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Networking is a must for modern mankind... as it has been for 5000 years.. and more? Blogging has a great potensiale for changing our way of share information. But only if somebody reads your blog... and that's the challenge. Another way is to interconnect different real-world-friend-network in cyberspace:

Myspace is a growing community for networking with over 88 million registred accounts. Here you can find your friends, your favoritebands, or more likely somebody you've never seen before... Exciting and potentially addicting!! (warning!) Excelent for networking and a great place for sharing music and videoes. Promote your ideas!

Xanga is another massive community with estimated 45 million members. This is much the same consept as Myspace from another american company. Did you know that the people who are using Xanga are called "Xangans"?

For futurekids these places are already old fashion. Everything is moving on towards the great converge.

MSN-Spaces is the new from Microsoft. Here you can create your own personal space linked to your messenger ID and the site is prepared for connection to your mobile. MSN-space combines the function of a textblog with the multimedia and network possibilities we find on Myspace and Xanga. And more than tha; here it is e asy to upload photo from your mobile and create albums online. - You can decide who can watch your space: Just the people added in yor MSN-Messenger - people you allow to enter - or completely open to the public.

By the way: Myspace is now also optimized to admin accounts through mobile devices - but first only through Helio's mobiles (yes, we're living in a commercial world). I'm think it's just a matter of time before this is an open option...? 

Have you been left behind?
- Don't you worry, there are a lot of people that doesn't have a clue, and we are all one of them! Curious? Check out Stereofish on myspace - newly created space with real underground rock for your soul! Or my friend Daniel's space on MSN-Spaces. 

If you want to remove the advert banner in MSN messenger 7.x, check out this. Go to http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/06/ads-free-msn-..., click the link to download patch and open it. 1-2-3- and the advert is gone! Just as easy as it sounds like. I tried this on Messenger 7.5 and it works :) You can also remove banner from Live messenger (formerly 8.0) from this site. A tip from LcF - He is the Malaysia’s first successful full-time blogger!

The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we're devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots.

- Jaron Lanier

Check out his article DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism

And this critic at Dagbladet blogg (in norwegian)