Private social software

I learned about ConnectViaBooks from Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. But I don't get it.

You can't look at anything until you have gone through the four-step process (plus email confirmation) to register. Even then, all you can get is a list of people who have read one or more of the books on your booklist. But all conversations are private, so there is no way to see what, if anything, they have written about those books. It doesn't feel very social to me--more like a big black box.

Am I missing something?     #

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