I’ve been invited by a friend to join Intelligence.com, which “helps you reach the right people, through those who know you best. It’s simple, thoughtful, and built on trust, just like the best introductions.” The inveterate among us will recall that this is what LinkedIn tried to do in the first place, before it turned into 1.2 billion business cards and 19 corporate acquisitions in a blender.
So far, it has made no news. At all. Though it did show up in r/scams on Reddit. So who are they?
Scroll to the bottom of the page, and you will find in small print, Company, above three links:
The first two say nothing about who they are. The third goes to collectivei.com, where the heading (across most of the visible page) says “AI that studies how the world does business.” Click on the Company link in the menu on the left (in the computer screen view), and (below several pages of downward scrolls) you’ll find the Leadership Team’s six heavy-hitting members above a star chamber of advisors.
Below that is a crawl of Webby Awards, and this:
Build what’s next, with the team that’s already ahead.
Whether you’re a sales leader looking for better outcomes, a partner wanting to deliver transformation, or a developer interested in embedded intelligence, there’s a place for you in the Collective[i] ecosystem.
So clearly, Intelligence.com is less for you and me than for our large corporate employers. IMHO. Feel free to convince me otherwise. I’m open.
Now contrast that with the First Person Network. Says the index page,
The First Person Network is not another Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter/X. **It is not a social network; it is not centralized; and it does not belong to any company.
**In the same way the Internet allows any device to connect with any other device, the First Person Network lets any member connect with any other member. Directly. Privately. Personally. With no intermediaries. No platform. No surveillance. No advertising.
The First Person Network is about trust. It is a trust network that exists only in the individual digital wallets of all the members—the way many of us keep our own address books on our own smartphones today.
Building this trust network as a global digital utility is the goal of the First Person Project. We’ll have much more to share as the initiative grows.
If you want to know more, they have a white paper. It mentions MyTerms four times, and not just because I’ve been close to the First Person Project (which begat the Network) since before the start. In fact, the name comes from Why we need first person technologies on the Net, which I wrote on the ProjectVRM blog in 2014. The post starts,
We need first person technologies for the same reason we need first person voices: because there are some things only a person can say and do.
Such as having a network of personal contacts.
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