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Thursday, May 04, 2006

PlaceSite

As a tribe of turned on web-savvy community types, we all have our own online networks of people and contacts that we trust and consort with on a daily basis. Chatrooms, IRC, MySpace, Del.icio.us, etc are all testament to our growing online love of people. However, despite this, we spend more time hunched over keyboards and a lot less time interacting with actual real people. I mean, how many of you MySpace contacts are you likely to ever (or want to) meet in real life?

PlaceSite is sowing the seeds of a new social network that brings real people back into the mix. It's a new network for mobile PC users. It connects you with people sat in the same area as you, so if you like their profiles on the site, you can say hello. It's a simple idea based on existing mobile phone services, but for mobile computer users who like socialising, it will no doubt be the tool for many random encounters. At present it's only in 4 cafes in San Francisco - but I can see it growing for the same reason ~~fools~~ people enjoyed flashmobbing. And let's not get in to the toothing/random encounters possibilities which it will no doubt become a favourite for.

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