Comments on: Search, Foursquare, and Checking Into States of Mind

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:14:27 +0000

Hot Potato and Get Glue

By: mark mccormack

mark mccormack — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:06:29 +0000

I think this is the next generation of community forums which already serve this purpose in a far more arcane way (discrete sites / logins, etc)

Imagine a world where one platform / account allowed you to check in / out of forums without having to find , sign up, manage, and remember x number of different forums ...

Anyone want to aggregate the leading community forums into foursquare style model?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:21:56 +0000

I love the idea as a marketer and would be happy to try it out myself; but, I have a strong feeling most everyday consumers wouldn’t opt in to being bombarded with advertising messaging around their state of mind. Big ticket items such as car purchases can be stressful decisions in and of themselves. To opt in to another layer of marketers fighting over you might not be something the everyday consumer would jump on the band wagon for.

By: Alex Iskold

Alex Iskold — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:39:35 +0000

Hey John,

Great post!

We've done I think exactly what you are describing with GetGlue. You can check into entertainment like shows, movies, books, music and also general topics.

Take a look at the iPhone app: http://bit.ly/glueiphone

Would love to hear what you think of the experience.

By: Uwe Hook

Uwe Hook — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:12:56 +0000

Definitely agree with John that checking into a state of mind is the way to go but Foursquare won't be able to do it. It's not enough to access your data through Facebook. First, people have to take ownership of their data. All these new tools use people as content providers and sell data to advertisers. We need to own the data and then make intelligent decisions how to share the data on our terms. In the market for a car: open up the data stream for a a week or so to OEM's and let them send you offers. Ready to fly to New York: Share with travel agencies/airlines, hotels your intent and let them send you proposals. This can't be done in walled garde, this has to live in an open environment that can be closed down by people whenever they want.

Doc Searls was mentioned already, there are many people thinking about Social CRM and the move to VRM. My latest blog post talked about it as well.

http://bit.ly/dsz95G

By: Dr. Phil Hendrix

Dr. Phil Hendrix — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:55:04 +0000

In “The Real Life Social Network” (http://bit.ly/b6A03x) Paul Adams (http://twitter.com/@padday) summarizes Google’s research on some of the issues raised in your post. He distinguishes between strong, weak and temporary (transient) ties and points out how difficult it is at present to “manage” and keep these networks separate (as we do in real life) on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking platforms. Excellent discussion and well worth studying all 216pp.
Dr. Phil Hendrix, immr and GigaOm Pro analyst

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:54:21 +0000

Interesting post, the information it is stated as much as possible authentically, thanks)

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:02:25 +0000

Broadcasting your intent to purchase sounds a lot like Doc Serl's VRM concept.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page

By: Donald

Donald — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:01:12 +0000

I agree that the friend mechanism thing isn’t quite working but they’ll get it sorted hopefully.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:31:40 +0000

First, as Jordan said, this sounds better suited to a Tweet. I have no expectation of public interaction with my foursquare/gowalla check-ins, unlike Twitter.
Second, if my car choices were based around my facebook/twitter activites I might be offered a lunch wagon as I post about food so frequently. We also know from other posts you have made that your "social graph" is a mess as you are completely maxed with complete strangers, what is a business meant to make out of this.
Obviously we are creating pictures of ourselves with the disjointed activities of our electronic lives, but I wonder how often the picture has any true utility.