Thats exactly why I got sick of Facebook and Myspace and started http://friendsite.com/... boxlight and anyone else, I would appreciate any feedback you have!
Slyborg, as you're most probably a highly respected web designer thats no doubt contributed massively to the online community, not only on here, but I'm sure you've created some beautiful, powerful and functional websites to come up with the creative, positive and constructive comments that you've just made.
However, I would just like to point out... The logo, it's got the site name, kind of like facebook yes, but also like the slashdot logo above, like myspace, and er, surprisingly enough like most other sites out there. Facebook uses a different font that the Myriad Apple font used in our logo, but then I guess most other web 2.0 style websites that used sans-serif fonts and a minimalist logo probably are all accused of ripping off FB as well. Secondly nothing original. I somewhat agree! I took what I considered was best from facebook, the feed and the networks and amalgamated that with the customizability of your profile like myspace. As you're an intelligent guy then no doubt you'll believe in not reinventing the wheel. Sure, there's no new nor original stuff on there, like being able to send SMS's, or use FriendSite.com as a Jabber server, store bookmarks online and share them, download mobile content or setting photos and mobile backgrounds as well as a whole host of other things that I work on, alone, as my day job - but hey like you said, absolutely nothing original.
Oh, and 50,000+ members joined since I started the site in January I think says it all, can I see what you've done thats better?
Thanks Davidsyes, appreciate the support. I'm just a lurker on SD, having read the site for probably over a year. Social Networks are something of an interest to me and so when a story comes up about SN's I tend to make the odd comment! Thanks!
To the person who said that open networks, i.e. social networks that could swap and share information, i.e. no need to create a separate account on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, FriendSite etc is a fantastic idea.. if there's anyone who has any feedback or recommendations, or would be interested in working on such a protocol/proposal - feel free to contact me.
Facebook is a social networking site. Allowing you to stay up-to-date with friends and family, as well as finding new friends that fit your likes/dislikes. It also allows you to setup evites, groups, etc... very similar to the Yahoo/Excite portals years ago, where they try and make the site central to you.
As to the users that state they hate facebook.com and myspace.com.. that's exactly why I started http://friendsite.com/ kind of a mix of both... I'm just hoping that it makes me (with little finger in my mouth) 15 BILLION DOLLARS HA HA HA HA HA
Thats precisely why I created my own version of Facebook without all the 'crap'.. http://friendsite.com/.. I to was fed up of all the applications, crap, join this, join that, it's getting too myspacey.. I'd certainly appreciate any comments, and the main aim is to keep it simple with taking just the best bits of myspace and facebook in one place. Add me if you join: http://friendsite.com/rick
Sorry to troll... but if everyone's rushing around worrying about some tech art (admittedly with a bit of immaturity on the side of the wearer), and held at gunpoint with the wording "its lucky she's in a cell not a morgue" certainly strikes me that Al Qaeda really has won the war on terror.
I don't mean to sound like a Troll.. but gotta love those press junkies! That article smacks of a public relations exercise by YUNiTi. I've been approached many many times by people 'offering' to manage our public exposure.. by releasing various stories, even negative ones, to increase the sites exposure. We've even had stories sent to us 'about our site' and placed into comparison with myspace and facebook, that pitched in exactly the same way as this story - and for us to have it released to the major publications / sites would ONLY cost $X per release.
Give us back proper journalism!
I think meeting people online is a great way to meet new and interesting people, with the added fact that you *generally* get an idea about a person from their profile or what they say without the hassle of shouting into their ear in a bar or the discomfort of a first date. I went onto a couple of sites when I first moved to Vancouver, in addition to meeting people in day-to-day situations, online helped me meet quite a few new and interesting people that I wouldn't have met in a strange city. Indeed I first started chatting to a girl a 2 years ago and we kept in touch via the site and msn for several months before going on a first date - we've just got married and she's 5 months pregnant (wahoo).
Obviously there's dangers to meeting people and forming relationships online, but there's similar dangers to meeting someone in a store or in a bar - the advantage that online provides is you can figure out generally if the person is genuine, their likes and dislikes and it *can* save several dates and then realizing you like different things.
If it worked for me.. it can work for anyone else.. but just like everyday life, you have to keep your wits about you.
Come on, who honestly cares whether someone has got 400 friends or 40, obviously it goes back to the old school days of "I've got more friends than you" but surely we've grown out of it - haven't we?
I run a small, free SN website, that I've tried match between MySpace and Facebook, people do click round and add random people to their friends list, but surely its a good thing to get to meet new people that you wouldn't normally do, whether its online or not?
