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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
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Can I just say that I feel popular today? Four people added me on Thefacebook (for a total of 5 new friends since I added Cat) and a guestbook signing! What a day!
For those that don't know, Thefacebook is an "elite" version of Friendster and BuddyZoo. I say elite because it's by university (thus I'm registered as a Cornell University student and it lets me search through other Cornell University students and alumni) and it's currently only serving the Ivy League schools and others such as Stanford and MIT. It's like Friendster in that you register and build a profile and then can search through your friends' friends, though Friendster does it better (my favorite Friendster thing to do is to start clicking on random friends of friends and see if I can navigate from someone connected to, say, Demetri, and wind up with someone connected to my sister, for example). I think on this you only get to see the direct friends of your friends, though you can search through anyone at Cornell anyway, so it doesn't really matter. It's like BuddyZoo in that it gives you a graph of how everyone is connected. You can look at your graph or your friends' graphs, whatever. It's pretty cool. No pagerank, though, unlike BuddyZoo, so it's not as "google-esque" as BuddyZoo.
All of these things are of course a thorough waste of time and I really should be doing other work rather than surfing them or even writing about them.
- Lizzardie, at 1:50 AM
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