They should have listened to the old adage… 

Yocial’s whole shtick is having a single site to have both work and personal friends.

Now your colleagues at work can see how you spend your drunken after-work hours. And your friends can see how you’re a corporate drone from 9:15 to 4:45. Great. What innovation!

Update: so, apparently, you can keep your two sets of friends separate. I’ll stick with facebook and linkedin personally.

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This is good…a social network for pets! I’ve seen it all now.

The thing is, there ain’t anything more to say…enjoy…

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They ain’t a startup, but it’s worth a mention anyway…CompUSA is closing all their stores. I wonder what took ‘em so long. I remember getting my 386 there and upgrading the RAM from 4 to 8MB. Good times. Even then, the employees didn’t know what they were talking about.

Just kidding–Google rocks.

Ning Stinks — any “platform” that enables people create social networks for people that have letter Z fetishes shouldn’t exist, in my oh so very humble opinion.

They’re all boasting that they have 115K social networks, but like 8 of them are mine and have 1 member. I know, I know–I’m sure the other 114, 992 rival Facebook and Myspace in their scale & usefulness.

Why not just create a group on a real social network? Why does everyone love it just ’cause it’s Marc, who created Netscape? Netscape isn’t cool–it was Mosaic that was cool. LoudCloud isn’t cool. Why would Ning be cool?I think I’m going to create a Marc Fan Club network on Ning.

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I had kind of a crappy day, but iPartee completely turned it around.

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while!

What is IPartee?
In their own words, “IPartee is a place to find events and venues you and your friends want to attend. We let you plan, publish, promote and monetize your events for free.”

That got me chuckling, but I lost it at:

“What’s are the benefits of signing up?
What makes IPartee really useful is the ability to use it with your friends [emphasis mine]. By joining IPartee, you’ll be able to use features that help you plan events with friends, as well as post events, venues, polls, reviews and photos.”

I seriously want to invite all my friends, so I can use features! The part I’m most excited about is posting venues! It’s so funny…because I actually have a list of venues by my computer that I’ve been compiling over the past months, and just waiting for the right outlet! Now that I have iPartee, and I’m going to feel much more fulfilled!

iPartee made me so happy that I went to their careers section–I’d really enjoy a career at a place that makes me laugh every day. Alas, I got a “not found” error.

OK, OK–I’m being too harsh…I’m just jokin’ around…

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