Over the past day I've been setting up some new accounts with services I've not used before but been aware of (you can read that with an air of contempt, if you like) and thinking about what is working for me and what isn't.
Some very preliminary thoughts:
- I really like cdbaby's Sounds Like search, perhaps because it's built on input from the artists, themselves, but the UI is maybe too basic as it doesn't give me any confidence rating for the similarity
- the difficulty for posting to livejournal is, obviously, very low and if I were a person who was not interested in learning new skills, it would be a very stress-less path toward expressing myself and seeking community
- pownce will really only be useful to me when a critical mass of people are sharing pr0n files
- habbo hotel scares me before I even try to make an account, just hitting the front page; I think this makes me officially Too Old using a metric I read recently: if the tools of connectivity are a barrier, you are Too Old
