I haven’t checked out 43 Things in a while, and all I can say is _wow_. It’s a million times better than the last time I saw it. You guys are doing great work, and I’m glad to see you’ll be able to continue it a bit longer.

As for your question, there’s nothing magical about 43 Things that would really warrant explanation… it’s just a simple site that tries to help people articulate what they want to do with life, and find stories and people who might be able to encourage and or help them with those things. We don’t quite have the secret sauce figured out yet… but we plan on iterating on it and trying different things until we find something close.

I think we’re a little different than some (but not all) of these social network communities just because it’s not about finding your friends… it’s more about doing things with your friends, and finding new friends to do things with. In other words, we’re trying to find a way out of that frequent “now what?” dilemma that most of these sites lead you to. When you say “now what?” it means that you should start doing some of the things on your list. Flickr is a good example of a site that does this well… it makes you want to take more pictures, and share more, and generally experience the world a bit more. I’ve rambled on long enough… sorry about that.