When you are too far out there…
I have many friends that have no clue what I am doing nor what I am talking about. In many ways, I kind of enjoy it, as it forces me to talk about (and keep up with) other more mundane topics than tagging, social networking, blogging, wikis and marketing.
This morning was just one of those moments when I was reminded what it means to be too much out there…(and I realize that I am probably dating myself by exposing this).
Last night I finally found some time to play around with last-fm - a social networking based music site. I instantly fell in love with it, downloaded the plug-ins and started playing with it. Being impatient as I am I let my iTunes play all night - trying to reach that magic 300 tunes when they will start recommending songs to me and start streaming my personal radio station.
So late this morning, I checked the site, and it showed that I had played 270 tunes. I said to my wife, who was nearby, and with whom I had shared my excitement about this site last night (even though she did not get as excited as me about my ability to “tag” my songs and things like that) - 270 songs, 30 more to go!
She: you’re not too concerned about privacy, are you?
Me: it’s not like I have to be embarrassed about the songs I listen to, plus if people want to find me, I am all over the web…
She: yeah, but this is something real “personal” about you…
Me: look, this is about “social” - how can you leverage the “social” aspects of things and be invisible?
She: WHO are you trying to get “social” with?
Me: NOBODY - you don’t get it - it’s the aggregation of profiles that will cause “the computer” to make music recommendations to me…
She (mumbling): my husband is trying to be social with a computer…
Me: [blank]…then bursting out in laughs…
What is currently happening out there is truly fascinating, but sometimes we have to pause and remember that the market adoption curve for new inventions can take much longer than expected…
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