I don't think I ever wrote anything in detail about Friendzy, which at first glance some months ago looked like yet-another-dating-service-disguised-as-SNA.

They recently announced an upgrade to the service that includes something absolutely necessary: blocking. You need to be able to block requests from specific individuals. I need this at any social networking solution: I desperately need it at LinkedIn, where, somehow, organically, I have amassed a network of 100+ people, and wher I am getting requests every few days.

But since I went back to Friendzy to check out the blocking feature, I though I would at least highlight some things I thought were interesting there.

I had not explored (or noticed?) the extended profile capability for Friendzy, which includes a lightweight blogging capability (as shown above).

As I have repeatedly stated, like the recent post about Small Planet, this area will be the epicenter of the convergence of implicit SN (a la blogging) and the explicit SN that goes on in SNAs.

Friendzy has not seemed to catch on much with the business crowd -- I haven't received many requests for contact there; only one, I think. But their recently announced support for uploading contacts from Outlook may change all that. More to follow.

It still looks like a socializing for fun and dating sort of site, rather than being geared toward business, but the inclusion of classified ads shows that they are trending toward a fee-for-services model, anyway, like Tribe.net and others.

The dating side of the world is still strong there. Check out the Friendzicons that you can send to people.