About a year ago I was trying to lose weight and sometimes finding it difficult to get motivated. Everything I read online said one of the best ways to get motivated was to find someone else to do the same thing you were planning to do, since the guilt of letting them down would force you to actually keep up whatever you had committed to.
The problem is this – how do you find someone?
I thought about the web and how there are a million dating sites – for farmers for example – but not really any to find just a friend. At least not any good ones.
Please let me know what you think.
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March 18, 2007 at 12:41 am
Jeff Larche
Hi, Mark –
Good luck with your app and your new blog. I signed on to give your Friendfinder a try, specifically to find a running partner in my neighborhood (I will be trying Craigslist, but thought this would be an interesting experiment). I notice that fitness / running isn’t a category. I suggest you add it. I suspect I’m not the only person who’d want to use it to meet up.
By the way, today a favorite blogger of mine, Danah Boyd, wrote about what Web 3.0 might become, assuming technology keeps pace. Here’s her post: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/03/16/web_123.html
She basically talks about how Web 1.0 was about ideas (work collaboration or socializing among strangers), Web 2.0 is about people (various online social networks that connect people who already know each other, or know someone who knows the other person). Web 3.0: Place. Your concept, should it hit critical mass and possibly be ported to a cell phone handset, could be one of those Web 3.0 success stories. Good luck!