Techcrunch announced today the launch of Fast Company’s social network. Okay, so I went to their site and created an account. They’ve got features like feeds, bookmarks, multimedia, blogs, groups and many more. Pretty cool - one place to aggregate all of your stuff into one space. Plus if you like Fast Company it offers extra value (editors, writers, etc.). So after about 20 minutes of filling out my profile (seriously there is THAT much to fill out) I finally got to crawl around the space and see my options.
It’s like a Netvibes and LinkedIn love child. Feeds+Contacts+Networking+Blogs = FastCompany.com
It’s cool, but what’s so great about it compared to LinkedIn where ALL of my contacts already are? It’s just another social space I have to remember to log in to or get too many email notifications from. What’s the value? What’s remarkable about it? What makes me WANT to come back? Answers are kindly appreciated 
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Hey Sarah — it’s all in the content. Our editors and writers are posing questions for debate, writing thought-provoking articles, blogging about the news. So the daily conversation is guided by experts — a different experience than a pure social network without any editorial context.
Check us out again if you haven’t in a while. Site is running very fast and we have added loads of members — we’re at about 120,000, and you can follow what they’ve had to say (again, substantive comments about substantive issues) by going to their profile.
cheers,
Ed
Ed Sussman / June 3rd, 2008, 12:06 pm / #
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