What’s Really Going on at Facebook? User Engagement (link updated ->thanks sammie)

For the past few weeks I've been reading up a bit more about what makes a social net site successful and why others will grow and some stay stagnant. Today I saw this article.

It had some good information that I think can be principally applied to just about any site.

After the initial "wow" of having a social network specific to a niche market goes away, I ask, then what? I compare this pattern to the back-in-the-day html files. In early days of the Web, if you had a home page and a few links you were the cat's meow (or whatever they say these days, I hear many say, "that's dope" but back in my time dope was...oh never mind...I digress)...

Back in the day, progress with spacers, shims and tables gave some visual life and appeal to the centered-with-a-black background Web site.

I think Dolphin pages will become more customized and breaking out of the typical Dolphin layout framework. It would still be a "Dolphin" site, but it won't look like one.

I wanted to know, what kind of mods do people want to see to make their Dolphin site theirs. I know there was a request made on my site several weeks ago about a profile mod and a few other things. And just the other day, I posted a resource page that was driven by the Dolphin page functions without using an iFrame. I will be posting that tutorial after finishing the one I am working on when I get more time.

Facebook has widgets and gidgets and whatthats and its...What will Dolphin have?

Tell me, what engages your users?