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Obviously i’m on the lookout for these sort of sites with my own project BeerChief competing directly against them. So this headline certainly grabbed my attention – “Nimble -v- Bebo” - i first discovered it in an irish forum.

Now i was expecting some sort of space age design with killer features and professionalism throughout. That is, after all, the standards myself and Adam demand when adding anything to BeerChief.

You can imagine what i was thinking when i first opened up the nimble.ie homepage

Ok, so it’s unique and it has a decently designed logo…. eh.. yeah, that’s about it! I was STUNNED to see it has almost 25,000 members as it’s not even 2 months old. Obviously they have an army of friends to spread the word virally. After 2 months, i’d expect BeerChief to have about 4000 members and i would be pleased with that. This might just raise my expectations…

Nimble.ie has given given me a confidence boost.. I know you guys haven’t seen any plans or features for BeerChief yet, but you’ll already be aware of the sort of standards we’re setting on the design front alone… (check out the BeerChief blog for links to our completed design contests). I’ve no hesitation in saying that we’ll blow nimble out of the water along with a lot of other custom built and designed social networking sites.

Nimble is not a bebo killer. It never will be. They need to clean up the appearance, give it a more user friendly interface, and give it curves, gloss, gradients, style… something members can be proud to promote.

Put it this way, unless i made the site for non-commercial purposes, i’d be ashamed to promote the site in it’s current state. No x factor whatsoever and to claim it can even come close to Bebo is an insult to Bebo imo.