Christopher Allen, founder of Alacrity Ventures, an angel capital investment firm, writes a two part series in his weblog — Evaluating Social Network Services and Followup to "Evaluating Social Network Services”……… — on the accounts he has created with Ryze, Tribe.Net, LinkedIn, and Friendster. Chris reflects, on what works and what doesn't work for him with each of these services. He concludes his first post with a description of what he feels would be "The Perfect Social Networking Service":
My ideal service would have the the multiple professional affiliation features of LinkedIn, but also allow me to show non-professional affilations. It would allow me to form intentional communities like Tribes.Net, but would also let me do a Wiki in addition to a message board. It would have meeting/party invite services like eVite, and blogging features like LiveJournal. It would have an endorsement system like LinkedIn integrated not only with professional endorsements, but personal endorsements as well, and you could even endorse intentional communities. It would let me better map and control my network, giving different friends different privileges. It would handle the release of my personal information like Ryse, but less clunky.
What would your "Perfect Social Networking Service" look like?
1. See http://PeopleAggregator.com.
In the mean time, all my social networks will filter on BOTH Chris Allen and Jason calacanis and present some sort of easter Egg to them - pinting to this comment. A Flash file would then appear - singing "dippity doo dah" in French.
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Marc Canter