by Jacob Morgan
LinkMood is a platform that allows you to share your mood with other people. The concept is quite simple, you visit the site and enter in how you feel with a brief explanation of why you feel that way (optional).
Does this screenshot remind you of anything? I’ll give you a hint…think of a giant whale…yes that’s right twitter! I don’t mean to be critical of Linkmood (yes I do) but the concept that they have productized already exists within platforms such as twitter or even in facebook with the “notes” feature. Is it worth it to visit an entire new platform to enter in your mood when you can do the same thing on one of the many other social media platforms that you are using? Don’t think so.
Linkmood also limits the conversation, if a conversation can even exist. I think it far more effective to build a general communication tool (twitter, plurk, etc.) that allows you to share your mood, what you’re doing, etc. Creating a platform that ONLY let’s you tell other people what mood you’re in is probably not going to attract that many people and based on the recent stats of Linkmood users, it doesn’t look like it’s taking off, much like the fail whale, maybe we can get some Twitter birds over there with some rope?
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Discussion
Of course people will use it if they made it the best mood sharing service! Right now almost all BIG sites offer free email with many other services, but yet, people still use/pick sites that just offer really solid email service.
I checked out linkmood fast and it looks really cool and easy to use… I need an invitation to join though, so if anyone has one, PLEASE give me one!