Think what you will of Jason Calacanis no one can dispute that he has been successful in the web space and I think what he did at Netscape has really moved social networking into the mainstream. So when he declares Facebook bankruptcy I think we should listen to what he has to say.

Basically his issue with Facebook is that, with applications, he is just being overwhelmed with information. And a lot of this information is not really all that useful to him.

This goes to point out the real flaw with social network thinking that is mainstream right now. Its connection centric. What does that mean? Good question. Basically all I am saying is that you want a way to stay connected with the people in your network but you don’t have a way to say who is in your network.

Yes, I know you can add friends. But every child on a playground knows that all friends were not created equal. I find some people more interesting than others. I want a level of interaction with some people more than other people. I have degrees of “friends.” But on all the social networks today all friends are created equal. Utopian perhaps, but not very useful.

Over at the Library Clips blog they have been having a lot of posts about lifestreams. This is what we want. An easy way to view or networks lifestreams from our vantage point looking out in the network. Apply the Apple principle to the design. Make is so simple it hurts. Add in a lot of the design patterns displayed by the socialstream demo and now you have the next generation social network. And this is one that will be sticky because it is all about your interests and not everyone in your networks interests.

Now as soon as someone hires me to build it we will all be successful together.

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