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August 28, 2006
Dash.net and Anti-Social Networks
I'm fascinated by Sequoia and KP's funding of Dash, a social network driven traffic and auto navigation service. While it has some real possibilities, I'm stuck on something: If you had a best route from A to B, would you ever tell anyone? Unlike other social networks, traffic is an example of an application where there is little incentive to help anyone. It is, at least superficially, a poster child of a class of services I like to call "anti-social networks".More on anti-social apps later today.
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"would you ever tell anyone?" - Yes, I would tell buddies, or team members to facilitate our on time arrival. So, doesnt that make it an even more intimate social communication (network)?
David Jemeyson