Comments on: The People Web http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/03/the_people_web/ Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mark pincus http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/03/the_people_web/comment-page-1/#comment-146 mark pincus Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:58:07 +0000 http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/03/the_people_web/#comment-146 dave, i think we're closer than you realize. you can go see an example of how the interconnected people search may work on tribe right now. if you look at the 'connected tribes' box on any tribe page you will see that we programmatically link all related groups together via their overlapping membership. this is how the peopleweb will be navigated. you will start to a) identify that you are a person, ie. profile and b) that you are linked to another person usually via a group, friend roll or tribe roll. i believe that ultimately (in 18 months or less) networks which do not let users 'own' their own profiles and expose them where and how they want will lose their audience faster than you can say friendster. imagine if you could only email people wihthin the same host network?! anyone remember compuserve? anyone remember their email address? (i think mine was like 15555.2345@compuserve.com:) dave, i think we’re closer than you realize. you can go see an example of how the interconnected people search may work on tribe right now. if you look at the ‘connected tribes’ box on any tribe page you will see that we programmatically link all related groups together via their overlapping membership. this is how the peopleweb will be navigated. you will start to a) identify that you are a person, ie. profile and b) that you are linked to another person usually via a group, friend roll or tribe roll.

i believe that ultimately (in 18 months or less) networks which do not let users ‘own’ their own profiles and expose them where and how they want will lose their audience faster than you can say friendster. imagine if you could only email people wihthin the same host network?! anyone remember compuserve? anyone remember their email address? (i think mine was like 15555.2345@compuserve.com:)

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