Scott Adams: FaceBook Killer

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Post by cwan » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 4:52 PM UTC

Scott Adams: FaceBook Killer
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Post by jasongullickson » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:04 PM UTC

We should have a programming contest based on this :)

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Post by steveklabnik » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:10 PM UTC

PlanCast?

I couldn't ever get into PlanCast, though. It just never got integrated into my daily habits. I still like the idea, though...

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Post by retroafroman » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:13 PM UTC

This is quite a simple and compelling idea. I see friends asking for product reviews and recommendations in their status messages all the time.

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Post by portman » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:21 PM UTC

Is there a reason why he intentionally mis-capitalizes "Facebook" to "FaceBook"?

Scott Adams strikes me as a careful and fastidious writer; I'm wondering if there is an inside joke that I'm not getting.

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Post by jiganti » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:22 PM UTC

Telling the world what you did and are doing assumes the world cares. This is a stretch, but people do it.

Not only telling the world what you are planning on doing, but expecting guidance from peers even more optimistic. I don't see this often in facebook status updates, or at least not things that people can really expect help from like Adams envisions. Displaying your intentions puts all your cards on the table; it's biologically discouraged. I don't think this will work.

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Post by jeromec » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:23 PM UTC

I think the concept is good hypothetically, but wouldn't work in practice. People are not that organized. Knowing beforehand where you are going to go and what you are going to do at various points in the future is hard enough to imagine, let alone consistently input into a computer, even if there is a value proposition as he points out. That's my thinking anyway.

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Post by johngalt » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:32 PM UTC

Isn't CarWoo effectively doing this now on a small scale?

Re: Scott Adams: FaceBook Killer

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Post by jpwagner » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:36 PM UTC

Should be titled:

  Scott Adams: FaceBook Complementer

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Post by jasongullickson » Mon, Nov 15, 2010, 5:38 PM UTC

jeromec wrote: post #7

I think the concept is good hypothetically, but wouldn't work in practice. People are not that organized. Knowing beforehand where you are going to go and what you are going to do at various points in the future is hard enough to imagine, let alone consistently input into a computer, even if there is a value proposition as he points out. That's my thinking anyway.

You could do something that requires less effort on the part of the user. For example, extract future intentions from the content of existing "status update" streams.

"I just bought a used Ford" = "I need a mechanic in six months".

"I'm going rock climbing for the first time this weekend!" = "I need a chiropractor next week".

Etc...

Jokes aside, seems like this would be a fairly approachable mid-way between the existing system and the one proposed.