Miguel On Life

This bug is pervasive and common to al Web2.0ish social networking websites.

Generally, when you enter a social web, the application asks for your IM (GTALK, AIM, MSN)  Accounts to check if one of your contact is already in that sociual network and so automatically connect with him  (Examples, LikedIN,Facebook, Twitter,  and so).

So what is the bug? well it happens that for some IM Systems like MSN (and I think GMAIL) you can use your custom email. For example my MSN Messenger account is the same that my GMAIL e-mail addresses. So, what happens then? The system’s designers did not  consider it? Now,  I cannot import my MSN contacts into Facebook  or LinkedIn for that reason. They wrongly supposed that all MSN accounts “should” end in hotmail.com or msn.com

Changos.

Alejandro Forero from Freak Unido’s hall of fame (:P) have been busy lately. I really like this guy’s ideas because some of them are very orginal,  even if sometimes I feel that they are little strange. Anyway this is not the case and this guy have come up with two new systems Eeekfun and Chr97.

EekFun

Basically Eeekfun is a weblog based Social Network. One of its main features is that through the use of the user’s weblog it can extract a list of items  the user has written about, e.g Movies or Books. (you could say that it is a an aggregator on steroids) One of the main reasons that made Alejandro create this system was the fact that social networking sites like Facebook does not ofer a more deep interaction among the users and it is only limited to “listing” what the user likes. Although in the specific case of Facebook there are “applications” that allow a certain degree of interaction they are locked in the Facebook world. Eekfun provides a good way to share opinions about items and can bee seen as an alternative way of browsing another person’s Weblog.

Alejandro also says that people is not blogging anymore because of the Social sites, I dissent with this statement, I believe that Weblogs were a fade and not everyone want to blog or have the time to do it. I think that pretty much people were creating weblogs because everyone else had one, and many of those blogs didn’t even contain original material.

I would be nice to have RSS feed for each category of items (Movies, Books, etc) and a RSS per user that would allow the user to publitize the items’ reviews (and the system) through their weblogs.

Eekfun looks “fun”, I would like to see features like rating a movie or book for example, that would be nice. I haven’t tried it yet but if Nelson still has invitations I probably will ask for one.

Chr97 (in 97 Chrs or less)

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