business and personal networking tools

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 16:06:05 MDT

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    I'm currently exploring a number of personal and business networking tools
    online, and finding they have great utility for me. This is something of a
    bit-flipped inversion from my normal persona as the archfiend of insular
    antisocial intent, but I'm having fun and getting things accomplished, so it
    can't all be bad. However: more transhumanists needed. I know a bunch of you
    guys Do Transhumanist Things, in business and otherwise. Hell, I'm so far
    behind the curve when it comes to social and networking issues half of you
    are probably use these tools already.

    So get thee hence and check these business networks out:

    http://www.ryze.com
    http://www.linkedin.com

    The utility in these is really just a central place to meet new people in
    your business sphere and on the peripherals; like a non-stop friendly visit
    with the VCs and other industry members. Ryze seems more useful than
    LinkedIn so far (more of that craigslist type atmosphere, the personal
    touch, diversity: the "Networks" on Ryze are very useful), but I'm still
    toying with both.

    And for social set: www.friendster.com. The utility of this one is not in
    meeting people; it's in following up on meetings, figuring out who the nodes
    in your social sphere are. YMMV, but pretty much my entire chosen subculture
    worldwide is on this thing, so I find it very useful.

    Anyone who feels they've exchanged enough e-mails or butted heads with me
    often enough to link to me, let me know offlist. I may even get around to
    meeting some of you people in person one of these years :)

    I'm looking for other suggestions for social networking tools that people
    are trying and getting results from too. Or comments of the efficacy of the
    whole shebang, thoughts about business models, where this is all going to,
    why these tools work sooooo much better than any other similar models tried
    in the last ten years. It's definately interesting.

    Reason
    http://www.exratio.com/

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