I have yet to find a social networking service that isn't just a bunch of crappy collaboration tools glued together in a dating site format.
Take Orkut communities. They're just low rent versions of web based message boards that have been around for quite a while now. There are communities for just about any subject already, but technology-wise they offer nothing that other online communication tools haven't been doing better for some time now. Ditto for most of the other features orkut has. Do we really need to reinvent email, message boards, IRC, and IM; badly?
Yeah, you can read someone's profile. But that's really more useful on a special purpose dating site. For most other purposes it's just not need to know information. Does the fact that you can't easily call up Linus's preferences in movies matter at all in the context of discussions about the Linux kernel? I don't think so.
I don't see the value added, quite the opposite in fact. Orkut interests me more as a playground for bots that game it's various ranking systems than anything that I would use to meet people and exchange information.
We are allowed to buy and sell from India. They are allowed to buy and sell from us. Indians can move here and work here, and we can move there and work there. But that's not freedom. Freedom is when our government tells them they can't work here, and their government tells us we can't work there, and we can't sell to each other without paying extra, or we go to jail. Do I have that right?
This isn't really a preview, more of a re-writing of parts of the FAQ availible at the official site. It really adds nothing to what is known except for a couple of new screenshots, and the author seems to lift a lot of phrases almost whole cloth out of pre-existing material - most annoying for those of us looking for real new dirt:)
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I have yet to find a social networking service that isn't just a bunch of crappy collaboration tools glued together in a dating site format.
Take Orkut communities. They're just low rent versions of web based message boards that have been around for quite a while now. There are communities for just about any subject already, but technology-wise they offer nothing that other online communication tools haven't been doing better for some time now. Ditto for most of the other features orkut has. Do we really need to reinvent email, message boards, IRC, and IM; badly?
Yeah, you can read someone's profile. But that's really more useful on a special purpose dating site. For most other purposes it's just not need to know information. Does the fact that you can't easily call up Linus's preferences in movies matter at all in the context of discussions about the Linux kernel? I don't think so.
I don't see the value added, quite the opposite in fact. Orkut interests me more as a playground for bots that game it's various ranking systems than anything that I would use to meet people and exchange information.
So let me get this straight.
We are allowed to buy and sell from India. They are allowed to buy and sell from us. Indians can move here and work here, and we can move there and work there. But that's not freedom. Freedom is when our government tells them they can't work here, and their government tells us we can't work there, and we can't sell to each other without paying extra, or we go to jail. Do I have that right?
This isn't really a preview, more of a re-writing of parts of the FAQ availible at the official site. It really adds nothing to what is known except for a couple of new screenshots, and the author seems to lift a lot of phrases almost whole cloth out of pre-existing material - most annoying for those of us looking for real new dirt :)