Sean’s House

So I’m trying out a bunch of different social networking sites. Twitter is interesting. FriendFeed is more interesting because it exposes you to friends-of-friends more “efficiently”. (for lack of a better term) I just got my invite for Skydeck, and I’m not so sure about this one. You download a browser extension. You give it your phone number and your login info for your cell carrier’s billing site. It logs in and scrapes your call log. This seems kind of ghetto to me. If people are signing up in droves for Mint and happily providing them with access to their banks, why not just hang onto the info? I guess if they don’t have the security infrastructure, but only being able to update your info from a specific browser isn’t going to cut it. To be fair, I don’t necessarily believe that Skydeck has much of choice though.

The other problem I see is the whole “social network” part of it. There needs to be a huge amount of critical mass for that part to take off, and it’s not quite as compelling as other sites. Until that happens though, Skydeck will just be a pretty neat call log analysis tool.