Comments on: Who needs InBox 2.0 when you can get Life 2.0?

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By: Brian Pate

Brian Pate — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:03:23 +0000

And if you want the life20.com domain name, I’m going to be selling that.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:05:00 +0000

Isaac: I think what should happen is that the user’s profile is in their phone (or email client) and then they attach that profile to different social networks, like RSS in reverse.

By: New Product Auditing Dept

New Product Auditing Dept — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:47:45 +0000

Aren’t the social networks already tapping into your email contacts (i.e. network) with their address book uploads? The only thing missing is the frequency of contact data, which may not be that important…

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:13:34 +0000

this WILL be huge

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:37:04 +0000

Good! I’ve been waiting for the 2.0 release of life for some time now. The 1.x release has been pretty buggy for me. It’s mostly been a lot of overhyped features that thusfar have underdelivered – here’s to hoping that 2.0 will be closer to what was originally promised.

By: Issac Kelly

Issac Kelly — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:05:33 +0000

I see this as being a huge thing
EH: I think you’re right, getting SMS in on this would be huge for the 16-25 crowd, but most of us still use e-mail and IM if we do anything important with our tech.

By: EH

EH — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:36:27 +0000

OK, hold on. Didn’t I read a story last month/six months ago/a year and a half ago about how kids these days tend not to use email in favor of IM and profile messages? Isn’t there another story about how Asians lean away from email because they do all their text comms on the phone? The email-as-socialnet story seems to me to be a step backwards, maybe GooHoo are desperate to remain relevant in this space and email is the only group of users they have that is large enough to advertise to and capitalize on. Step 2: Social network? I guess, but I think it will boil down to them figuring out ways of getting people to check their email more often (just like checking your profile!).

So this would be a very difficult transition for the users, so in a sense I can see how this would appear to lack ambition due to it being a tough nut to crack. I think they really only get one crack at this, lest they ruin the idea permanently, so lacking ambition may just be the appearance of “heads-down mode.”

By: Voices.com CEO

Voices.com CEO — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:26:49 +0000

Fake Steve,

Lighten up buddy. Didn’t you recently launch a campaign with the tag line “Welcome to the Social” to promote the Zune?

By: Christian Fenner

Christian Fenner — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:27:28 +0000

Very interesting! If you want to see a video of Socialistics interviewing Tim O´Reilly on that exact matter – and other to be exct:-) check out http://snipurl.com/1tour @intruders.tv

By: Dan Ackerman Greenberg

Dan Ackerman Greenberg — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:23:53 +0000

Very cool. Is there any sort of public version of Socialistics for Gmail, or is it just for their one demo account right now? I want to see it in action.