Wednesday, January 21, 2004

social software is overwhelming. this morning, i thought i'd make the rounds on friendster.com, tribe.net, everything2.com and, of course, blogger.com up in here. it's a black hole i tell ya. definitely overwhelming, especially if you begin to read about your friends and their interests and then follow those interests and etc...

anyway, to critique the lot, i think tribe.net is looking pretty good. friendster would be 10x better if it wasn't slow as old honey. tribe offers tons of little clubs, called tribes, that have message boards and galleries. there's even a georgia tech tribe although it only has 23 members or so.

and, of course, everything2 is kingdom of teddles. i checked his homenode out and it's chock full. although i suspect his everything2 comsumption has dropped a bit since the fort days (he now has 96 writeups which is only a few more than a year ago i think). but that could mean he's only treating everything2 as a social playground instead of an encyclopedia.

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