[11/17//2006 - version 2 adds BusyTonight, Submate, Vibely]
After reading the TechCrunch article on nascent activities-centered websites, I decided to take my own look at the activities space. I wound up examining nineteen ventures by the end. Their aims may seem too desparate to lump together in one examination. However, in the abstract, […]

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Having examined a trio of recent entrants Pinger, Jyngle, and 3Jam in the multperson mobile communication space, I’ve decided to return to one of their forefathers, the colorfully named Dodgeball. This ambitious early experiment in social communication from NYC eventually caught the eye of Google, which gobbled it up May 2005 for an undisclosed […]

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Today’s New York Times runs a story about the power of databases in shaping reputation. The story focuses on expunged criminal records but it could just as well been about the impact of identity theft on credit histories. In either case, facts adverse to one’s reputation seem to take a life of its own and […]

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