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Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?

Posted by TimSlavin at November 10, 2003

"Wallop has been undergoing a trial run with about 100 Microsoft employees since it launched two months ago. Next month, the company will roll out an alpha version for a select group of users -- primarily people who read blogs but don't write them, or who are quite social and share photos online, but don't actively use community sites, Cheng said.

Cheng hopes Wallop can address the biggest problem facing services like Friendster: sustainability. Users of these services often invest a lot of time setting up their networks, only to abandon them when they become too large, impersonal and unwieldy. And sites that focus on a specific task like finding a job or a mate have little value once the user's goal is met." Interesting update on a mysterious Microsoft project. From Wired. The best observation is the last, that most/all community software (blogs, wiki, etc.) started as open source and Wallop starts from the opposite point as closed source, proprietary).

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