It seems that at some point we are going to see an industry of lead miners pop up. What do I mean by that? Well, all these communities are rich with personal data, not to mention great personal dialog, and it is ripe for the picking. I can see a company being developed that does the cherry picking for you. I have blogged about a few few personal apartment search stories over the past couple of days that clearly have a ripe prospect searching for an apartment. What if this future company had the ability, using key word search, to be the first to hear about it? What if they then used the personal data from the profile to send a very subtle email suggesting that they could help in the process?
Sound creepy? A little and in the same breath I think it will be less and less creepy as more and more of these types of technologies evolve. I think it will be not unlike google invading our gmail accounts with ads that mirror our email topics.
One cool feature this new company could incorporate is a link to the actual blog post, twitter tweet, etc…, as to really tailor a personal message.
Impressive? Do you think it’s creepy or would you love it? M