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Monday, March 31, 2003

Free Social Networking Software - Search And Map With The Invisible Matrix Of Your Personal Connections!

Huminity
http://www.huminity.com/
= breakthrough tool
Software Tool (Win)
FREE

Released in December 2002, Huminity is a free social networking software that enables people to share, create, modify and navigate a global map of connections via graphical animated maps.

Such characteristics make Huminity very effective in:

Finding a friend - Did you know that more than 50% of job offers are reached through friends?

Finding a path of acquaintances to someone - Did you know that every 2 people are connected via 6 acquaintances?

Chat with interesting people - learn more about your chat partner from the free text that users can write about themselves.

The Huminity software is designed to facilitate the connections between people by enabling them to share non-intrusive information. When each individual's information is combined together, a magnificent map of global connections is formed-for the benefit of everyone.

The people at Huminity believe that cooperation between people is the natural state of being and that the their initiative can provide the technological platform for making cooperation and friendship a major part of everyone's life.

Huminity draws inspiration from the research of Nobel Prize winner John Nash, who showed that by joining forces a group can reach a higher commutative value than by competing one with another.

Huminity believes that by combining all the connection trees into one global connections map, people will enhance the value from their own contacts. This in turn will result in more friendships, respect for one another, and sharing.

Huminity software is FREE OF CHARGE and enables people to merge their own contact tree with a global visual map of contacts and connections.

Through this, people can see whom they are connected to through various acquaintances. For example, you may want to find a path to someone that you are about to meet, and discover that he is a friend of your friend, or a friend of a friend of a friend and so on.

The Huminity concept has proven itself without raising a dime from any institution! Huminity developers define themselves as a "community friendly" entity that does not "spy", keeps hidden records, or manipulates data.

Everything is editable, and at any given time users can modify, add or remove the information they have entered.

Huminity.com sees itself as a true start-up that is built on values and the honest belief that this initiative can make the world a friendlier place.

Problems

Some issues may limit Huminity effectiveness and ability to be easily adopted by a large audience.

a) unless you are paying close attention to each and every step the software automatically grabs all of your contacts from Outlook and makes them part of your tree of connections. Each one of these people receives a notification that you have invited her to be part of this Huminity network.

This is a annoying and fastidious privacy violation as Huminity sends out notification to an unspecified number of people without first obtaining your open consent. While some of your contacts may appreciate this, other will get very annoyed by this. Many will fear that you didn't have any right in sharing their email with an online provider they don't know.

 

 

b) Too few people have yet bought into this scheme and therefore the supposed "magic" of Huminity is not yet there unless you input a lot of contacts and a group of your close contacts also do so.

It is important to note that Huminity DOES NOT share or publish the email address of your contacts, though it certainly has the ability to collect them for its own use.

A great idea/concept to be further refined.

Download Huminity free at:
http://www.huminity.com/Huminity.exe (3.3 MB)

Recommended.

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Readers' Comments    
2004-08-15 01:49:35

Social Networking Software

Huminity believes that by combining all the connection trees into one global connections map, people will enhance the value from their own contacts. This in turn will result in more friendships, respect for one another, and sharing.



2004-07-20 03:31:40

Social Networking

check out Collegester's Social Networking Software



 
posted by Robin Good on Monday, March 31 2003, updated on Tuesday, May 5 2015

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