ReviewMe: Thoughts.com
Welcome to web 2.1, the social web. Following MySpace, Facebook, Blogger and others, it’s the new thing. Site owners realized that their real power is their users, and getting them more involved can only do good. Thoughts.com is a social networking site that offers free blogs for the users, as well as the Thoughts.com Forums.
The forum is quite alive, and has over 30,000 members. The sub forums cover a super-wide range of subjects, and basically covers anything and everything. I think this can be useful so every user finds his niche, but sometimes over broadening the spectrum can be overwhelming for users that want to belong to something more specific.
The site home page contains latest blog posts as well as latest news.
The site offers photo, video and podcast uploading systems, made simple for users. Again, a lack in proper categorizing makes the spectrum a bit too broad for a user to actually find content he is looking for. Most podcasts are just songs. Podcast episodes do not seem to be linked together, which is a real downside is someone wants to get seriously into podcasting. Same with photos, only one category, uncategorized, which contains 823 pages of pure randomness.
As for the blogging service, there’s no distinctive style and all the posts look a bit mashed together. I thought I would be able to write more about this, but it looks quite disappointing.
Bottom Line, Users are king, and with the nice number of users, this site definitely has potential, but is also needs some fine-tuning.
This is a paid review