Wednesday, March 03, 2004

The list has been moved to here: Social Networking Sites and Software sorted by name Please note that YOU can edit this list yourself to make it more accurate and up-to-date! I am not personally maintaining this list anymore, I am counting on all of you to continually keep it updated. Thanks very much. Websites Ryze: business ecademy: business LinkedIn: business itsnotwhatyouknow: business Friendly Favors: business ZeroDegrees: business (corporate) Accolo: jobs RealContacts: jobs Eliyon: business, jobs Friendster: friendship, dating Sona Matchmaker: friendship, dating (India) Huminity: friendship everyonesconnected.com: friendship Ringo: friendship PalJunction: friendship, business, dating, roommates Tribe: friendship, business, dating, roommates, classifieds Club Nexus at Stanford - need URL: alumni, article MeetUp: in-person Buddy Zoo: IM social networking analysis *PayDemocracy: political groups *classmates.com: alumni *.reunion.com: alumni *InfoSpace: yellow pages (references) *SwitchBoard: yellow pages (references) *Match.com: dating *People on Page: friendship, dating *all of the other dating sites People Aggregator: ??? *= could easily cross over into social networking Software: Spoke SW: business (corporate) Visible Path, business (corporate) **wwPlaxo.: contacts **GoodContacts: contacts **Accucard: contacts ** contact software could easily add social networking features as they have all of the necessary data Blogs with some features of Social Networking livejournal: blog Expressions: visual blogging Fotolog: visual blogging Question Marks WisomeBuilder NetDiva Preliminary Analysis It seems pretty clear that not all of these social networking sites or software will survive. Clay Shirky states "The *only* thing these services have to base a business on is lack of interoperability". I believe there is another part to the value proposition that they offer users -- the ability to go beyond 1 degree of separation. However, it's really difficult to think of situations where going more than 2 degrees of separation is worthwhile, unless you are a contagious disease - see my whitepaper Links and Nodes in Social Networks. Unless >2 degrees of separation and node secrecy are valued by users (maybe not everyone but an interestingly large set of users), an "open" networking service will make these proprietary services and software obsolete. before they've made a penny. Acknowledgements Thanks to the many people who helped me compile this list including: Clay Shirky Danah Boyd Doug Rush Sean Murphy Debi Jones Patti Anklam If I left your name off let me know and I will add it. - posted by Cynthia @ 9/14/2003 09:49:58 AM 6:11:51 PM     OK OK - you are endlessly fascinating - juxtaposing posts - On The Perceived Hermanetics of Didactic Fundamentalism and then this one...  I am hot just imagining you in your bikini - pink hat - darjeeling dream And Great Link to Daniel Day Lewis as Cecil - talk about contrasts - Room with a View and then Last of the Mohicans - don't underestimate the flexibilty of us tweedy guys... ============================================== Cock-A-Doodle Do. Cock-A-Doodle Do Rise and shine, guys. Let's go. It's getting late. 5:22 am here I suppose that rooster noise is what woke me, figuratively, metaphorically, not literally, as there is no strutting bird anywhere in sight, but in my mind's eye, which is to say a rather sexy dream woke me, what's a girl to do, but stagger out of bed, say ... "hmmm" about that, put a light on, shuffle into the kitchen, grab the counter for balance, flip the switch on the teapot, reach for the Darjeeling to bring her back to Earth, and with spring battling winter and my dreamy landscape a hot summer beach, I don a most inappropriate but perfect costume, last summer's black and white bikini, a black cashmere sweater, a pink faux fur hat. You can't take this life too seriously you see. I think, "Who Was That Masked Man?" Maybe ... him? Maybe ... him? Maybe ... him? Maybe ... him? Maybe ... him? No, must have been ... oh yes, he's the one. [Halley's Comment] 11:13:45 AM     Thank you Halley - once again for keeping me on my literary toes.  My introduction to Uxor comes from an a capella song I sang back in high-school.  It is a very sophomoric tribute to latin lessons by John O'Keefe: Amo, Amas AMO, amas, I love a lass As a cedar tall and slender! Sweet cowslips' grace Is her Nominative Case, And she's of the Feminine Gender. Rorum, corum, sunt Divorum!    Harum, scarum Divo! Tag rag, merry derry, periwig and hatband,    Hic hac, horum Genetivo! Can I decline A Nymph divine? Her voice as a flute is dulcis! Her oculi bright! Her manus white! And soft, when I tacto, her pulse is! Rorum, corum, sunt Divorum!    Harum scarum Divo! Tag rag , merry derry, periwig and hatband,    Hic hac, horum Genetivo! O, how bella Is my Puella! I'll kiss sæculorum! If I've luck, Sir! She's my Uxor! O, dies benedictorum! Rorum, corum, sunt Divorum!    Harum scarum Divo! Tag rag, merry derry, periwig and hatband,    Hic, hac, horum Genetivo! John O'Keefe Note the line above - "if I've luck sir, she's my Uxor."  In other words the beautiful woman he is singing about will become his wife!  Or, at least will perform some "wifely" activities...;-) Thanks again======================================================= Uxorial. Uxorial I used this word "uxorial" today on the phone with someone who knows a lot of words and he didn't know this one. It's a great word. I have nothing but avuncular or perhaps, fraternal feelings for this guy, btw. And he is not particularly uxorious either. He simply needed to ask her a question before we could plan an outing. [Halley's Comment] 10:56:33 AM

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