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This month sees the launch of etribes designed for busy adults without the time to maintain a traditional blog but want to share their thoughts and photos online. Wait a minute. Why still maintain a blog when you are so darn busy ? Must be a case of Kiasu'ism where keeping up with the Joneses is a good social networking plus. Everybody has a website, so why not a blog too ?

The founder of etribes, Simon Grice, has determined that by 2008, 4.5 million people in UK will be blogging through easy-to-use websites like his, to share news, photos and personal information.

etribes is a British service that lets people create their own website, where they can write a blog, publish and store photos, keep a record of all their contacts, and make calls and send text messages from their PC.  etribes is for busy, sociable adults who are looking for easier ways to stay in touch with their 'tribe'.  www.etribes.com

Example of how etribes is used :

Thirty-four year-old Dave Darrington maintains an etribes site at www.etribes.com/daves_rare_coins, which he uses to document and display his collection of ancient and rare coins. He said: "I love the fact that it is easy to use - no technical expertise is required!  I think the success of the etribes sites is in their simplicity, with enough features to be able to create a (hopefully) professional looking site and with no adverts."

etribes Blogging and Photo-sharing Service source