Friendster

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For those who still remembered sixdegrees.com (which is something quite different now when i checked recently), Friendster is its successor. I think its growing real fast by looking at the number of people uploading real photos of themselves and linking their friends.

There are only 2 possible destiny for the site, either it pops like sixdegrees.com or it gets better each day and bandwidth becomes a problem. But there are differences between the 2 sites. One exsited when the Internet was really young and thats when people are trying everything and generally don’t behave normally. But now, Friendster is in an era of the internet where many people have e-mails, know what instant messengers are and probably have some sort of a web presence somewhere, hence might not treat websites like Friendster as a toy, but really as a tool as it was set out to be.

Lets wait and see.

IDF 2003

Had the opportunity to go for IDF 2003 and had the honour in meeting Stefano Giovannoni and Karim Rashid, both world renowned designers.

I’ve written down many notes from their talk and some were really gems for me as i’ve not been listening to fresh and thought provoking concepts for a long long time. I so wish to blog more about it, but i’m so lack of sleep, i’ll just post 2 pictures for now.

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^ Stefano Giovannoni discussing about his work for ILBAGNOALESSI.

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^ Karim Rashid sharing his philosophies and experiences.