Never thought you'd see a title like that eh? ;-p
I find this public toilet strangely exciting. Would you be able to use it? Of course, as someone noted on the BBC site, it won't take long for people to try other things in there besides typical bathroom business. ;-)
Next we have two amusing charts. First off, the big Geek Hierarchy. And following that, the even bigger Japan Hierarchy. Worth a run-through cause they are pretty funny.
And finally, an email made it through Mail's spam filter the other night promoting Metails (Me + details, get it?), a new site that appears to be a hybrid between those social networking sites (Friendster, Orkut, Ryze, etc., are they passé yet?) and product review/opinion sites like Epinions and part of Amazon. As far as I can tell, you write product reviews on this site and get some money if your friends on the site buy the product through whatever link the site takes you to to buy the product online. And uh, you can also share pictures on the site as well. The site itself looks kinda nifty so probably worth playing around with for awhile.
Comments (2)
Uh... So, where do you fit in those hierarchies?
Posted by kaige | July 20, 2004 3:13 PM
Posted on July 20, 2004 15:13
Metails is interesting. It's not just the product reviews, it's the idea that the person you are looking at owns the product (because of the upload process for retrieving your purchasing history) and so has first-hand experience. Rewarding word-of-mouth is definitely a mouth-watering concept so it'll be interesting to see if they can make it appeal to a mass market and get friends to buy through one another. They don't offer enough retailers yet though- just Amazon and someone else.
Posted by Lara | July 27, 2004 8:31 AM
Posted on July 27, 2004 08:31