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“I want to be able to find more people on FF in my geographic region. Why not let us voluntarily put our country, state, zip code info in a profile page on FF and then let us "discover" others in our immediate area? ”

July 1 at 3:15 pm - Link

Robert Fischer, Juan Pablo González, Andy C, Virginia and 46 other people liked this

that's an excellent idea - Julian Baldwin

I wonder if I can pull Twitter bios and display them in FF. - Hao Chen

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Thomas, how will this help you to create conversations on FF. Will it be that because you are all local you can chat about local events? - Josh Chandler

I like the idea - I've met many interesting people on Twitter that way. For the record, I'm in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. Will have to figure out where else to put that. - Andy Tinkham via twhirl

A short term workaround is to join a local Room - e.g. here is the San Francisco Bay Area room - http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ba... - Mike Doeff

How about Room Search so you can FIND your local room? - Andru Edwards

I could see that as a part of a FF iPhone app - gfurry

Andy, I think where social media works best is when it becomes more than just online. Less about the conversations on here per se and more about relationship building. It can definitely work in an online only environment, but I think it adds an element when people take things beyond the network. I'm better friends with Robert Scoble online because I've met him in person and become friends offline. Geo contact recommendations can help build these offline connections. - Thomas Hawk

These offline connections then become powerful reinforcements for online activity. Local Flickr user groups are a good example. But Flickr has never capitalized on this kind of search or recommendation technology. FF is innovating very quickly as opposed to flickr and could do this better. - Thomas Hawk

:-) - Mitchell Tsai

I use brightkite for that - mike "glemak" dunn

This can work informally through rooms. Here's a "Bay Area" room. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ba.... But it would be more powerful if it were managed and organized more formally by the FF system itself. Not to mention when the first "we met on FF" marriage takes place, it will be just about in time for the New York Times article on FF as the web's hottest new social network as an anecdotal story. - Thomas Hawk

I bet you they won't do it for a while because of these 3 things: 1) Pedofiles, 2) Geo-Spam, 3) Becoming a Dating Site. - John Worthington

Hey Thomas, I can't make the Photowalk in Seattle in July but if you make your way 3 hours north to Whistler BC we can hang out, shoot stuff :) - Andrew Smith

Good idea... I'd like to interact with others in Austin. Glemak: One of the things I like about FFeed is the integration... I'd like to get off of a few of the 15+ services I have now. 8-) (this is coming from the guy that blasted his BKite location to Twitter-verse about 20 times yesterday. ) - Charlie Nichols Browning

Are you in the SF Bay Area? We have a friendfeed room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ba... - David Cohn

I agree, I want to be abled to find local people. I had a hard time doing that on twitter too. Any tips or tools? - Colby Olson

but that would increase the possibility of a RL meeting. - rambn

Twitter actually has a lot of tools.. somewhere in here http://del.icio.us/jbaldwincon... you can find a service that will let you search within a set mile radius - Julian Baldwin

here's the baltimore room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ba... - Jeff Quinton

You can search on zip codes here. - Russellreno

Rooms are too informal of an answer. Flickr has rooms too. I belong to the SFlickr group for instance. No, what's needed is better recommendation technology by FF. Already the "recommended" contacts section of FF is super weak. - Thomas Hawk

Hey Colby, Twellow recently came out with a nice way to search Twitter by location. Here's a search for people who have listed San Francisco as their location: http://www.twellow.com/search.... - Mike Doeff

Thanks Mike - Colby Olson

http://friendfeed.com/settings.... This page is essentially worthless. Rather than focusing simply on higher profile FF members, FF should rank the recommendation page on who has the most mutual friends with you. This would be far more accurate. Then overlay that with a filter by country, state, city or zip. Then page it and you'd have one hell of a contact recommendation system. - Thomas Hawk

Andrew, would love to get up to Whistler to shoot. Want to do a photowalk in Vancouver as well. Won't have time though on this next trip. If anyone is around Seattle next week by the way we are doing a photowalk. Details here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/even... - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, there's a greasemonkey script called Better Recommended that takes into account your friends' connections. - Jeff Quinton

Here's a FF thread about Better Recommended. I haven't tried this yet. http://friendfeed.com/e/429b8a... - Mike Doeff

Why not hold an event, advertise and see who shows up? Or use brightkite - Craig Thomler

Jeff, I couldn't get that script to work. It freaked my browser out. - Thomas Hawk

Craig, connections will be made informally for sure. Rooms, meetups, blogger dinners, brightkite, etc. It is human nature for some of this to happen around any communications medium. No, what I'm talking about is leveraging this natural tendency through official FF recommendation technology. It is far more powerful that way and the offline FF interaction solidifies the online experience. - Thomas Hawk

I have it!!! FF should strike up a deal with MOO Cards with a special FF design. It lists your Name and FF address. Then, with the assistance of local cafes/bars/coffee shops, they could have a small stand where you can leave some for other FF to pick up. - John Worthington

I'm sold: does anyone have a brightkite invite for me? - Marcos Marado

i currently have 5 brightkite invites - send me an email glemak (at) gmail (dot) com and i send one to you - mike "glemak" dunn

Great Idea! I like the room idea mentioned above also. - Jeff P. Henderson