Comments on: Any news on the Anahita Social Networking project?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:59:59 +0000

Thanks for the response on the dating question. Social or dating, it would be great if optional fields could be added or changed. And being able to search on the fields would be great as well. Say I want to search for someone from the same state, same political view, who is single.

Dual purpose social/dating site.

One more question if I may: The only other thing that would make it this great dual social/dating site: Hiding profile pictures unless invited by the inquiring party to see the picture. Then a ‘free’ social/dating model is accomplished. Many people wont put up a profile pic on a public site. Invitation to see the pic is the workaround.

Those seem to be the only things that separate good social sites from good dating sites. A good search ability with like 8 fields and permissions on pictures.

Thanks

By: Rastin Mehr

Rastin Mehr — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:24:21 +0000

Oh believe me you guys will notice when Anahita is released

By: subster

subster — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:10:44 +0000

Hi there,

would you be so kindly and set up a little maillingslist that informs us when its done? This would be very fine and would make much people glad, i think…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:57:35 +0000

Kudos to you guys for working on the Anahita project. It looks very promising! Are we still shooting for September?

By: Rastin Mehr

Rastin Mehr — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:54:44 +0000

@tom – The current design of the Anahita User Manager does have

- Address fields (for geo coding purpose)
- Gender
- Religion
- Political View
- Relationship status
- Bio (a large text area)

Not necessarily for sake of dating, but because those characteristics can define what an individual is. In real life when we meet someone new, very likely we will be looking into those type of information about them.

We thought the additional information about the individual can be obtained from the history of an individual’s activity within a social network ( resume, posted pictures, videos, and the public record of conversations with the other members )