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Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future

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Re: Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future

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Somebody asked recently what I meant when I said lots of startups make things for technically-inclined twenty-something males. I meant that lots of startups make things like this. If your first thought after "I kind of want to go out to dinner on Thursday." is "I wonder if a site exists that can broadcast this to my social networks yet?", you are solidly in the demographic most B2C startups seem to care about. There…

Of course not everyone is going to want to broadcast every move they are going to make, but that isn't half of what Plancast can offer you. For example, a couple weeks ago I learned that Marcy Playground had released a new CD and was touring. I was bumbed I missed their show simply because I didn't know about it. Now, if Marcy Playground was on Plancast I could've just subscribed to their upcoming feed and easily hav…

I think I would feel like a puppet who's strings are being jerked in 20 directions by all my different "feeds".

But that's probably just me. I have never seen the allure of the "social" internet that puts ever facet of your life on line. It seems to be to be the height of arrogance to think that anyone really cares about where you are going to dinner on Thursday night.

Re: Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future

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Somebody asked recently what I meant when I said lots of startups make things for technically-inclined twenty-something males. I meant that lots of startups make things like this. If your first thought after "I kind of want to go out to dinner on Thursday." is "I wonder if a site exists that can broadcast this to my social networks yet?", you are solidly in the demographic most B2C startups seem to care about. There…

Of course not everyone is going to want to broadcast every move they are going to make, but that isn't half of what Plancast can offer you. For example, a couple weeks ago I learned that Marcy Playground had released a new CD and was touring. I was bumbed I missed their show simply because I didn't know about it. Now, if Marcy Playground was on Plancast I could've just subscribed to their upcoming feed and easily hav…

I use last.fm to "scrobble" all of the music I listen to. It knows what artists I like, any similar artists to those, and most tour dates. There is even an "events" page that lists all of these shows, filterable by geo and artists that I might actually like. This has solved all of my "didn't know they were on tour" problems.

Re: Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future

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Somebody asked recently what I meant when I said lots of startups make things for technically-inclined twenty-something males. I meant that lots of startups make things like this. If your first thought after "I kind of want to go out to dinner on Thursday." is "I wonder if a site exists that can broadcast this to my social networks yet?", you are solidly in the demographic most B2C startups seem to care about. There…

So many start ups are expecting users to broadcast their lives and reveal even more info than what's already floating around on the internet. Personally, I think that people will begin backing away from these types of start ups and will become less inclined to reveal anything about themselves. It's just too much.

Also a nice way for someone to figure out a good time to burglarize your house.

Re: Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course not everyone is going to want to broadcast every move they are going to make, but that isn't half of what Plancast can offer you. For example, a couple weeks ago I learned that Marcy Playground had released a new CD and was touring. I was bumbed I missed their show simply because I didn't know about it. Now, if Marcy Playground was on Plancast I could've just subscribed to their upcoming feed and easily hav…

I use last.fm to "scrobble" all of the music I listen to. It knows what artists I like, any similar artists to those, and most tour dates. There is even an "events" page that lists all of these shows, filterable by geo and artists that I might actually like. This has solved all of my "didn't know they were on tour" problems.

Touche.
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