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"... While your first name appears on your posts, there is no password and no friending. So unlike Facebook, the notion of limiting private content to a friend
by bootload 16y ago
"... While your first name appears on your posts, there is no password and no friending. So unlike Facebook, the notion of limiting private content to a friend network doesn't exist. In the future, the app will be able to intuit relationships based on whom its users spend time with regularly because it collects data constantly. ..." [0]
I'll take a stab at the vision. If you can get a lot of users the tools to give away key emotional & identity information freely you might just be able to take on Facebook. This might explain the valuation & choice of the mobile platform and why the pedigree of the founder (ex Apple) matters.
A consumer device to share information easier for undisclosed "X" use for "Y" clients. The key part of the vision is the generated information, location, a users connections, the verified identity of the user and money. A mobile phone is for all intensive purposes a credit card. These raw functions are made possible by the mobile device and the front and back-end software.
[0] 'Ex-Apple executive takes on Facebook with photo app', AP ~ http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/exapple-executive-takes-on-facebook-with-photo-app-20110325-1c90p.html http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/exappl...