I got invited to Orkut a little while ago, and signed up for the heck of it. Aside from the invitee, I found almost no one there that I knew, so I invited a coupla people. But then it occurred to me that it might be a bit silly... *I* already know these people, what do I need Orkut for? Maybe it's that Orkut is even geekier than I am, and one of the other services would work better. Or maybe it'd be more interesting if I was looking for a date. Or maybe it's just another sort of web forum, and I've already got enough of those. Am I missing something? Should the Phoenyx be jumping on this bandwagon with a gamer-specific version? -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > I got invited to Orkut a little while ago, and signed up for the heck of > it. Aside from the invitee, I found almost no one there that I knew, so I > invited a coupla people. But then it occurred to me that it might be a > bit silly... *I* already know these people, what do I need Orkut for? > > Maybe it's that Orkut is even geekier than I am, and one of the other > services would work better. Or maybe it'd be more interesting if I was > looking for a date. Or maybe it's just another sort of web forum, and > I've already got enough of those. > > Am I missing something? Should the Phoenyx be jumping on this bandwagon > with a gamer-specific version? > Orkut? (I know, I know, off to Google with me...) -Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Bill Hamilton wrote: BH>Orkut? BH>(I know, I know, off to Google with me...) In more ways than one, yes. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Bill Hamilton wrote: > > BH>Orkut? > BH>(I know, I know, off to Google with me...) > > In more ways than one, yes. > Yes, I saw that. -Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
Karen J. Cravens opened its mouth and moved its tongue and so spake to me and said, On 10-04-04 03:28: >I got invited to Orkut a little while ago, and signed up for the heck of >it. Aside from the invitee, I found almost no one there that I knew, so I >invited a coupla people. But then it occurred to me that it might be a >bit silly... *I* already know these people, what do I need Orkut for? Because, with Orkut, you might find some interesting friends/acquintances you *do not* know, but which your friends are friends with. However, it doesn't, in my experience, offer anything groundshakingly new to the whole friend-of-a-friend web services scene. (They really should implement FOAF[1] output, that would make their service much more useful...)>Am I missing something? Should the Phoenyx be jumping on this bandwagon >with a gamer-specific version? I think that would be great, if it implemented FOAF[1] output ;) Actually, I don't think there are any Friend-of-a-Friend services for roleplayers out there, so... if Phoenyx want to do it, they'd/you'd be some of a 1) FOAF public site: http://www.foaf-project.org/ Discussion of LiveJournal's FOAF-support: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ljfoaf/ - -- Freso # Jabber ID = freso@jabber.com aka Frederik S. Olesen # PGP/GPG key = 0xAF0D01D6 Web: http://freso.dcginternet.co.uk // Personal info, misc. LJ : http://freso.livejournal.com // Diary, thoughts DA : http://freso.deviantart.com // Writings -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFAd57sAU4LE68NAdYRAhJRAJ9zeKlX9wy597ZRydAqlTsixF63YQCgn0sa m1NC/CoHnl1e4d9Fw2XOCiM= =PlwV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote: FFSO>Because, with Orkut, you might find some interesting FFSO>friends/acquintances you *do not* know, but which your friends are FFSO>friends with. But that doesn't work if your friends are all new to Orkut too, which is my problem. FFSO>I think that would be great, if it implemented FOAF[1] output ;) FFSO>Actually, I don't think there are any Friend-of-a-Friend services for FFSO>roleplayers out there, so... if Phoenyx want to do it, they'd/you'd be FFSO>some of a I think we're already some of a. But we've been looking at a more formalized version of the wiki's profile page (since a centralized registration is part of the new software, though it doesn't technically have to be done on the web), and adding the FOAF standard wouldn't be difficult at all. To a certain extent, I'm not seeing Orkut (Friendster, Tribes, et al.) offering anything the Phoenyx doesn't already, except that they're clunkier in the conversation area where we're clunkier (for now) in the user-linking area. MHO is that the conversation area is the more important of the two... -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
