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A Conversation about Redux Getting Their Users Laid (foohack.com)
24 points by IsaacSchlueter on Aug 18, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Not only do you have Redux, which is a link/music/video sharing social web site which is actually covert matchmaking, there's also okcupid, which is a matchmaking site that's used by many as a covert link/music/video sharing social web site.


Exactly.

It's interesting to me that users so often do the opposite of what they came to do.


Or to paraphrase William Gibson: The Street finds its own use for technology.

And often it involves getting laid. I'm waiting for location-aware GPS smartphone apps to address this big time.


Bait & Switch.


Howso?


He was looking to get laid, apparently.




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