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Regular readers of this blog (hi Mom!) may recall a post I did a few months ago titled 3 ways to create attention-getting copy, where I talked about how people seem to love lists, and seem to be irresistably drawn to lists of things. Once you see the title ‘Top 10 ways to do such-and-such’, you just HAVE to read the rest.

Well I just learned of a social networking website which is 100% designed around a) the gravitational pull of lists, and b) people’s innate need to share their lists with others.

It’s called Meosphere. Here’s the concept: you make lists of stuff. Any kind of stuff, places you’ve been, things you’d like to do. You share your lists with others, and you check out their lists. That’s pretty much it.

And in this strange web 2.0 bizarro world of ours, the people behind this site are likely soon destined to be kabillionaires. With their soon-to-be received billions of dollars, I hope the meosphere folks spend a few bucks working on their interface, because it’s a little strange. Based on my thorough 2 minutes of research, you can’t do some of the things you would think you could, like see a list of people who have completed the same list as you.

And you can ’share’ your meosphere, but it apparently has to open as a pdf. What’s up with that? Everyone should have a dedicated html page for each of their lists– these guys would have a billion pages out there for Google to index in no time. But the kernel of the idea behind this site is great. If you’d like you can check out my ‘meosphere’: