I’ve been playing around with a few sites recently. Here’s some quick off-the-cuff thoughts.
www.mahalo.com : Human powered search engine. It’s a nice concept, to get search results filtered by someone that actually knows the subject. But at the same time it’s just too limited for the things I want to search for. I like going and seeing what’s been logged so far, but when I’m looking for something for work and pleasure, I need to know I’ll get a result quickly. And that won’t happen with most of the search terms I need, as they’re always too niche to have been covered early on.
http://www.pownce.com/ : Social network file sharing. Seems like a good idea, if you have an allergy to ftp sites, or file upload sites. But the real problem is that I now have to get everyone I’d want to share a file with to sign up and download the application. How many people are going to do that? And how many times more likely is it that I want to share files with a general audience, or people who aren’t a connection?
http://www.iminlikewithyou.com : It’s a new take on old fashioned dating sites. Not sure I see the point in dating becoming even more hard work!
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