I received one today as well. Funny, first thing I thought was 'wonder what Danah Boyd's going to say about this yasn ... '

I got my answer ;-)

I went in and checked it out though. I was curious.

What import tools for Friendster do you mean ?

it could be worse-Msn could (and it is already in japan,with free access and updating by cellphone) start hosting blogs.

Ha! [I got this same invitiation from the same person.] I figured your opinion of Multiply out from your userid there: "fuckoff"

:: snicker ::

I did get one and I decided to bite. But I also like looking at new web UIs.
It definitely has an Orkut feel to it, although their icon looks very, very similar to Microsoft's MSN buddy.
One thing I found funny was that they specifically had "Recipes" as a tab.
I wonder if there is someone specifically trying to weaken the space of social networking by saturating the web with so many options that there will be no "network".

Is there a meta-social network out there or some kind of aggregator of networks? It seems there are too many walled gardens, that one should be able to see all one's n-degree friends and interact with them and let them interact with each other, regardless of which club they belong to. FOAF, xf, Sxif, etc will certainly help, I suppose as people pick them up.

Is there a meta-social network out there or some kind of aggregator of networks? It seems there are too many walled gardens, that one should be able to see all one's n-degree friends and interact with them and let them interact with each other, regardless of which club they belong to. FOAF, XFN, Sxif, etc will certainly help, I suppose as people pick them up.

I broke down and joined Multiply. But I am tired of entering the same data over and over again: the same preferences in music, movies, activities, etc. I must have these profiles scattered all over the web in different sites. Has anything dramatically changed after I joined orkut, friendster, ryze, tribe.net, multiply, evite. And there's a new one: .node (dot node). It comes from France.

Sorry about that invite, danah. Like others I impulsively decided to try the Orkut import just to see if it worked, without thinking about the repercussions, grrr. That Multiply is broken is increasingly obvious, and it's taking way too much bandwidth to discuss just how broken it is. We must learn to think before we geek.

I balked at using the Orkut import because it felt very weird to me to give someone my Orkut password.

I did enjoy some things about Multiply (Jon, I think I found out about you there, by browsing John Perry Barlow's friends list). I noticed JPB quickly deleted his presence there - I'm guessing because of the questionable content rights situation or the unwanted emails sent to friends ... Multiply is getting a big thumbs down it seems. Dotnode is cool, although it's clear the developer is not fluent in English.