Good idea, but a lot of others had it, too. There is already a large number of social networking sites with web interfaces that are building and organizing themselves. For example, to name a few, http://groups.yahoo.com/ http://groups.msn.com/ http://www.myspace.com/ http://www.friendster.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/ http://www.netrelate.com/ http://cluster.tribe.net/
More are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_sites -J. ________________________________ From: Nicholas Thompson Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:31 AM Subject: [FRIAM] The first day of the rest of nick's life [...] One project that seems particularly worthy, whose working name is the Purple People Project, seeks to provide a web "dating service" for people or web "chess club" who want to talk to, argue with, share views with, , people who disagree with them on major issues of the day. I imagine a web interface which would help people find one another and then structure thier discussions to keep people away from unproductive discourse or perhaps to guide them toward productive discourse. I think to get it rolling we would need web people, philosophical people, political people. What I would love to think of is some way in which the site could build itself [...] Has anybody out there had similar thoughts??? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
