Comments on: Email as the new Social Network

By: JetCharter

JetCharter — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:32:23 +0000

A good number of people are already recognized (with some degree of certainty) based upon posting styles, vocabulary, stylistic habits, etc. Sometimes a favorite topic arises and a posters comments reveal his identity, such as conversation turning to Saab automobiles or something

By: lapel pins

lapel pins — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:42:18 +0000

10.A good number of people are already recognized (with some degree of certainty) based upon posting styles, vocabulary, stylistic habits, etc. Sometimes a favorite topic arises and a posters comments reveal his identity, such as conversation turning to Saab automobiles or something.

By: Custom Lapel Pins by The Pin People

Custom Lapel Pins by The Pin People — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:03:09 +0000

I think Fools Gold got it… Whoever is able to harness the algorithm and capitalize on it will be successful!

By: Joe Duck

Joe Duck — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:53:18 +0000

Thx Metro!

FG noted: (Portable identity) will have to have different “views” at different sites.

I see this as the challenge, especially because once the cat is out of the bag in terms of your identity you can’t easily put it back in. So if somebody goes to an “open” health forum and mentions that they have several in their family with cancer and then they allow people to see their picture and identity, how can we make sure this is not used to deny them health care or used to find out about their family. Generally I think the answer is “we cannot do this” and what we need are rules for the *use* of confidential info rather than all the rules now floating around about how it gets distributed.

By: Fools Gold

Fools Gold — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:10:49 +0000

By: Metroknow

Metroknow — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:07:38 +0000

The portable social identity concept is really interesting…hadn’t heard it in terms of the social network concept (I mean, its there already in a sense obviously, but very cool point Joe), but that sure would change the social landscape if you virtually walked into a site and folks “recognized” you from other sites based on things other than a common handle. . .not sure where that is going, but you have my brain doing little joyous dolphin-like flip-flops trying to grok what that means.

By: Fools Gold

Fools Gold — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:50:57 +0000

The portable identity package is the right idea for sure, but it will have to have different “views” at different sites. Different granularity for different situations. After all, at a cocktail party a famous author might just want to be known as ‘author’ or as ‘neighbor’ or as ‘gardener’ or ‘single’ or ‘wine-lover’ or ‘auto mechanic’.

By: Joe Duck

Joe Duck — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:07:39 +0000

80-90% accurate

Yes, you’d think this would not be too high of a standard.

FG agree that “matchmaking” is a key here. My take is that Open Social will lead to all of us exposing a lot of our details which in turn will lead to a *portable* social identity. I don’t think any site can or should be the key place to meet – rather we should all have our own identity package that travels with us as we surf and to which we control access as much as possible.

By: Fools Gold

Fools Gold — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:43:39 +0000

I used the ‘lapel pin’ analogy because I thought that social networking would best be accomplished via a variety of such electronic lapel pins of varying strength. The problem that I posed before was how to make such lapel pins be selective in their strength as well as precise in their meaning. We now have zillions of sites that lay claim to being ‘social networking’ sites. Success will go to whoever creates the best matchmaking algorithms. Sort of the way a successful hostess is one who consistently seats interesting guests next to each other at a dinner party.

By: Metroknow

Metroknow — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:46:45 +0000

What I’d like to see is a *good* algorithm that makes logical grouping suggestions on your lapel pin concept; one that is 80-90% accurate and makes it clear that this is a suggestion, but needs your attention/approval if you want it to be truly correct. It seems like most apps today are either all or nothing in this regard – they either abandon the idea of helping you with this altogether or they force you to use what their algorithm suggests…I know its a difficult problem to solve, but seems like someone in Google’s white tower could get it right. Or at least close.

Anyone else having a different/better experience?