(disclaimer: SORRY if this is like...forum spam! hahahah. I don''t mean to be spammy; I''m just an excited individual :P feel free to delete moderators if this is too off-topic, or should be re-directed to another place) Facebook is to Myspace as _______ is to Twitter. We''re trying to fill in that gap, taking the psychological principles present in so many sites (answerbag, every message board in existence, second life, yahoo answers, etc.), and merging with a medium of communication like Twitter. We''re designing a website that''s essentially the public sphere equivalent to Facebook''s private sphere. Facebook is a site where you can translate all of your real life history and identity online. This site is a place where you can create a new identity. Yes, it sounds like the same principles as "Second Life" but the barrier to entry on that site is extremely high. Using shortform communication to create a lower barrier platform will enable a global community. We have a CEO of a tech company that recruits at Berkeley mentoring us. He''s advised that we get this done within the next 2 weeks while he''s arranging VC/Angel meetings, but all of our programmers are so incredibly overloaded. We''re looking for someone with top level design in Ruby that can take ownership of the high level scripting and make this into a reality. Twitter competitors have failed for two main reasons. 1) Not enough users were willing to move over to the new site. 2) Not enough new options were present in the new site to make it a worthwhile investment. We solve both problems that so many other companies (present.ly, Plurk, Jaiku, Pownce, etc.) failed at. And from the way it looks, the next social media battle is in location-based social networking (foursquare, Gowalla, etc.) They’re not even looking this way. You can tell we did our research on this one...I''ve personally been working on this for over a year now. We’ve represent at a technology start-up conference and had exposure to multiple Venture Capitalist and angel investors. We also presented at UC Berkeley in late 2010 for a showcase. We’re getting our name out and we’re ready for the serious next-steps. It’s at the point when I’m in over my head, and a product isn’t ready to deliver yet. That’s why I’m resorting to you, because I know you’re out there somewhere—the one person who will make a difference for our team, and for possibly a much greater audience. P.S. More details of the project and what we’re actually doing in the follow-up emails. For obvious reasons, it would be uncomfortable disclosing it in a large google group. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.