Dare Obasanjo has one of the better descriptions yet of what’s so interesting about Windows Live Fremont, our new social networking classifieds site.

As a user, you can make Fremont a marketplace for just your social circle. This is enabled by harnessing two social circles; your IM buddies & your email tribe. You can specify that your listings are public, only visible to your IM buddies and/or only visible to people in your email tribe (i.e. are hosted on the same email domain such as ‘@microsoft.com’ or ‘@gatech.edu’). Similarly, you can specify the same on listings that you view. Basically no matter how many millions of people use the service, my college friends and I can use it as an improved version of the bulletin boards in our dorm hallways without having to deal with awkward sales situations involving people we don’t know.

The comparisons I see in the press to Google Base just seem flat to me – Base is a huge Hoover of a Web database, sucking in anything and everything. Massive potential, but it’s largely untapped for now. Fremont on the other hand takes the idea of classifieds and merges them with trusted networks and affinity groups to create something very different and potentially very useful to a huge range of people.

I love the integration with Messenger by the way. It’s this huge potential for creating an amazing mesh of services and social groups that I love about going to work on Windows Live.

Of course, this is just scratches the surface. This is part of Windows Live which means you can expect a cohesive, integrated experience with other Windows Live properties and perhaps even an API in the future. It’s going to be a fun ride. - Dare

I’m not a developer, so the API in and of itself isn’t what excites me (I realize that’s what makes it all possible). It’s that this collection of services is something that has the potential to be useful and understandable to my friends and family, and help them grasp some of the real power (kool-aid alert, almost said “realize the potential”) of the Web. That, to me, makes getting up for work truly exciting.