Dam! Here I was considering Om Malik to be a friend of mine - and there he goes and outwordly disses me and my company - by not mentioning us in a post on a category we’re helping to create.

Yo Om!

We Broadband Mechanics have a white label solution for social networking.

I guess I gotta get batter at marketing. My bad.

Here’s what Om said (and didn’t say):

It is time to rethink the whole notion of social networking, and start thinking of it as a feature for other online activities. Already, we see companies like Affinity Circles and Social Platform turning the “social network” into a commodity, by offering turnkey solutions. That’s just the start. It is time to start thinking beyond the web-page paradigm, and think of social networking as part of a larger “experience,” one that starts to blend the best of online and offline worlds.

Yes Om - that’s what I’ve been talking about for years. An earlier predecessor of Affinity - was called Affinity Engines - which I advised - before they sued Google over Orkut (who was a founder of Affinity Engines.)

Anyway - we offer more than hard wired ’solutions’. We also offer a hosted model - so ANYONE can have their own MySpace-in-a-Box. But we make our money off of customizing and building out networks for……

Sorry……. can’t say til the paperwork is dry.

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