Actually, Facebook also uses social graphs to identify people you may know.
This part of it is a pretty tough problem, but there are some pretty sharp people on this list… On Jan 17, 2011, at 13:43 , Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > Most social network assue you know who your friends are and allow you > to share info with your friends. How about the opposite? Something > like a bookmarking app that tells me who my friends should be based on > physical distance and recent common bookmarks? > > It seems to me the main problem to me is that a lot of people are > alone they because do not necessarily share interests with their > colleagues and family members. Facebook is popular because it allows > people to connect with people that they knew and therefore assume had > something in common. Until people find out time has passed by and > there is not really much to talk about. You can be a scientist and > soon find your page polluted with somebody's horoscope. > > - a bookmarking system like http://radbox.me/ > - when you bookmark something you tag with fixed categories > - a way to sort/organize and rate own bookmarks using mouse drag and > drop. > - you have a profile and public pages showing your bookmarks only (can > be used by a prof to share links with students for example) > - Once logged in you can see other users nearby that bookmarked - > independently - the same links, and filter then by location, gender, > age, bookmark category (could compete with match.com too) > - You can then choose to be notified when a given person bookmarks > something new (like twitter) > - You can check who is following your bookmarks. > > Massimo -- Lorin Rivers Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> 512/203.3198 (m)
