My prior post discussed using the information in social networks to facilitate the serendipitous encounters that broaden our various networks. What if I knew in my real-life encounters who was a potential friend, business partner, or just a good conversation?
A current platform to build this is Foursquare, by extending it through populating it with social data from other sources. While the core Foursquare app shows you who else is checked into a place, additional integration with social data would allow you to act on this information in the real world in real-time. For example, if I am at a bar or the gym, I could see whether another person checked-in had an interest in X post or Y article which I also had found fascinating, had a common Facebook friend, or shared an interest. You would need refinement to deal with the obvious issues, but this would be a good start, and this would be a step toward the vision of creating something that facilitated the generation of social connections with those who you should meet who were also physically proximate.
[...] employers, employees, business contacts, etc. And that is what my two prior posts (see here and here) about what I have called serendipity platforms are ultimately [...]
[...] social layer, in the direction of services that I have been discussing in the last few weeks. I speculated that FourSquare could do more in this regard. I am hoping that it develops in two directions: [...]