Fatdoor, a community networking web site dedicated to helping people get to know their neighbors, has launched its service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fatdoor creates a social network for people who want to connect, communicate and share with others in their local communities.
“Life is local, with people’s communities extending in concentric circles from their homes to their neighborhoods, towns and beyond,” said Bill Harris, chairman of the board, Fatdoor. “Fatdoor mimics this on the Web. With rich maps and pre-populated data for more than 100 million households in the U.S., Fatdoor brings real neighborhoods online giving people the tools to find and communicate with their neighbors.”
Fatdoor has all the familiar ingredients of social networking such as personal profiles, intra-personal connections, group networking and information sharing, but is centered on local neighborhoods. It also uses Microsoft Visual Earth for mapping.
Originally posted on May 29, 2007 @ 7:16 am
So let me get this straight.
You are going to meet your neighbors by going onto the internet and using a social networking site.
I gotta get me some VC money..
Just forget about how to out to lunch the business model may be. The name alone is a deal breaker unless you have VC money to burn through.