What's the point of building my team? How does this benefit me, or my team mates? I think that teams need a way to compete. So that the awesomeness of my team can shine through. However, I think that this would be diluted by the way that everybody has a team, and can join as many other teams as they like. Sports players can't do that.

What else but to build a community, a society of like-minded individuals involved in a continuous exchange of information and ideas? Competition already exists in the form of attention (though there could be all kinds of sexy ways to measure that attention). There are all kinds of internets out there that we can play with, and I think this one offers a more-than-usually elegant framework for binding individuals together. Each person's team offers sort of like a unified time-line of whomever your tracking, displaying multiple streams of pertinent consciousness annotated with pictures and links, and you can participate because you're part of the team.

That's my take, anyway. I'm excited about GTI because so far it seems the best suited for microblogging your life.

I don't know, I think the whole "team" thing is just a way of leaving people on or off your reply page. It's like myspace or livejournal "friends".

I think there's a little bit of a viral aspect to "teams" that hasn't really been explored by this site or any other for that matter. I mean there are plenty of sites that let people build "communities", "groups", etc but those are all focused on a topic of interest and come out stifled, and one-dimensional as a result. A real social group is multi-faceted and dynamic, just like the conversations on this site go to show.