Hey there. This just seems like a fun community idea, and a good motivation to put your profile online.
They’re making a huge jigsaw puzzle of portraits of people from all over the world. I uploaded my photo and set a profile today. Pretty neat. You can link your photo/profile to other people and aggregate groups of Openpuzzlers into themes.
It seems to me its the kind of thing a Classmates.com or Facebook or Reunion brand should have done. Even though I don’t know anyone up there yet - I can see how powerful it would be to use the grouping feature and group my photo with those I work with, those I worked with a few years ago as well as my high school or college classmates. All in all its a more experiential way to link up to new peeps and to get in touch with old friends and acquaintances.
Try this to start discovering: Head to Openpuzzle and do a search. My name is under “Tom Ajello” so I guess you can start there. There’s also some interesting advanced search functions such as the vicinity search to find peeps locally.
Bummer: As far as I can tell - I can’t deep link you to my section of the map or my profile. Not sure why. Hopefully that get revised. Forgetting something that silly will ruin the Organic on this thing…
Peece.
Comments
Courtney : Sunday, 02 March 2008
looks fun and potentially useful…i’m going to sign up.
Eric Shoemaker : Sunday, 02 March 2008
That’s pretty cool! Goes to show what you can do with a good idea.
Fabian Just : Sunday, 02 March 2008
Hi Tom, thank you for your article and your very good hint concerning the deep link! We will add this feature quickly… Kind regards, Fabian Just founder of openpuzzle
See-ming Lee : Thursday, 20 March 2008
Thanks for the suggestion. Great UGC site to check out. Signed up :) Cheers, SML