Youtego: Making Friends Through Self-Visualization

Written by Dana Oshiro / October 12, 2009 3:35 PM / 6 Comments

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Some of the most viral experiences on the Internet are also self-referential. Users spend hours on sites like StumbleUpon and Redux simply to build up their profiles and re-establish their status as coolhunters. While these sites exist as social tools for external exploration and discovery, Youtego offers a quiet approach to self-discovery.

In the past, ReadWriteWeb has covered Lunch.com - a friend-matching community service powered by a similarity network engine. While Lunch prompts users to answer specific movie-, book- and food-related questions, Youtego encourages users to upload photos from Flickr, Picasa and their hard drives that best represent them. Users add information about their job and work history, knowledge base, capabilities and loves. A complete user profile encompasses a series of images and meta data, and friend recommendations are determined by similar tags, images and common concepts.

While the approaches are slightly different, Lunch and Youtego share a common goal in establishing better relationships by reconnecting with our wants and needs. And if you believe in self-actualization as the final stage in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, then perhaps Youtego's self-visualizations are a map to achieving our highest potential. The first 500 ReadWriteWeb readers to visit youtego.com/reg/readwriteweb receive early access to this closed-beta site. Check it out and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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Posted by: Victor | October 12, 2009 4:04 PM

Hello
You have given nice information on Youtego.I really did not have any idea about this.Thank you for giving such a good information.I like it.

Posted by: glucosamine | October 13, 2009 4:08 AM

Wow, sounds like a really cool service. I'm definitely going to go check it out. Maslow is something I studied a bit in college so this should be interesting.

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Hi,

I'm using the invitation available here and wrote a track back for this article too, but why doesn't it showed up ?

I already copy and paste the trackback url available before I published my review about YouTego and also link my review page to this article as a way for saying thank you for the invitation given.

Well,since it seems like the trackback has failed, then I just want to say thank you for the invitation given :)

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