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Fobfire lets you "slip her the fob"
Ever do online dating? Come on, fess up to that match.com subscription you've been meaning to cancel for the last six months, and we'll get you hooked up with another 2.0 social site that's, well, different. Consider one of the testimonials from Fobfire:I only had a few seconds. I was getting off the subway and she was getting on, but our eyes met and it clicked. So I slipped her a fob!
The way this web site works, you get a set of tokens, called "fobs", which you can hand out to people in order to hook them up with one of your several fobfire identities: there are fobs for business, fobs for personal, and fobs for dating. The theory goes, when you meet somebody with whom you want to socially network, you hand them a fob, sort of like a key to get into the correct Fobfire profile, so they only see the info you want to see, depending on the kind of relationship you want to set up with them.
Ah, the potential for fun. Imagine accidentally handing a dating fob to a potential business client. Of course, as our own Brad Linder put it in a discussion we had earlier, "Once you hand somebody anything called a fob I don't think you really need to worry about them visiting your dating profile."
I couldn't agree more.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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john said 1:08PM on 10-12-2007
Fobfire or fobfinder? Looks like your links are busted.
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Saftey Dancer said 1:54PM on 10-12-2007
http://www.fobfire.com/
is the correct link.
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Marcelo said 1:55PM on 10-12-2007
What are these for? I don't understand
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2268750
MarC
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Viss said 3:08PM on 10-12-2007
I've been doing this with moo cards :)
Theyre only ~12 dollars for 100 or so, and I print a new batch out every few months (im an avid barcamper.. barcampla, barcampsd) so they go fast.
And I carry them around when I take pictures, so people contact me for photography related meetups as well!
The difference is, with moo cards, you can put whatever you want on the front and back - like your own photography for example.
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Monoto said 3:38PM on 10-12-2007
Wow. And I thought the Pogs fad died a long time ago.
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Todd said 4:54PM on 10-12-2007
Pointless.
If you can't type my phone number into your phone's contact list or notepad after I say it aloud - I don't want you to call me. Or if you are handing me some physical item in order for me to contact you, even though I didn't ask - you are a "analog junk mailer" like those dudes who hand out flyers for escorts on The Strip:
http://www.mooja.net/vegasjuly2005/img_0109.jpg
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Fred Thompson said 5:22PM on 10-12-2007
Oh ho! Now the hot women have one more behavior to reject. Loser geek can't speak but hands a pre-teen logod thing to the hot girl. She throws it in the trash. He gets depressed and complains on the chat board. Marketer tells the geek he's doing great, buy more and keep it up. Repeat.
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panhandler said 6:27PM on 10-12-2007
#5 - damn you, you beat me! "Hey Bart, look, it's Alf! Remember Alf? He's back.... in pog form."
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Eric Monse said 6:32PM on 10-15-2007
Dating and even pickup might be easier with this.
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