TRIBE - San Francisco Bay Area
Saturday, 13. May 2006, 03:43:55
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/local
I was clicking about looking for links mentioning art in San Francisco and I stumbled over this "TRIBE" network. It's new to me and I didn't sign up to join but I thought I'd share the San Francisco TRIBE link here. There's 7,826 SF Bay Area listings and 94,411 members.
You can change locations by clicking a link under the city name. It takes you to a page with a list of other cities and countries. What's funny is the size of the font on the "change location" page corresponds to the amount of users. San Francisco has a lot of "tribesters" it seems, because the font is HUGE. Why am I not surprised?
I did a search for "polymer clay" tribe and there's one.
http://exclaymations.tribe.net/
Small tribe. Evidently there's a Moderator for the tribe. Also evident is there's no filter for SPAM. I wonder why the Moderator doesn't just remove SPAM posts?
On that page you can see where TRIBE.net makes their money. On the right side of the page are advertising links. The only one I recognize is "PolymerCAFE" the only magazine that features polymer clay.
What I do find interesting is on the left of the page are "similar tribes" so the Art Dolls, Rubber Stamping, painting and craft addicts, etc. Now that's right handy.
Evidently it's a way to network with people who have similar interests. Let's see what their "about" pages says...
At tribe.net, we believe in the power of connecting to other people to get things done. Since that can be surprisingly hard in a city, we founded tribe.net to make it easier. Whether it's for finding the right job, a killer apartment, a good restaurant, a gentle dentist, or a hiking buddy, we think those tasks are best done by connecting with other local people for advice and sharing.
When you check the link for one of the founders Mark Pincus you can see his other tribes (Burning Man to name one of the 101 tribes listed), favorite RSS feeds, who is a friend, a Flikr feed, a "411" information about him that includes links to things that interest him. One can see which one of his "fellow tribesters" are online at the time you check his page, which is a little disconcerting in a way. There's different sections like "What's New", "What I'm looking for", "What I'm talking about", and all conveniently have links to get to what's listed.
From his page you can send him a message, add to friends, book mark, and other stuff.
I think I'll share this with CITY-Computers. Since it connects Flikr and such all it might be useful for the CITYzens.
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