Tākiwa .

Every year I give myself a few days to build the next great social network. First Delicious, then Flickr, then blogspot, then myspace, then tumblr, then facebook. Every one I've made a clone of. (It used to be really hard to make those clones before AI! You had to stay up for like a week of nights, and then release it and host it for a month or two before you gave up and shut it down) I'm great at knowing what I'm going to do one day, terrible at knowing when that day will be. I'm pretty sure that now is the time to replace Facebook. I miss talking to my friends on a private wall, I miss sharing photos of my goat with my aunts, and of the fish that I caught on the weekend. I want to share my flying videos with my grandmothers sister (Hi Pat!). I do not want to share this data with Mark fucking Zuckerberg (Hi Mark!). The internet has been so good to me, I want to give one big thing back, I want to give back a huge, amazing, kick ass best-ever social network that everyone loves (to hate), has amazing moderation (that everyone hates), and is extremely cheap to host (so my accountant doesnt hate me so much). I call it Takiwa - which is kind of Te Reo for 'my space' or 'our neighborhood'. It's our space on the internet to build community, to forge links, to share and to help each other. Not a place to be baited and enraged so that Mark can buy a bigger boat. I mean, why does that dude need such a big boat? ps: My boat is tiny. It fits on the roof of my car.