social networking as a web service
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New Social Networking Service from
ObjectsSearch.com
New Social Networking Service from
ObjectsSearch.com
03/22/2005 04:55 PMObjectsSpace is a new free service designed to let users stay in touch
with friends and colleagues. [PRWEB Mar 22, 2005]
Towards a non-evil social networking
service
Towards a non-evil social networking
service
01/26/2004 11:29 AMWithin an hour of the launch of Orkut, Google's new YASNS (Yet Another
Social Networking Service), I had written a mail filter that silently
discarded invitations to join (it's the same filter that tosses out
mail from Ryze, Friendster and all those other services, which drive
me completely bonkers, since I already know who my friends are, am not
actively trying to get laid, and don't need the "service" of having to
risk offending near-strangers who want me to confirm some notional
"friendship" between us a dozen times a day and I
certainly
can't think of a good reason to entrust some commercial outfit with my
personal relationship data).
Do these things have to suck? Damnifiknow. I know that
there's a bunch of stuff I'd like from a social network
analysis of my own inbox, voicecalls, and so forth. Today, I have an
iTunes playlist ("Old friends") that just plays highly rated songs
that haven't been played in the past 30 days. Why not a smart to-do
list that reminds me to email old friends that I haven't called or
written in the last season (credit: Alice)? Hell, how about something that gives me a distinctive
ringtone for calls from out-of-touch old pals and the option to define
attention-grabbing behavior (a chime, a prioritization, coloring) when
they email?
Foe Romeo talks about how Google could have launched a YASNS that
actually provided a useful service that end-users could still control
but that Google could add a lot of value to: a FOAF explorer:
Google would not create its own closed social network, Orkut, but would instead make
FOAF one of its quick searches,
so that FOAF:Fiona Romeo would return my FOAF file as the primary
search result, with friend and location filtering options. (Content
about Fiona Romeo would also be returned but would be differentiated.)
Perhaps Google could add value by introducing a sense of
authentication to FOAF, by indicating reciprocal links between
FOAF files. I know that this result for Fiona Romeo is the correct
one because her friends link to it. Oh, and I know that Matt
Jones is really a friend of Fiona Romeo, because he says so too.
(Plink, a FOAF search tool, gets this bit right.)
Link
Google spawns social networking service
Google spawns social networking service
01/22/2004 09:50 PMThe search company tip-toes into the hot market of online social
networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com.
Polyclothery: online social networking
service in-joke in S, M, L
Polyclothery: online social networking
service in-joke in S, M, L
09/11/2004 09:54 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Nothing says sxxy nrrd like T-shirts with "FLAG PROFILE AS MATURE" on
the front, and the Tribe.net logo on the back. I think former
BoingBoing guestblogger Karen Marcelo is behind this, but I'm not
sure.
Link
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service
01/23/2004 02:22 PMGoogle employee releases social networking service .. orkut,
google's social networking app .. released to the public ..
Search Engine Watch .. invite
only
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Yahoo Service Combines Blogging, Social
Networking
Yahoo Service Combines Blogging, Social
Networking
03/17/2005 03:23 AMYahoo will begin beta testing Yahoo 360, which combines blogging tools
with social networking, as it aims to help people "do a better job of
keeping up with the relationships that they already have."
Google unveils online social networking
service
Google unveils online social networking
service
01/26/2004 03:31 AMBoston Globe Jan 26 2004 7:34AM GMT
SocialGrid Launches Unique New Social
Networking Service
SocialGrid Launches Unique New Social
Networking Service
05/31/2004 07:05 PMSocialGrid is a free decentralized social network that helps people
meet through Google. SocialGrid helps people find their "perfect
match" and extend their social network by making it possible for them
to use Google to search throughout the Internet for people with
similar interests, goals, desirable traits and characteristics.
Discover a whole new way to "Google People".
"Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service"
"Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service"
01/24/2004 02:52 PMGoogle spawns social networking service
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Google spawns social networking service
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01/24/2004 10:22 AMGoogle's much rumored Social Networking Software .. quietly created a
Friendster clone .. News.com.com
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news.com.com/2100-1026-5146006.html
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Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
09/15/2004 02:13 AMeTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social
networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine
integrates online dating with social networking, event planning &
management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most
complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
08/13/2004 12:47 PMeTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing
social networking, online dating, and event planning features.
Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members,
as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort
entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature.
[PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
Social people don't need social
networking
Social people don't need social
networking
12/14/2003 09:54 PMKevin Werbach points out that social networking sites like LinkedIn
and Tribe and so forth have very little to offer highly connected
people like Esther Dyson, who would nevertheless be a real asset to
the network:
Esther and Pierre don't need LinkedIn to reach pretty much anyone they
want to contact. Yet there are a whole lot of folks who want to reach
them, and don't have a personal connection to do so. So the service
worsens their email overload with little corresponding benefit.
LinkGet Yer Social Networking Here
Get Yer Social Networking Here
01/24/2004 09:30 PMSometime in December, somebody flipped a big switch and all of a
sudden everyone was inviting me to join their
Linkedin network. Then suddenly
last week the Kozmick Finger pointed at
Orkut, and near as I can tell, all
the geeks on the planet have spent this weekend busily inviting each
other to be Orkut pals. It all seems mostly harmless; mind you, I
haven’t actually got any use out of either of ’em. For what
it’s worth, all the Orkutians seem to be heavy geeks, while about
half the Linkedincrowd is VCs and businesspeople. I don’t think
it’s gonna change the world, but I’ve been wrong before. To those
whose invitations I’ve declined: sorry, nothing personal, it’s
just that I feel I ought to either have spent some face-to-face time
with you or been in some substantial online interaction.
Social Networking?
Social Networking?
08/17/2004 05:42 PMSo I have this account - that I spent some time setting up and
inviting people to by the way - on one of the social networking
services, but I can't remember which one.
Transcendental Social Networking
Transcendental Social Networking
02/10/2004 09:21 PMStewart Butterfield and Co with some really groovy stuff. Motto: Don't
build application, build contexts for interaction. The architecture of
entertainment has been shaped by the idea of Immersion. Play is about
people, not places [Thumbs Up] to this. Architecture...
Fees come to social networking
Fees come to social networking
01/27/2004 12:09 AMTickle, the Friendster competitor formerly known as Emode, is first
out of the gate with fees for some social networking services.
Is Social Networking a Snore?
Is Social Networking a Snore?
06/25/2004 05:22 PMDavid Hornik (Venture Blog): All
Social Networking Panels Are the Same. So in an effort to save
you a bunch of time and aggravation, here's a transcription of this
evening's event. I believe that it is essentially a transcription of
all past and all future social software panels, so read it and free
yourself of the need to ever attend such an event yourself.
Really, read it for yourself...
Social Television Networking
Social Television Networking
06/28/2004 05:22 AMWhile lots of media companies have been trying to figure out how the
whole "social networking" phenomenon impacts their business, it looks
like AOL is trying to take the concept to the next level while also
being true to their plans of "convergence." They've patented the
concept of
buddy
list TV sharing. The idea is that you could see what your friends
were watching on TV and immediately tune in yourself. It's not too
hard to see how this would work. Already, the latest version of Yahoo
Messenger includes the ability to see what music your friends are
listening to and immediately tuning in yourself. This idea tries to
go a bit further. For instance, someone could set up a chat room
around a particular TV show, and could then play that show, while
everyone else could discuss it in real-time. To understand what
you're watching, it would require a set-top box that would tie into
your internet connection as well. Of course, it's unclear how such a
system will work in an age of TiVo when no-one watches a show at the
same time.
Rescuing Social Networking
Rescuing Social Networking
06/17/2005 03:27 PM
Recent reports of the demise of
Social Networking Applications (SNAs), voted "technology of the year"
by Business 2.0 just two years ago, are increasing. Most recently
C|Net's Molly Wood reported on Five Reasons
Social Networking Doesn't Work. While LinkedIn and eCademy are
hanging in there, many of the other entrants into the SNA space are
really struggling. I reported
last year on what I thought was wrong with the first generation of
social networking applications, and I haven't seen any significant
improvements become mainstream since then.
Wood complains that existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take
too
much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward,
and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as
well or better. It's not clear what problem they're trying to solve,
other than to provide a list of not-very-well qualified contacts for
people online who are looking (mostly for customers, employers or
dates). They remind me a lot of Chamber of Commerce meetings, with
consultants and agents outnumbering 'real' businesspeople, five
sellers
for every buyer. I belong to several SNAs but use them rarely, since
my
blog provides me with a more robust network than any SNA could ever
hope to do.
