here's where you should see us going in next few quarters. basically, we want to enable tribe users to do more outside of tribe. we want to open our functionality so it's useful in your web world.

step 1 - open profiles - we believe that in the future there will be many web services that leverage your identity (public and pvt) and you will want to host it in one place (tribe or other). therefore, we're giving you a unique url and ways to customize and 'own' your profile.

additionally, we think that you already have your info spread all over the web from dating and job sites to evite and yahoo. why add yet another place to check and invest? we think you should have one repository for inbound and outbound info relating to you. therefore, your tribe open profile will over time let you import many types of data from your blog or amzn wishlist to your evite calendar and more. if you have top picks of outside data you'd like let us know.

what's really exciting (to us at least) is that over time we'll let any third party build modules for our users to add to their profiles. this also means we dont have to bother with further development on areas like photo management or blogging.

step 2 - open tribes - why not do the same thing for groups? we'll let you customize the look and feel and application modules. maybe you want to add group recommendations. maybe you think that's stupid for your purpose. maybe you want your tribe integrated with your web site. in general, your tribe should become your wikipedia, a group repository of resources that is easily edited and searched.

step 3 - well, i'll come back for more steps soon:)