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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by nshanske on Monday March 14, 2011 @02:19PM (#2323699)
I was very much involved in the Lycos Circles product and sent Andrew the link yesterday. If I had any hair left, I'd have been pulling it out yesterday. Maybe it's time to add Lycos Circles to my LinkedIn profile
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by andrewcurioso on Monday March 14, 2011 @02:22PM (#2323714)
To be fair, Neal. You did send me the link _after_ I IMed you saying, "Hey, didn't Lycos have a product called Circles?" ;)
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by jedsmith on Monday March 14, 2011 @04:54PM (#2324400)
Somebody's Monday:

Hm, what's this? A huge traffic spike to ... there? I still administer that?

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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by zach on Monday March 14, 2011 @02:03PM (#2323617)
Awesome find!

I'm sure the Appleseed Project evangelist will drop by to mention they were also founded in 2004 in 3, 2, 1...

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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by andrewcurioso on Monday March 14, 2011 @02:09PM (#2323650)
Thanks. I used to work for Lycos. The Circles project was before my time but it came up in conversation now and then. So when I heard Google Circles it was the first thing that came to mind.
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by grishick on Monday March 14, 2011 @03:47PM (#2324084)
This quote sounds funny today: "Unlike other social networking sites, Lycos Circles focuses on helping users to stay connected, share content and manage relationships with people they already know as well as find new people who share their interests."
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by methodin on Monday March 14, 2011 @03:11PM (#2323929)
Did this ever actually launch? I don't recall ever hearing about it although I probably wouldn't have remembered anyway. I also didn't realize lycos was still around!
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by bayareaguy on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @12:25AM (#2325943)
It looks like it did. The internet archive crawled bits of Lycos Circles from 2005 to 2009[1] as well as the original eCircles all the way back to 1998[2]

1- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://circles.lycos.com

2- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://ecircles.com

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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by emp_ on Monday March 14, 2011 @01:45PM (#2323526)
Touchscreen tablets, 1999
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by sebkomianos on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:33PM (#2324601)
Am I the only one still trying to figure out (and still failing to understand) what facebook did SO right to become what it is today?
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by revorad on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:43PM (#2324645)
Timing and perfect set of early users.
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by betolive on Monday March 14, 2011 @02:09PM (#2323648)
or the never announced Windows Live Circles http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0132365.html
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by baddox on Monday March 14, 2011 @08:38PM (#2325253)
Lycos was still around in 2004?
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Re:Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (2004) by andrewcurioso on Monday March 14, 2011 @08:56PM (#2325320)
Lycos is still around today.
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