Kami Social

kami (神): a shinto spirit believed to link us with our environment and the people and things around us *the idea* while online social networks like facebook, linkedin, and twitter increasingly are empowering us to stay connected digitally, our system for making connections in the real world remains as low tech and inefficient as it's been since the dawn of human society. when people are in a space together -- on the street, in a classroom, at a bar -- no matter how easy and obvious certain connections between them may be, actually executing these connections relies almost entirely on chance encounter. how simple would it be to allow individuals to provide information about themselves, available digitally to the people around them, to help surface these matches and foster valuable interaction? kami will look to do precisely this.