you should check out http://www.threedegrees.com, its made my Microsoft and its not very well known. But if you and your buddies all use it, it can be a lot of fun.

What is it used for? Why do you use it?

its sort of a mass/group communication tool, it integrates with MSN meggenger. you can send messages/images/files to groups of people at once. so you arange your friends into groups and you can send a message to all of them in one simple step

Since it integrates with Messenger then it is still "middleman" based...how would you remove that middleman/server model?

You would need a way to automatically discover other users of the service. Broadcast packets saying you are using the service, and anyone who is running it will respond to you. Then everyone can transfer knowledge about other users between each other. Finding that first other user would probably be the hardest part. But my description almost sounds like algorithms routers use. But no more thinking for me, its friday and time to go home :)

I don't necessarily think that type of connectivity would make a big difference in human interaction. You can get a feel for that connectivity now by joining a large chat room or going to a large night club. Everyone is able to communicate with everyone else at once publically (in the main chat room, or by shouting in the club) or in small sets privately (by whispering in the chat room or talking to individuals in the night club). In both of those situations a middle man is often still required to connect two people even if they are directly "next" to eachother (either in the same chat room or standing near eachother in the club). In other words, just because the connectivity exists, most humans probably wouldn't use it directly without a "middle" human link.

-Kael

without the middleman, there is usually no reason to initiate contact. Singles bars excluded, of course. When I introduce 2 people, I either tell them why I am introducing them or they know to not bother paying any attention. "Bob, this is my friend John, he is the guy that ran over your cat." And now Bob knows why he needs to talk to John. Even if I were removed and Bob and John were directly connected, Bob has no reason to speak to John without the dead cat knowledge and therefor that piece of knowledge is the middleman you seem to think can magically be removed for some reason. Without some path, connector, intermediary, reason, matchmaker between 2 people, there simply is nothing there at all.

Back to the singles bar, the bar itself and/or the sexual attraction is the middleman. There is always an intermediary.

I would agree that there is always a context but not necessarily and intermediary. When I move into a new neighborhood I say hi to my neighbors. There is no intermediary but simply a proximity context. Why does there "always" have to be an intermediary?

Your neighbors' home was the intermediary that introduced you to them and told you that you should speak to them. Looking for the location of someone's home is no different than looking for a/s/l location in an AIM profile.

I think Siamese Twins are the only ones who can have 0 degrees of seperation. Or people who randomly talk to you about random subjects, commonly known as "that annoying homeless guy".

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