{"id":943,"date":"2003-11-21T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/11\/21\/wired_article_on_friendstertribe.html"},"modified":"2003-11-21T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2003-11-21T14:00:51","slug":"wired_article_on_friendstertribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/21\/wired_article_on_friendstertribe.html","title":{"rendered":"wired article on Friendster\/Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,61150,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3\">Wired article discussing Friendster vs. Tribe<\/a> is quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The basic critique against Friendster is:<br \/>\n1) They lack a sense of humor<br \/>\n2) They treat people as individuals rather than parts of communities or groups<br \/>\n3) Service is slow; there is no consumer service<br \/>\n4) They use heavy-handed politics and their dictator tendencies are not winning them fans<\/p>\n<p>Yet, compared to Tribe, it has succeeded because it is so dating-focused and because:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;I like Friendster because it is more people-oriented,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Tribe is more geared towards selling used blenders and looking for a job. I don&#8217;t need to be reminded how many jobless people there are, or what awful things people will do for a buck&#8230;. What I want is the fantasy that we are all rock stars, that everyone&#8217;s ass looks great in leather, that everyone is sexy.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyhow, read the article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Wired article discussing Friendster vs. Tribe is quite interesting. The basic critique against Friendster is: 1) They lack a sense of humor 2) They treat people as individuals rather than parts of communities or groups 3) Service is slow; there is no consumer service 4) They use heavy-handed politics and their dictator tendencies are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}