You are looking at an ancient archive from back in the day. It has been preserved here mostly out of nostalgia not because any of this is worth reading.
Sigh
I’ve just signed up to Friendster thinking – this will be cool now I can socially network with my friends…
Yeah, well sue me for being arsefacedly wrong about this one. It was crap, sluggish, non-intuitive and, worse of all, non-functional. I have no idea what the hell they were doing with my information, but they were not storing it that is for sure.
Now I’ve bloody invited all my online friends and they will want to know why I asked them to join a crap site.
Friendster has damaged my reputation that is for sure.
I tried to find some good GPL stuff to run a mini version but don’t hold your breath, it seems the reason Friendster is crap is no decent hacker can be arsed to compete with it.
Today’s lesson – just because something is the leading name in something doesn’t stop it from being rubbish.
Which reminds me…
I keep getting nagged into returning to Live Journal to join in… I can’t say I think much of old LJ but the social side of it is very cool.
If we could have that in the wild out here it would be a very fine thing indeed. The problem is that every time a new social construct is created a new set of profile data has to be typed… It would be cool if a standard for global profile creation could be made so you simply have to enter your profile URL and “bingo!” details entered.
FOAF is probably the nearest thing we have to that and to be honest I don’t want to give the spammers a list of my mates’ email addresses.
There has to be another way.
Archive Notes
Past me should have been more careful about what he wished for. Signing up for social things is easier but at the cost of almost complete control of your data belonging to a few large companies.
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