{"id":432,"date":"2007-07-11T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000432"},"modified":"2007-07-11T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T16:13:44","slug":"july-new-tech-meetup-notes-villij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/432","title":{"rendered":"July New Tech Meetup Notes: Villij"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villij.com\/\">Villij<\/a> was the next presenter.  They are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techstars.org\">techstars startup<\/a>; their mission is to introduce folks based on common interest.  How are these common interests determined?  By what you write on the internet.  So far, they have the basics of a platform built, but are not trawling the internet just yet, so introductions are based on data you&#8217;ve entered into their system (like match.com, but without the romance).  They are looking for interested folks to get on their waiting list to get a beta login.<\/p>\n<p>The issue I have with this, and almost every other social network, is something I have often thought about&#8211;the binary nature of connection.  I am either all your friend or I have no connection to you&#8211;no shades of gray.  There&#8217;s no concept of grouping of visibility.  I presume because this is a hard problem for folks to solve in the real world (&#8220;let&#8217;s see, who should I invite to the party&#8221;), let alone represent in a digital format.  I have at least two online personas, work and personal, and there may be folks that I&#8217;m interested in meeting because of one that I wouldn&#8217;t care to meet based on the other.  But maybe they&#8217;ll solve that problem&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]yet another social network, techstars[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villij was the next presenter. They are a techstars startup; their mission is to introduce folks based on common interest. How are these common interests determined? By what you write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-tech-meetup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}