This morning, out of the blue, old buddy Michel IMs me this:
i had a friend who had a cool idea for something that'd be kinda like friendster, but for books, music and dvds and stuff.
so basically a group of friends library. where you have your people on your list that are allowed to borrow. and you have your list of books, etc... and the system would let you know who has what, and what's available from your friends.
Not an hour later, a new buddy, who shall remain nameless, mentions he is consulting a also nameless company to build a "social network" tool that would show "people who friended XXX also bought YYY"...
And now, I stumble across a post by also new buddy Jyri Engström where he makes this prediction.
(And he uses the term Kula... Hmmmm...)
Coïncidink?
Tangentially:
About a year ago I had a vision of the worldwide hurricane of garbage and doodads created by entities such as EBay, whereby literally hundreds of thousands of items were flying around in FedEx and UPS parcels all around the world everyday, at any given moment. A veritable typhoon of physical object exchange, encircling the globe...
