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I've been fascinated by intentional communities for nearly a decade. The server this journal runs on exists largely for the fostering and support of small social networks.
Therefore, I've been watching the evolution of personal networking services with great interest -- starting way back with the original sixdegrees and planetall services several years ago all the way through the current friendster.com mania.
The latest service to catch my eye is Tribe.net, which has explicit social-group support (I love the little tribe-based message boards, though their interface could use some work) and has less of a meat-market feel than friendster does. In addition, their "find people" functionality lets you search by interest *and* location at the same time, which is my favorite "better than friendster" feature they've got. Did you know that friendster will let you search your personal network for "people local to me" or "people who list scrabble as an interest" but *not* "people local to me who list scrabble as an interest"? What good does a list of scrabble-players do me if I can't easily find the ones that could met me at the local coffeeshop for a game?
Anyway, if you're into intentional communities or social networking, go check it out. It's still in beta and has far fewer users than friendster, so if you're frustrated with friendster's growing pains, this might be an enjoyable place for you (at least until tribe.net grows to be big enough so it's having growing pains, too).
Posted by sev @ 01:04 PM PST |
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Posted by amir @ 10/17/2003 12:56 AM PST