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November 1st, 2005 at 11/01/2005 @ 6:19 pm
I have this idea stewing around in my brain and you seem like a pretty cool cat so I’d like to share it with you. I like your random search by the way. I have a feeling that within the next few years we’ll begin to see a movement towards a sort of semi-random search process on the web, particularly within blog sites and social networking comunities. Can you picture it? Imagine opening up a networking site like friendster and instead of searching for people by their quantifiable info you just type out a quick blurb like “What’s it like to fuck the devil in the ass” and then send it off into space randomly, then wait to see what kind of response you get. Maybe you can pinpoint certain loose criteria like geographic area or a general age range if you like, maybe you can send it to more than one person. I suppose it’s optional to recieve random messages from other users, it could be like hitting a switch, and instantly you have people sending you messages that you may or may not reply to, When a true friendship establishes itself you just store a link to their profile like on any other site. You could randomly search blog’s and even recieve random rss feeds. Maybe ther’ll be two areas for rss feeds on either side of the screen, one area for random and one for the ones you decide to keep, you can just drag and drop, when you get tired of one you just throw it back in the random pool. You can recieve random or targeted profiles from other users too, maybe one a day, maybe ten a day. It’d be great to have some sort of visual representation of the network of friends you make too, something 3 dimentional, planetary maybe like a big solar systen revolving around you, made using ajax twchniques. I’m sharing this idea with you just on impulse, partly because I thought based on your site that you could apreciate the idea, and partly just because I’ve spoken to two web developers about the idea and neither of them really get it. They’re typical, droped out of engenerring school types. Anyway, if you see some value in the premise I’d say get busy on the site. I’m a complete delinquent and never finish anything I start so I need someone else to carry the torch on this one. The whole idea is based around the premis that existing social networking sites don’t really do anything more than virtualize your existing peer network. They do nothing to create new oportunities for meeting people, and search engines are bad for getting any type of original content. In the modern web we still have to find new information and new relationships almost on accident, by searching fo one thing and accidently finding something else, or by perusing published content to see what other people have dug up. It’s all so freakin inefficient still, so linear like going through a powerpoint presentation rather than working like a fluid creative medium.
Post.Script. If you do indeed like the idea and decide to follow up on it… I could use a job. :D