Although I didn’t set out to make it a focus of Muskblog, my repeated writing about online social networking sites now seem prescient. As I continue to be invited to join more and more of these sites I’ve inevidably started to compare them. In a lot of cases they are becoming more and more similar, common features include…

This morning I woke up to an invitation to join Zorpia.com. I don’t know the person who invited me, I think they must read my website, probably my nurgle subdomain…

It’s my own fault I suppose, but how could I know? I should have left well enough alone, never mentioned it again, but I didn’t. I went and linked to it again and I believe it has been re-aired on the Discovery Channel more than once, now “The Man Whose Arms Exploded” completely dominates my search engine referrals…

So one of my Google Alerts I created turned up a link to a video in Veoh. Veoh is very similar to YouTube but with some features from MySpace/Friendster thrown in. It also has some elements that reminded me of my brief experimentation with BitTorrent…

While making the rounds through my RSS feeds I read at China Venture News how there are 5 million bloggers in China now but they expect 60 million by the end of 2006. This rapid growth is in spite of some governmental policies to restrict the freedom of information in China, particularly the Great Firewall of China…