i redid the main front page. looks nicer now. cleaner .. a bit fresher. more to the point.

in any case, the next step is to build the "find users and shared journals" page.

then ... add the little capability to go straight to 'advanced' instead of having to click it.

then ... a section that'll explain how to use tabulas.

then i'm done.

dan imed me ... (big dan at jp morgan) and we were chatting about friendster for a bit. it's an interesting concept but honestly i shunned it because i hate popularity contests. and i'm not really interested in social networking (cause i'm a loser!).

in any case, he did drive the point home that tabulas was a good infrastructure to build a similar system; journaling is another medium for expressing oneself... and i really think i could build an interesting system for social networking within tabulas.

if you look at the main page, i've added a "% users networked" under the statistics. that takes a factorial of the total number of users and calculates how many actual user-friends links has been made compared to the total number. it basically means that out of the total capacity of the site, only 2% of the total "friendsness" has been created.

i may actually take time to build the "find a user" page to make it a bit more complex than what i originally envisioned to see if i can build in a rudimentary friendster-type system. nothing that'll compete with it, but maybe something that'll let you find people easier.

i remember a talk i gave with caroline, bobby and some other people when the beta first launched. i half-jokingly said the best way for tabulas to make money was to get into the dating area ...

now it doesn't seem so farfetched.