The name is horribly long but so good I think it could really work. Hope they do well.
Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
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Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#12Wow. Very innovative service. I don't have time for it though but then again that's what I said about facebook but I'm a facebook regular.
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#13Hello. I am Aur Saraf. And I don't like this. Why? Because flirting is about communication. Perhaps it's the journalist's mistake, but it seems like communication plays secondary role here to a currency based trading system. Is that a way to show value? "I answered more questions and logged in more, and I believe I'll win your heart, so here, I'm bidding 25 points on you, sweetie"? Even MORE competition? How objectif…
Do you think this is any better? :) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723921
Good day.
No. Do you?
I don't think that a club only made up of "hot people" is any less of a meat market, especially since females tend to pay very little attention to physical attractiveness compared to other qualities (men DO tend to judge a lot by physical attraction, sadly, though I'm an exception).
So what will we have? A group of hot women pursued by a group of blatant men feeling really good about themselves since they managed to "get in", but probably are only slightly better in average than the average guy at pleasing women. Of course there will be successes, even a bit more, relatively, than in a normal dating site, but the mechanism will be 100% the same, so there's no REAL filtering done. The social game will be the same one. Nothing REAL gained (except for the good feeling of superiority from rejecting people, yuck).
Tell me, how do you meet women? Do, and I'll give you a better idea for a dating site.
Aur Saraf
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#14Hello. I am Aur Saraf. And I don't like this. Why? Because flirting is about communication. Perhaps it's the journalist's mistake, but it seems like communication plays secondary role here to a currency based trading system. Is that a way to show value? "I answered more questions and logged in more, and I believe I'll win your heart, so here, I'm bidding 25 points on you, sweetie"? Even MORE competition? How objectif…
Either you didn't read the article carefully or have not used the site. There is a lot of communication tools built into the site. The main point of the for the point system is to put a barrier to entry in establishing relationships. On most dating or Social network sites, people can easily cast a wide net of people they want to get in touch with. But with IILWY, the points make it too costly to do the same approach. In other words, your relationships are more special. Once a game is finished, the person who put on the game and the chosen player establish a connection like in other social networking sites. They can message each other, or even have it call the other user's cell phone (safely without revealing each others phone numbers). And there is much more coming.
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#15Hello. I am Aur Saraf. And I don't like this. Why? Because flirting is about communication. Perhaps it's the journalist's mistake, but it seems like communication plays secondary role here to a currency based trading system. Is that a way to show value? "I answered more questions and logged in more, and I believe I'll win your heart, so here, I'm bidding 25 points on you, sweetie"? Even MORE competition? How objectif…
Do you think this is any better? :) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723921
An intelligence-based version of that site would be great.
You know, for geeks. You have to be smart enough to get in.
In fact, you can do it for a lot of criteria that people value in relationships.
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#16Hello. I am Aur Saraf. And I don't like this. Why? Because flirting is about communication. Perhaps it's the journalist's mistake, but it seems like communication plays secondary role here to a currency based trading system. Is that a way to show value? "I answered more questions and logged in more, and I believe I'll win your heart, so here, I'm bidding 25 points on you, sweetie"? Even MORE competition? How objectif…
I doubt the question answering will be just for points. Eventually they can build up a profile of you and perhaps secretly change the weighting of points, or change the kinds of "goods" you get to see. That would create a pretty interesting quickdating service. What I find most intriguing is the point system. Joining = 100 questions answered; it looks like a rather arbitrary number.
If it takes 6 seconds to answer a question that's 10 minutes per 500 points ("ideal" case). Looks like the baseline will be high enough that new users need to spend significant time answering questions to make useful bids. Looks like a great platform for a popularity war, i.e. MySpace crowd and not Facebook crowd.
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#17Anybody remember yesnomayb.com? They should join forces.
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think this is any better? :) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17723921
An intelligence-based version of that site would be great. You know, for geeks. You have to be smart enough to get in. In fact, you can do it for a lot of criteria that people value in relationships.
Haha, this thread has captivated me.
http://www.datesmartpeople.com
These guys spammed several schools when they launched. The forum is pretty empty. No I did not join.
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#19I signed up and began playing with it a couple days ago. I love the look and character of the site. Everything about the presentation oozes charm.
Sounds interesting, any idea where to get the invite codes? I'm curious about the 'points economy' being used.
Re: Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"
#20I like it for two reasons:
1) It's completely fresh and original.
2) The submit buttons make a pleasing sound when you mouse over them.
I suspect the bidding system will result in lekking and other malsocialized behavior, but I could also see it driving up use. I'm really fascinated to see what happens though, and I can't wait to start playing with it (even though I already have a gf who I asked out on facebook).