Sad that the current product doesn’t use “open technology” to share with the outside world. It doesn’t have RSS feeds and you really can’t permalink much. Not much Javascript either for photo uploading. What it does fulfill though is having all of SMART Telecommunication’s services all in one place — music downloads, games from Gameloft which cost really cheap when consigned with them, movies, MyTV (a service that allows mobile TV to occur in HSPA enabled handsets via streaming technology) and network chat.

You be the judge. Check out the service at www.mysandbox.com. It isn’t meant to be a Facebook or MySpace. What it looks like is what it is — a portal for housing all their properties.

[photos c/o author]

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I personally think that these niche social networking applications (like that on the iPhone) is highly “liquidated” only when the application is very much integrated into the system, you barely have to do anything. So if the iPhone, for instance gets an update where your iChat friends are automatically tracked, you have an instant community. And you didn’t even have to sign up.

This is partly why FaceBook is going for the whole out-of-Facebook widgets. Opening up the poking and sheep throwing to the entire world makes the user experience more natural.

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