From: Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko (sasha1@netcom.com)
Date: Thu Dec 31 1998 - 19:08:30 MST
I'm afraid this dating service will consist of a couple
of dozen straight extropian men. (See recurrent threads
"why there are no extropian women") in the list archives.
However, a "meaningful dating service" where people would
list, besides flesh characteristics, and such interests
as "fun" and "sports", something more interesting and specific,
may be a good idea. I even entertained for awhile the idea
of a "universal matchmaker" that would include finding not
only relationship partners, but people with whom you can
carpool, play tennis, hike, share an apartment or a cruise
cabin, start a business or an interest group.
One solution for this would be a database with a Web front end.
Another - better, in my opinion - is an open XML standard for
representing personal profiles (that can be published anywhere
on the Web), and extendable semantic search engine and matchmaker.
I think the same approach should give birth to many other
"semantic search and match" functions, so whoever starts it may
gain much more than a date.
I would be happy to join a working group on such a project.
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Alexander Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
<sasha1@netcom.com> <sasha@media.mit.edu>
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