Social Software part II

Despite my enthusiasm about last.fm, the spanking new examples of web 2.0 raises some questions as well. The internet has always been a place where every extremely clever, useful site is followed by ten of the utmost stupidity. An upgrade doesn't really change that.

Though there are a lot of interesting sites to discover over at the Museum of Modern Betas, what exactly does the user gain in knowledge after joining up with riffs.com for instance? The catch is to give either a thumbs up or down to every possible concept imaginable... from Philip Seymour Hoffman to baby pandas to sombreros.
So only a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Very black and white, i don't wish to perceive the world a place where you have to either love or hate something, and what's the use anyway? If there's one thing that makes web 2.0 so great so far, it's the fact that it reaches out to you, and you can put something back into it.
Furthermore, 'riffing' doesn't seem to have any kind consequence. You're allowed to install some stuff on your computer, which integrates into iTunes and streams music you'd be interested according to your voting history. It didn't work very properly though, and certainly not as good as last.fm radioplayer.

To be honest, so far i've encountered more bad examples of social software than good ones, like 43places... don't see the point in that one too. But i'm not that reislustig, perhaps that makes the difference. Though i'm very excited to fly to the Canary Islands in exactly 12 days time. Woohoo!

this post was written on 26 03 06 - 20:17