I think the sociology behind social networking sites (SNS) is fascinating. Danah Doyd discussions the various types of relationships formed on these sites in the article Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites and an article called Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace talks about the differences between two of the most popular SNS.
Posted by Matthew at June 25, 2007 11:06 AMFacebook, MySpace, Friendster, blah blah blah... My grand scheme that will make me millions: a social networking site like OpenID and using OpenID (which would, essentially, require other sites to use OpenID to authenticate)... but, think FeedRinse, Facebook, OpenID, LinkedIn, with some reliable relationship mapping between who you know, how you know them, when you met them... yep. Millions. Wanna help? ;-)
Posted by: Josh at June 25, 2007 07:35 PM