apple, and while creative types across the world busy themselves with their G4 Power Macs, dreaming of an upgrade, perhaps it’s time for Apple to switch itself — from strictly marketing iMacs to consumers, that is.

Friends With Benefits


Friends With Benefits 08/12/2004 11:21 AM
In the current issue of Wired magazine, a piece I wrote on social swap nets:
Think of them as eBay crossed with Napster, then injected with Friendster DNA. The newest social networking services merge three powerful Web functions - auctioning, file-sharing, and friend-of-a-friend socializing - to build digital barter economies. Unlike first-gen social networks, these communities are about more than getting laid and getting paid. These "social swap nets" help like-minded members pool digital resources - music, movies, games, even hardcover books.

Mediachest and SongBuddy are two early examples. They're still small (and size matters when it comes to a well-stocked "sharing pool"), but their very existence points to a new era in networked transactions, one in which online exchanges become more useful.

Here's how they work: Members browse one another's collections online using filters such as friend groups, geographic location, or other affinities. This isn't file-swapping in the old outlaw Napster sense. They can access one another's stuff, but the original copy literally traded with others, rather than downloaded and duplicated via P2P. Getting hold of the goods is mostly a low tech affair. Members often mail or hand-deliver items.

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AlstraSoft E-Friends


AlstraSoft E-Friends 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
Start You Own Social Networking Company: For $280!.

Start Your Own Social Networking Company: For $280!

Why are the venture capitalists investing millions in social networking startups when you can start your own SNA service for $280 (with 1 year updates, no less), courtesey of the nice folks at AltraSoft:

AlstraSoft E-Friends - Run your own online social networking community just like Friendster. Members create their own personal friends network, meet new friends, dating and join groups

AlstraSoft E-Friends

Cost (single license): [was $600] $280 (with 1 year updates)

Language: PHP
Platform: Unix
Release: Feb 15, 2004
Current Version: v3.0
Last Update: Feb 15, 2004

Product Overview

AlstraSoft E-Friends is an online social networking software that allows you to start your own site just like Friendster and Tribe.net. The E-Friends software allows members to connect to people in their personal networks and community, creating a new online interactive resource that is based on a trusted network of friends and associates on the internet.

Members can use this abundant network to make friends, find their love ones, locate jobs, buy and sell stuff, locate a roommate, and accomplish much more with the help of groups and individuals who they know and share the same interests.

Start your own social networking community just like Friendster and Tribe.net in minutes with AlstraSoft E-Friends now!

How does E-Friends work?

Once members are registered with E-Friends, they will be able invite people they know to join their personal or professional network. A member's friends will come to E-Friends and invite their friends. As the network grows, members will have more opportunities to interact easily with people they know, make friends, and use the E-Friends network to enrich their social life."

This is absolute proof that we have reached the bizarro stage of the social networking exponential buzz curve. [Get Real]

With Social Networking systems available for $280 - what's next - free, open source social networks?

Oh yah - that's what we're working on - it's called the PeopleAggregator.

I sure hope E-Friends supports FOAF!


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Over the years I've become quite friendly with many professional journalists. It's interesting that two of my best friends are journalists and they both have told me, "the only bad thing about becoming your friend is that I can't write about you any more." As a blogger, I don't think I have any trouble writing about my friends if I explain my relationship. The issue of professionalism aside, I think the first person tone of blogging makes it easier to write about your friends in the context of providing information. It's probably much harder or impossible to write about your friends objectively in third person.

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Being friends with bl0ggers


Being friends with bl0ggers 07/01/2004 07:11 AM

It's hard for me to have friends who have blogs. Eventually the flamers go after them, and when that happens, either by their choice or mine, we end up not being friends. It's really bad for me, because as my fame grows, more people who know me outside of blogging also know me as a blogger.

The nasty folk go after my friends, or people I work with. Sometimes the friends don't even know they're being asked to do something that's going to hurt me. Anyway, all this is very complicated, but since I usually try to share my epiphanies about blogging, I thought I should share this one too. Basically, I think what it says is that friendships that evolve on the Web aren't very strong relationships, and it's easy to separate friends, if that's your goal.

Maybe we're entering a new era, maybe a new bubble has burst. Perhaps if Bill Gates gets his blog going then I won't be the fattest target around, maybe things will return to some kind of normalcy.

Then it struck me, isn't this like the Michael Moore situation. The war is bad, Bush is a bad president, probably the worst of our lives. I've heard about the seven minutes of video of Bush paralyzed after the second plane hit the WTC on 9/11. Sounds powerful. Even right-wingers have to admit that a President should be someone who's mobilized by a crisis, not frozen. Who needs the rest of it. So often people overstate their case. That's Moore's mistake. That's a lot of people's mistake. When you overstate, you lose people with minds. One of the greatest things about my talk about Moore yesterday is that I heard from right-wingers with minds. What a relief to find out they're not all like Limbaugh or O'Reilly. Seriously.

So Jeneane Sessum says I'm psychotic. You don't say things like that about psychotic people in public, if you have a human heart. It would be cruel. So unless she's really a very bad person, she knows I'm not actually psychotic (of course I'm not, I function relatively well, I'm not without struggles, pretty normal stuff, and I have spent many years in all kinds of therapy, so advising me to get therapy is silly, I already do it). Sessum overstates her case. If she were trying to be honest, she'd say "I don't like Dave and I want to hurt him," and then talk about why she dislikes someone she's never met who's never done anything to hurt her. See, if we're rational about this, it very quickly becomes about the attacker, but if we buy into Moore-like or Limbaugh-like hysteria, the pseudo-fights can last indefinitely.

