At a second look... http://pinboard.in/ this is very close to what I proposed. The fee is a one-time sign up fee. Their business model is very interesting but will prevent growth (the more users the more it costs to join - clearly not designed by an economist! - reminiscent of the social security business model).
On Jan 18, 8:30 am, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> wrote: > $9.19? They got the business model wrong. > > On Jan 18, 12:12 am, Tom Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >http://pinboard.ingivesme a list of people to check out based on their > > bookmarking history. I don't know the details of the algorithm and there's > > no flexibility in refining the recommendations but I've found some > > interesting people to add to my 'network'. You can only see the username of > > the person. The ability to find out more about people and then contact them > > as Massimo suggests would be a good feature. > > > The Facebook feature that lets you create 'lists' of friends so you can > > share things with sub-groups of your friends is not subtle enough - as far > > as I can tell it only allows you to send 'messages' to people in a list - > > this can be intrusive as it ends up in their 'inbox' and also usually > > emailed. It would be better if you could also do 'wall' posts that can only > > be seen by a sub group of friends (e.g. rude joke for my friends to see but > > not family).