The challenge, as with most business and social problems, is getting
attention. Because good stories, useful, researched advice and
helpful,
informative conversations command attention, these are the tools of
the
trade in face-to-face networking events. Face to face meetings also
provide a huge amount of non-verbal information that allows people to
make considered judgements and to establish trust, which virtual
forums
can only accomplish awkwardly, and over time.
The lowly telephone, and Skype, are an improvement. Most of us can
converse iteratively faster and more competently in a voice
conversation than in a message thread, and get past the awkwardness
and
misunderstandings faster as a result. I've had some excellent Skype
conversations with people I have never met in person, and some ghastly
ones. I have proposed
a more robust, multimedia, multi-view Simple Virtual Presence (SVP)
tool such as what is illustrated above. There are people more
technologically competent and agile than I am who are achieving such
presence using a combination of tools now, but for most of us this is
still just a dream.
SNAs are therefore inherently not very good for building relationships
or for collaborative work. How are they at finding people for valuable
personal or business relationships? Once again we're back to the too
many sellers, too few buyers problem (it's the same with dating
services, I'm told). Useful SNAs need to be under the control of the
customer, not the vendor. They would be better advised to reinvent
themselves as a kind of very detailed person-to-person 'yellow pages',
to separate users' 'what I have' and 'what I need' personas, and to
focus specifically on the former, in a lot more detail, with
credentials and samples of offerings. In a way, that's what blogs do,
providing a space for one individual to exhibit as much of himself as
possible in as much detail as possible, which is why many recruiters
are now starting to peruse blogs in the search for extraordinary
people
or matches for very difficult fits. So a good SNA could offer a
condensed version of this: Who I am, What I offer, Who recommends me,
and Samples of what I do. Then the buyer can browse this 'catalogue'
and, if he thinks I might have what he's looking for (personally or
professionally) he is given contact information (ideally with the
richness of Simple Virtual Presence) to confirm through conversation
that my offer meets his requirements. Simple as that. Forget about the
discussion forums and the form-filling and all the other bells and
whistles that just complicate use and chew up time. Just give me a
yellow pages on steroids.
Once some standards emerge on formats for this information, it could
then be possible for people to post this information anywhere, in the
agreed-upon 'SNA2' format, so that we would no longer have to post my
information to each SNA 'yellow page' directory -- the SNA tools could
go out and harvest it automatically wherever we posted it, so we would
only have to maintain it once
(perhaps on our blog-jacke
t, personal website, or other online space).
So then we would have three
easy-to-use SNA tools, working in tandem, all built around the
'customer', the guy looking
for something:
- The
standard-format 'yellow pages' displaying our personal 'offerings',
- A Simple
Virtual Presence tool to qualify those offerings and to enable
powerful conversations, and
- Blogs as
'personal filing cabinets' that people could browse if
we were away from our phone/SVP tool, or if they wanted to see some
more of our stuff before attempting to call us and offer us a job, a
contract or a date.
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What
would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter
it, so that
the tool could track time we spent on each call and, with the
agreement
of the
other party, automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an
agreed-upon rate. Because it's the value you add person-to-person,
helping them in their personal context, once the introductions are
over
and they know they've found the person they want to 'hire', that could
finally realize the promise of online commerce.
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Social Networking Blues
Social Networking Blues
01/25/2004 05:16 PMI'm on Ryze. I'm on LinkedIn. I never touched Friendster. For some
reason, Orkut appealed to me. Perhaps its the "in affiliation with
Google" tagline? It's getting to the point where we need a Trillian
for these types of sites. FriendFan is coming. Microsoft already has
Wallop. When will it ever end? How many friends does one really need?
Infinity (plus one). Won't you be my neighbor?...
Social Networking Hangover
Social Networking Hangover
02/10/2004 02:41 AMAs many, many people have predicted, there's a point at which all of
these social networking services become... kind of pointless.
Everyone piles in, and "connects" with anyone they've ever emailed and
then you get the big
"um... what do we do now?" question. It appears that
despite the early rush into sites like Friendster, the fad is losing
steam, just as it did five years ago with sixdegrees.com. It's cool
for a few months, and then you realize there's nothing else to do.
