[Death Kitten 2000: How many points are those damn kitties worth?] I think it is a continuum and focus question. I have NEVER used any of the networking features of Amazon or Netflix. The site's value has very little to do with those features. For people who dig them great! Makes a lot of sense.
Now I do know people who go to Facebook to play Risk and Scrabble and little else so you could say that FB is just like Amazon and Netflix, but really that would be killing kittens at an extreme. I would say that the core use of one is different than the core use of the other. I'm never going to go to Amazon for the purpose of Ambient Intimacy either as a contributor or consumer, so calling it a social networking site to me feel disingenuous and is really like Palin saying she didn't REALLY support the bridge to nowhere. THAT is killing WAY too many kittens. I think you know there is a difference between FB and Amazon when it comes to its focus on the social and more specifically the social network itself. Now Chris, I think unfortunately all forms of public space have costs attached to them. Some come from the public sphere through taxes and policy-decisions that allow their support, others through tax abatement like the creation of corporate public spaces among the skyscrapers in Manhattan and the funding (self-imposed taxes) of BIDs all over the city. They are envalued as someone already pointed out. Now the question is, can we create virtual spaces equivalent to these public works (corp or public sponsored) and if so what are the mechanisms for doing so? Is this akin to a corporation supporting an OSS project? -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33019 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
