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Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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This kind of reminds me of the original version of the app called Color, where you'd see social posts organized by geo coordinates. Imagine being in a coffee shop and seeing a feed of every post and photo posted from within the coffee shop. The benefit being you could make friends in your area. Does anyone else remember this app? It came out around the same era as Path.

yeah, wow, blast from the past. I was thinking of Path while reading this also. These kind of small-scope social app attempts.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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post #5

This kind of reminds me of the original version of the app called Color, where you'd see social posts organized by geo coordinates. Imagine being in a coffee shop and seeing a feed of every post and photo posted from within the coffee shop. The benefit being you could make friends in your area. Does anyone else remember this app? It came out around the same era as Path.

Must have been from a more innocent time.. It sounds super cool until you think about the privacy nightmare it could be? I'm thinking about how people managed to triangulate users locations from grindr, or the cesspit of bullying that YikYak was.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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To me, this looks like a fantastic idea, and something that could be really useful in a niche, but I think it's going to fly over the head of a lot of folk because it's fairly obviously targeted at highly mobile, maybe HNWI's who do a lot of travel - it's not going to be useful for "most" people.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Huh. At the risk of being crude, this is already a feature of queer hookup apps, including recording your plans and seeing who else in your network will be attending an event or visiting your area.

It's pretty much the same problem set, I think? You have a relatively small social circle (as a percentage of the whole population) and your plans probably won't appeal to those outside of that group.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Is this good? I can't tell. It feels like the last social dating taboo is open time bidding. something like: "here's my instagram. I've got an extra seat at performance X, a reservation at restaurant Y, or lift tickets for resort Z. intro yourself if you want to be my guest, or bid cash for dutch" it's like everyone's dancing around that as if they're above it somehow.

Definitely thought of that kind of thing. There are about 20 restaurants in Collegetown, it would be fun to try them all, even more fun if I could share the experience with other people who feel the same.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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post #5

This kind of reminds me of the original version of the app called Color, where you'd see social posts organized by geo coordinates. Imagine being in a coffee shop and seeing a feed of every post and photo posted from within the coffee shop. The benefit being you could make friends in your area. Does anyone else remember this app? It came out around the same era as Path.

I remember the handwritten note taped to the door of Color's office in Palo Alto, across the street from the hamburger joint. It had something to do with the founder's principles or something.

At that point I realized it wasn't a serious company.

The last time I walked by the building it was "The Institute for the Future."

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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he doesn't discuss financials, but that's my first and only question: how is this gonna be funded if it takes off?

I can see several ways.

for example peer-pressure recommendations.

Look, you and Jacky are in town, both of you are close to Margo's Restaurant, you should meet up there. Here is a 5% discount.

or

Both Jacky and Margo are going on this weekend to Ulaanbaatar for a fancy snack, flying Fred Flintstone airlines. They have great rates this weekend and you are just sitting on your couch watching reruns. Why not get a flight on Fred Flintstone airlines (here is the link), you might even sit next to one of them!

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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Sending Christmas cards is old-fashioned, but it’s a pretty good indicator of who you actually know well enough to have their mailing address. (Or well enough to ask for it without it being weird.)

No special app needed, since it can be done with a spreadsheet.

Re: Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi

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post #26
post #5

This kind of reminds me of the original version of the app called Color, where you'd see social posts organized by geo coordinates. Imagine being in a coffee shop and seeing a feed of every post and photo posted from within the coffee shop. The benefit being you could make friends in your area. Does anyone else remember this app? It came out around the same era as Path.

I remember the handwritten note taped to the door of Color's office in Palo Alto, across the street from the hamburger joint. It had something to do with the founder's principles or something. At that point I realized it wasn't a serious company. The last time I walked by the building it was "The Institute for the Future."

This reads like a Vonnegut story
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