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+Fanpop is the latest entry into the world of social network sites, but with a twist. Fanpop aims to be a place where people can swap links and share sites based on common interests. Oh yeah, communities based on what you link to, think deli.ci.ous meets MySpace and feel the nerdy goodness.
+Fanpop's concept is simple. Browse links by category. When you find a link that piques your interest, click it and you will be taken to that site. Fanpop leaves a simple, unobtrusive toolbar across the top of your browser window and the external page is in a frame -- very similar to the results from a Google image search. The Fanpop toolbar enables you to jump back to Fanpop to rate or comment on the link and of course you can close the frame and leave Fanpop behind.
+Fanpop is built around the concept of "spots" which is really just a poor name for groups. Like groups on say flickr.com, you can join whatever Fanpop "spots" you like and contribute links to a community of like-minded users. All groups have rss feeds you can subscribe to.
+Fanpop is an interesting concept, I'm not sure how much the social networking aspect will appeal to people but it seems to me there is a need for some kind of human-filtered means of searching the web. Who wouldn't like to have Google results rated by quality rather than simple page rankings (which admittedly aren't simple)? And what if that quality rating came from people you knew you could trust? 
+Fanpop is sort of a halfway point, it searches its user posted listings which more than likely came from searching something else. I'd like Fanpop a whole lot more if it limited itself to essentially providing Google-like search results with user ratings... Perhaps there is something like that out there, anyone care to educate me?
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