Setting the Course

The ListFive team had our first meeting about a week ago and we all felt pretty excited about the ListFive concept and the path we're taking. Since ListFive is still in a formative stage, we're continually having discussions to revise and refine the idea.

I really like the potential of ListFive because we're essentially trying to create something that explores the opportunities created by the social networking phenomena. But beyond just the ListFive concept, we're trying to achieve this mission:

• Harness the power of social networks in new ways to create new personalized content for users
• Create a community for people to share and exchange interests and ideas
  
• Maximize the potential of user-generated opinions and recommendations so that people can better explore and expand on their interests
  

We're basically hoping to take social networking to the next level where the discovery of new, useful content is a product of social networks. I'm really excited to see if our idea works out the way we're envisioning because I know it's always a really cool feeling to stumble onto a new musician, movie, etc. that I really dig.

For example, I randomly heard a song I really liked on an "A Diamond is Forever" commercial. I had to search around the internet with my best searching (or what some may call stalking) skills to find this song and the musician. Soon after finding the musician, I discovered that this musician has a lot of other really cool songs. But who knows, maybe through ListFive, I could have discovered this artist a lot sooner and more easily because of the recommendations I'll be receiving.

As we further develop the website, we'll need as much feedback as we can get, so please let us know what you think works and doesn't work.

Thanks!