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Six degrees to rule them all
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 10:33 am on 1/22/2003
Nice idea – take the old Six Degrees site, a kind of social video game with no clear idea of what it was for (let alone how to make money), strip down its interface and give it some more focus. Friendster lets you add Friends to (what they don’t call) your first degree, and then you surf around through the connections looking for friends with common interests, or people to date. You can even leave testimonials on your friends’ pages about how cool they are (which are actually about how cool you are, but whatever), and make introductions.
Recasting this concept as a friends-and-lovers personals site may well be pure genius. I imagine they’ll try to charge me for it soon, so I’ll enjoy it while I can. If you want in on the beta or just want to look around, email me – if you’re reading this you’re probably a friend anyway, right?