http://www.corante.com/getreal/archives/2005/06/13/social_networking_broken_boring_or_offtrack.php I saw that Olga Kharif and Molly Wood, of Businessweek and CNet, respectively, have pieces that suggest that today's public social networking services don't offer much of a reason to play. This thread has been going on for a long... en-us http://blog.zedtycho.com/2005/06/16/they-are-ranting-again-at-corante/ The opt out of social networks meme has been around and hotly debated. Guess what? they are talking about it again at Corante. The main issues as I see them stem from purpose and context. Metoo players are churning out social software sites in ... http://www.globalvillage.nu/journalentry.exc?journalEntryID=3 Building more general systems tends to be a different experience. Whereas specialized services are just that, specialized. With generalized systems more and more useful patterns will start to emerge. These patterns in turn let you simplify your interfa... http://como.typepad.com/community_mobilization/2005/06/social_software.html I really enjoyed Stowe's post on Get Real questioning the value of the social network as we know it. http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/06/13/social_networking_software_not_even_close.php Stowe Boyd has a good post about social networking on Get Real (Social Networking: Broken, Boring, or Offtrack?). I've never really understood the attraction of these things. I joined one, but couldn't really make myself interested in visiting it. As...