Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg talks about the magic of Serendipity

Comments Off  January 4th, 2011  in News

The Atlantic magazine reports that Facebook and FourSquare are planning to drive increased serendipity. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/foursquare-and-facebook-try-to-force-serendipity/68324/

Mark Zuckerberg, in interview with Time magazine as 2010′s Person of the Year, stated: “We have this concept of serendipity…a lucky coincidence…you bump into a friend that you haven’t seen for a while.  That’s awesome.”

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,2036683_2037183_2037185,00.html

It’s nice to see the other guys beginning to get it. ;-)

He must have read the Irish Times coverage of the launch of Locle’s own Serendipity feature in June 2009!

http://www.locle.com/wordpress/2009/06/12/locle-launches-serendipity

We should have trademarked “Serendipity”!  The benefit of hindsight.  Alas, the limitations of boot-strapping.

Serendipity will be the killer application of mobile social networking.  You heard it here first.

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