The various services are desperately trying to add on features that
will bring back users and keep them engaged, but it turns out that the
thing that seems to attract most people to these sites is the signing
up and linking part - and after that, there's not much interest. The
article includes the interesting stat that, despite five million
registered users, Friendster received less than 1 million unique
visitors in December.
Anti-social networking
Anti-social networking
06/17/2005 04:25 PMGlenn Fleishman writes in the NY Times about a Seattle cafe that gives
free wifi on weekdays but is wifi-free on weekends in order to
encourage conversation......
Bringing social networking to everything
Bringing social networking to everything
04/25/2004 02:40 AMI'm sorry I disagree.....[read response after
article].......
The next
big thing in online social networking.
According to Reuters Social networking sites, which look to
introduce friends of friends or people with common interests, have
grabbed the attention of Internet users and venture capitalists but
many are still looking for ways to make money.
Online dating siteTickle (
>2million profiles) launched a People Search
service on its network that includes AskJeeves' . The partnership fuses the
uncertain social networking phenomenon with a search model that has
proven invaluable to both consumers and marketers on the public
Internet.
Kolabora news expert Scott Allen blogs in his Social Networking
News: According to Tickle CEO James Currier, “Search is a natural
way for online social networking to move forward”. (..) "Tickle
people search brings online search full circle, back to letting us
find the right people to talk to.”
Reuters press release (April
22)
read more in the full articles quoted from three blogs
- Ask Jeeves Brings Search to Tickle (ClickZNews)<
BR>- Jeeves, what’s the next big thing in online social
networking? (Online Business
Networks)
- Education — the real "next big thing" in
online social networking (Online Business
Networks)
[Smart Mobs]
I'm certainly in favor of putting social networking into context -
but search is not a context. It's sort of like getting it
backwards.
It's not about bringing search to social networking. It's
about bringing social networking to everything.
Social networking for fish
Social networking for fish
11/17/2003 03:07 PMKen Rinaldo's amazing 'augmented reality robotic fish tanks' will have
their first showing in Lille on the 6th Dec: "Augmented...
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
02/11/2004 08:34 PMAnother recently debuted site is Orkut.com, designed by a Google
engineer, though the site's connection to the search company is
unclear. ...
Decentralised social networking
Decentralised social networking
01/05/2004 10:24 PMI know I'm late to the party, but my recent experiments with
LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of
software that bulids on top of people's own social networks. There's
just one thing that's been bugging me, best explained by this quote from Om Malik:
The question I have is: why the F**K should I share my network of
contacts with these commercial entities. They are like BlogSpot that
does nothing for my brand equity and in many ways chews me out after
making the network connections. Thus what I want is a "MoveableType"
of social networking. Blogs took off because it was about one person -
me. My social networks should be of my making for me. Lets figure out
a way to cut out the middlemen.
Via John Battelle, here's the
answer: Plink, a social search engine which uses information crawled
from decentralised FOAF
files. It's nicely put together and could be just the incentive I need
to finally put together my own FOAF file.
Plink is also a nice example of the kind of thing the semantic web
hopes to offer. People provide information in easily parsed formats,
then others bulid third party applications on top of them that may
never have been envisaged by the creators of the original standards.
Feedster is another great
example of this effect in action.
Google's Social Networking Entry
Google's Social Networking Entry
01/25/2004 10:32 AMGoogle Tries Out Its Own Friendster-Style
Service: The social networking space is getting awfully crowded,
capped now by Google's entry.
The launch of Orkut comes after Friendster's rejection
late last year of Google's offer to buy the site that has become known
as an online venue for hooking up friends of friends.
It also arrives as new social networking sites are cropping up at a
frenzied pace, fueled by venture capital investments in companies like
Friendster and the business-oriented networking service
LinkedIn.
Still doesn't beat Dogster,
which prompted Anil Dash to plead, "Please God, make it
stopster."
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orkut, google's social networking app
orkut, google's social networking app
01/22/2004 08:41 PMmy mom still does not have her own social networking service yet
Orkut - Google Social Networking
Orkut - Google Social Networking
01/23/2004 02:22 PM Google (kinda) Offers Social Networking
called Orkut Acording to this
CNET artice,
Orkut is the outgrowth of a personal project by Google Engineers Orkut
Buyukkokten. He created "Orkut.com in the past several months by
working on it about one day a week--an amount that Google asks all of
its engineers to devote to personal projects".
