Matthew and stevenlichen: Nevertheless, I appreciate you guys’ inputs. Love to hear your views.

Privacy fanatics will go nuts about a database that anyone can come along, take a sticky note and write something about them. Do we want a searchable database of people that is more… easily accessed? All of the information here can be found via popular search engines such as Google with effort (depending on the skill of the searcher). This just makes a simpler way of doing it. Type in a name. Bam. Great for biographies, writing papers and the like… maybe even finding people you know and want to contact or learn about. But, beyond that…. what is it?

Don and stevelichen: I would love to give it to you but I think it’s not fair to Matthew who has given so much thought about it. Share your thoughts on this and I’ll give it to ya.

Now, we’re beginning to see the internet becoming an accepted social platform for more than just the business email or the sending your family some pictures you took on vacation. We’re seeing social networking grow in a fashion that hasn’t been seen before; the network is as vast as the internet itself. Social bookmarking (such as Digg), social networks (such as Myspace) are part of this revolutionary movement for this social platform.

We’re seeing people powered search engines (Chacha.com) that assists users in their web searches. We’re seeing a for the people, by the people approach to the internet. A friendlier internet where we can form relationships with people who are affable and have the desire to connect with others.

Spock is an interesting example and will definitely be considered later as a marker of this revolutionary movement. From the website: [spock is] “building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.” This supports it exactly; we’re in the midst building a social internet. Eventually, services like this will be the building blocks that come together to create a global community… we’re beyond Instant Messaging and email now.