BEYOND FACEBOOK

If Facebook doesn’t feel private enough, there are other social networks out there. — Posterous, formerly a blogging site, has reinvented itself as a social network called Posterous Spaces. Here you can share audio, video and photos just with certain circles of friends without worrying that anything travels beyond that circle. It’s at Posterous.com. — Another way to go is “Elixio.net” which claims to be a site for movers and shakers. We were a little shaken by event listings: like “International Workshop on Folk Dances of India” and a “VIP party in Abu Dhabi.” There are hundreds of special interest groups in such categories as “Finance,” “Art” “Luxury” and “Film Industry.” There were also unusual (to say the least) ads […]

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