And oh, by the way:
"
Membership to orkut is by invitation only.
If you have a friend who's a member of orkut, have them invite you
to join."
1UP: putting social networking into
context
1UP: putting social networking into
context
07/03/2004 01:29 PM
I've waited a
few days for it to settle - but it looks like the world's first digital lifestyle aggregator is live! It's called
1UP.com - and put out by Ziff-Davis Media.
Yes - THAT Ziff-Davis. After selling off their on-line properties
to CNet (including Dan Farber and the ZDNet crowd) - Ziff-Davis is
back in the on-line business in a big way.
They appraoched me in December (thanks to Geoff Workman) to help
them build a killer, no holds barred, get a lot of attention and go
out on a limb - cutting edge system - which would combine social
networking, personal publishing and what ended up to be 26 portal
front-doors.
The site is about gamers and gaming.
It puts social networking into a context of gamers by matching them
up to each other - based upon what games they own, what games they
want to play and even matches wish-trade lists.
There are some NEW things for social networkers - like a PeoplePlace - that feature both
People and Club 'pings' and a nice Facewall search results screen.
Gamers can search for folks via name, location, games, interests, age
or game genre - or any combination.
There's all sorts of folks coming to the site - from wunderkid editors and gamerdudes to grannie gamers and metro sexual gamers.]
There's an 11,000 game database built in, and your typical game
portal features - like cheats, downloads, reviews, top 10 lists, news
- blah blah blah - the list of features goes on and on.
I'm having fun with customers - creating custom clubs, special
promos and eventually new kinds of tournaments. We created allot in
four-five months, so we're not done yet, but you can expect this
system to support RSS, FOAF, OpenReviews and every other new format
coming out representing new kinds of micro-content and
communications.
This will be THE site that all the other gaming sites will copy in
the next 12 months. In the mean time - there's plenty of other ways
of positioning DLAs - into web services, content, on-line communities
and all sorts of brands.
Hardware and software companies will ALL offer DLAs within five
years - so the only question is: "who comes first?" In each
sector DLAs will change the playing field - making it possible for
after-market revenues, viral marketing and sticky happy customers.
So now all my ranting and raving may make sense.
Gamers review games, like to buy things and certainly want to
interact with each others. Watch for a traveling roadshow to connect
cyberspace to meatspace "meet your cyber buddy at the Cow Palace!"
Gamers are blogers now, have lots of friends and are joing Clubs in
droves. Oh yah - for every action a gamer does, he/she gets points -
which are then used for contests and to redeem objects.
So the next time someone asks "what's a DLA" - you just tell them -
1UP.com.
So what's YOUR context? Been wondering how ot make sense of social
networking and personal publishing? Let Broadband Mechanics get you
there.
We plan on building lots of these DLAs over the next five years -
before we get bought out. Apple and Microsoft are doing it - so
should YOU! So we're open for
business - interested parties inquire here.
BTW - in case you're wondering - I'm "TheMacroMind".
My Take on Social Networking Business
Models
My Take on Social Networking Business
Models
01/25/2004 06:22 PMThe launch of Orkut has re-ignited the debates about whether or not
there's any money in this whole "social networking" game. More
specifically, many folks wonder if a purely social networking company
can make money without becoming part of a larger (Google, AOL, Yahoo,
Microsoft, eBay) company. I'm of two minds on this issue. First, this
social networking craze is really just the beginning. The services we
see today are too numerous and require far too much of our time,...
Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
05/22/2004 05:16 PMI'm speaking at the Churchill Club on blogging and social networking,
June 3rd in Palo Alto. Should be lively event, moderated by Dan
Gillmor and Tony Perkins. Other panelists include Jason Calacanis,
Charlene Li, Mark Pincus and Ben Smith. These...
Yahoo 360! Gets into Blogging and Social
Networking
Yahoo 360! Gets into Blogging and Social
Networking
03/17/2005 02:33 AM"Yahoo Inc. is preparing to introduce a new service that blends
several of its Web site's popular features with two of the Internet's
fastest growing activities — blogging and social networking."
Social Networking Bill of Rights
Social Networking Bill of Rights
07/23/2004 11:43 AMComments at bottom....
Here's a post from Clay Shirky.....
