Mashable becomes a social network
The thing that’s been brewing over at Mashable (full disclosure: I’ve joined the Mashable team just over a month ago) is now live. Mashable, a comprehensive Web 2.0 site focused on social networks, has taken the logical next step and integrated the ability to register at the site (the address for the social networking counterpart is my.mashable.com, add friends to your profile, leave messages, upload images - the whole social network shebang. Recent visitors with registered accounts and uploaded avatars will be shown at the site, similar to MyBlogLog, and their avatar will also be visible in the comments.
The most important aspect of My.Mashable is, in my opinion, the ability to add your presence on various social networks to your profile. While this functionality currently enables you only to see which user has a profile on which network, in the future this will become one of the most important aspects of My.Mashable. Since Mashable readers are coming from various social networking environments, the ability to integrate them all in one place will surely be interesting to many.
I cannot reveal much more at this point, but expect new features (some of which are quite big) to be added on a weekly basis.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:48 am
Pretty interesting. I hope it all goes well. Mashable is really expanding fast.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Very interesting development, noticed it earlier on when I went to read up on stuff.
I guess they want the community that reads them to get more actively involved in the site, rather than just read from their RSS readers.
When are they announcing their Series A financing?
June 6th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Definitely in agreement about the social presence feature - though it was surprisingly tricky to find what my Facebook profile URL was (besides the one I see with the umich.facebook.com/sljkl234l23l234lkjlsa….)
Nice screenshot too. There’s me!
June 6th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Mashable is the slowest thing in the world…they really need to fix that. What’s the point of networking if it takes an hour to do so.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Yes, Mashable is currently slow, the dev team and the host is working on fixing that. Integrating all that there is to integrate there is no small feat, I assure you.
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June 15th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Awesome, congrats! You and Pete have probably seen enough social networks that you know what it takes to build a good one.
It would be cool if readers can blog in the network… and the admins/editors can actually pick the good posts to be featured on the main blog.
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