Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Windows Live Spaces, the list goes on.  These are the sites that everyone has been going bananas over for the past year or so.  Tons of money have been poured into these systems, and a lot of ink has been spent philosophizing over what they mean for the future of technology and how they're the Brave New World of personal information sharing and management. The Social Networking site is the media darling of 2007 the way Blogs were the "big thing" in 200...

As I sit here writing this, I have a Visio drawing up where I'm recreating a process flow that I'm using to draw up specs for a web application I'm going to be building, I'm checking e-mail, I have a number of pieces of paper on my desk in front of me where I'm doodling out ideas on how to solve a dozen different problems I'll have to overcome when I start building the application, I'm chatting over NetMeeting with a coworker on the other side of our work area... oh, and I'm browsing through ...