Social networking has been all the rave for YEARS now… MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, even regular old message boards. And while I only just recently got into the whole social networking website thing, like… literally a year ago, I have been very pleased with what I’ve found in terms of social networking for Second Lifers. There are so many options out there, each with their own little “pull”. This morning, however, I would like to talk about a site that launched a few days ago: Rezzed.NET.
I only just signed up for Rezzed yesterday, and one reason why I find it to be *such a freaking cool* networking site is pretty simple: the website is very Web 2.0. And being the design geek that I am, that was a monolithic selling point for me. I shy away from sites like MySpace simply because they’re so damn ugly … popular or not. But this site is very nicely designed and incorporates a LOT of information in a very small, un-cramped space — quite the feat for a social site.
A few of the features you’ll see on Rezzed:
I’m very interested to see how this website will develop in the future. And I’m so excited about seeing everyone I know on it!
Another rather interesting thing to note, and then I’ll close this post up…
There is a “most popular av” contest going on right now, that promises a $10,000L payout to the avatar with the most registered friends. A few details:
We want you to get off your tail and get your friends on RezzedNet, so here’s your incentive: On Christmas Day, we’ll be giving $10,000L to the most popular avatar profile* on RezzedNet. Second- and third-place prizes will be awarded as well.
All you need to compete is a RezzedNet profile and lots of friends. So send invitations out to all of your in-world friends and get them to sign up to bolster your popularity! If you need invitations, stop by any RezzedNet terminal.
If $10,000L isn’t enough to drag all of your friends there… then what is?! And with the holidays coming up, I’m sure $10,000L could go a long, LONG way for some of you!
Hope to see you all there! Let’s make this site all it was meant to be, shall we? Network, network, network! Oh, oh! And don’t forget to friend me!!! See you all on the flip side. :)
signed up ..so how do i add you?
You did already! I just had to come confirm it. :P Woot! :)
Interesting, though I tend to be very averse to php. It lacks the object oriented, componatized approach neccessary to effectively implement web 2.0. The asynchronicity is there, but writing everything in an uncompiled, procedural markup language is a highly inefficient method of processing data, and limited as well.
For those unfamiliar with the interworkings of php, it’s essentially an open source duplication of the classic ASP model (not to be confused with ASP.NET, which is a framework model, supports multiple compiled languages, and distributable with complete platform independance *note: essentially = is*).
PHP is monumentally inefficient on the development end because it requires you to develop things procedurally, and while that can be done with relative speed the first time, going back in and making architectural changes is where you lose time and money, as you have to redevlop the entirely procedural flow as opposed to editing pieces of a federated architecture.
If for no other reason than automatic AES, Triple DES, Rinjadel data encryption, and ssl security being integrated, they should look into either MONO (I can’t ever recommend iis), or even JAVA.
LOVE your take on the logo. Would you be willing to let us substitute the standard one with that one for a bit?