Confused of Calcutta posts about “The Revealed Intention Exchange,” a kind of social signalling that is only now becoming possible. Something’s happening here. JP Rangaswami asks, insightfully, about what other kind of intentions could benefit from such blind matching:
Anant’s written a post about Orkut Crush which makes fascinating reading. Maybe it’s been happening across many social networking sites, and I just haven’t seen it; possibly because I haven’t used the ‘looking for someone’ facilities.
Orkut Crush allows person A to register a ‘crush’ on person B, and vice versa; the registered information is only provided to the matched pair when both sides signal.
So at a level of abstraction it allows a signalling of intention, done in secret, with the intention only revealed to the other party when matching conditions are met.
Comments
@ 15:45
Now tie this into a mobile phone that can transmit real GPS information that is only shared (P2P) with the other party at the appropriate time i.e. like when you are within 500 feet of each other.
Real time location dating… now that could be fun
@ 19:15
the conversaton goes on at pigsandwings.blogspot.com — with some applications for blind matching