Comments on: On social media and the power of real-world serendipity http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/ Wed, 22 May 2013 13:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: aliadventures7 http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1101138 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:38:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1101138 The serendipity of social media never ceases to amaze me. I actually met my husband because he randomly saw a tweet I sent asking for help with my website. We had never interacted before on Twitter, and we were each following hundreds of people and living in different countries/timezones, but he saw my tweet, helped me out, and now we’re married. Crazy. Social media is a wonderful thing for so many reasons.

]]> By: drewmeyers http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1061305 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:06:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1061305 Serendipity happens. It’s my belief it should happen about 5x as often though. It’s about surfacing the right “nugget of info” to the right person at the right time to make it happen. I’m working on surfacing those nuggets in a travel context..

]]> By: tommymarinuk http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1060649 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:18:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1060649 Just want to echo what Chris is saying up there! It’d be a dream!

]]> By: Matt Albrecht http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1060304 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:08:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1060304 Mathew,
Thank you for articulating the serendipity feature of our social media apps. While we can sometimes feel bogged down by our social feeds it is refreshing to hear that these tools can still generate valuable, chance social encounters. My company is applying the serendipity feature to the car, and area that is lacking in social connection and typically filled with boredom. With our smartphone app, drivers can identify others who are driving near them and play interactive audio games against eachother. Have you seen a growing trend of early-stage companies incorporating “serendipity engines” into their applications?

-Matt Albrecht, Founder, BRIGHTdriver

]]> By: Chris Feeley http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1059236 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:07:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1059236 zite sucks. does the comments section have to be a spot for every entrepreneurs self promotion?

]]> By: Paul Bernard http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1059171 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:28:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1059171 facebook should have been blocked from buying Instagram on anti-trust grounds.

the SEC and FTC blew a huge opportunity to let competition live in the social media space.

instagram now has 150 million users.

it was the new facebook till facebook was allowed to buy them.

consumers will suffer in all sorts of ways starting with privacy.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1058398 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:21:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1058398 Thanks, Mark — glad I could help get you two together :-)

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1058394 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:20:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1058394 Thanks, Chris.

]]> By: Mark Johnson http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1058373 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:12:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1058373 I have a serendipity story involving you. Last week, you posted a fantastic article about Prismatic. I learned about it because I follow you on Twitter (though the story also showed up in my Zite!). I contacted Bradford, we ended up sharing a few fantastic bottles of wine, great conversation, and eventually had dinner with his lovely wife. I love the wonderful (guided?) serendipity that the social web engenders.

-Mark Johnson, CEO, Zite

]]> By: Statspotting http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/on-social-media-and-the-power-of-real-world-serendipity/#comment-1058280 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:42:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571484#comment-1058280 You also forgot to mention the commercial element in all this , check in and get a five percent off etc.

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