If you were wanting to make New Years resolutions but didn't quite get around to it. Or you want to make your list public, this is your site! If you need ideas for what you are up to in life, check out the world's most popular goals. Go quickly while the year is young!
OK. I've raved about social networking services before - Ryze, Orkut, Flickr. And chances are 43 Things won't be the last SNS that I rave about and I may abandon it as I have others because something better comes along. In fact, right now, blogging is my social networking community and that's where I most want to put my energy. But this is a cool, small side line worth checking out.
43 Things is a vast improvement on these other services from my point of view. I've already entered 27 things and about 8 entries in the last hour. That's the sum total of my experience with it.
But what is this 43 Things? If you haven't heard yet, it just came out in December. Was invitation only temporarily and now seems to be totally open. And it's about entering the 43 things you want to do, publishing those things so others can see them, seeing the aggregation of everyone's lists. Using keywords on these things. Writing entries about the things you have on your list. Seeing what other people who want to do the same things or have already done those things have to say about them.
This is not idle chatter. And at the same time it is fun. You could take this 100% seriously and not have as much fun perhaps. My list of 27 things includes things like: write a good book and the perennial lose 10 lbs and walk across the Golden Gate bridge.
Maybe this is a flash in the pan, but it couldn't be more timely.