Making the site

Here’s a nice article by Fred Stutzman about social networks:

Transience in Social Networks, or How to Beat MySpace and Facebook

Some key tips he writes about:

“Find a niche and exploit it”

“Be geolocal.”

“Exploit a content area. Basically, find some content that people love and wrap a social network around it.”

My goal is not to beat MySpace or Facebook, but facilitate people to help the world in a better way. Still, I’d like Helpalot to be successful, so the tips Fred Stutzman writes about will be taken into account.

At the moment I have no geolocal home base, I probably need to pick a focus-point for this. I see two options: (more…)