Over at the Planetowrk Journal, Duncan Work has proposed a social networking bill of rights, elaborating on these 5
principles:
1. The right to know who is collecting what and for what
purposes;
2. The right to not participate;
3. The right to clear and, in some cases, irrevocable privacy
policies;
4. The right to control access to personal information and attention;
5. The right to participate in a global social networking system
without restrictive barriers.
It’s wrapped up in something that’s a bit too much of an ad for
LinkedIn for my taste, but it’s an interesting start. #3,
especially, will be interesting to see in practice, since the courts
have usually allowed a wide degree of freedom for companies to
unilaterally change their bargain with users, especially for
businesses in bankruptcy, which triggers freedom from all manner of
contractual obligations. Would be fun to write the contract that is
designed to survive that sort of change of control for the data.
[Many-to-Many]
Duncan Work's company - NetDeva -
was bought by Reid Hoffman and LinkedIn. It'll be intersting to see
if this philosophy is personfided in LinkedIn's product and
services.
When it gets to dogs, this social
networking thing has gone to far
When it gets to dogs, this social
networking thing has gone to far
09/03/2004 04:57 AMToday I received an long 'zine email from David Weinberger, who
reminded me that he had set up a neighborhood on the fashionable new
geographically-based academia-powered social networking site,
i-Neighbors, so I went and checked out North Berkeley, the
neighborhood that I, slave to blog-fashion and still hoping that
somewhere, somehow, someday, I will find out what these social
networking sites are good for, had created after reading David's
initial post. To my great surprise I was no longer the only member of
the i-hood, quite a few other people had moved in. As I was checking
out their pages, I saw that one of them had a link with his pet's
name. I clicked and was taken to ... Dogster. Apparently this is old
news to many, but it was the first I had heard of it, and its
companion site, Catster. On one hand this makes sense. There may even
be a business model buried in there somewhere -- a lot of pet owners
are fanatical about their pets, as anyone who has recently followed
San Francisco politics and the battles between the dog owners vs. the
Natural Areas Program can attest. And they spend a lot of money --
Americans spent 32.4 billion dollars on their pets last year, and
upscale pet businesses are doing well. Or there may not be a business
here -- remember the sock puppet? Whatever the business rationale,
this is nuts. Social networking for pets? Give me a break. It is a
symptom, not a cause, but what does it say about what our priorities
are in this country? Nothing that sits well in my stomach....
be kottke's social networking proxy
be kottke's social networking proxy
01/27/2004 01:21 AMwill accept testimonials for food
Online social networking: Friend or foe?
Online social networking: Friend or foe?
01/26/2004 07:41 PMGoogle recently unveiled an online social networking service, dubbed
Orkut www.orkut.com, that it hopes can successfully compete with the
likes of Friendster. ...
Next generation Social Networking
systems
Next generation Social Networking
systems
02/14/2004 02:34 PMOrkut put up a special Valentines Day feature yesterday - which I
used to it's fullest capacity!
It a really simple messaging system - which enables folks to attach
an image, a pre-canned statement and colorize the background of this
'virtual Valentine. The nicest thing is that it appears on the
top of your personal page - and is formatted perfectly! And
normal messaging is turned off.
What this shows is that Orkut is actually breaking out of the mold
of YASNS. Sure the spam feature is inane and may well 'cause
it's demise, but at least he's willing to try something new!@
$%#^$%^%#$&%^#$#
As danah says - everything needs to be put into context and it's
clear Orkut really DOES think of his system as a dating machine.
Right on! Focus and context is key!@^%$&%^$
So what else makes up a NEXT generation social network?
Well make sure to check out Ludicorp's new Flickr system. I've been trolling
around it this morning and I've YET to find anything wrong! Now
I just need to get soem friends to exchange photos with and IM
with.
Flickr is the first social net to intergrate IM and to use the
social net for something BESIDES just mating or buying classified
ads. Watch for a new generation of systems that treat
social networking just as another crucial feature - just as Multimedia
and the Internet are thought of today. I mean - who WOULDN'T
build a system today without media or on-line built into it?
That's where we're going with social nets!
Grok Description matches for social networking as a web service
GrokA matches for social networking as a web service
social networking as a web service
These folks totally groks it..... (their names
are Grant and Cyndie Berg.)
Look, Friendster didn't