Would you guys be into this? ...

AHarvey said:
Sounds like internet dating...
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This.

When I wanted to meet likeminded people who enjoy kayaking, I joined the local kayaking club.

Whilst it's always good to meet people with similar interests, surely it's a useful to develop social skills to deal with people you either have nothing in common with or know nothing about.

If your system became the norm, the world would become a very sanitised and quiet place, with people only talking to those on their approved lists. Or maybe my imagination just likes a good dystopian future.
 
Efour2 said:
Sally is crazy about dinosaur art


Can you link me to her FB profile ? Id like to get to know her better.
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I'll get on that.




As for privacy concerns among other things, I left all the details unsaid to shorten things a bit, but that's something that certainly needs to be handled, and there are ways of doing that. For example, you could have it so that only those who share an attribute with you (or a complementary attribute), see that particular attribute. You could also make it possible for people to hide an attribute from users. So the algorithm "sees" it but people don't. So you may find connections through conversations on this app/site but not by just reading someone's profile.

As for all the other apps. I've evaluated as many as I can find, and none of them work quite this way. They use either a single attribute, a constant number of attributes, or limit the search in some way. e.g. to only friends of friends of friends (like GetIntro does). Doing that is relatively easy, computationally. But establishing relevance using every attribute and then building rings around the user, with the innermost consisting of the most relevant and the outermost the least relevant is an exponentially more difficult problem.

Dating may seem like an obvious application, but what about networking? Meeting the right business partner, or collaborator (on a research problem), or making friends more easily, or recruitment.

Or imagine applying it to something like knowledge. If you could explore a topic graphically. See where one topic connects to another, and where it begins and ends. If you could track what areas you've covered and what areas you haven't. If you could see the gaps or even see what's immediately outside what you know. This would work on the same engine described above but with a different application.
 
I think we've all had about enough of things that use your personal information unnecessarily. In many ways it's a good idea but it's always ruined by the greed of selling that info on.
 
Zefan said:
I would really not be interested. I can understand it would be a good way to find people who share the same hobbies/taste as yourself but I prefer to old fashioned way of doing it. It'd be like meeting someone but already knowing everything about them. I like people to be different to me, I've got enough of me already!
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Worryingly I find my self agreeing with this man quite often now a days...

kd
 
kwerk said:
How about developing an app where heterosexual men can find other heterosexual men to hang out with in a non-homosexual way. You know play football, go fishing and things, go camping and get really drunk and pass out. Maybe some light mutual touching and physique admiration, but not in a gay way. Just straight heterosexual guys who happen to prefer the company of men, hanging out.
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:D Lolkwerk
 
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