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FriendMe

Moved to The Lab !

To add to the wiki : FOAF + checking if friend.me (Montenegro) could be obtained + omegle.com

Team
Initiator : xintron
Initiator : jey
Initiator : Fabien

Goal

Adding serendipity to friendship and making fun of the Social Network phenomenon.

Abstraction of the problematic

• X happen in Z
• T can not be performed outside of S
• ...
• use key parameters

How do you cope with this situation ?

In situ example

Jo hears about yet another SocialNetwork website, joins and get sick of having yet another random guy "friending" him. He...

Branding

• name
  • FriendMe
  • WorldFriending
  • ?
• values
  • humor
  • connecting
  • serendipity
  • randomness

Marketing

• Creating or joining dedicated groups on the most famous SN
  • Facebook apps to randomly add (cross SN?)
• having reports from ReadWriteWeb/BoinkBoink/Technocrati/Slashdot and trendy websites

Summing up the message

Pictures of "friended" from the big SN : "tired of yet another morron adding you on YouTube" (picture of the add with a ridiculous name)

Profile of the target

• 43things people who want to "make a new random friend
• Yahoo! Answers on "Random Friend"
• Poll results from Quizilla

Visualization

• Having a patchwork for all the big SN, showing the "pattern" again and again, making people relate to the situation to produce a gut feeling of "yeah man, totally know what you mean..."
• pictures of all the friend X, send to all, etc... annoyances, make them appear on after the other sticking on the page (faster and faster), covering the whole thing then a BIG FriendMe (or whatever the name we choose) comes over it and removes the whole thing : the ultimate ridiculous annoyance, random friending (obviously with a better tagline)

Finance

• costs
  • labor
    • designing/writing software
    • marketing
    • managing the server
    • constantly being innovative with new features
  • technical
    • hosting server
    • domain name
• incomes
  • ads

See the ToDo and Done pages to see who did what and what is still left to accomplish!

Proposed solutions

• a website with ONLY a friend button you can't do ANYTHING but friend random people

Inspiration

• Trend of "yet-another-social-network" but with a recurrent pattern of "friending" by unknown people not even presenting themselves
  • initial log

References

• discussion on #Blinkenshell (18/02/09)
• article A from X written by Y on date Z
• book A from X written by Y on date Z