I recently joined makerba.se.
Makerbase is:
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A place to tell the world what you made, and to find out who made the things you love.
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Edited by everyone. You can change and add to anything that you see.
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A way to see projects: Stuff like apps and web sites and digital works of art. (Not companies or employers.)
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A list of makers: People who create projects, described by what they’vedone, not their job titles.
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Limited access, for now, while we get things ready for everyone. We’ll add you to the waitlist if someone hasn’t already added you as a maker.
I like the concept, which allows you to document all types of project. When I say project I mean anything you class as a project. This means anything!
A while ago I mentioned documenting geekdinner and the past generally. I tried to do this with Wikipedia but my entries were rejected. Makerbase seems much more apt for this type of thing. The whole thing is a wiki, so you can easily link and join items together. It reminds me of Lanyrd in underlying structure, which is good. But like lanyrd I wondered about building up this tangled web of information and what happens when investment goes into it?
So before I signed up I read through the terms/end user licence agreement which was actually really well written with plain english. Theres nothing about what happens if the service ends, I was looking for a data portability angle but I’m sure its coming… something to tweet them about.
Is this a linkedin killer? No I don’t think so, its filling in the area in between linkedin and the stuff which happens on Github. Neither have the space for things like geeks talk sexy or personal projects like learning a diabolo trick. I can already imagine the links with other sites like meetup and even lanyrd.
I like it and the only thing better would be if it was distributed instead of centralised. It seems worthy of backing.