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January 7, 2012 07:04 pm GMT
When John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale reach for the same pair of black gloves in the movie Serendipity, they meet and fall in love. The goal of social discovery applications is to engineer this kind of serendipity. By leveraging demographic and interest data, and by providing good reasons to interact with strangers, this emerging category seeks to make meeting people feel fun and natural.And its not just about dating. Most people I know I met through serendipitous encounters. Whether its the friend I bumped into at the college bookstore as a confused freshman or the boyfriend I met at the coffee shop, most human relationships start the same way in a serendipitous moment.
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Engineering Serendipity
When John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale reach for the same pair of black gloves in the movie Serendipity, they meet and fall in love. The goal of social discovery applications is to engineer this kind of serendipity. By leveraging demographic and interest data, and by providing good reasons to interact with strangers, this emerging category seeks to make meeting people feel fun and natural.And its not just about dating. Most people I know I met through serendipitous encounters. Whether its the friend I bumped into at the college bookstore as a confused freshman or the boyfriend I met at the coffee shop, most human relationships start the same way in a serendipitous moment.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6CLWWKv3pAc/
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