OK, it’s time to confess that I’m a Web2.0 cuddle slut. I absolutely love to bathe in strikingly colorful CSS designs; names like fl1ckΘR, n!ng and PWnce make me tipsy. It’s like finding a new sex toy, each one unique and promising, but none will serve you for the rest of your lifes. And it’s totally amusing, to see semi oldschool sites like xing.com trying to keep up with the dance of designs and ideas. One year ago they threw out all Secondlife Avatars, because of course “a serious business platform is not a sand pit for MMORPG addicts”… And guess what? The first big company I had as a customer contacted me (4 weeks before Torrid got banned from xing) on: MySpace.com, lol! Then, slowly Second Life gained importance as a business platform itself. And today there are 2 Secondlife-Groups on xing, one especially for commercial content, and a new one, for the common avatar, like you and me; you even have a content field in your “business profile” to put in your Twitter/ flickr/ sevenload/ what-sn0t-all/ youn4meIT contact. But I don’t want to talk about b₀Ring xing. It’s all about the Internet.

One special aspect keeping me constantly jolly in the circus of web micro platform cosmoses is the forms. In the old days you could be male or female (Designers: think radiobuttonish). Nowadays, pownce.com gives you a whopping 11 genders to choose from, and the obligatory “None of the above”.

Then there is ning.com and I have totally no idea what-sit-holla-bout.net, BUT the relationship status form field doesn’t just have the obligatory “single/taken/married”, but, as a totally correct answer: “It’s complicated”. hahaha! Yeah, it’s complicated sometimes. See: That’s a valid transformation of the real world into the Internet(tm).

Cheers,

Torrid

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