DISQUS

It's interesting that right now I am reading a book that makes this same point. "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman

Brilliant way to deal with spam and those content consumers. Of course if the service isn't valued enough the content creators won't pay.

Some of the nice features of diigo that are missing from del.icio.us is the ability to have a conversation about a bookmark. I setup a tag for my company and bookmark relevant articles there. It would be nice to carry on a conversation linked to that article but there is no way to do that in del.icio.us or other bookmarking sites. People can subscribe to the RSS feed of a particular tag or they can have a conversation with me about that link. Now if they added trackbacks for the conversation so that, if its a blog posting, the conversation could be linked in that would be even better.

I would prefer to do these things in del.icio.us since most of my bookmarks are there, but since Yahoo! bought them development of new features has been fairly stagnant.

This is real similar to spokeo which has a nicer interface. What it is missing is the ability to only subscribe to particular friend feeds.

It's nice that you can comment on a feed item, but I can tell how I would know if someone has commented on one. I guess some work on the UI and some better controls would be nice.

I guess the big questions is shouldn't most of this be connected in your blog anyway?

Night dweller. I can't stand florescent lighting!

If you just had one lifestream page and a lifestream RSS feed everyone would only need to go to one place to stay up to date on all that information. Here is a sample of mine http://elroyjetson.org/lifestream/

I found one of your notes above right on the money: "Orkut failed because it was just social networking for the sake of social networking. Not targeted at a specific group of people. Nobody who cares! Disease-like replication and then died down. Nothing to do there."

This is the answer to Yahoo! 360. Fantastically engineered MySpace clone, falls down because once you generate all these lists, actual interaction with others is difficult if not impractical.

Which leads to the point that makes a social site successful. People want to interact in someway with other people. If it is not apparent how this interaction happens people will leave. Having tags or other social elements isn't enough.