converge.me

you know how amazon always seems to find great products you’ll like, based on your browsing and purchasing behaviors? dc-based converge is applying this concept to your social networks so you can discover people you don’t know yet, but probably should. founders collin anderson and dan snyder started converge to provide users with a free tool to facilitate meeting friends, romantic interests, and roommates with little or no effort. founded earlier this year, converge is a social discovery platform that derives its results from data collected in users’ pre-existing social networking sites, and other venues of expressed interests. when a user signs into the site, the application requests permission to pull in their data from sites like facebook, last.fm and twitter. converge uses this data to recommend products like music, movies and books. however, converge’s real appeal will be matching people based on a multitude of statistically discovered themes. converge is creating a second space f