{"id":784,"date":"2007-07-31T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/07\/31\/social-networking-version-20\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T19:30:07","slug":"social-networking-version-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/07\/31\/social-networking-version-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Social networking, version 2.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something to explore in greater depth over the coming days: via Cool Hunting<\/a>, a post by Tim Yu about Social Networking for a Cause<\/a>. Yu writes:<\/p>\n

From corporate-sponsored “Cool Apps” to niche spin-offs like Bakespace<\/a>, Virb<\/a> and I’m In Like With You<\/a>, online communities are still largely about socializing and\/or wasting time. Their potential as powerful tools for the greater good\u2014beyond finding out where the party’s at\u2014has been largely untapped, but we managed to find a few. The following are some of the latest and best sites where social networking meets social change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yikes, I’ve never even heard of Bakespace, Virb, or I’m In Like With You. After these references to “communities” that are “still largely about socializing and\/or wasting time” (um, that sounds familiar…), Yu goes on to list additional sites I’ve also never heard of, but which have a “networking for a cause” spin:<\/p>\n