Social dating
Is there any other kind? I think that Chau Vuong of Social Grid tipped his hand too son. He lost already the race for getting your perfect partner online.
Why?
Obvious: He told the world, google and all the services that already have millions of users! From then, if I were match, nerve or any of those, I will just go on and say robots.txt: allow / and let the google dance begin taking people into my register of available matches. Oh, sure, bandwidth would go through the roof, but I seriously expect bw costs to drop in the following 20 months, as we all get used to having 3 gigs sent overnight and our favorite images displayed online at very high resolution.
Right now you can get a link from google, and an RSS can not be that far away. imagine then a partnership from one to the other, and then presto, you have traffic, hits, links.
On the other hand, I certainly enjoy the old, traditional way: acquaintances and weak networks serving as bridges between people.
Comments
I'm curious to see what comes of his experiment. Probably not much. But I remember all the effort I went through with all the listing, dating sites, even establishing an AOL account before I met the person I live with via the web. Very high maintenance as it currently stands.
Posted by: Richard Evans Lee | January 12, 2004 1:33 PM