Social Intelligence

I’ve thought for a long-time that “clickstream dating” would be an interesting attention-monitoring application. “Who’s visiting what I’m visiting?” and “Who’s visiting this set {} of 10 sites?” are questions that could lead you to interesting people.

Of course, the trouble is getting everyone to give you all their attention data.  Well, a new toolbar-based service called Others Online is attempting to do for friend-finding what Root Markets tried to do for mortgage leads: aggregate and package your attention data and match you with other parties who are interested in profiles like yours.

I’m interested to see how others take this.  More thoughts soon…

(via TechCrunch)