Friendster

[archerships]

So I signed up with Friendster. All the hepcats and cool people are doing it. You should too, 'cause I heard rumors they're charging soon. It's sort of like livejournal without the journal, except you get to give your friends testimonials, and it's geared toward making new friends/lovers/etc. Code word: coke.

Comments

Thanks!

[s3nsational.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this link. Friendster looks great! I've been looking for something like this for a long time. :)

[missalicia1973.livejournal.com]

Did you know people on the network when you joined? I just joined. But I'm not sure my friends are gonna follow suit. So at the moment, I'm a network of one on friendster. The lonely node. *grin*

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Well, I met Joel once, and Hepkitten (aka Hep) is one of my LJ friends, so yah, sort of. You can add me if you want!

[missalicia1973.livejournal.com]

Okay! I just added you. My request to be your friend is being processed. *smile* Thanks.

[w74endy.livejournal.com]

joel is coolpeople?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Of course, Joel is coolpeople!

Heathen smartass. Econ god. IP-warrior. Babe magnet.

Joel isn't just coolpeople. Joel defines coolpeople.

I mean, c'mon.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Done -- how do I add you?

[jozafiend.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I was thinking about creating a very similar software, but more broad. I'm glad to see the niche is being filled however. It looks a bit like Ryze, but better. I added you as a friend :)

friendster

[delores.livejournal.com]

I added you as a friend, but I realized you won't know my "real" name when the confirmation comes in -- I'll be the "Terri" mail ...

Re: friendster

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[denshi.livejournal.com]

Already there, under 'denshi'. Feed my recommends page!

[jozafiend.livejournal.com]

I guess you can't search by username or just name or part of name. The only search i saw was email addy or by interests. Not the best. So I looked you up by your email addy on LJ and found you. I added you as a friend, though I don't know you at all - so hi! Nice to meet you, vikings are always good people to know :)

Decentralized FOAF

[mlinksva.livejournal.com]

"... rumors that they're charging soon" sounds like a reason to not sign up. No doubt it's bootsrapping rapidly, but as a centralized, proprietary site it'll always be of limited use. Sixdegrees.com was interesting for a few months a few years ago too.

Decentralized Friend-Of-A-Friend isn't as immediately useful, but the sooner you start FOAF whoring, the more powerful :-) you'll be in the glorious future.

Use the FOAF-a-matic to generate your profile. I'd been meaning to do exactly that for awhile now, finally did. Thanks.

Re: Decentralized FOAF

[crasch.livejournal.com]

It depends on what they charge for, and how they do it--LJ charges money after all. When LJ first started, they were giving out permanent accounts, and although I regard my LJ fees as well spent, I would prefer to have a permanent account.

The proprietary, centralized nature of the Friendster service does bother me. That said, one of my goals in joining Friendster is to meet like-minded single women. For that goal, it seems to be a better way (aside from LJ) than any of the existing alternatives, such as Match.com, etc.

Thanks for the link to the "FOAF-a-matic"--I'll check it out.

livejournal = open source + more content

[seattlesque.livejournal.com]

Friendster does look something like what I was contemplating the design of, but I dropped all those ideas once I found LiveJournal.

It strikes me that the LJ price ($25/yr, and being able to invite 12 people) makes people at least slightly selective about who they invite, without it being an actual real barrier to anyone joining...

Having the LJ software be open source and to be able to download your journal entries helps keep the price in line with the market cost of what it takes to run a server...

Interesting to see that friendster-type things are on the rise. I imagine we'll find the world to be making (and breaking!) connections much more rapidly between people.