Here are some things I like about Tribe. What's more is that they're marketable things:

(1) Discussions
(2) Thoughtful, intelligent people
(3) Easy to navigate to existing discussions and easy to discover related tribes
(4) A LACK of flash and fanciness
(5) Fast-loading, no-nonsense (reminds me of Google and Yahoo in that sense)
(6) An older, more mature user base

Now, these things are all strong marketing points. In fact, the last one is probably the best of all because the above-30 user base has huge amounts of money to spend on products and services, and even on membership fees should it come to that.

I'm very surprised that nobody has come forth to either run it or buy it. There are still large numbers of people coming to Tribe. Sure, it's not MySpace, and never will be MySpace. But then I spend about 5 minutes on MySpace and about 30 minutes on Tribe. I think TSV (time spent viewing) should count for a lot in the netsphere. I know it counts for a lot in broadcasting. For one, it means that viewers will stick around for more impressions, and impressions are what sells. As an advertiser, you don't begin to sell until about the 8th impression. It's more likely that Tribe will deliver those 8 impressions than MySpace will because people will be flipping through pages longer.