Train flirting - high tech style

Imagine if you can, a place where time stands still. For an hour you are inside a hollow tube.

A place where the lights flicker and the loud murmuring of large crowds intersperses with long periods of rocking motion. Boredom sets in when the coffee makes it difficult to concentrate on your book.

You look around, and try to catch someones eye. “A handsome person” you think. “I wonder who they are” …

I can easily see a market for wireless train flirtation devices.

How cool would it be to have peer to peer flirtation in your hands? You enter a room, or sit for long hours on a train or in an airplane and can connect with people around you, but not immediately next to you. What fun could be had flirting your way to your next destination …

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Tags and Tagclouds offer Intriguing Possabilities

An interesting thing about tags and the tagclouds currently blossoming everywhere, is not the user interface. it is the data which drives the display.consider a couple sites:

Flickr created a way to discover images linked in a network of similarity as determined by a common keyword tag.

TagTerms is providing the first tag based, 100% commercial, search engine directory. The FAQ is long and very detailed. and very intriguing. try a real live Tag search

Social structures based on the passion of photography, or groups that share experiences visually, and commercial search based on the actual popularity of vendors who have things to sell. The thing that intrigues me the most is the variety of underlying data which can feed a Tag cloud. Innovations such as using “time” as a relevancy factor to control part of the UI on TagTerms, makes me wonder about what might come next.

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