I actually met my girlfriend, soon to be wife and mother online, so I think its a great thing and just some fun, but you have to admit all the news about Facebook groups and someone getting thrown out of school, reporting of bullying online as well as all the 'analysis' of Facebook or Myspace is all about publicity (positive or negative doesnt matter) for them - I'm sure half of it is marketing!
it would make my day if there were a way to flip that around - so that a user had to do some physically difficult feat in order to flag an email as urgent.
Yeap.. just use Vista - I'm sure you'll burn off several hundred calories each time you want to do that;-)
I completely agree with you, and know that my priorities of securing peoples information and ensuring there are no holes far outweights Microsofts obligations;-) It was fairly easy to manage the 'third person', any vulnerabilities were noted down and acted on immediately, and he was paid to find further vulnerabilities (which fortunately he didnt). My reasoning for this was someone, or he, was going to find any holes anyway, what better way for him to report them to me and get paid for doing it.
Sure, its only a small website with several thousand transactions a day, but I care about my users and wanted any security implications brought to my attention as soon as possible, and fixed as soon as possible, and our agreement worked fantastically - no further holes have been found, and lessons were learnt. Thats probably why me and Microsoft differ, I care about my end users - you only have to look at their reoccuring.ANI bug and refusal to fess up to realize the difference;-)
Can you imagine if companies actually recruited these people who were skilled enough to break their OSs?
I know I've paid someone who hacked into my site, to find any further holes (fortunately they didnt!) and its far cheaper in the long run..
Slashdot Mirror
Can't the develop condoms that would filter out those particular idiots as well?
You might find that the word UPTO used within the text...
So UPTO 20 years in jail
and UPTO 250,000 fine.
For a first offense and if the parties plead guilty then the judge would probably give them the fine that you've said..
Do it several times, be an ass.. and you'll be at the top of the UPTO scale..
Thats exactly why I got sick of Facebook and Myspace and started http://friendsite.com/ ... boxlight and anyone else, I would appreciate any feedback you have!
Thanks Cromar
Slyborg, as you're most probably a highly respected web designer thats no doubt contributed massively to the online community, not only on here, but I'm sure you've created some beautiful, powerful and functional websites to come up with the creative, positive and constructive comments that you've just made.
However, I would just like to point out... The logo, it's got the site name, kind of like facebook yes, but also like the slashdot logo above, like myspace, and er, surprisingly enough like most other sites out there. Facebook uses a different font that the Myriad Apple font used in our logo, but then I guess most other web 2.0 style websites that used sans-serif fonts and a minimalist logo probably are all accused of ripping off FB as well. Secondly nothing original. I somewhat agree! I took what I considered was best from facebook, the feed and the networks and amalgamated that with the customizability of your profile like myspace. As you're an intelligent guy then no doubt you'll believe in not reinventing the wheel. Sure, there's no new nor original stuff on there, like being able to send SMS's, or use FriendSite.com as a Jabber server, store bookmarks online and share them, download mobile content or setting photos and mobile backgrounds as well as a whole host of other things that I work on, alone, as my day job - but hey like you said, absolutely nothing original.
Oh, and 50,000+ members joined since I started the site in January I think says it all, can I see what you've done thats better?
Thanks Davidsyes, appreciate the support. I'm just a lurker on SD, having read the site for probably over a year. Social Networks are something of an interest to me and so when a story comes up about SN's I tend to make the odd comment! Thanks!
To the person who said that open networks, i.e. social networks that could swap and share information, i.e. no need to create a separate account on Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, FriendSite etc is a fantastic idea.. if there's anyone who has any feedback or recommendations, or would be interested in working on such a protocol/proposal - feel free to contact me.
Facebook is a social networking site. Allowing you to stay up-to-date with friends and family, as well as finding new friends that fit your likes/dislikes. It also allows you to setup evites, groups, etc... very similar to the Yahoo/Excite portals years ago, where they try and make the site central to you.
As to the users that state they hate facebook.com and myspace.com.. that's exactly why I started http://friendsite.com/ kind of a mix of both... I'm just hoping that it makes me (with little finger in my mouth) 15 BILLION DOLLARS HA HA HA HA HA
Thats precisely why I created my own version of Facebook without all the 'crap'.. http://friendsite.com/ .. I to was fed up of all the applications, crap, join this, join that, it's getting too myspacey.. I'd certainly appreciate any comments, and the main aim is to keep it simple with taking just the best bits of myspace and facebook in one place. Add me if you join: http://friendsite.com/rick
And I noticed that on approximately 5/100 of their computers, Microsoft listed the French-language Nvidia driver as an appropriate hardware update.
