Holy Crap.
Ok now, I’ve gotten 3 invitations to check out Multiply. Woopy.
And then some bumps in activity re: Myspace and relationship linking.
So in curiosity, cuz I dig checking out what’s going on in the social networking sphere (though not enough people actually use Dodgeball in SF to make me feel like it’s working it’s best for me) I start puttering around and register with Multiply.
Consider me crapping my pants. It’s promising a whole lot.
Particularly with regards to the functionality of importing all your contacts/profiles from Friendster/Orkut into Multiply and auto generating an invitation mail to these folks in addition to allowing for power editing/mass editing of relationship schema.
Now of course, you hyper nerds are asking … but does it XFN or FOAF.
It *does* however have over 30 different and unique descriptors to deliniate a relationship.
Not focusing as much on making new contacts (for getting laid or getting funding…in which case you may have to suck dick) as it is in developing and nurturing, providing transparency for existing relationships. Will it ever get critical mass? This always being the big question with regards to these social networking applications?
Well… if the import function works as well as it looks (i am nervous about pressing the “send” button as yet) then it very well could and we could see a mass exodus of activity from friendster and orkut (which have their alreayd existing structurual and speed limitations and server outages) to Multply (resulting in Multiply’s service outage). Some things that I see so far that could be leveraged effectively: The group calendering function that is in Tribe.net and used well, along with the fanclub/band association and group distros used well on Myspace. And then integrated blogging communitiy which vibes a little like Xanga or Livejournal. Oh, did I forget to mention the spinoff integration that they’re touting that likens itself to Flickr or Buzznet? Or the Marketplace hierarchy not unlike Craigslist and Tribe?
This is interesting. Very very interesting.
Wanna link to me? I’m at minjung at gmail dot com.
Jayzus.
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