Though the stylesheet is still rather conservative, and the range of external modules still limited; take a look at my public page on Tribe.net (below.) Imagine this was your “About Me” page.

Notice that we’re meshing in de.licio.us and RSS feeds, giving our end-users the ability to put up more than one ‘desktop image’ up into their interface and combining internal and external blogs.

We’re also displaying different combinations of friends and groups - and in general - fulfilling the ‘customization’ requirement of DLAs.

This is what we all need - every DLA, portal, social network and blogging tool around. The ultimate “About Me” page. Now that Tribe has set the new standard, all other systems will be compared to this.

I especially like this approach as it allows one to add in additional modules - without fundamentally changing the UI.

Sure it looks allot like MyYahoo, and it could use three columns, and sure we’d like sexier stylesheets and Tribe still needs a better header - but that all will come with time. It’s the ease of use and power quotient that I’m excited about right now.

It’s taken years - but the Tribe team: Paul Martino, Brian Lawler, Chris Vale, Elliot Loh (among otehrs) - and the product marketing dudes - Chris Law and Gary Chao - have finally figured it out.

It’s called product iteration - and it’s what we did with VideoWorlks - for five years till we got Director - just right.

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