Yay... the IT industry should be happy, helps to keep IT people in a job - thats why I love MS!
Sorry to troll... but if everyone's rushing around worrying about some tech art (admittedly with a bit of immaturity on the side of the wearer), and held at gunpoint with the wording "its lucky she's in a cell not a morgue" certainly strikes me that Al Qaeda really has won the war on terror.
His name shouldn't be G. Tank.. it should be Tommy Tank
(english rhyming slang for you yanks)
What kind of phone based social networking were you thinking of?
I don't mean to sound like a Troll.. but gotta love those press junkies! That article smacks of a public relations exercise by YUNiTi. I've been approached many many times by people 'offering' to manage our public exposure.. by releasing various stories, even negative ones, to increase the sites exposure. We've even had stories sent to us 'about our site' and placed into comparison with myspace and facebook, that pitched in exactly the same way as this story - and for us to have it released to the major publications / sites would ONLY cost $X per release. Give us back proper journalism!
I think meeting people online is a great way to meet new and interesting people, with the added fact that you *generally* get an idea about a person from their profile or what they say without the hassle of shouting into their ear in a bar or the discomfort of a first date. I went onto a couple of sites when I first moved to Vancouver, in addition to meeting people in day-to-day situations, online helped me meet quite a few new and interesting people that I wouldn't have met in a strange city. Indeed I first started chatting to a girl a 2 years ago and we kept in touch via the site and msn for several months before going on a first date - we've just got married and she's 5 months pregnant (wahoo).
Obviously there's dangers to meeting people and forming relationships online, but there's similar dangers to meeting someone in a store or in a bar - the advantage that online provides is you can figure out generally if the person is genuine, their likes and dislikes and it *can* save several dates and then realizing you like different things.
If it worked for me.. it can work for anyone else.. but just like everyday life, you have to keep your wits about you.
So they've reduced the price by $200?
Icon of today? iCon of today more like!
This is a scare article, designed to make the Bush administration look incompetent.
I dont think we need this article to do that..
I don't know if it's a good thing to find a new mother online... :-|
Yeah, erm, shuffles feet, erm, you can pick anything up online - Whoops
Come on, who honestly cares whether someone has got 400 friends or 40, obviously it goes back to the old school days of "I've got more friends than you" but surely we've grown out of it - haven't we?
I run a small, free SN website, that I've tried match between MySpace and Facebook, people do click round and add random people to their friends list, but surely its a good thing to get to meet new people that you wouldn't normally do, whether its online or not?
I actually met my girlfriend, soon to be wife and mother online, so I think its a great thing and just some fun, but you have to admit all the news about Facebook groups and someone getting thrown out of school, reporting of bullying online as well as all the 'analysis' of Facebook or Myspace is all about publicity (positive or negative doesnt matter) for them - I'm sure half of it is marketing!
Jst pt my kebord n the wshmacine nd it ddnt wrk :(
Crap parking mate, can you not park straight?? ;-)
(and in this case it is the UK and Australia which have inherited the same legal system).
;-)
Inherited as in having it exported with shiploads of convicts? Its no wonder their legal system is more liberal!
it would make my day if there were a way to flip that around - so that a user had to do some physically difficult feat in order to flag an email as urgent.
;-)
Yeap.. just use Vista - I'm sure you'll burn off several hundred calories each time you want to do that
Hi Matthew..
;-) It was fairly easy to manage the 'third person', any vulnerabilities were noted down and acted on immediately, and he was paid to find further vulnerabilities (which fortunately he didnt). My reasoning for this was someone, or he, was going to find any holes anyway, what better way for him to report them to me and get paid for doing it.
.ANI bug and refusal to fess up to realize the difference ;-)
I completely agree with you, and know that my priorities of securing peoples information and ensuring there are no holes far outweights Microsofts obligations
Sure, its only a small website with several thousand transactions a day, but I care about my users and wanted any security implications brought to my attention as soon as possible, and fixed as soon as possible, and our agreement worked fantastically - no further holes have been found, and lessons were learnt. Thats probably why me and Microsoft differ, I care about my end users - you only have to look at their reoccuring
Can you imagine if companies actually recruited these people who were skilled enough to break their OSs? I know I've paid someone who hacked into my site, to find any further holes (fortunately they didnt!) and its far cheaper in the long run..
Do you think the RIAA lobbied Michigan for the free ipods? I believe they need some more cash..
"Here you go young child, here's a free ipod, can't pay for music on it? Don't worry - HA HA HA"
Rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of suing all those kids..