Funny how this intrawebnetsuperhighway thingy works. I posted my Attack of the Clones story about the backlash against Friendster, and then I posted a link to the blog entry on the very bulletin board system on Friendster that I was trashing, and within an hour the very person that invited me into the Friendster fold in the first place had the solution to my problems: Tribe.net.
Tribe.net is yet another virtual community aggregation site on the web. There were others before Friendster, such as Sixdegrees that flamed out, and there are others such as Ryze, LinkedIn, EveryOnesConnected that are around right now but not as cool as Friendster. Tribe.net seems to have learned from these other services. Plus they've paid attention to some of the points that I raised about fostering discussion and community through moderation and linking people that aren't in your immediate network. The mere fact that they have a pop-up menu that shows [anyone/4 degrees/3 degrees/2 degrees/a friend] is a huge improvement over what Friendster is doing. They get it.
After looking around the site for an hour or so, I have to say that it seems like the right direction. I already notice some of the obvious net.personalities such as Justin Hall and Xeni Jardin have picked up on it. In fact if I had been reading Boing Boing more carefully I might have picked up on this a little sooner.
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