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by soneca
4322 days ago
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I couldn't reply on your last comment, so it will be here. How would be your "9 or 10 cards"? I imagine you can just control what info a conctact would have access. Maybe: professional email, personal email, office phone, personal phone, where do you work.
Maybe one profile for each info..but that is 5... how to reach 9 or 10? I think of a relationship regulated by tags. Tags similar to Google+ Circles. You can use to set context: <church>, <college>, <company>. Or access: <prospect>, <top investor>, <important network>, <conference contact>. You can define an access profile for a particular tag. You can change contacts though an app, but he won't have any access until you alocate a tag to him. So you won't offend anyone upfront, as even the VIP investors will have to wait until you put an all-accesstag on them. So it is a much more subtle acknowledge when after weeks the contact still don't have access to your email. |
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* BFFs
* Recent acquaintances
* Close family (reasonable people)
* Extended family (think annoying newsletter emails)
* Co-workers (cell number included)
* Clients (cell number definitely not included)
* Spammy business contacts (vendors)
* Travel (something I could hand out with temp hotel and phone info, etc.)
* Japanese (my wife is from Japan, we have lots of friends here and visit there often)
I could also imagine handing out specific cards at various social functions. For example, at a writing club I used to attend, I'd want to provide a link to my portfolio online. I'd never ever want anyone else to read that embarrassing stuff though. In another case, I used to attend a board game club, and it would've been nice to hand out cards with links to my profile on boardgamegeek, meet-up profile, etc.
It seems like this would work best if the exchange format was simply vCard or some other open format. You get to control who gets what at the point of exchange, and they can consume it into whatever system they like. There's no after-the-fact futzing with tags or permissions or contact management; it's just a system to control how you present yourself. The whole idea is probably DOA if you can't interface with the rest of the world's contact software. Maybe you allow connections if both people in the exchange are users of your service, but you wouldn't want to take it for granted.
As an aside, this got really interesting when we considered the "hot girl in a bar" situation. Let's say she gets asked for contact details many times, it's too loud to hear names or whatever, so she might need to snap a picture of the guy at any point of exchange, then review and modify permissions later. But that seems kinda fussy as a system.