I had very high hopes for the blogosphere. Go back to one of the first pieces I wrote about it in 1995, Bill ions of Websites. It's almost ridiculously optimistic. "Every new website begets more websites. If I have one, I want my friend to have one, so I can point to it. And so they can point to my site. Someday I'll be able to walk a network of friendships, automatically knowing that each of us has mutual friends. It'll be cool." It happened. For a while.

Now, maybe getting to the point where I disclaim friendship in this space, maybe that will open the door for a new kind of friendship. One that can sustain the attacks. I don't know, it sometimes works that way. When you finally let go, really let go, sometimes the parachute opens. Maybe that's what will happen.


Too many fake friends


Too many fake friends 05/04/2004 07:45 PM

Jim Louderback Too Many Fake Friends
By Jim Louderback

It probably started with instant messaging—technology's insidious redefining of personal relationships. My AIM buddy list is over 50 people long, with most of those actually coworkers. And while I value and respect each and every one of them, I'd hardly call many of them buddies. And I'll bet most of them feel the same about me.

A buddy's one thing, but a friend is so much more. And social software, which lets you leverage your friends to make new friends, really has me really concerned.

Back in the second grade, my best friend, Jay Keese, had a killer Hot Wheels collection. A BMOP (Big Man on Playground), he still liked me, for which I'll be eternally grateful. My other friends were accidents of geography—they lived in the neighborhood and we played together out of convenience.

As I grew up, I developed a small set of good friends—mostly those too weird to be accepted by the tough guys or the fast crowd. Later, I discovered that Dead Heads love everyone, so I promptly became one too. But I've never doled out friendships easily. I have a wonderful set of acquaintances everywhere, but real friends are less common.

But the new and oh-so-exclusive Orkut system, started by a Google programmer, has changed all that. It has redefined "friend" just as IM redefined "buddy." Now I've got more than 50 friends—some of whom I barely even know.

Like the ancient Prieure de Sion secret society, you have to be invited into Orkut. New members describe themselves, and then create networks of friends. They can then join groups built around shared interests, send each other messages, rate existing friends and search for new ones. My buddy Chris Pirillo—the Lockergnome, an ex-TechTVer—invited me in. But as I signed up, Orkut presented me with a metaphysical question: Was Chris really my friend?

Hmm. We'd worked together at TechTV. I had a blast attending and speaking at his Gnomedex conference last year. I've learned a lot from him and we've shared drinks and dinner. Is that a friend? Well, given that I wasn't going to get into Orkut without saying yes, I threw caution to the wind and said "Yes."

Since then I've received many invites from Orkut members asking to become part of my growing circle of friends. Some, like Robert, John, Brooke, Cathy, and Rosie, really are pals. Rosie's actually one of my oldest buddies still talking to me—we've known each other since we were 15. Others, including Oliver Muto and Marc Canter, are folks I've respected and admired for years, but never been actually palled around with.

The Orkut style of friendship reminds me of Dr. Phil's recent visit to the Late Show. Letterman, clearly uncomfortable by the Doctor's insightfully personal remarks, shifted gears by asking Dr. Phil to be his friend. Let's go out and get some steaks, he pleaded, and drink some beers at the bar. Let's be friends.

Is that what friends are? Partners for brewski guzzling and cow chomping? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of guzzling and gobbling with my chums. But I think it's more than that. There's a sense of shared experience and trust.

And that's all sadly lacking on these social networks. Instead, friendship is being co-opted for more insalubrious purposes.

Take Steve. Looking to break some inane record of superficiality, he's personally contacted hundreds of Orkut members, asking to be added as a friend. Is his esteem so low that he craves the chimerical kinship of many he's never even met? I don't know, but like a complete sap, I accepted his offer of friendship, before realizing I was just being used.

Canter, the founder of MediaBand and what became Macromedia, is another Orkut slut. Marc's currently helping us launch a new version of our gaming site 1up.com, so I had a chance to find out the real reasons behind his apparent affability.

"It's all about marketing, baby," he chortled. "More names for my list!'

I was crushed. And I thought he actually liked me. Instead, I was just another peep ripe for the spamming.

But the worst was yet to come. I recently uncovered an even more disquieting situation. It appears that a friend of mine who will remain nameless had been harvesting my other friends to artificially boost his own circle. Take "Tom," for example. There's absolutely no way this "friend" would ever know Tom. Yet there he was, perched smugly inside my other friend's network. This so-called friend of mine was stealing my real friends to feed his own nefarious schemes.

Is this a cheapening of friendship? Or an expanding? I find it hard enough to be a good friend to the 10 or so folks I really cherish. With all this newfound comradeship, I think I'll be spreading myself a little thin.

I've been getting five or ten invites a week, though, to join up into someone's circle of friends—whether on Orkut, the business-oriented LinkedIn, or a wide range of other social networks. I used to just accept them all—like I did Steve and Marc, but now I'm not so sure. I rejected a few, but then I felt guilty about it for days. What if that poor lonely soul really considered me a true friend? Could I have just crushed a fragile, needy ego?

Well here's a message to everyone I've rejected, and will reject. It's really nothing personal. It's not that I don't want to be your friend, because I really do. I'd just rather we became acquainted the old fashioned way. So if you send me an invite to join your network, please don't be insulted if I turn you down. It's not that I don't like you. I just have an old-fashioned concept of what makes a "friend."

Although if your invite happens to mention a super-neat collection of Hot Wheels, I just might reconsider. Especially if you're going to share.


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