Who is Farhan Lalji?

But we don’t always know what it was made for.

Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur, he’s behind Mahalo.com – a people powered search engine, he’s also a blogger, tweets on twitter and is pretty well connected. Anyhoo, I recently came across a tweet from Jason leading to a page on Flickr where Jason had posted a potential redesign of the Mahalo site and asked users for comments. In under 5 minutes he had about 20 comments - and by the time I hit publish on this post he had nearly 200 comments.

Flickr wasn’t created to be a user feedback on design tool, but a funny thing happens when you allow the community to use a site in any way they want, good things can happen.

If you build it they will come was a great line, personally I like if you build it people will find a way to use it for the internet. Think that’s what’s happening with sites like Twitter and other web start ups, their launching something without a business model not sure how they’ll monetise it but getting people to use it in whichever way suits them. Hoping that they’ll have an “aha moment”, will this work? Not sure, but it’s fun to watch.