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Be my geist

Noticed this interesting feature over at Last.fm:

The words Set a New Obsesssion next to an icon of a pin in three concentric circles.

Reminded me of the one idea for a social network I’ve ever had — and decades ago. You’d get to pick two (and only ever two) current zeitgesit-y favourite things.

It could be anything. A person. A song. A flavour of KitKat. You’d be able to see your friends’s favourite things and, I guess, react. (But not comment, I reckon.)

But perhaps most tantalisingly you’d be able to see trends, local, regional and global.

Twitter trending topics kind of came to do that — that, but without any of the negativity. And I don’t know that that data has ever been properly tracked and visualised over time (although it looks like twitter-trending.com has had a go).

Anyway.

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